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Back to Search"Thomas Kwa's MIRI research experience" by Thomas Kwa and others
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2 years, 9 months ago
"EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem" by Elizabeth
Effective altruism prides itself on truthseeking. That pride is justified in the sense that EA is better at truthseeking than most members of its ref…
2 years, 9 months ago
"How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions" by Jan Brauner et al.
Large language models (LLMs) can "lie", which we define as outputting false statements despite "knowing" the truth in a demonstrable sense. LLMs migh…
2 years, 9 months ago
"The Lighthaven Campus is open for bookings" by Habryka
Lightcone Infrastructure (the organization that grew from and houses the LessWrong team) has just finished renovating a 7-building physical campus th…
2 years, 9 months ago
"'Diamondoid bacteria' nanobots: deadly threat or dead-end? A nanotech investigation" by titotal
A lot of people are highly concerned that a malevolent AI or insane human will, in the near future, set out to destroy humanity. If such an entity wa…
2 years, 9 months ago
"The King and the Golem" by Richard Ngo
This is a linkpost for https://narrativeark.substack.com/p/the-king-and-the-golem
Long ago there was a mighty king who had everything in the world tha…
2 years, 9 months ago
"Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Directions in Language Models" by Logan Riggs et al
This is a linkpost for Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Directions in Language Models
We use a scalable and unsupervised method called Sp…
2 years, 9 months ago
"Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP" by John Wentworth
Epistemic status: model which I find sometimes useful, and which emphasizes some true things about many parts of the world which common alternative m…
2 years, 9 months ago
"There should be more AI safety orgs" by Marius Hobbhahn
I’m writing this in my own capacity. The views expressed are my own, and should not be taken to represent the views of Apollo Research or any other p…
2 years, 9 months ago
"The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism" by Malmesbury
Cross-posted from substack.
"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about clonal interference."
– Oscar Wilde (kind of)
As we all know…
2 years, 10 months ago