Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDeepMind’s ”Frontier Safety Framework” is weak and unambitious
FSF blogpost. Full document (just 6 pages; you should read it). Compare to Anthropic's RSP, OpenAI's RSP ("PF"), and METR's Key Components of an RSP.…
2 years, 4 months ago
Do you believe in hundred dollar bills lying on the ground? Consider humming
Introduction.
[Reminder: I am an internet weirdo with no medical credentials]
A few months ago, I published some crude estimates of the power of nitr…
2 years, 4 months ago
Deep Honesty
Most people avoid saying literally false things, especially if those could be audited, like making up facts or credentials. The reasons for this are …
2 years, 4 months ago
On Not Pulling The Ladder Up Behind You
Epistemic Status: Musing and speculation, but I think there's a real thing here.
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When I was a kid, a friend of mine had a tree fort. If you've neve…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mechanistically Eliciting Latent Behaviors in Language Models
Produced as part of the MATS Winter 2024 program, under the mentorship of Alex Turner (TurnTrout).
TL,DR: I introduce a method for eliciting latent be…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ironing Out the Squiggles
Adversarial Examples: A Problem
The apparent successes of the deep learning revolution conceal a dark underbelly. It may seem that we now know how to…
2 years, 4 months ago
Introducing AI Lab Watch
This is a linkpost for https://ailabwatch.orgI'm launching AI Lab Watch. I collected actions for frontier AI labs to improve AI safety, then evaluate…
2 years, 4 months ago
Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.This work was produced as part of Neel Nanda's stream in the ML…
2 years, 4 months ago
Funny Anecdote of Eliezer From His Sister
This comes from a podcast called 18Forty, of which the main demographic of Orthodox Jews. Eliezer's sister (Hannah) came on and talked about her Shev…
2 years, 5 months ago
Thoughts on seed oil
This is a linkpost for https://dynomight.net/seed-oil/A friend has spent the last three years hounding me about seed oils. Every time I thought I was…
2 years, 5 months ago