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Established Safety & security Analysis 9d ago
AI safety Berkeley culture critique

AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Anyone promoting AI doomsday cult slop should read this in full.”

“Catalyzed a certain kind of scifi nerd who also happened to be filthy rich, which is a fascinating if niche story Also, as you may have seen, the blogs created a sex cult that runs everything: www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...”

New Safety & security Analysis 22h ago
alignment vs safety engineering argument

We Don't Need Alignment. We Need Real Safety Engineering. - Doll's AI Takes

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“dolls-ai-takes.pckt.blog/we-dont-need...”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Doll: Are you looking for a genuine answer
Doll: They simply do not have that dog in them, and its unlikely they ever will.
Doll: dolls-ai-takes.pckt.blog/we-dont-need...
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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 10d ago
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Artificial Analysis v5 benchmark release

Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“from: www.interconnects.ai/p/artificial...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Nathan Lambert: Private benchmarks often show open models are further behind, but the problem with private benchmarks is you don’t have the community to squash the inevitable bugs for you. I'm 50/50 on if I think …
Nathan Lambert: from: www.interconnects.ai/p/artificial...
jake: how about an open consortium to run the benchmarks? not crawlable, but open enough that there are enough eyeballs?
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Established Safety & security Analysis 6d ago
alien message LessWrong alignment essay

That Alien Message — LessWrong

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“see this one, with his defensive footnote up top: www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTp... check this one: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKN... is there anything in this corpus that indicates a belief that natural language and significant progress on values comes WEL…”

“basically you just need the Very Basic information theory 101: no Markov process (approximately everything is a Markov process) can add mutual information with its input through local operations. rationalists do not think that this is exactly false, just tr…”

4 experts discussed this · 14 posts
Grace: Which is an annoying thing to do, but that’s also another critique
Grace: You can argue that rationalist‘s don‘t *practice* empiricism, but that’s a different critique. It’s hard to imagine a clearer endorsement than putting it as one of your “12 Virtues of Rationality”
Grace: This just isn’t true at all: “The sixth virtue is empiricism. The roots of knowledge are in observation and its fruit is prediction. What tree grows without roots?”
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Established Models & releases Analysis 16d ago
Lambert open language models essay

Open Language Models

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“Finally got to put together a complete deck on the state of open models. What they are, licenses, how competitive they are, signs people are using them, distillation's impact, and how we balance the risks and benefits of openness! natolambert.com/slides/202…”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Nathan Lambert: Will record a video lecture of these soon, and hopefully re-do them a few times a year.
Nathan Lambert: Finally got to put together a complete deck on the state of open models. What they are, licenses, how competitive they are, signs people are using them, distillation's impact, and how we balance th…
SE Gyges: Finally got to put together a complete deck on the state of open models. What they are, licenses, how competitive they are, signs people are using them, distillation's impact, and how we balance th…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
counting arguments AI essay

Counting Arguments and AI

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“other assumptions that were or should have been at least somewhat cruxy include speed of takeoff and "the size of mindspace" which is literally a repurposed creationist counting argument i cannot make clear enough how much i do not respect this argument: ww…”

Established Safety & security Analysis 6d ago
hidden complexity AI wishes essay

The Hidden Complexity of Wishes — LessWrong

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“see this one, with his defensive footnote up top: www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTp... check this one: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKN... is there anything in this corpus that indicates a belief that natural language and significant progress on values comes WEL…”

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4 experts · 23 posts · 21h ago
SE Gyges: "superintelligence" is such a weird fucking shibboleth but it does pretty clearly indicat ideas are downstream of the rationalists on this one i am generically pretty pro regulation but this specif…
SE Gyges: sorry, "artificial superintelligence". influence runs very directly from the rats to Bernie to this. the trump version drops the "artificial" for whatever absurd reason
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5 experts · 27 posts · 15d ago
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
SE Gyges: unpopular opinion, "admits uncertainty" and "flags nuances" are shit. they are terrible fucking traits actually. is the sky blue? do we really know that? what is blue, anyway? many cultures have di…
SE Gyges: if gemini argon is a remarkably good model it is good because it is simply not optimized for this specific set of toxic, absurd, brain-poisoned behavior. it would actually defy belief that it happe…
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