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Back to Search“Priors and Prejudice” by MathiasKB
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Imagine an alternate version of the Effective Altruism movement, whose early influences came from socialist intellectual communities such as the Fa…
1 year, 8 months ago
“My experience using financial commitments to overcome akrasia” by William Howard
About a year ago I decided to try using one of those apps where you tie your goals to some kind of financial penalty. The specific one I tried is For…
1 year, 8 months ago
“The Incredible Fentanyl-Detecting Machine” by sarahconstantin
An NII machine in Nogales, AZ. (Image source)There's bound to be a lot of discussion of the Biden-Trump presidential debates last night, but I want t…
1 year, 8 months ago
“AI catastrophes and rogue deployments” by Buck
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.[Thanks to Aryan Bhatt, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Adam Kaufman, Vivek…
1 year, 8 months ago
“Loving a world you don’t trust” by Joe Carlsmith
(Cross-posted from my website. Audio version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.)
This is the final essay in a series that …
1 year, 8 months ago
“LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux” by eggsyntax
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LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully general reasoning, and if so, short timelines are less plausible.
Longer summary
Ther…
1 year, 8 months ago
“LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux” by eggsyntax
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Short Summary
LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully gene…
1 year, 8 months ago
“LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux” by eggsyntax
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Short Summary
LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully gene…
1 year, 8 months ago
“Formal verification, heuristic explanations and surprise accounting” by paulfchristiano
ARC's current research focus can be thought of as trying to combine mechanistic interpretability and formal verification. If we had a deep understand…
1 year, 8 months ago
“LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux” by eggsyntax
Summary Summary .
LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully general reasoning, and if so, short timelines are less plausible.
Longer summary
Ther…
1 year, 8 months ago