Turn_Trout

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by Turn_Trout 7d ago
Yeah it speaks poorly of HN that they upvoted this confident nonsense.
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by Turn_Trout 13d ago
> Good Ventures is a funding partner of Open Philanthropy, who funded Jacob Coxon (the first of the Anthropic employees going viral in the media) via a scholarship. This conspiracy theory is truly crazy. A $20K scholarship in 2022 is sup
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by Turn_Trout 13d ago
I'm one of the whistleblowers (from GDM [1]). I gave up over a million dollars (compared to quietly switching labs and continuing to work at one) to speak frankly about these issues. I hold no equity and tried to zero out my position b
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by Turn_Trout 13d ago
Dario's post [1] commits to direct evaluators that can, among other abilities, expose secret RSI. He wants that made law. Do you have a source on METR employees retaining massive equity stakes? [1] https://darioamodei.com&#x
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by Turn_Trout 18d ago
OAI could check whether those accounts enabled training data. If "yes", OAI could trace whether that data was used in any related training process. If either of those answers comes out to be "no", then that's suffic
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by Turn_Trout 22d ago
See also: https://turntrout.com/self-fulfilling-misalignment (my post) As an aside, does the Waluigi Effect actually exist? My impression is it doesn't.
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by Turn_Trout 2mo ago
Those topics aren't on-topic for the essay. I've taken a pledge to donate at least 10% of my money to charity / impactful giving. A good sum of my donations have targeted high-impact opportunities to improve life for people i
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by Turn_Trout 2mo ago
Thank you for your praise. > I'd guess TurnTrout doesn't agree on that framing, otherwise he probably would not have been at Deep Mind. But clearly he and I agree on other ethical positions; I am nothing but glad to see him sti
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by Turn_Trout 6mo ago
I agree that they called many things remarkably well! That doesn't change the fact that AI 2027 is not a thing which happened, so it isn't valid to point out "this killed us in AI 2027." There are many reasons to want to
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by Turn_Trout 6mo ago
AI 2027 is not a real thing which happened. At best, it is informed speculation.
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Automatic Alt Text Generation(github.com)
1 points by Turn_Trout 10mo ago|0 comments
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An Opinionated Guide to Privacy Despite Authoritarianism(turntrout.com)
14 points by Turn_Trout 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Turn_Trout 1y ago
No one has empirically validated the so-called "most forbidden" descriptor. It's a theoretical worry which may or may not be correct. We should run experiments to find out.
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English Writes Numbers Backwards(turntrout.com)
3 points by Turn_Trout 1y ago|0 comments
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by Turn_Trout 1y ago
As someone who did their PhD in RL and alignment, it was not obvious to me a priori if, or when, or how badly obfuscation would be a problem. Yes, it's been predicted (and was predicted significantly before that Zvi post). But many oth
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by Turn_Trout 1y ago
> The #1 comment says that the rationality community is about "trying to reason about things from first principle", when if fact it is the opposite. Oh? Eliezer Yudkowsky (the most prominent Rationalist) bragged about how he wa
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Self-Fulfilling Misalignment Data Might Be Poisoning Our AI Models(turntrout.com)
1 points by Turn_Trout 2y ago|0 comments
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by Turn_Trout 2y ago
They ran (at least) two control conditions. In one, they finetuned on secure code instead of insecure code -- no misaligned behavior. In the other, they finetuned on the same insecure code, but added a request for insecure code to the train
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by Turn_Trout 3y ago
I'm the author of the GPT-2 work. This is a nice post, thanks for making it more available. :) Li et al[1] and I independently derived this technique last spring, and also someone else independently derived it last fall. Something is i
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by Turn_Trout 5y ago
First author here. Thanks for your comment! > there's a lot hidden in the "if physically possible" part of the quote from the paper: "Average-optimal agents would generally stop us from deactivating them, if physicall
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by Turn_Trout 5y ago
Maybe you should read the paper, and/or the reviewer threads (as we discussed the nomenclature, and eventually agreed that "power" was accurate). We straightforwardly formalize a mainstream definition of power and show how it