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FixDT

abramdemski30 Nov 2023 21:57 UTC

55 points

9 comments13 min readLW link

Generalization, from thermodynamics to statistical physics

Jesse Hoogland30 Nov 2023 21:28 UTC

63 points

9 comments28 min readLW link

What’s next for the field of Agent Foundations?

Nora_Ammann, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and mattmacdermott

30 Nov 2023 17:55 UTC

59 points

21 comments10 min readLW link

A Proposed Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease???

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 17:37 UTC

4 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

AI #40: A Vision from Vitalik

Zvi30 Nov 2023 17:30 UTC

53 points

12 comments42 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Is scheming more likely in models trained to have long-term goals? (Sections 2.2.4.1-2.2.4.2 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith30 Nov 2023 16:43 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

A Formula for Violence (and Its Antidote)

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 16:04 UTC

−22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.simpleheart.org)

Enkrateia: a safe model-based reinforcement learning algorithm

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 15:51 UTC

−15 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(github.com)

Normative Ethics vs Utilitarianism

Logan Zoellner30 Nov 2023 15:36 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(midwitalignment.substack.com)

Information-Theoretic Boxing of Superintelligences

JustinShovelain and Elliot_Mckernon

30 Nov 2023 14:31 UTC

30 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

OpenAI: Altman Returns

Zvi30 Nov 2023 14:10 UTC

66 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Linkpost] Remarks on the Convergence in Distribution of Random Neural Networks to Gaussian Processes in the Infinite Width Limit

Spencer Becker-Kahn30 Nov 2023 14:01 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(drive.google.com)

[Question] Buy Nothing Day is a great idea with a terrible app— why has nobody built a killer app for crowdsourced ‘effective communism’ yet?

lillybaeum30 Nov 2023 13:47 UTC

8 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Comprehensible Input is the only way people learn languages—is it the only way people learn?

lillybaeum30 Nov 2023 13:31 UTC

8 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Some Intuitions for the Ethicophysics

MadHatter and mishka

30 Nov 2023 6:47 UTC

2 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

The Alignment Agenda THEY Don’t Want You to Know About

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 4:29 UTC

−18 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Cis fragility

[deactivated]30 Nov 2023 4:14 UTC

−51 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Homework Answer: Glicko Ratings for War

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 4:08 UTC

−29 points

1 comment77 min readLW link

(gist.github.com)

[Question] Feature Request for LessWrong

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 3:19 UTC

11 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

My Alignment Research Agenda (“the Ethicophysics”)

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 2:57 UTC

−13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Stupid Question: Why am I getting consistently downvoted?

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 0:21 UTC

18 points

124 comments1 min readLW link

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