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Inositol Non-Results

Elizabeth29 Nov 2023 21:40 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Losing Metaphors: Zip and Paste

jefftk29 Nov 2023 20:31 UTC

25 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

rnk829 Nov 2023 19:20 UTC

0 points

5 comments12 min readLW link

AGI Alignment is Absurd

Youssef Mohamed29 Nov 2023 19:11 UTC

−9 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

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

jasoncrawford29 Nov 2023 18:30 UTC

30 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

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

VipulNaik29 Nov 2023 18:11 UTC

33 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

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

Joe Carlsmith29 Nov 2023 16:32 UTC

24 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Lying Alignment Chart

Zack_M_Davis29 Nov 2023 16:15 UTC

76 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

A couple interesting upcoming capabilities workshops

the gears to ascension29 Nov 2023 14:57 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

kierangreig29 Nov 2023 13:59 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Thoughts on teletransportation with copies?

titotal29 Nov 2023 12:56 UTC

13 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Intro to Superposition & Sparse Autoencoders (Colab exercises)

CallumMcDougall29 Nov 2023 12:56 UTC

67 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You

Screwtape29 Nov 2023 4:56 UTC

245 points

20 comments6 min readLW link

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

mnvr29 Nov 2023 4:37 UTC

−2 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Process Substitution Without Shell?

jefftk29 Nov 2023 3:20 UTC

19 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Deception Chess: Game #2

Zane29 Nov 2023 2:43 UTC

29 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Black Box Biology

GeneSmith29 Nov 2023 2:27 UTC

61 points

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 Stone29 Nov 2023 0:53 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Scaling laws for dominant assurance contracts

jessicata28 Nov 2023 23:11 UTC

36 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

I’m confused about innate smell neuroanatomy

Steven Byrnes28 Nov 2023 20:49 UTC

34 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

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

RogerDearnaley28 Nov 2023 19:56 UTC

64 points

30 comments11 min readLW link

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

Aaron Bohannon28 Nov 2023 19:03 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

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

moyamo28 Nov 2023 18:02 UTC

33 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Ethicophysics II: Politics is the Mind-Savior

MadHatter28 Nov 2023 16:27 UTC

−9 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(bittertruths.substack.com)

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

jasoncrawford28 Nov 2023 16:04 UTC

0 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Agentic Growth

Logan Kieller28 Nov 2023 15:45 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(logankieller.substack.com)

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

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea28 Nov 2023 14:47 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

A day in the life of a mechanistic interpretability researcher

Bill Benzon28 Nov 2023 14:45 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Joe Carlsmith28 Nov 2023 13:49 UTC

11 points

1 comment15 min readLW link

Self-Referential Probabilistic Logic Admits the Payor’s Lemma

Yudhister Kumar28 Nov 2023 10:27 UTC

80 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

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

Yoav Ravid28 Nov 2023 10:05 UTC

18 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

A Reading From The Book Of Sequences

Screwtape28 Nov 2023 6:45 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Anthropic Fall 2023 Debate Progress Update

Ansh Radhakrishnan28 Nov 2023 5:37 UTC

74 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

Apocalypse insurance, and the hardline libertarian take on AI risk

So8res28 Nov 2023 2:09 UTC

122 points

36 comments7 min readLW link

My techno-optimism [By Vitalik Buterin]

habryka27 Nov 2023 23:53 UTC

102 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

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

Roko27 Nov 2023 22:52 UTC

10 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

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

Roko27 Nov 2023 22:39 UTC

16 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

AISC 2024 - Project Summaries

NickyP27 Nov 2023 22:32 UTC

48 points

3 comments18 min readLW link

“Epistemic range of motion” and LessWrong moderation

habryka and Gabriel Alfour

27 Nov 2023 21:58 UTC

60 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

Apply to the Conceptual Boundaries Workshop for AI Safety

Chipmonk27 Nov 2023 21:04 UTC

48 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

There is no IQ for AI

Gabriel Alfour27 Nov 2023 18:21 UTC

30 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

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

Joe Carlsmith27 Nov 2023 18:01 UTC

19 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

[Linkpost] George Mack’s Razors

trevor27 Nov 2023 17:53 UTC

38 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

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

Bill Benzon27 Nov 2023 16:50 UTC

15 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

Ethicophysics I

MadHatter27 Nov 2023 15:44 UTC

−1 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Sentience Institute 2023 End of Year Summary

michael_dello27 Nov 2023 12:11 UTC

11 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Question] A Question about Corrigibility (2015)

A.H.27 Nov 2023 12:05 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Appendices to the live agendas

technicalities and Stag

27 Nov 2023 11:10 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety

technicalities and Stag

27 Nov 2023 11:10 UTC

310 points

69 comments29 min readLW link

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

Meow P27 Nov 2023 9:41 UTC

−3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.cricetuscricetus.co.uk)