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[Si­mu­la­tors sem­i­nar se­quence] #1 Back­ground & shared assumptions

Jan, Charlie Steiner, Logan Riggs, janus, jacquesthibs, metasemi, Michael Oesterle, Lucas Teixeira, peligrietzer and remember
Jan 2, 2023, 11:48 PM
50 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Lin­ear Alge­bra Done Right, Axler

David UdellJan 2, 2023, 10:54 PM
57 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

MacArthur BART (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 2, 2023, 10:50 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Knottiness

abramdemskiJan 2, 2023, 10:13 PM
43 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] De­fault Sort for Short­forms is Very Bad; How Do I Change It?

DragonGodJan 2, 2023, 9:50 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

MAKE IT BETTER (a po­etic demon­stra­tion of the ba­nal­ity of GPT-3)

rogersbaconJan 2, 2023, 8:47 PM
7 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Re­view of “Make Peo­ple Bet­ter”

MetacelsusJan 2, 2023, 8:30 PM
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

Prepar­ing for Less Privacy

jefftkJan 2, 2023, 8:30 PM
23 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Large lan­guage mod­els can provide “nor­ma­tive as­sump­tions” for learn­ing hu­man preferences

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 2, 2023, 7:39 PM
29 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

On the Im­por­tance of Open Sourc­ing Re­ward Models

elandgreJan 2, 2023, 7:01 PM
18 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets for Science

VaniverJan 2, 2023, 5:55 PM
27 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Why don’t Ra­tion­al­ists use bidets?

LakinJan 2, 2023, 5:42 PM
31 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Soft op­ti­miza­tion makes the value tar­get bigger

Jeremy GillenJan 2, 2023, 4:06 PM
119 points
20 comments12 min readLW link

Re­sults from the AI test­ing hackathon

Esben KranJan 2, 2023, 3:46 PM
13 points
0 commentsLW link

In­duc­tion heads—illustrated

CallumMcDougallJan 2, 2023, 3:35 PM
128 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Op­por­tu­nity Cost Blackmail

adamShimiJan 2, 2023, 1:48 PM
70 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

The ul­ti­mate limits of al­ign­ment will de­ter­mine the shape of the long term future

berenJan 2, 2023, 12:47 PM
34 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

A ker­nel of Lie theory

Alok SinghJan 2, 2023, 9:20 AM
−1 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(alok.github.io)

Belief Bias: Bias in Eval­u­at­ing AGI X-Risks

Remmelt and flandry19
Jan 2, 2023, 8:59 AM
−10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pac­ing: in­ex­pli­ca­bly good

KatjaGraceJan 2, 2023, 8:30 AM
39 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Align­ment, Anger, and Love: Prepar­ing for the Emer­gence of Su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI

tavurthJan 2, 2023, 6:16 AM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How can to­tal world in­dex fund growth out­pace money sup­ply growth over the long term?

pandoJan 2, 2023, 5:33 AM
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

My first year in AI alignment

Alex_AltairJan 2, 2023, 1:28 AM
61 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Sail Over Moun­tains of ICE...

AnthonyRepettoJan 2, 2023, 12:27 AM
26 points
51 comments7 min readLW link

Fun math facts about 2023

Adam ScherlisJan 1, 2023, 11:38 PM
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Thing­ness of Things

TsviBTJan 1, 2023, 10:19 PM
51 points
35 comments10 min readLW link

Thoughts On Ex­pand­ing the AI Safety Com­mu­nity: Benefits and Challenges of Outreach to Non-Tech­ni­cal Professionals

Yashvardhan SharmaJan 1, 2023, 7:21 PM
4 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Would it be good or bad for the US mil­i­tary to get in­volved in AI risk?

Grant DemareeJan 1, 2023, 7:02 PM
50 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Bet­ter New Year’s Goals through Align­ing the Elephant and the Rider

moridinamaelJan 1, 2023, 5:54 PM
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(guildoftherose.org)

A Löbian ar­gu­ment pat­tern for im­plicit rea­son­ing in nat­u­ral lan­guage: Löbian party invitations

Andrew_CritchJan 1, 2023, 5:39 PM
23 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

woke offline, anti-woke online

Yair HalberstadtJan 1, 2023, 8:24 AM
13 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Sum­mary of 80k’s AI prob­lem profile

JakubKJan 1, 2023, 7:30 AM
7 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What per­cent of peo­ple work in moral mazes?

RaemonJan 1, 2023, 4:33 AM
21 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Re­cur­sive Mid­dle Man­ager Hell

RaemonJan 1, 2023, 4:33 AM
224 points
46 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Challenge to the no­tion that any­thing is (maybe) pos­si­ble with AGI

Remmelt and flandry19
Jan 1, 2023, 3:57 AM
−27 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(mflb.com)

The Roots of Progress’s 2022 in review

jasoncrawfordJan 1, 2023, 2:54 AM
14 points
2 comments15 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

In­vest­ing for a World Trans­formed by AI

PeterMcCluskeyJan 1, 2023, 2:47 AM
70 points
24 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Why Free Will is NOT an illusion

Akira PyinyaJan 1, 2023, 2:29 AM
0 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Lo­calhost Se­cu­rity Messaging

jefftkJan 1, 2023, 2:20 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

0 and 1 aren’t probabilities

Alok SinghJan 1, 2023, 12:09 AM
2 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(en.wikipedia.org)

‘simu­la­tor’ fram­ing and con­fu­sions about LLMs

Beth BarnesDec 31, 2022, 11:38 PM
104 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Mon­i­tor­ing de­vices I have loved

ElizabethDec 31, 2022, 10:51 PM
62 points
13 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Slack mat­ters more than any outcome

ValentineDec 31, 2022, 8:11 PM
164 points
56 comments19 min readLW link1 review

To Be Par­tic­u­lar About Morality

AGODec 31, 2022, 7:58 PM
6 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

200 COP in MI: In­ter­pret­ing Al­gorith­mic Problems

Neel NandaDec 31, 2022, 7:55 PM
33 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

The Feel­ing of Idea Scarcity

johnswentworthDec 31, 2022, 5:34 PM
249 points
23 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Curse of knowl­edge and Naive re­al­ism: Bias in Eval­u­at­ing AGI X-Risks

Remmelt and flandry19
Dec 31, 2022, 1:33 PM
−7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] What ca­reer ad­vice do you give to soft­ware en­g­ineers?

AntbDec 31, 2022, 12:01 PM
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are Mix­ture-of-Ex­perts Trans­form­ers More In­ter­pretable Than Dense Trans­form­ers?

simeon_cDec 31, 2022, 11:34 AM
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] In which cases can ChatGPT be used as an aid for the­sis or sci­en­tific pa­per writ­ing?

Bob GuranDec 31, 2022, 10:50 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link