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

dawsoneliasenFeb 6, 2023, 10:12 PM

26 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

(orbistertius.substack.com)

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

Augmented AssemblyFeb 6, 2023, 9:09 PM

10 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

In defense of the MBTI

ZZZZZZFeb 6, 2023, 9:08 PM

−14 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Early situational awareness and its implications, a story

Jacob PfauFeb 6, 2023, 8:45 PM

29 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Conditioning Predictive Models: The case for competitiveness

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

Feb 6, 2023, 8:08 PM

20 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

Google announces ‘Bard’ powered by LaMDA

M. Y. ZuoFeb 6, 2023, 7:40 PM

31 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

SolidGoldMagikarp II: technical details and more recent findings

mwatkins and Jessica Rumbelow

Feb 6, 2023, 7:09 PM

113 points

45 comments13 min readLW link

Addendum: More Efficient FFNs via Attention

Robert_AIZIFeb 6, 2023, 6:55 PM

10 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

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

DirectedEvolutionFeb 6, 2023, 6:36 PM

67 points

10 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Childhoods of exceptional people

Henrik KarlssonFeb 6, 2023, 5:27 PM

345 points

63 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Foodpairing and Embeddings

jurabrazdilFeb 6, 2023, 3:09 PM

14 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #3

ZviFeb 6, 2023, 1:00 PM

41 points

9 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Linda LinseforsFeb 6, 2023, 11:05 AM

27 points

1 comment LW link

Oxford Essay Writing

Flourish Journal, RP and Jemima

Feb 6, 2023, 8:24 AM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Decision Transformer Interpretability

Joseph Bloom and Paul Colognese

Feb 6, 2023, 7:29 AM

84 points

13 comments24 min readLW link

Why is Everyone So Boring? By Robin Hanson

trevorFeb 6, 2023, 4:17 AM

57 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Gradient surfing: the hidden role of regularization

Jesse HooglandFeb 6, 2023, 3:50 AM

37 points

9 comments14 min readLW link

(www.jessehoogland.com)

Why Are Bacteria So Simple?

aysjaFeb 6, 2023, 3:00 AM

172 points

33 comments10 min readLW link

The Law of Identity

Chris_LeongFeb 6, 2023, 2:59 AM

5 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Robin Hanson on “Explaining the Sacred”

RaemonFeb 6, 2023, 12:50 AM

13 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Interview Daniel Murfet on Universal Phenomena in Learning Machines

Alexander Gietelink OldenzielFeb 6, 2023, 12:00 AM

50 points

1 comment16 min readLW link

SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins

Feb 5, 2023, 10:02 PM

676 points

206 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Are short timelines actually bad?

joshcFeb 5, 2023, 9:21 PM

61 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Stanzas On Power Calculation

DirectedEvolutionFeb 5, 2023, 7:15 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A List of things I might do with a Proof Oracle

Logan ZoellnerFeb 5, 2023, 6:14 PM

−14 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Teaching Simple Boundaries

jefftkFeb 5, 2023, 5:30 PM

23 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Control

TsviBTFeb 5, 2023, 4:16 PM

21 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

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

RP, Flourish Journal and Jemima

Feb 5, 2023, 3:05 PM

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

H5N1 - thread for information sharing, planning, and action

MathiasKB5 Feb 2023 12:44 UTC

31 points

8 comments LW 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

44 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Sex is Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Feb 2023 6:33 UTC

41 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

132 points

11 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Pandemic Prediction Checklist: H5N1 (6/14)

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 3:26 UTC

50 points

10 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

249 points

83 comments10 min readLW link

(www.simonberens.com)

Modal Fixpoint Cooperation without Löb’s Theorem

Andrew_Critch5 Feb 2023 0:58 UTC

134 points

34 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

 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

48 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

45 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