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The Importance of Judging: A Reflection on Rational Thought

CrimsonChinJun 20, 2023, 10:49 PM

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“Natural is better” is a valuable heuristic

Neil Jun 20, 2023, 10:25 PM

35 points

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№.6 For Those About To Dress...

party girlJun 20, 2023, 9:14 PM

5 points

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(affale.substack.com)

Frame Bridging v0.8 - an inquiry and a technique

UnrealJun 20, 2023, 7:46 PM

11 points

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Public Transit is not Infinitely Safe

jefftkJun 20, 2023, 6:40 PM

101 points

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why I’m here now

bhauthJun 20, 2023, 5:13 PM

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Causality: A Brief Introduction

tom4everitt, Lewis Hammond, Jonathan Richens, Francis Rhys Ward, RyanCarey, sbenthall and James Fox

Jun 20, 2023, 3:01 PM

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Lightning Post: Things people in AI Safety should stop talking about

PrometheusJun 20, 2023, 3:00 PM

23 points

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Having a headache and not having a headache

Jim PivarskiJun 20, 2023, 2:59 PM

7 points

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9 comments3 min readLW link

Never Fight The Last War

ChristianKlJun 20, 2023, 12:35 PM

32 points

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[Question] Why didn’t virologists run the studies necessary to determine which viruses are airborne?

ChristianKlJun 20, 2023, 11:58 AM

28 points

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19 comments1 min readLW link

A Friendly Face (Another Failure Story)

Karl von Wendt, Sofia Bharadia, PeterDrotos, Artem Korotkov, mespa and mruwnik

Jun 20, 2023, 10:31 AM

65 points

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21 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] Are the majority of your ancestors farmers or non-farmers?

LinchJun 20, 2023, 8:55 AM

20 points

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DSLT 3. Neural Networks are Singular

Liam CarrollJun 20, 2023, 8:20 AM

36 points

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5 comments19 min readLW link

10 quick takes about AGI

Max HJun 20, 2023, 2:22 AM

36 points

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OpenAI introduces function calling for GPT-4

mic and André Ferretti

Jun 20, 2023, 1:58 AM

24 points

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(openai.com)

Approaches to Thump

jefftkJun 20, 2023, 1:50 AM

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Ban development of unpredictable powerful models?

TurnTroutJun 20, 2023, 1:43 AM

46 points

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25 comments4 min readLW link

Capture today’s market, capture tomorrow’s game board

SimonBiggsJun 20, 2023, 12:45 AM

9 points

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Lessons On How To Get Things Right On The First Try

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jun 19, 2023, 11:58 PM

253 points

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59 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

Mode collapse in RL may be fueled by the update equation

TurnTrout and MichaelEinhorn

Jun 19, 2023, 9:51 PM

53 points

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10 comments8 min readLW link

New reference standard on LLM Application security started by OWASP

QuantumForestJun 19, 2023, 8:54 PM

2 points

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Experiments in Evaluating Steering Vectors

Gytis DaujotasJun 19, 2023, 3:11 PM

34 points

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Provisionality

TsviBTJun 19, 2023, 11:49 AM

7 points

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2 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] When did you orient?

lemonhopeJun 19, 2023, 7:22 AM

12 points

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Guide to rationalist interior decorating

mingyuanJun 19, 2023, 6:47 AM

329 points

188 votes

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53 comments12 min readLW link 4 reviews

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Alignment (MATA) and Archetypal Transfer Learning (ATL)

MiguelDevJun 19, 2023, 2:32 AM

4 points

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2 comments7 min readLW link

resolving some neural network mysteries

bhauthJun 19, 2023, 12:09 AM

44 points

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6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Why I am not an AI extinction cautionista

ShmiJun 18, 2023, 9:28 PM

22 points

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40 comments2 min readLW link

My impression of singular learning theory

Ege ErdilJun 18, 2023, 3:34 PM

52 points

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30 comments2 min readLW link

Berlin AI Alignment Open Meetup July 2023

GuyPJun 18, 2023, 2:13 PM

1 point

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Alaska Trip

jefftkJun 18, 2023, 1:40 PM

18 points

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UK Foundation Model Task Force—Expression of Interest

ojorgensenJun 18, 2023, 9:43 AM

64 points

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(twitter.com)

Cryonics Career Survey (more jobs than you think)

Mati_RoyJun 18, 2023, 2:13 AM

41 points

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Solomonoff induction still works if the universe is uncomputable, and its usefulness doesn’t require knowing Occam’s razor

Christopher KingJun 18, 2023, 1:52 AM

39 points

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DSLT 2. Why Neural Networks obey Occam’s Razor

Liam CarrollJun 18, 2023, 12:23 AM

31 points

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15 comments17 min readLW link

The foundations of knowledge.

archeonJun 18, 2023, 12:05 AM

1 point

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A few more ants and grasshoppers

c.troutJun 17, 2023, 11:38 PM

16 points

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The “Loss Function of Reality” Is Not So Spiky and Unpredictable

Thoth HermesJun 17, 2023, 9:43 PM

12 points

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(thothhermes.substack.com)

[Question] What is the foundation of me experiencing the present moment being right now and not at some other point in time?

MvBJun 17, 2023, 8:47 PM

20 points

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Adventist Health Study-2 supports pescetarianism more than veganism

ElizabethJun 17, 2023, 8:10 PM

67 points

24 votes

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11 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The environment as infrastructure

jasoncrawfordJun 17, 2023, 6:42 PM

28 points

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

A summary of current work in AI governance

constructiveJun 17, 2023, 6:41 PM

44 points

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Linkpost] Rosetta Neurons: Mining the Common Units in a Model Zoo

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaJun 17, 2023, 4:38 PM

12 points

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Alewife Train is Now Arriving

jefftkJun 17, 2023, 1:20 PM

21 points

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[Question] What fraction of words written/read are AI-written?

Mati_RoyJun 17, 2023, 1:15 PM

8 points

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Are Bayesian methods guaranteed to overfit?

Ege ErdilJun 17, 2023, 12:52 PM

52 points

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(www.yulingyao.com)

The AI governance gaps in developing countries

ntranJun 17, 2023, 2:50 AM

20 points

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June and Mulberries

jefftkJun 17, 2023, 1:30 AM

13 points

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Updating Drexler’s CAIS model

Matthew BarnettJun 16, 2023, 10:53 PM

47 points

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32 comments4 min readLW link

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