Best Ramana Podcasts (2024)

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Why is ego annihilated in manōnāśa and not in manōlaya 1:57:54

6h ago1:57:54

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In a Zoom meeting with the San Diego Ramana Satsang (ramana-satsang-sd@googlegroups.com) on 7th July 2024, Michael answers various questions about Bhagavan’s teachings. This episode can also be watched as a video here and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downlo…

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Ego Unveiled: Ramana Maharshi's Wisdom on Self-Inquiry 10:37

3d ago10:37

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Ego Unveiled: Ramana Maharshi's Wisdom on Self-Inquiry. To Understand the True Nature of Reality and to Create your Life Consciously the way you Desire and Deserve, Join A.C.S, 'The Adhvaitha Conscious Society' visit: https://adhvaitha.com Uncover the Nature of Existence, Get the Book 'Decoding God': https://amzn.eu/d/5kdixHJ Opt-in and get access …

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AF - Consent across power differentials by Ramana Kumar 4:26

6d ago4:26

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Consent across power differentials, published by Ramana Kumar on July 9, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.I'd like to put forward another description of a basic issue …

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AF - Stitching SAEs of different sizes by Bart Bussmann 21:12

5h ago21:12

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Stitching SAEs of different sizes, published by Bart Bussmann on July 13, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Work done in Neel Nanda's stream of MATS 6.0, equal contribu…

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AF - A simple case for extreme inner misalignment by Richard Ngo 12:20

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A simple case for extreme inner misalignment, published by Richard Ngo on July 13, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post is the version of Yudkowsky's argument fo…

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Unlock Reality: Master The Law of Focus & Witness 10:10

1h ago10:10

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Unlock Reality: Master The Law of Focus & Witness. To Understand the True Nature of Reality and to Create your Life Consciously the way you Desire and Deserve, Join A.C.S, 'The Adhvaitha Conscious Society' visit: https://adhvaitha.com Uncover the Nature of Existence, Get the Book 'Decoding God': https://amzn.eu/d/5kdixHJ Opt-in and get access to, 1…

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AF - Timaeus is hiring! by Jesse Hoogland 4:04

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Timaeus is hiring!, published by Jesse Hoogland on July 12, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.TLDR: We're hiring two research assistants to work on advancingdevelopment…

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AF - UC Berkeley course on LLMs and ML Safety by Dan H 0:52

5d ago0:52

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: UC Berkeley course on LLMs and ML Safety, published by Dan H on July 9, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.The UC Berkeley course I co-taught now has lecture videos avai…

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AF - Response to Dileep George: AGI safety warrants planning ahead by Steve Byrnes 48:04

7d ago48:04

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Response to Dileep George: AGI safety warrants planning ahead, published by Steve Byrnes on July 8, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.(Target audience: Dileep George hi…

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AF - On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs by Zachary Kenton 11:18

7d ago11:18

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs, published by Zachary Kenton on July 8, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.AbstractScalable oversight protocols …

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Michael answers questions 2:26:38

5d ago2:26:38

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Following the book launch in August 2023 of Ramana Maharshi's Forty Verses on What Is, a compilation of the writings and talks of Michael James on Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu, Michael and Sandra have started a series of talks in which Michael explains the essential import of these verses and all of Ramana's teachings in 8 key points -- 8 talks (videos). Part 2a…

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AF - An Extremely Opinionated Annotated List of My Favourite Mechanistic Interpretability Papers v2 by Neel Nanda 38:20

7d ago38:20

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: An Extremely Opinionated Annotated List of My Favourite Mechanistic Interpretability Papers v2, published by Neel Nanda on July 7, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Thi…

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AF - Scalable oversight as a quantitative rather than qualitative problem by Buck Shlegeris 4:41

8d ago4:41

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Scalable oversight as a quantitative rather than qualitative problem, published by Buck Shlegeris on July 6, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.[Many of these ideas were…

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Consciousness Unveiled: Exploring Qualia, Vedanta, and the Nature of Reality 17:03

7d ago17:03

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To Understand the True Nature of Reality and to Create your Life Consciously the way you Desire and Deserve, Join A.C.S, 'The Adhvaitha Conscious Society' visit: https://adhvaitha.com Uncover the Nature of Existence, Get the Book 'Decoding God': https://amzn.eu/d/5kdixHJ Opt-in and get access to, 1.FREE Training Immediately, 2.'2-Page Secrets of Re…

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AF - What progress have we made on automated auditing? by Lawrence Chan 2:50

9d ago2:50

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What progress have we made on automated auditing?, published by Lawrence Chan on July 6, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.One use case for model internals work is to p…

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AF - A "Bitter Lesson" Approach to Aligning AGI and ASI by Roger Dearnaley 41:17

9d ago41:17

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A "Bitter Lesson" Approach to Aligning AGI and ASI, published by Roger Dearnaley on July 6, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.TL;DR: I discuss the challenge of aligning…

