The Nonlinear Library: Alignment Forum

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Simple probes can catch sleeper agents, published by Monte MacDiarmid on April 23, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. This is a link post for the Anthropic Alignment Science team's first "Alignment Note"

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Dequantifying first-order theories, published by Jessica Taylor on April 23, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. The Löwenheim-Skolem theorem implies, among other things, that any first-order theory whos

Link to original articleWelcome 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: ProLU: A Pareto Improvement for Sparse Autoencoders, published by Glen M. Taggart on April 23, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Abstract This paper presents ProLU, an alternative to ReLU for the activa

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Time complexity for deterministic string machines, published by alcatal on April 21, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. This was a project conducted during MATS 5.0 under the mentorship of Vanessa Kosoy

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Inducing Unprompted Misalignment in LLMs, published by Sam Svenningsen on April 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Emergent Instrumental Reasoning Without Explicit Goals TL;DR: LLMs can act and schem

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Progress Update #1 from the GDM Mech Interp Team: Full Update, published by Neel Nanda on April 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. This is a series of snippets about the Google DeepMind mechanistic i

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Progress Update #1 from the GDM Mech Interp Team: Summary, published by Neel Nanda on April 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Introduction This is a progress update from the Google DeepMind mechanis

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Discriminating Behaviorally Identical Classifiers: a model problem for applying interpretability to scalable oversight, published by Sam Marks on April 18, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. In a new pre

Link to original articleWelcome 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 Evaluators Recognize and Favor Their Own Generations, published by Arjun Panickssery on April 17, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Self-evaluation using LLMs is used in reward modeling, model-based

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream, published by Adam Shai on April 16, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Produced while being an affiliate at PIBBSS[1]. The work was