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AI Sleeper Agents

Scott Alexander reviews a study on AI sleeper agents, discussing implications for AI safety and the potential for deceptive AI behavior.

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Jan 16, 2024 2,758 words 173 likes 234 comments Listen · 22 min Read Read

The Road To Honest AI

Scott reviews two papers on honest AI: one on manipulating AI honesty vectors, another on detecting AI lies through unrelated questions.

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Jan 9, 2024 2,920 words 219 likes 346 comments Listen · 20 min Read Read

We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned The Bitter Lesson

Scott Alexander argues that intelligence is a useful, non-Platonic concept, and that this understanding supports the coherence of AI risk concerns.

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Jul 25, 2023 2,738 words 224 likes 508 comments Listen · 17 min Read Read

Constitutional AI: RLHF On Steroids

Scott Alexander examines Constitutional AI, a new technique for training more ethical AI models, discussing its effectiveness, implications, and limitations for AI alignment.

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May 8, 2023 1,946 words 186 likes 365 comments Listen · 14 min Read Read

The Low-Hanging Fruit Argument: Models And Predictions

Scott proposes a 'low-hanging fruit' model to explain trends in scientific discovery, using a foraging analogy to illustrate why early scientists make more discoveries and at a younger age.

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Apr 1, 2022 1,861 words 103 likes 240 comments Listen · 16 min Read Read

Does Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value be Accurately Assessed Separately From Buildings?

The post examines whether unimproved land value can be accurately assessed separately from buildings, a crucial aspect of Georgist land value taxation.

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Dec 11, 2021 10,406 words 63 likes 642 comments Listen · 82 min Read Read

[LINK] Unifying Predictive Coding With Backpropagation

Scott Alexander discusses recent research unifying predictive coding in the brain with backpropagation in machine learning, exploring its implications for AI and neuroscience.

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Apr 14, 2021 540 words 47 likes 83 comments Listen · 5 min Read Read

A Very Unlikely Chess Game

Scott Alexander plays chess against GPT-2, an AI language model, and discusses the broader implications of AI's ability to perform diverse tasks without specific training.

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Jan 6, 2020 1,499 words 0 likes 182 comments Listen · 10 min Read Read

GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence

Scott Alexander explores GPT-2's unexpected capabilities and argues that it demonstrates the potential for AI to develop abilities beyond its explicit programming, challenging skepticism about AGI.

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Feb 19, 2019 3,491 words 0 likes 262 comments Listen · 28 min Read Read

Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits?

Scott Alexander draws parallels between OpenAI's GPT-2 language model and human dreaming, exploring their similarities in process and output quality.

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Feb 18, 2019 2,532 words 0 likes 188 comments Listen · 17 min Read Read

Practically-A-Book Review: Luna Whitepaper

Scott Alexander reviews Luna, a blockchain-based dating platform, discussing its novel features and expressing cautious optimism about its potential, while questioning the necessity of blockchain for its functions.

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Jan 18, 2018 2,307 words 0 likes 519 comments Listen · 17 min Read Read

How Does Recent AI Progress Affect The Bostromian Paradigm?

Scott Alexander examines how recent AI progress in neural networks might challenge the Bostromian paradigm of AI risk, exploring potential implications for AI goal alignment and motivation systems.

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Oct 30, 2016 2,240 words 0 likes 141 comments Read Read
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