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AF - [Interim research report] Activation plateaus and sensitive directions in GPT2 by Stefan Heimersheim 20:02

9d ago20:02

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Interim research report] Activation plateaus & sensitive directions in GPT2, published by Stefan Heimersheim on July 5, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This part-rep…

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We are pure existence-awareness and infinite perfect happiness 1:42:54

10d ago1:42:54

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Following the book launch in August 2023 of Ramana Maharshi's Forty Verses on What Is, a compilation of the writings and talks of Michael James on Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu, Michael and Sandra have started a series of talks in which Michael explains the essential import of these verses and all of Ramana's teachings in 8 key points -- 8 talks (videos). This is…

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AF - Finding the Wisdom to Build Safe AI by Gordon Seidoh Worley 13:27

10d ago13:27

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Finding the Wisdom to Build Safe AI, published by Gordon Seidoh Worley on July 4, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.We may soon build superintelligent AI. Such AI poses…

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The Ultimate Debate: Can Science Validate Spirituality? 7:35

10d ago7:35

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The Ultimate Debate: Can Science Validate Spirituality? To Understand the True Nature of Reality and to Create your Life Consciously the way you Desire and Deserve, Join A.C.S, 'The Adhvaitha Conscious Society' visit: https://adhvaitha.com Uncover the Nature of Existence, Get the Book 'Decoding God': https://amzn.eu/d/5kdixHJ Opt-in and get access …

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AF - Decomposing the QK circuit with Bilinear Sparse Dictionary Learning by keith wynroe 21:25

13d ago21:25

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Decomposing the QK circuit with Bilinear Sparse Dictionary Learning, published by keith wynroe on July 2, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This work was produced as pa…

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AF - OthelloGPT learned a bag of heuristics by jylin04 16:23

13d ago16:23

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: OthelloGPT learned a bag of heuristics, published by jylin04 on July 2, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Work performed as a part of Neel Nanda's MATS 6.0 (Summer 2024…

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AF - Covert Malicious Finetuning by Tony Wang 6:30

13d ago6:30

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Covert Malicious Finetuning, published by Tony Wang on July 2, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post discusses our recent paperCovert Malicious Finetuning: Challe…

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AF - Interpreting Preference Models w/ Sparse Autoencoders by Logan Riggs Smith 15:43

13d ago15:43

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Interpreting Preference Models w/ Sparse Autoencoders, published by Logan Riggs Smith on July 1, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Preference Models (PMs) are trained t…

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2024-06-29 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: Pure awareness, manōnāśa and manōlaya 2:24:20

14d ago2:24:20

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In a Zoom meeting with the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK on 29th June 2024, Michael answers various questions about Bhagavan’s teachings. This episode can also be watched as a video here and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from here.…

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Principles of Law of Attraction in Bhagavad-Gita 10:06

14d ago10:06

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Principles of Law of Attraction in Bhagavad-Gita. To Understand the True Nature of Reality and to Create your Life Consciously the way you Desire and Deserve, Join A.C.S, 'The Adhvaitha Conscious Society' visit: https://adhvaitha.com Uncover the Nature of Existence, Get the Book 'Decoding God': https://amzn.eu/d/5kdixHJ Opt-in and get access to, 1.…

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AF - Representation Tuning by Christopher Ackerman 13:07

17d ago13:07

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Representation Tuning, published by Christopher Ackerman on June 27, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.SummaryFirst, I identify activation vectors related to honesty in…

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AF - An issue with training schemers with supervised fine-tuning by Fabien Roger 16:33

18d ago16:33

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: An issue with training schemers with supervised fine-tuning, published by Fabien Roger on June 27, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This is a rough write-up of ideas b…

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AF - Live Theory Part 0: Taking Intelligence Seriously by Sahil 20:19

18d ago20:19

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Live Theory Part 0: Taking Intelligence Seriously, published by Sahil on June 26, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.AcknowledgementsThe vision here was midwifed origina…

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AF - Instrumental vs Terminal Desiderata by Max Harms 5:14

18d ago5:14

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Instrumental vs Terminal Desiderata, published by Max Harms on June 26, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Bob: "I want my AGI to make everyone extremely wealthy! I'm go…

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Unlocking Desire: How the Universe Grants Your Deepest Wishes 7:59

17d ago7:59

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Unlocking Desire: How the Universe Grants Your Deepest Wishes To Understand the True Nature of Reality and to Create your Life Consciously the way you Desire and Deserve, Join A.C.S, 'The Adhvaitha Conscious Society' visit: https://adhvaitha.com Uncover the Nature of Existence, Get the Book 'Decoding God': https://amzn.eu/d/5kdixHJ Opt-in and get a…

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AF - What is a Tool? by johnswentworth 10:14

19d ago10:14

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What is a Tool?, published by johnswentworth on June 25, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Throughout this post, we're going to follow the Cognition -> Convergence -> C…

