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Labs should be explicit about why they are building AGI

peterbarnett17 Oct 2023 21:09 UTC

215 points

18 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

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

Nina Panickssery and Dmitry Vaintrob

17 Oct 2023 19:51 UTC

95 points

5 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

72 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

Trying to deconfuse some core AI x-risk problems

habryka and Max H

17 Oct 2023 18:36 UTC

34 points

13 comments27 min readLW link

Being patient with problems

Henrik Karlsson17 Oct 2023 18:30 UTC

36 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)

Rationality Club at UChicago

Noah Birnbaum17 Oct 2023 17:38 UTC

7 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

−6 points

1 comment8 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

30 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

33 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

The Good Life in the face of the apocalypse

Elizabeth and kave

16 Oct 2023 22:40 UTC

83 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

53 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(git.sr.ht)

How should TurnTrout handle his DeepMind equity situation?

habryka and TurnTrout

16 Oct 2023 18:25 UTC

63 points

36 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

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

42 points

3 comments4 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

jacek, Joar Skalse, OliverHayman, charlie_griffin and Xingjian Bai

16 Oct 2023 0:54 UTC

126 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

My AI Predictions 2023 − 2026

HunterJay16 Oct 2023 0:50 UTC

60 points

33 comments5 min readLW link

Taxonomy of AI-risk counterarguments

Odd anon16 Oct 2023 0:12 UTC

65 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

Thoughts on Hardware limits to Prevent AGI?

jrincayc15 Oct 2023 23:45 UTC

4 points

3 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

DanielFilan and Adrià Garriga-alonso

15 Oct 2023 22:23 UTC

59 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

More or Fewer Fights over Principles and Values?

Ben Pace and Vaniver

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

28 points

129 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

12 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

86 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

Natural Abstraction: Convergent Preferences Over Information Structures

paulom14 Oct 2023 18:34 UTC

28 points

1 comment36 min readLW link