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COI: I am a research scientist at Anthropic, where I work on model organisms of misalignment; I was
Readers may have noticed many similarities between Anthropic's recent publication Towards Monos
In 2023, MIRI has shifted focus in the direction of broad public communication—see, for example, our
A cohabitive game[1] is a partially cooperative, partially competitive multiplayer game that provide
As of today, everyone is able to create a new type of content on LessWrong: Dialogues.In contrast wi
Response to: Evolution Provides No Evidence For the Sharp Left Turn, due to it winning first prize i
ETA: I'm not saying that MIRI thought AIs wouldn't understand human values. If there'
Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. We understand the math of the t
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A lot of people are highly concerned that a malevolent AI or insane human will, in the near future,
Lightcone Infrastructure (the organization that grew from and houses the LessWrong team) has just fi
Large language models (LLMs) can "lie", which we define as outputting false statements des
Effective altruism prides itself on truthseeking. That pride is justified in the sense that EA is be
This is a linkpost for https://narrativeark.substack.com/p/the-king-and-the-golemLong ago there was
This is a linkpost for Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Directions in Language ModelsWe
Epistemic status: model which I find sometimes useful, and which emphasizes some true things about m
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