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AF - Formal verification, heuristic explanations and surprise accounting by Jacob Hilton 14:48

20d ago14:48

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Formal verification, heuristic explanations and surprise accounting, published by Jacob Hilton on June 25, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.ARC's current research focu…

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AF - Compact Proofs of Model Performance via Mechanistic Interpretability by Lawrence Chan 12:47

20d ago12:47

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Compact Proofs of Model Performance via Mechanistic Interpretability, published by Lawrence Chan on June 24, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.We recently released a pa…

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AF - SAE feature geometry is outside the superposition hypothesis by Jake Mendel 18:10

21d ago18:10

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: SAE feature geometry is outside the superposition hypothesis, published by Jake Mendel on June 24, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Written at Apollo ResearchSummary: …

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AF - LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux by Egg Syntax 15:05

21d ago15:05

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux, published by Egg Syntax on June 24, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Short SummaryLLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully gener…

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AF - Different senses in which two AIs can be "the same" by Vivek Hebbar 8:32

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Different senses in which two AIs can be "the same", published by Vivek Hebbar on June 24, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Sometimes people talk about two AIs being "…

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What is Self Awareness? Chith and Chidabhasa Explained 15:34

21d ago15:34

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What is Self Awareness? Chith and Chidabhasa Explained To Understand the True Nature of Reality and to Create your Life Consciously the way you Desire and Deserve, Join A.C.S, 'The Adhvaitha Conscious Society' visit: https://adhvaitha.com Uncover the Nature of Existence, Get the Book 'Decoding God': https://amzn.eu/d/5kdixHJ Opt-in and get access t…

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AF - Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Training Data by Johannes Treutlein 14:59

24d ago14:59

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer & Verbalize Latent Structure from Training Data, published by Johannes Treutlein on June 21, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.TL;DR…

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AF - Attention Output SAEs Improve Circuit Analysis by Connor Kissane 32:55

24d ago32:55

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Attention Output SAEs Improve Circuit Analysis, published by Connor Kissane on June 21, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This is the final post of our Alignment Forum …

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AF - Debate, Oracles, and Obfuscated Arguments by Jonah Brown-Cohen 34:03

24d ago34:03

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Debate, Oracles, and Obfuscated Arguments, published by Jonah Brown-Cohen on June 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post is about recent and ongoing work on th…

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AF - Jailbreak steering generalization by Sarah Ball 4:05

24d ago4:05

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Jailbreak steering generalization, published by Sarah Ball on June 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This work was performed as part of SPARWe use activation steeri…

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AF - Beyond the Board: Exploring AI Robustness Through Go by AdamGleave 1:35

25d ago1:35

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Beyond the Board: Exploring AI Robustness Through Go, published by AdamGleave on June 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Last year, we showed that supposedly superhu…

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The Hidden Truth About Maya: What You Need to Know 10:16

24d ago10:16

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To Understand the True Nature of Reality and to Create your Life Consciously the way you Desire and Deserve, Join A.C.S, 'The Adhvaitha Conscious Society' visit: https://adhvaitha.com Uncover the Nature of Existence, Get the Book 'Decoding God': https://amzn.eu/d/5kdixHJ Opt-in and get access to, 1.FREE Training Immediately, 2.'2-Page Secrets of Re…

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With Guest Johnny Carrasco 22:36

25d ago22:36

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A wonderful conversation with musician/guitarist/record producer Johnny Carrasco. Johnny was Carlos' guitarist in at Harrah's Atlantic City for many years and also did some tour dates as Carlos' Musical Director. Support the Show.By Carlos Avalon

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AF - Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in large language models by Evan Hubinger 13:00

27d ago13:00

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in large language models, published by Evan Hubinger on June 17, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.New Anthropi…

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AF - Analysing Adversarial Attacks with Linear Probing by Yoann Poupart 13:16

27d ago13:16

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Analysing Adversarial Attacks with Linear Probing, published by Yoann Poupart on June 17, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This work was produced as part of the Apart …

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AF - Degeneracies are sticky for SGD by Guillaume Corlouer 30:23

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Degeneracies are sticky for SGD, published by Guillaume Corlouer on June 16, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.IntroductionSingular learning theory (SLT) is a theory of…

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AF - Self-Control of LLM Behaviors by Compressing Suffix Gradient into Prefix Controller by Henry Cai 15:40

29d ago15:40

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Self-Control of LLM Behaviors by Compressing Suffix Gradient into Prefix Controller, published by Henry Cai on June 16, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.In this paper,…

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What is real? What is unreal? How to unrealise the unreal? 1:49:26

29d ago1:49:26

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In a Zoom meeting on 12th June 2024, Michael answers Carlos' question: What is real? What is unreal? How to unrealise the unreal? This episode can also be watched as a video here and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from here.…

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