Believe in Your­self and don’t stop Improving

Johannes C. MayerApr 25, 2023, 10:34 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Should LW have an offi­cial list of norms?

RubyApr 25, 2023, 9:20 PM
58 points
31 comments5 min readLW link

Im­ple­ment­ing a Trans­former from scratch in PyTorch—a write-up on my experience

Mislav JurićApr 25, 2023, 8:51 PM
20 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing the Lot­tery Ticket Hypothesis

Rauno ArikeApr 25, 2023, 8:06 PM
58 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

Ge­netic Se­quenc­ing of Wastew­a­ter: Prevalence to Rel­a­tive Abundance

jefftkApr 25, 2023, 7:30 PM
17 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Feed­back please] New User’s Guide to LessWrong

RubyApr 25, 2023, 6:54 PM
38 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Refram­ing the bur­den of proof: Com­pa­nies should prove that mod­els are safe (rather than ex­pect­ing au­di­tors to prove that mod­els are dan­ger­ous)

Orpheus16Apr 25, 2023, 6:49 PM
27 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(childrenoficarus.substack.com)

LLMs for on­line dis­cus­sion moderation

Dave LindberghApr 25, 2023, 4:53 PM
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

AI Safety Newslet­ter #3: AI policy pro­pos­als and a new challenger approaches

ozhangApr 25, 2023, 4:15 PM
33 points
0 commentsLW link

EA might sys­tem­at­i­cally gen­er­ate a scarcity mind­set that pro­duces low-in­tegrity actors

Severin T. SeehrichApr 25, 2023, 3:50 PM
26 points
2 commentsLW link

Max Teg­mark’s new Time ar­ti­cle on how we’re in a Don’t Look Up sce­nario [Linkpost]

Jonas HallgrenApr 25, 2023, 3:41 PM
39 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(time.com)

WHO Biolog­i­cal Risk warning

Jonas KgomoApr 25, 2023, 3:10 PM
−6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A Rant on Calcu­lus III

WofsenApr 25, 2023, 2:51 PM
−5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Briefly how I’ve up­dated since ChatGPT

rimeApr 25, 2023, 2:47 PM
48 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­cuss AI Policy Recommendations

GilesApr 25, 2023, 2:21 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing the Trans­former Cir­cuits Frame­work by Example

Felix HofstätterApr 25, 2023, 1:45 PM
8 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Notes on Po­ten­tial Fu­ture AI Tax Policy

ZviApr 25, 2023, 1:30 PM
33 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sen­tience in Sili­con: The Challenges of AI Consciousness

Hannes ThurnherrApr 25, 2023, 1:15 PM
5 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Paths to failure

Apr 25, 2023, 8:03 AM
29 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

My Assess­ment of the Chi­nese AI Safety Community

Lao MeinApr 25, 2023, 4:21 AM
252 points
94 comments3 min readLW link

Mak­ing Nanobots isn’t a one-shot pro­cess, even for an ar­tifi­cial superintelligance

dankradApr 25, 2023, 12:39 AM
20 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Men­tal Models Of Peo­ple Can Be People

Nox MLApr 25, 2023, 12:03 AM
14 points
55 comments8 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-04-24

jasoncrawfordApr 24, 2023, 9:17 PM
16 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ideas for AI labs: Read­ing list

Zach Stein-PerlmanApr 24, 2023, 7:00 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Deep learn­ing mod­els might be se­cretly (al­most) linear

berenApr 24, 2023, 6:43 PM
117 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

Sub­jec­tive AI/​ML Digest: April II

Boris TApr 24, 2023, 6:33 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(borisagain.substack.com)

The Tox­o­plasma of AGI Doom and Ca­pa­bil­ities?

Robert_AIZIApr 24, 2023, 6:11 PM
72 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Mea­sures of In­ter­net Viral­ity and News Popularity

T431Apr 24, 2023, 5:43 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A con­cise sum-up of the ba­sic ar­gu­ment for AI doom

Mergimio H. DoefevmilApr 24, 2023, 5:37 PM
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

A re­sponse to Con­jec­ture’s CoEm proposal

Kristian FreedApr 24, 2023, 5:23 PM
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ca­ma­raderie at scale: in search of shared identity

eqApr 24, 2023, 4:46 PM
8 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

A Hy­po­thet­i­cal Takeover Sce­nario Twit­ter Poll

ZviApr 24, 2023, 2:00 PM
54 points
9 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cape Town, South Africa—ACX Mee­tups Every­where “Spring” 2023

moyamoApr 24, 2023, 1:37 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cred­ible, costly, pseudonymity

M. Y. ZuoApr 24, 2023, 1:35 PM
1 point
11 comments1 min readLW link

On Ar­tifice and Intelligence

Jonathan YanApr 24, 2023, 1:26 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

AGI ruin mostly rests on strong claims about al­ign­ment and de­ploy­ment, not about society

Rob BensingerApr 24, 2023, 1:06 PM
70 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

For al­ign­ment, we should si­mul­ta­neously use mul­ti­ple the­o­ries of cog­ni­tion and value

Roman LeventovApr 24, 2023, 10:37 AM
23 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Power laws in Speedrun­ning and Ma­chine Learning

Apr 24, 2023, 10:06 AM
71 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] “User does not meet the re­quire­ments to vote”

MonkleApr 24, 2023, 9:53 AM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Brain is Not Close to Ther­mo­dy­namic Limits on Computation

DaemonicSigilApr 24, 2023, 8:21 AM
167 points
58 comments5 min readLW link

Value Learn­ing – Towards Re­solv­ing Con­fu­sion

PashaKamyshevApr 24, 2023, 6:43 AM
4 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Sum­maries of top fo­rum posts (17th − 23rd April 2023)

Zoe WilliamsApr 24, 2023, 4:13 AM
18 points
0 commentsLW link

Do LLMs dream of emer­gent sheep?

ShmiApr 24, 2023, 3:26 AM
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Not us­ing a pri­ori in­for­ma­tion for Rus­sian propaganda

EniScienApr 24, 2023, 1:14 AM
−5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Con­tra Yud­kowsky on AI Doom

jacob_cannell24 Apr 2023 0:20 UTC
89 points
111 comments9 min readLW link

Con­se­quen­tial­ism is in the Stars not Ourselves

DragonGod24 Apr 2023 0:02 UTC
7 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

When did hu­mans be­come self-aware?

Derek M. Jones23 Apr 2023 22:36 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(vectors.substack.com)

[Question] Are there AI poli­cies that are ro­bustly net-pos­i­tive even when con­sid­er­ing differ­ent AI sce­nar­ios?

Noosphere8923 Apr 2023 21:46 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Get­ting Started With Naturalism

LoganStrohl23 Apr 2023 21:02 UTC
69 points
4 comments11 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Why do we care about agency for al­ign­ment?

Chris_Leong23 Apr 2023 18:10 UTC
22 points
19 comments1 min readLW link