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

carboniferous_umbraculum Nov 30, 2023, 2:01 PM
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?

lillybaeumNov 30, 2023, 1:47 PM
8 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

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

lillybaeumNov 30, 2023, 1:31 PM
8 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Some In­tu­itions for the Ethicophysics

MadHatter and mishka
Nov 30, 2023, 6:47 AM
2 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

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

MadHatterNov 30, 2023, 4:29 AM
−19 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Cis fragility

[deactivated]Nov 30, 2023, 4:14 AM
−51 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Home­work An­swer: Glicko Rat­ings for War

MadHatterNov 30, 2023, 4:08 AM
−45 points
1 comment77 min readLW link
(gist.github.com)

[Question] Fea­ture Re­quest for LessWrong

MadHatterNov 30, 2023, 3:19 AM
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

My Align­ment Re­search Agenda (“the Ethico­physics”)

MadHatterNov 30, 2023, 2:57 AM
−13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

MadHatterNov 30, 2023, 12:21 AM
31 points
138 comments1 min readLW link

Inos­i­tol Non-Results

ElizabethNov 29, 2023, 9:40 PM
20 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Los­ing Me­taphors: Zip and Paste

jefftkNov 29, 2023, 8:31 PM
26 points
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
5 comments12 min readLW link

AGI Align­ment is Absurd

Youssef MohamedNov 29, 2023, 7:11 PM
−9 points
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
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
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
1 comment11 min readLW link

Ly­ing Align­ment Chart

Zack_M_DavisNov 29, 2023, 4:15 PM
78 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

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

kierangreigNov 29, 2023, 1:59 PM
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Thoughts on tele­trans­porta­tion with copies?

titotalNov 29, 2023, 12:56 PM
15 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­pretabil­ity with Sparse Au­toen­coders (Co­lab ex­er­cises)

CallumMcDougallNov 29, 2023, 12:56 PM
76 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You

ScrewtapeNov 29, 2023, 4:56 AM
280 points
23 comments6 min readLW link1 review

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

mnvrNov 29, 2023, 4:37 AM
−2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­cess Sub­sti­tu­tion Without Shell?

jefftkNov 29, 2023, 3:20 AM
19 points
18 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

De­cep­tion Chess: Game #2

ZaneNov 29, 2023, 2:43 AM
29 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Black Box Biology

GeneSmithNov 29, 2023, 2:27 AM
65 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 StoneNov 29, 2023, 12:53 AM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Scal­ing laws for dom­i­nant as­surance contracts

jessicataNov 28, 2023, 11:11 PM
36 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

I’m con­fused about in­nate smell neuroanatomy

Steven ByrnesNov 28, 2023, 8:49 PM
40 points
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
30 comments11 min readLW link

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

Aaron BohannonNov 28, 2023, 7:03 PM
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

moyamoNov 28, 2023, 6:02 PM
33 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ethico­physics II: Poli­tics is the Mind-Savior

MadHatterNov 28, 2023, 4:27 PM
−9 points
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
22 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Agen­tic Growth

Logan KiellerNov 28, 2023, 3:45 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
(logankieller.substack.com)

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

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 28, 2023, 2:47 PM
4 points
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
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
1 comment15 min readLW link

Self-Refer­en­tial Prob­a­bil­is­tic Logic Ad­mits the Payor’s Lemma

Yudhister KumarNov 28, 2023, 10:27 AM
80 points
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 comments1 min readLW link

A Read­ing From The Book Of Sequences

ScrewtapeNov 28, 2023, 6:45 AM
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

An­thropic Fall 2023 De­bate Progress Update

Ansh RadhakrishnanNov 28, 2023, 5:37 AM
76 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

Apoca­lypse in­surance, and the hardline liber­tar­ian take on AI risk

So8resNov 28, 2023, 2:09 AM
135 points
40 comments7 min readLW link1 review

My techno-op­ti­mism [By Vi­talik Bu­terin]

habrykaNov 27, 2023, 11:53 PM
107 points
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
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
8 comments1 min readLW link

AISC 2024 - Pro­ject Summaries

NickyPNov 27, 2023, 10:32 PM
48 points
3 comments18 min readLW link

“Epistemic range of mo­tion” and LessWrong moderation

habryka and Gabriel Alfour
Nov 27, 2023, 9:58 PM
65 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Ap­ply to the Con­cep­tual Boundaries Work­shop for AI Safety

Chris LakinNov 27, 2023, 9:04 PM
50 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

There is no IQ for AI

Gabriel AlfourNov 27, 2023, 6:21 PM
30 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(cognition.cafe)