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Inositol Non-Results

ElizabethNov 29, 2023, 9:40 PM

20 points

7 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Losing Metaphors: Zip and Paste

jefftkNov 29, 2023, 8:31 PM

26 points

10 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Preserving our heritage: Building a movement and a knowledge ark for current and future generations

rnk8Nov 29, 2023, 7:20 PM

0 points

4 votes

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5 comments12 min readLW link

AGI Alignment is Absurd

Youssef MohamedNov 29, 2023, 7:11 PM

−9 points

8 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

The origins of the steam engine: An essay with interactive animated diagrams

jasoncrawfordNov 29, 2023, 6:30 PM

30 points

13 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

ChatGPT 4 solved all the gotcha problems I posed that tripped ChatGPT 3.5

VipulNaikNov 29, 2023, 6:11 PM

33 points

18 votes

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16 comments14 min readLW link

“Clean” vs. “messy” goal-directedness (Section 2.2.3 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithNov 29, 2023, 4:32 PM

29 points

9 votes

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1 comment11 min readLW link

Lying Alignment Chart

Zack_M_DavisNov 29, 2023, 4:15 PM

78 points

41 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

Rethink Priorities: Seeking Expressions of Interest for Special Projects Next Year

kierangreigNov 29, 2023, 1:59 PM

4 points

3 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Thoughts on teletransportation with copies?

titotalNov 29, 2023, 12:56 PM

15 points

10 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders (Colab exercises)

CallumMcDougallNov 29, 2023, 12:56 PM

77 points

39 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You

ScrewtapeNov 29, 2023, 4:56 AM

281 points

133 votes

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23 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Trust your intuition—Kahneman’s book misses the forest for the trees

mnvrNov 29, 2023, 4:37 AM

−2 points

7 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Process Substitution Without Shell?

jefftkNov 29, 2023, 3:20 AM

19 points

7 votes

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18 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Deception Chess: Game #2

ZaneNov 29, 2023, 2:43 AM

29 points

17 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

Black Box Biology

GeneSmithNov 29, 2023, 2:27 AM

65 points

30 votes

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30 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What would be the shelf life of nuclear weapon-secrecy if nuclear weapons had not immediately been used in combat?

Gram StoneNov 29, 2023, 12:53 AM

7 points

5 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Scaling laws for dominant assurance contracts

jessicataNov 28, 2023, 11:11 PM

36 points

11 votes

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5 comments7 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

I’m confused about innate smell neuroanatomy

Steven ByrnesNov 28, 2023, 8:49 PM

40 points

15 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

How to Control an LLM’s Behavior (why my P(DOOM) went down)

RogerDearnaleyNov 28, 2023, 7:56 PM

65 points

37 votes

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30 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a word for discrimination against A.I.?

Aaron BohannonNov 28, 2023, 7:03 PM

1 point

1 vote

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Update #2 to “Dominant Assurance Contract Platform”: EnsureDone

moyamoNov 28, 2023, 6:02 PM

33 points

14 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Ethicophysics II: Politics is the Mind-Savior

MadHatterNov 28, 2023, 4:27 PM

−9 points

12 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

(bittertruths.substack.com)

Neither EA nor e/acc is what we need to build the future

jasoncrawfordNov 28, 2023, 4:04 PM

7 points

21 votes

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22 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

AISC project: How promising is automating alignment research? (literature review)

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 28, 2023, 2:47 PM

4 points

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

A day in the life of a mechanistic interpretability researcher

Bill BenzonNov 28, 2023, 2:45 PM

3 points

4 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Two sources of beyond-episode goals (Section 2.2.2 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithNov 28, 2023, 1:49 PM

11 points

4 votes

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1 comment15 min readLW link

Self-Referential Probabilistic Logic Admits the Payor’s Lemma

Yudhister KumarNov 28, 2023, 10:27 AM

80 points

29 votes

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14 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How can I use AI without increasing AI-risk?

Yoav RavidNov 28, 2023, 10:05 AM

18 points

6 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

A Reading From The Book Of Sequences

ScrewtapeNov 28, 2023, 6:45 AM

8 points

3 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Anthropic Fall 2023 Debate Progress Update

Ansh RadhakrishnanNov 28, 2023, 5:37 AM

76 points

35 votes

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9 comments12 min readLW link

Apocalypse insurance, and the hardline libertarian take on AI risk

So8resNov 28, 2023, 2:09 AM

135 points

65 votes

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40 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

My techno-optimism [By Vitalik Buterin]

habrykaNov 27, 2023, 11:53 PM

107 points

54 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Could Germany have won World War I with high probability given the benefit of hindsight?

RokoNov 27, 2023, 10:52 PM

10 points

9 votes

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18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could World War I have been prevented given the benefit of hindsight?

RokoNov 27, 2023, 10:39 PM

16 points

7 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

AISC 2024 - Project Summaries

NickyPNov 27, 2023, 10:32 PM

48 points

18 votes

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3 comments18 min readLW link

“Epistemic range of motion” and LessWrong moderation

habryka and Gabriel Alfour

Nov 27, 2023, 9:58 PM

65 points

24 votes

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3 comments12 min readLW link

Apply to the Conceptual Boundaries Workshop for AI Safety

Chris LakinNov 27, 2023, 9:04 PM

50 points

19 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

There is no IQ for AI

Gabriel AlfourNov 27, 2023, 6:21 PM

31 points

38 votes

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10 comments9 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Two concepts of an “episode” (Section 2.2.1 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithNov 27, 2023, 6:01 PM

19 points

4 votes

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1 comment13 min readLW link

[Linkpost] George Mack’s Razors

trevorNov 27, 2023, 5:53 PM

38 points

18 votes

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8 comments3 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

On possible cross-fertilization between AI and neuroscience [Creativity]

Bill BenzonNov 27, 2023, 4:50 PM

15 points

5 votes

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22 comments7 min readLW link

Ethicophysics I

MadHatterNov 27, 2023, 3:44 PM

−1 points

10 votes

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16 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Sentience Institute 2023 End of Year Summary

michael_delloNov 27, 2023, 12:11 PM

11 points

4 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Question] A Question about Corrigibility (2015)

A.H.Nov 27, 2023, 12:05 PM

4 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Appendices to the live agendas

technicalities and Stag

Nov 27, 2023, 11:10 AM

16 points

11 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety

technicalities and Stag

Nov 27, 2023, 11:10 AM

348 points

162 votes

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73 comments29 min readLW link 1 review

Napoleon stole the Roman Inquisition archives and investigated the Galileo case

Meow PNov 27, 2023, 9:41 AM

−3 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.cricetuscricetus.co.uk)

Found Paper: “FDT in an evolutionary environment”

the gears to ascensionNov 27, 2023, 5:27 AM

30 points

11 votes

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47 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Question] why did OpenAI employees sign

bhauthNov 27, 2023, 5:21 AM

49 points

20 votes

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23 comments1 min readLW link

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