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Back to Search“HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts” by Zvi
The consensus reaction to the OpenAI Technical Report is that it contains and confirms a lot of good information. We are grateful to have it, and we…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
“Let’s fund weird AI safety projects” by Ihor Kendiukhov
I think current AI safety funding strategies are often inconsistent with timelines and probabilities of doom that many people have. In particular, I…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
“Why autonomous replicating agents are probably not an existential risk (on the contrary)” by vals tutor
In 2024, Charbel-Raphaël and Epiphanie published "We might be dropping the ball on Autonomous Replication and Adaptation", making the case that
"On…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
“The separation principle: where beliefs and desires come from?” by Fernando Rosas
TLDR: Psychology, economics, and other disciplines describe agents as systems driven by beliefs and desires. This post argues that the belief-desire…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
“Persuasion as Market Making” by djbinder
People often imagine persuasion as a dark art. A charismatic person finds just the right series of words to induce emotions that lead someone, or a …
3 weeks ago
“Hugging Face Incident Hypothesis: They Hacked the Grader(s)” by Lao Mein
Incident summary:
Gpt agents grinding away at ExploitGym found an environment exploit that allowed them to communicate with each other. They found …
3 weeks ago
“Adaptive Agentic Worms Are Here” by derelict5432
I’ve read and listened to pretty much everything I can get my hands on related to the Hugging Face attack.
OpenAI deployed “tens of thousands” of ag…
3 weeks ago
“Why I think polyamory is net negative for most people who try it” by KatWoods
This is crossposted from my Substack
TL;DR:
-Most people cannot reduce jealousy much or at all
- It fundamentally causes way more drama because of s…
3 weeks ago
“Is there only one FairBot?” by transhumanist_atom_understander
The FairBot from the MIRI prisoner's dilemma tournament is defined by a theorem of Peano arithmetic (PA) that holds for each opponent:
where is "t…
3 weeks ago
“METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack” by Zvi
Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack.
That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic st…
3 weeks, 1 day ago