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“A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models” by titotal
Thank you to Arepo and Eli Lifland for looking over this article for errors. I am sorry that this article is so long. Every time I thought I was done with it I ran into more issues with the model, and I wanted to be as thorough as I coul...
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“‘Buckle up bucko, this ain’t over till it’s over.’” by Raemon
The second in a series of bite-sized rationality prompts[1]. Often, if I'm bouncing off a problem, one issue is that I intuitively expect the problem to be easy. My brain loops through my available action space, looking for an action that...
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“Shutdown Resistance in Reasoning Models” by benwr, JeremySchlatter, Jeffrey Ladish
We recently discovered some concerning behavior in OpenAI's reasoning models: When trying to complete a task, these models sometimes actively circumvent shutdown mechanisms in their environment––even when they’re explicitly instructed to allow th...
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“Authors Have a Responsibility to Communicate Clearly” by TurnTrout
When a claim is shown to be incorrect, defenders may say that the author was just being “sloppy” and actually meant something else entirely. I argue that this move is not harmless, charitable, or healthy. At best, this attempt at charity reduces a...
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