Take the wheel, Shoggoth! (Lesswrong is trying out changes to the frontpage algorithm)

Ruby and RobertM

23 Apr 2024 3:58 UTC

40 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Rejecting Television

Declan Molony23 Apr 2024 4:59 UTC

27 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on seed oil

dynomight20 Apr 2024 12:29 UTC

229 points

40 comments17 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Priors and Prejudice

MathiasKB22 Apr 2024 15:00 UTC

54 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Forget Everything (Statistical Mechanics Part 1)

J Bostock22 Apr 2024 13:33 UTC

36 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream

Adam Shai16 Apr 2024 21:16 UTC

287 points

61 comments12 min readLW link

AI Regulation is Unsafe

Maxwell Tabarrok22 Apr 2024 16:37 UTC

21 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Transfer Learning in Humans

niplav21 Apr 2024 20:49 UTC

52 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

Daniel Dennett has died (1942-2024)

kave19 Apr 2024 16:17 UTC

136 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(dailynous.com)

A couple productivity tips for overthinkers

Steven Byrnes20 Apr 2024 16:05 UTC

72 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Why Would Belief-States Have A Fractal Structure, And Why Would That Matter For Interpretability? An Explainer

johnswentworth and David Lorell

18 Apr 2024 0:27 UTC

151 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Goal oriented cognition in “a single forward pass”

dxu and habryka

22 Apr 2024 5:03 UTC

18 points

11 comments26 min readLW link

[Full Post] Progress Update #1 from the GDM Mech Interp Team

Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, lsgos, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár and Vikrant Varma

19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC

69 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

[Summary] Progress Update #1 from the GDM Mech Interp Team

Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, lsgos, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár and Vikrant Varma

19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC

65 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Discriminating Behaviorally Identical Classifiers: a model problem for applying interpretability to scalable oversight

Sam Marks18 Apr 2024 16:17 UTC

90 points

5 comments12 min readLW link

Good Bings copy, great Bings steal

dr_s21 Apr 2024 9:52 UTC

29 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Reconsider the anti-cavity bacteria if you are Asian

Lao Mein15 Apr 2024 7:02 UTC

165 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

LessWrong’s (first) album: I Have Been A Good Bing

habryka and kave

1 Apr 2024 7:33 UTC

518 points

153 comments11 min readLW link

Measuring Coherence and Goal-Directedness in RL Policies

dx2622 Apr 2024 18:26 UTC

2 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Time complexity for deterministic string machines

alcatal21 Apr 2024 22:35 UTC

14 points

0 comments21 min readLW link