Cult of Error

bayesyatinaApr 30, 2023, 11:33 PM
5 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

How can one ra­tio­nally have very high or very low prob­a­bil­ities of ex­tinc­tion in a pre-paradig­matic field?

ShmiApr 30, 2023, 9:53 PM
42 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

A small up­date to the Sparse Cod­ing in­terim re­search report

Apr 30, 2023, 7:54 PM
61 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion about AI Safety fund­ing (FB tran­script)

Orpheus16Apr 30, 2023, 7:05 PM
75 points
8 commentsLW link

Sup­port me in a Week-Long Pick­et­ing Cam­paign Near OpenAI’s HQ: Seek­ing Sup­port and Ideas from the LessWrong Community

PercyApr 30, 2023, 5:48 PM
−21 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

money ≠ value

stoneflyApr 30, 2023, 5:47 PM
2 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Vac­cine Poli­cies Need Updating

jefftkApr 30, 2023, 5:20 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 7 - Why is truth use­ful?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 30, 2023, 4:48 PM
10 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tors In­crease the Like­li­hood of Align­ment by Default

Wuschel SchulzApr 30, 2023, 4:32 PM
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Con­nec­tomics seems great from an AI x-risk perspective

Steven ByrnesApr 30, 2023, 2:38 PM
101 points
7 comments10 min readLW link1 review

The voy­age of novelty

TsviBTApr 30, 2023, 12:52 PM
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Munich

ErichApr 30, 2023, 8:28 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Call for sub­mis­sions: Choice of Fu­tures sur­vey questions

c.troutApr 30, 2023, 6:59 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(airtable.com)

The Unifi­ca­tion of Physics and Me­ta­physics: 22 Ax­ioms for All Existences

Apr 30, 2023, 4:16 AM
−42 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Fo­rum Pro­posal: Karma Transfers

DirectedEvolutionApr 30, 2023, 12:34 AM
20 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Ac­cu­racy of ar­gu­ments that are seen as ridicu­lous and in­tu­itively false but don’t have good counter-arguments

Christopher KingApr 29, 2023, 11:58 PM
30 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

A Guide to Fore­cast­ing AI Science Ca­pa­bil­ities

Eleni AngelouApr 29, 2023, 11:24 PM
6 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

(A Failed Ap­proach) From Prece­dent to Utility Function

Akira PyinyaApr 29, 2023, 9:55 PM
0 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Biolog­i­cal DOOM: a brief overview of biolog­i­cal computation

MetacelsusApr 29, 2023, 8:02 PM
53 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

Hori­zon­tal vs ver­ti­cal generality

tailcalledApr 29, 2023, 7:14 PM
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Which tech­nolo­gies are stuck on ini­tial adop­tion?

Vanessa KosoyApr 29, 2023, 5:37 PM
59 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Will GPT-5 be able to self-im­prove?

Nathan Helm-BurgerApr 29, 2023, 5:34 PM
18 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

Re­search agenda: Su­per­vis­ing AIs im­prov­ing AIs

Apr 29, 2023, 5:09 PM
76 points
5 comments19 min readLW link

The Many Sto­ries of Science

amayhewApr 29, 2023, 4:49 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com)

One bit of ob­ser­va­tion can un­lock many of op­ti­miza­tion—but at what cost?

dr_sApr 29, 2023, 10:53 AM
42 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[SEE NEW EDITS] No, *You* Need to Write Clearer

Nicholas / Heather KrossApr 29, 2023, 5:04 AM
263 points
65 comments5 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Pro­gram­ming an IFS for al­ter­nate uses

SilverFlameApr 29, 2023, 12:25 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Utopia for ar­tifi­cial minds

OcracokeApr 28, 2023, 10:52 PM
6 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Lo­cat­ing Ful­crum Experiences

LoganStrohlApr 28, 2023, 8:14 PM
78 points
31 comments17 min readLW link

“notkil­lev­ery­oneism” sounds dumb

bhauthApr 28, 2023, 7:46 PM
13 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: the Game

CrimsonChinApr 28, 2023, 7:32 PM
5 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

LLMs and com­pu­ta­tion complexity

Jonathan MarcusApr 28, 2023, 5:48 PM
57 points
29 comments5 min readLW link

Stu­dent com­pe­ti­tion for draft­ing a treaty on mora­to­rium of large-scale AI ca­pa­bil­ities R&D

NayanikaApr 28, 2023, 5:45 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Net­worked Me­mory Hier­ar­chy Overhang

austinsilveriaApr 28, 2023, 5:44 PM
1 point
0 comments13 min readLW link

Hiring for the role of AI Fellow

NidhiApr 28, 2023, 5:42 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.linkedin.com)

[Linkpost] Sam Alt­man’s 2015 Blog Posts Ma­chine In­tel­li­gence Parts 1 & 2

OliviaJApr 28, 2023, 4:02 PM
70 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Real­is­tic near-fu­ture sce­nar­ios of AI doom un­der­stand­able for non-techy peo­ple?

RomanSApr 28, 2023, 2:45 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The So­cial Align­ment Problem

irvingApr 28, 2023, 2:16 PM
99 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

PhD Po­si­tion: AI In­ter­pretabil­ity in Ber­lin, Germany

TiberiusApr 28, 2023, 1:44 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(stephanw.net)

A Clearer Think­ing tool that teaches you to use In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems concepts

spencergApr 28, 2023, 1:42 PM
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(programs.clearerthinking.org)

cy­ber­punk raccoons

bhauthApr 28, 2023, 2:52 AM
20 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(bhauth.com)

AI safety logo de­sign con­test, due mid-May

Adrian CiprianiApr 28, 2023, 2:00 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Dropout can cre­ate a priv­ileged ba­sis in the ReLU out­put model.

lewis smithApr 28, 2023, 1:59 AM
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Pod­cast with Divia Eden and Ronny Fer­nan­dez on the strong or­thog­o­nal­ity thesis

DanielFilanApr 28, 2023, 1:30 AM
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Si­mul­ta­neous Foot­bass and Footdrums

jefftkApr 28, 2023, 12:50 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Tun­ing your Cog­ni­tive Strategies

Apr 27, 2023, 8:32 PM
173 points
59 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(bewelltuned.com)

The LW cross­roads of purpose

Caerulea-LawrenceApr 27, 2023, 7:53 PM
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Me­tac­u­lus Event: Fore­cast Fri­day, April 28th at 12pm ET — Speed Fore­cast­ing Ses­sion!

ChristianWilliamsApr 27, 2023, 7:50 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­frafunc­tions Proofs

DiffractorApr 27, 2023, 7:25 PM
12 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

In­frafunc­tions and Ro­bust Optimization

DiffractorApr 27, 2023, 7:25 PM
61 points
11 comments15 min readLW link