Labs should be ex­plicit about why they are build­ing AGI

peterbarnett17 Oct 2023 21:09 UTC
187 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Eleuther re­leases Llemma: An Open Lan­guage Model For Mathematics

mako yass17 Oct 2023 20:03 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.eleuther.ai)

In­ves­ti­gat­ing the learn­ing co­effi­cient of mod­u­lar ad­di­tion: hackathon project

17 Oct 2023 19:51 UTC
86 points
4 comments12 min readLW link

Wor­ld­work for Ethics

False Name17 Oct 2023 18:55 UTC
8 points
1 comment24 min readLW link

[Question] When build­ing an or­ga­ni­za­tion, there are lots of ways to pre­vent fi­nan­cial cor­rup­tion of per­son­nel. But what are the ways to pre­vent cor­rup­tion via so­cial sta­tus, poli­ti­cal power, etc.?

M. Y. Zuo17 Oct 2023 18:51 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Eliezer’s ex­am­ple on Bayesian statis­tics is wr… oops!

Zane17 Oct 2023 18:38 UTC
70 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

Try­ing to de­con­fuse some core AI x-risk problems

17 Oct 2023 18:36 UTC
34 points
13 comments27 min readLW link

Be­ing pa­tient with problems

Henrik Karlsson17 Oct 2023 18:30 UTC
24 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)

Ra­tion­al­ity Club at UChicago

Daniel Birnbaum17 Oct 2023 17:38 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Road to Proto-AGI 2024

Lucas Heinrich17 Oct 2023 17:37 UTC
−9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

ChatGPT Plays 20 Ques­tions [some­times needs help]

Bill Benzon17 Oct 2023 17:30 UTC
5 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Why am I still al­ive? (a time cap­sule)

Spiritus Dei17 Oct 2023 16:19 UTC
−7 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

[Cross-post]The the­o­ret­i­cal com­pu­ta­tional limit of the So­lar Sys­tem is 1.47x10^49 bits per sec­ond.

William the Kiwi 17 Oct 2023 16:06 UTC
8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Fer­til­ity Roundup #2

Zvi17 Oct 2023 13:20 UTC
25 points
29 comments33 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo.

silentbob17 Oct 2023 11:36 UTC
16 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Re­sources to help with life/​ca­reer de­ci­sion?

warrenjordan17 Oct 2023 6:33 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Depth Confusion

Richard Henage17 Oct 2023 6:06 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Late-talk­ing kid part 3: gestalt lan­guage learning

Steven Byrnes17 Oct 2023 2:00 UTC
31 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The Good Life in the face of the apocalypse

16 Oct 2023 22:40 UTC
82 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

ACX Mérida Meetup

Silvia Fernández16 Oct 2023 19:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

An EPUB of Ar­bital’s AI Align­ment section

mesaoptimizer16 Oct 2023 19:36 UTC
43 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(git.sr.ht)

How should TurnTrout han­dle his Deep­Mind equity situ­a­tion?

16 Oct 2023 18:25 UTC
61 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: The Word Wars

johncrox16 Oct 2023 17:54 UTC
9 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Mas­s­ape­qua (Long Is­land), NY, USA ACX De­cem­ber Meetup

Gabriel Weil16 Oct 2023 17:37 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The price is right

EJT16 Oct 2023 16:34 UTC
39 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(openairopensea.substack.com)

[Question] Dat­ing in 2023 sucks. Why isn’t AI helping?

Andreas Chrysopoulos16 Oct 2023 12:31 UTC
5 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Knowl­edge Base 4: Gen­eral applications

iwis16 Oct 2023 12:26 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

UNGA Gen­eral De­bate speeches on AI

Odd anon16 Oct 2023 6:36 UTC
6 points
0 comments21 min readLW link

AI Align­ment [In­cre­men­tal Progress Units] this week (10/​08/​23)

Logan Zoellner16 Oct 2023 1:46 UTC
14 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(midwitalignment.substack.com)

[Question] Does a broad overview of Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity ex­ist?

kourabi16 Oct 2023 1:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Good­hart’s Law in Re­in­force­ment Learning

16 Oct 2023 0:54 UTC
125 points
22 comments7 min readLW link

My AI Pre­dic­tions 2023 − 2026

HunterJay16 Oct 2023 0:50 UTC
59 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

Tax­on­omy of AI-risk counterarguments

Odd anon16 Oct 2023 0:12 UTC
61 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

Thoughts on Hard­ware limits to Prevent AGI?

jrincayc15 Oct 2023 23:45 UTC
4 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Train­ing a RL Model with Con­tin­u­ous State & Ac­tion Space in a Real-World Scenario

Alexander Ries15 Oct 2023 22:59 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Fre­quen­tism and Bayesian Dogma

15 Oct 2023 22:23 UTC
59 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

More or Fewer Fights over Prin­ci­ples and Values?

15 Oct 2023 21:35 UTC
24 points
10 comments14 min readLW link

Map­ping ChatGPT’s on­tolog­i­cal land­scape, gra­di­ents and choices [in­ter­pretabil­ity]

Bill Benzon15 Oct 2023 20:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments18 min readLW link

The Hid­den Per­ils of Hydrogen

Yudhister Kumar15 Oct 2023 19:51 UTC
17 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(ykumar.org)

Ar­gu­ments for op­ti­mism on AI Align­ment (I don’t en­dorse this ver­sion, will re­u­pload a new ver­sion soon.)

Noosphere8915 Oct 2023 14:51 UTC
23 points
127 comments25 min readLW link

Hyper­re­als in a Nutshell

Yudhister Kumar15 Oct 2023 14:23 UTC
35 points
27 comments5 min readLW link
(ykumar.org)

Dis­cov­er­ing La­tent Knowl­edge in the Hu­man Brain: Part 1 – Clar­ify­ing the con­cepts of be­lief and knowledge

Joseph Emerson15 Oct 2023 9:02 UTC
5 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist hor­ror movies

Elizabeth15 Oct 2023 7:42 UTC
46 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Unity Gridworlds

WillPetillo15 Oct 2023 4:36 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In mem­ory of Louise Glück

Joe Carlsmith15 Oct 2023 2:59 UTC
41 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Book Re­view: In­visi­ble China

Yudhister Kumar14 Oct 2023 21:51 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(ykumar.org)

Book Re­view: Rad­i­cal Markets

Yudhister Kumar14 Oct 2023 21:41 UTC
10 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(ykumar.org)

[Question] One-on-one tu­tor­ing for any subject

yakimoff14 Oct 2023 20:58 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Pu­ri­tans would one-box: ev­i­den­tial de­ci­sion the­ory in the 17th century

Jacob G-W14 Oct 2023 20:23 UTC
83 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(jacobgw.com)

Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion: Con­ver­gent Prefer­ences Over In­for­ma­tion Structures

paulom14 Oct 2023 18:34 UTC
13 points
1 comment36 min readLW link