Labs should be ex­plicit about why they are build­ing AGI

peterbarnettOct 17, 2023, 9:09 PM
214 points
18 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Eleuther re­leases Llemma: An Open Lan­guage Model For Mathematics

mako yassOct 17, 2023, 8:03 PM
22 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.eleuther.ai)

In­ves­ti­gat­ing the learn­ing co­effi­cient of mod­u­lar ad­di­tion: hackathon project

Oct 17, 2023, 7:51 PM
94 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

Wor­ld­work for Ethics

False NameOct 17, 2023, 6:55 PM
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. ZuoOct 17, 2023, 6:51 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

ZaneOct 17, 2023, 6:38 PM
72 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

Try­ing to de­con­fuse some core AI x-risk problems

Oct 17, 2023, 6:36 PM
34 points
13 comments27 min readLW link

Be­ing pa­tient with problems

Henrik KarlssonOct 17, 2023, 6:30 PM
36 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)

Ra­tion­al­ity Club at UChicago

Noah BirnbaumOct 17, 2023, 5:38 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Road to Proto-AGI 2024

Lucas HeinrichOct 17, 2023, 5:37 PM
−9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

ChatGPT Plays 20 Ques­tions [some­times needs help]

Bill BenzonOct 17, 2023, 5:30 PM
5 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Why am I still al­ive? (a time cap­sule)

Spiritus DeiOct 17, 2023, 4:19 PM
−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 Oct 17, 2023, 4:06 PM
8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Fer­til­ity Roundup #2

ZviOct 17, 2023, 1:20 PM
25 points
30 comments33 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo.

silentbobOct 17, 2023, 11:36 AM
16 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

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

warrenjordanOct 17, 2023, 6:33 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Depth Confusion

Richard HenageOct 17, 2023, 6:06 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Late-talk­ing kid part 3: gestalt lan­guage learning

Steven ByrnesOct 17, 2023, 2:00 AM
33 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The Good Life in the face of the apocalypse

Oct 16, 2023, 10:40 PM
82 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

ACX Mérida Meetup

Silvia FernándezOct 16, 2023, 7:39 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

An EPUB of Ar­bital’s AI Align­ment section

mesaoptimizerOct 16, 2023, 7:36 PM
43 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(git.sr.ht)

How should TurnTrout han­dle his Deep­Mind equity situ­a­tion?

Oct 16, 2023, 6:25 PM
63 points
36 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: The Word Wars

johncroxOct 16, 2023, 5:54 PM
9 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

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

Gabriel WeilOct 16, 2023, 5:37 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The price is right

EJTOct 16, 2023, 4:34 PM
42 points
3 commentsLW link
(openairopensea.substack.com)

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

Andreas ChrysopoulosOct 16, 2023, 12:31 PM
5 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Knowl­edge Base 4: Gen­eral applications

iwisOct 16, 2023, 12:26 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

UNGA Gen­eral De­bate speeches on AI

Odd anonOct 16, 2023, 6:36 AM
6 points
0 comments21 min readLW link

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

Logan ZoellnerOct 16, 2023, 1:46 AM
14 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(midwitalignment.substack.com)

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

kourabiOct 16, 2023, 1:16 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Good­hart’s Law in Re­in­force­ment Learning

Oct 16, 2023, 12:54 AM
126 points
22 comments7 min readLW link

My AI Pre­dic­tions 2023 − 2026

HunterJayOct 16, 2023, 12:50 AM
60 points
33 comments5 min readLW link

Tax­on­omy of AI-risk counterarguments

Odd anonOct 16, 2023, 12:12 AM
65 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

Thoughts on Hard­ware limits to Prevent AGI?

jrincaycOct 15, 2023, 11:45 PM
4 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

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

Alexander RiesOct 15, 2023, 10:59 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Fre­quen­tism and Bayesian Dogma

Oct 15, 2023, 10:23 PM
59 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

More or Fewer Fights over Prin­ci­ples and Values?

Oct 15, 2023, 9:35 PM
24 points
10 comments14 min readLW link

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

Bill BenzonOct 15, 2023, 8:12 PM
1 point
0 comments18 min readLW link

The Hid­den Per­ils of Hydrogen

Yudhister KumarOct 15, 2023, 7:51 PM
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.)

Noosphere89Oct 15, 2023, 2:51 PM
28 points
129 comments25 min readLW link

Hyper­re­als in a Nutshell

Yudhister KumarOct 15, 2023, 2:23 PM
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 EmersonOct 15, 2023, 9:02 AM
5 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist hor­ror movies

ElizabethOct 15, 2023, 7:42 AM
46 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Unity Gridworlds

WillPetilloOct 15, 2023, 4:36 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In mem­ory of Louise Glück

Joe CarlsmithOct 15, 2023, 2:59 AM
41 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Book Re­view: In­visi­ble China

Yudhister KumarOct 14, 2023, 9:51 PM
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(ykumar.org)

Book Re­view: Rad­i­cal Markets

Yudhister KumarOct 14, 2023, 9:41 PM
11 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(ykumar.org)

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

yakimoffOct 14, 2023, 8:58 PM
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

Jacob G-WOct 14, 2023, 8:23 PM
86 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(jacobgw.com)

Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion: Con­ver­gent Prefer­ences Over In­for­ma­tion Structures

paulomOct 14, 2023, 6:34 PM
28 points
1 comment36 min readLW link