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Back to Search“Astra Is Hard to Monitor” by Zvi
OpenAI's central message on Astra is that it is three things:
Highly capable and can do all the things for you. Hard to monitor. The most align…1 week, 5 days ago
“Contra Piper on When Conversation Is Possible” by Zack_M_Davis
Kelsey Piper replies to Richard Ngo on Twitter:
since you have adopted the frame that liberals are self-deceived (and therefore not trustworthy abo…
1 week, 5 days ago
“An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Us” by Zvi
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki is dropping truth bombs.
Tomorrow I will discuss Astra's lack of monitorability, and the potential contributi…
1 week, 5 days ago
[Linkpost] “Where are the token-level LLM kill-switches?” by beyarkay (Boyd Kane)
This is a link post.
Poisoned
Here's a simple idea: what if we trained in a string of characters that caused an LLM to emit the end of sequence token…
1 week, 6 days ago
“Machine Organizations” by Vaniver
OpenAI is nothing without its people
On November 20th, 2023, this was tweeted by many OpenAI employees as a sign of solidarity with Sam Altman in hi…
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“Dear God, Please Don’t Resign In Protest” by Kabir Kumar
Just don't work until you get fired. There's not much time left for resumes to matter.
Some, such as Mateusz may say: "They would fire you after a m…
1 week, 6 days ago
“The Scramble: getting in position to pace the frontier” by Peter Wildeford
Crossposted from my Substack.
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Suppose the President summons the AI CEOs and his top national security advisors to an emergency meeting at the Whit…
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“The Magnus Challenge” by Taylor G. Lunt
Let's say you're a club chess player with an Elo of 1500 (early intermediate). If you can beat Magnus Carlsen, rated 2800, at a game of one minute b…
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“Most Anthropic equity that will ever be used for longtermist philanthropy should be sold ASAP and reinvested” by Zach Stein-Perlman
Two reasons:
Other investments can provide better returns, mostly via leverage.The philanthropic portfolio is overexposed to Anthropic. A large frac…1 week, 6 days ago
“The Wormtongue Test” by Drake Morrison
I sometimes hear of EAs or rationalists thinking about their career plans and trying to account for their bias and the incentives they face. They wa…
1 week, 6 days ago