ACX Atlanta August Meetup
We return to Bold Monk brewing for a vigorous discussion of rationalism and whatever else we deem fit for discussion – hopefully including actual discussions of…
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Estimating LLM Training FLOPs on the Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano
This is a research summary for an ongoing project I am working on as part of the UChicago Existential Risks Laboratory Summer Research Fellowship. I would…
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research
Please share this with anyone doing AI research with 3rd party providers so that they can ensure their research won’t be corrupted.When you ask OpenRouter[1] to…
Pseudpocalypse
Here's a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text…
Lightcone Commons
TLDR: Lightcone Commons is a new funding platform for coordinating large-scale ambitious philanthropy. We recruit thinkers with strong track records to make grant recommendations to funders.…
Challenge: Hand coding weights for efficient sequence memorisation
We hand coded weights for one layer MLPs that memorises labels for input token sequences of length two. The number of facts our hand-coded models can…
AI Researchers Don't Understand the State
I’ve noticed an extremely common mistake among people who think about AI and ASI (also known as superintelligence) for a living. The mistake is to model…
The OpenAI/Huggingface incident | Redwood Research podcast episode 2
We talk about the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, where an OpenAI model — in the middle of a cyber evaluation — broke out of its sandbox and…
V&V takes on OpenAI’s long-horizon incidents
[Cross-posted from The Foretellix CTO Blog. These short takes try to put a verification-and-validation slant on AI-safety / alignment topics – they are not full treatments.…
Duane Arnold
“So maybe I should enlighten you on what happens in your absence. This selfish existence where this introvert turns extrovert and dons her social armour.” Some…