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English is a Terrible Programming Language—And other reasons AI won’t displace programmers

dawsoneliasen6 Feb 2023 22:12 UTC

26 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

(orbistertius.substack.com)

African Wild Dogs Vote By Sneezing—Can AI Help Us Do Better?

Augmented Assembly6 Feb 2023 21:09 UTC

10 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

In defense of the MBTI

ZZZZZZ6 Feb 2023 21:08 UTC

−13 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Early situational awareness and its implications, a story

Jacob Pfau6 Feb 2023 20:45 UTC

29 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Conditioning Predictive Models: The case for competitiveness

evhub, Adam Jermyn, Johannes Treutlein, Rubi J. Hudson and kcwoolverton

6 Feb 2023 20:08 UTC

20 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

Google announces ‘Bard’ powered by LaMDA

M. Y. Zuo6 Feb 2023 19:40 UTC

31 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

SolidGoldMagikarp II: technical details and more recent findings

mwatkins and Jessica Rumbelow

6 Feb 2023 19:09 UTC

109 points

45 comments13 min readLW link

Addendum: More Efficient FFNs via Attention

Robert_AIZI6 Feb 2023 18:55 UTC

10 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

Here’s Why I’m Hesitant To Respond In More Depth

DirectedEvolution6 Feb 2023 18:36 UTC

63 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Childhoods of exceptional people

Henrik Karlsson6 Feb 2023 17:27 UTC

324 points

62 comments15 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Foodpairing and Embeddings

jurabrazdil6 Feb 2023 15:09 UTC

13 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #3

Zvi6 Feb 2023 13:00 UTC

41 points

9 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Project Idea: Lots of Cause-area-specific Online Unconferences

Linda Linsefors6 Feb 2023 11:05 UTC

27 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Oxford Essay Writing

Flourish Journal, RP and Jemima

6 Feb 2023 8:24 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Decision Transformer Interpretability

Joseph Bloom and Paul Colognese

6 Feb 2023 7:29 UTC

84 points

13 comments24 min readLW link

Why is Everyone So Boring? By Robin Hanson

trevor6 Feb 2023 4:17 UTC

54 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Gradient surfing: the hidden role of regularization

Jesse Hoogland6 Feb 2023 3:50 UTC

35 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

(www.jessehoogland.com)

Why Are Bacteria So Simple?

aysja6 Feb 2023 3:00 UTC

171 points

33 comments10 min readLW link

The Law of Identity

Chris_Leong6 Feb 2023 2:59 UTC

5 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Robin Hanson on “Explaining the Sacred”

Raemon6 Feb 2023 0:50 UTC

13 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Interview Daniel Murfet on Universal Phenomena in Learning Machines

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel6 Feb 2023 0:00 UTC

44 points

1 comment16 min readLW link

SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins

5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC

663 points

204 comments12 min readLW link

Are short timelines actually bad?

joshc5 Feb 2023 21:21 UTC

56 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Stanzas On Power Calculation

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 19:15 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A List of things I might do with a Proof Oracle

Logan Zoellner5 Feb 2023 18:14 UTC

−14 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Teaching Simple Boundaries

jefftk5 Feb 2023 17:30 UTC

23 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Control

TsviBT5 Feb 2023 16:16 UTC

19 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

Have an idea? Come to Oxford to discuss and write (20 – 24 March)

RP, Flourish Journal and Jemima

5 Feb 2023 15:05 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

H5N1 - thread for information sharing, planning, and action

MathiasKB5 Feb 2023 12:44 UTC

31 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Second call: CFP for Rebellion and Disobedience in AI workshop

Ram Rachum5 Feb 2023 12:18 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Research Direction: Be the AGI you want to see in the world

scottviteri, sudo and Lauro Langosco

5 Feb 2023 7:15 UTC

43 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Sex is Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Feb 2023 6:33 UTC

40 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Questions about AI that bother me

Eleni Angelou5 Feb 2023 5:04 UTC

13 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Evaluations (of new AI Safety researchers) can be noisy

LawrenceC5 Feb 2023 4:15 UTC

130 points

10 comments16 min readLW link

Pandemic Prediction Checklist: H5N1

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 3:26 UTC

42 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

Podcast with Oli Habryka on LessWrong / Lightcone Infrastructure

DanielFilan5 Feb 2023 2:52 UTC

88 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(thefilancabinet.com)

Misleading Fast Charging Specs

jefftk5 Feb 2023 2:50 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

Simon Berens5 Feb 2023 1:19 UTC

243 points

81 comments10 min readLW link

(www.simonberens.com)

Modal Fixpoint Cooperation without Löb’s Theorem

Andrew_Critch5 Feb 2023 0:58 UTC

133 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

 Who invented knitting? The plot thickens

eukaryote5 Feb 2023 0:24 UTC

60 points

9 comments19 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Some miscellaneous thoughts on ChatGPT, stories, and mechanical interpretability

Bill Benzon4 Feb 2023 19:35 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

O(“AGI Safety”)>O(“Stop Tyrants”)

AnthonyRepetto4 Feb 2023 18:38 UTC

−4 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Monthly Doom Argument Threads? Doom Argument Wiki?

LVSN4 Feb 2023 16:59 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Future of Structured Self Improvement

Evenflair4 Feb 2023 16:02 UTC

27 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

Empathy as a natural consequence of learnt reward models

beren4 Feb 2023 15:35 UTC

46 points

27 comments13 min readLW link

Mech Interp Project Advising Call: Memorisation in GPT-2 Small

Neel Nanda4 Feb 2023 14:17 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Do IQ tests measure intelligence? - A prediction market on my future beliefs about the topic

tailcalled4 Feb 2023 11:19 UTC

1 point

10 comments1 min readLW link

(manifold.markets)

AXRP Episode 19 - Mechanistic Interpretability with Neel Nanda

DanielFilan4 Feb 2023 3:00 UTC

44 points

0 comments117 min readLW link

The 2/3 rule for multi-factor authentication

RomanHauksson4 Feb 2023 2:57 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(roman.computer)

Path-Dependence in ChatGPT’s Political Outputs

lsusr4 Feb 2023 2:02 UTC

28 points

4 comments4 min readLW link