Competitive AI Safety is the loss function to make sure AI goes well
TLDR:AI safety needs a loss function and Competitive AI safety can deliver it.The development of AI safety research and tooling is currently diffuse. Lots of researchers,…
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AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg
This week saw the releases of, among other things: GPT-5-6 Sol. It is a very good model, sir. Plan A, the follow up to AI 2027.…
How to not catch the conf flu
SummaryWe’re a clinically vulnerable family and we take infection control very seriously. My first-author paper was accepted as a spotlight (top 23 out of 801) at…
Guess on why rationality is not more popular (there are no pamphlets)
First of all I should note that this post is just a guess! I have not run any experiments or anything. But anyways my guess for…
The Halo Defense
Once upon a time, A Relatively Famous Guy On The Internet was accused of having been simultaneously dating multiple women, without those women's knowledge, those women…
The fundamental fallacy of language
Epistemic status: Idea I think is really good; likely not originalTLDR: Language is so ridiculously ambiguous and slippery that you should consider interpreting the meanings of…
When is it "self-soothing" and when is it "emotional suppression"?
You’ve probably heard people say that emotional suppression is bad, and self-soothing is good. But how do you know which one is which?I don’t actually think…
Can we build an early warning system for loss of control to AI?
An early warning system for loss of control to AI requires, at its core, a forecast of the outcome of our current trajectory. Can we build…
Training On Interpretability Probes Is Bad In Proportion To How Contingent The Features They Rely On Are
People spend a lot of words playing tug of war over whether or not it's reasonable to train against interpretability methods. The anti case goes something…
Embracing Amateurs to Get Experts
I've been reading a lot of older writing, trying to understand how and why contra dance ended up with a strong and near-exclusive live music tradition…