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A short calculation about a Twitter poll

Ege Erdil14 Aug 2023 19:48 UTC

62 points

64 comments11 min readLW link

Decomposing independent generalizations in neural networks via Hessian analysis

Dmitry Vaintrob and Nina Rimsky

14 Aug 2023 17:04 UTC

82 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Memetic Judo #2: Incorporal Switches and Levers Compendium

Max TK14 Aug 2023 16:53 UTC

19 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

Longer-term Behaviour of Generative Companion AIs: A Social Simulation Approach

Reed14 Aug 2023 15:24 UTC

5 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Existentially relevant thought experiment: To kill or not to kill, a sniper, a man and a button.

AlexFromSafeTransition14 Aug 2023 10:53 UTC

−18 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Stepping down as moderator on LW

Kaj_Sotala14 Aug 2023 10:46 UTC

82 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Announcing Manifest 2023 (Sep 22-24 in Berkeley)

Saul Munn and Austin Chen

14 Aug 2023 5:13 UTC

31 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Coherence Therapy with LLMs—quick demo

Chipmonk14 Aug 2023 3:34 UTC

19 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Listen For What You Don’t Hear: The Case for Contrarianism

Yashvardhan Sharma14 Aug 2023 2:53 UTC

3 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Recipe: Hessian eigenvector computation for PyTorch models

Nina Rimsky14 Aug 2023 2:48 UTC

30 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Assuming LK99 or similar: how to accelerate commercialization?

ryan_b13 Aug 2023 21:34 UTC

7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Twin Cities ACX Meetup September 2023

Timothy M.13 Aug 2023 20:10 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

Fundamental Uncertainty: Chapter 1 - How can we know what’s true?

Gordon Seidoh Worley13 Aug 2023 18:55 UTC

17 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

We Should Prepare for a Larger Representation of Academia in AI Safety

Leon Lang13 Aug 2023 18:03 UTC

89 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

AGI is easier than robotaxis

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Aug 2023 17:00 UTC

38 points

30 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] If we’re alive in 5 years, do you think the funding situation will be much better by then? (With large amounts of government funding, for example)

kuira13 Aug 2023 16:32 UTC

−2 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Abstract Theories of Everything

Philosophistry13 Aug 2023 6:06 UTC

−17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea12 Aug 2023 22:02 UTC

42 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Empathy Engine: A Deconstruction of the Societal Metamorphosis through Technological Empathy Augmentation

bigdickproblems12 Aug 2023 18:23 UTC

−30 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

The Benevolent Ruler’s Handbook (Part 2): Morality Rules

FCCC12 Aug 2023 14:25 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Learning as you play: anthropic shadow in deadly games

dr_s12 Aug 2023 7:34 UTC

37 points

28 comments35 min readLW link

Biological Anchors: The Trick that Might or Might Not Work

Scott Alexander12 Aug 2023 0:53 UTC

90 points

3 comments33 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Simulate the CEO

robotelvis12 Aug 2023 0:09 UTC

23 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(messyprogress.substack.com)

How to decide under low-stakes uncertainty

dkl911 Aug 2023 18:07 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

The Pandemic is Only Beginning: The Long COVID Disaster

salvatore mattera11 Aug 2023 17:36 UTC

−6 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

When discussing AI risks, talk about capabilities, not intelligence

Vika11 Aug 2023 13:38 UTC

116 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

What are the flaws in this AGI argument?

William the Kiwi 11 Aug 2023 11:31 UTC

5 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Google DeepMind’s RT-2

SandXbox11 Aug 2023 11:26 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(robotics-transformer2.github.io)

Linkpost: We need another Expert Survey on Progress in AI, urgently

David Mears11 Aug 2023 8:22 UTC

25 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

What Does a Marginal Grant at LTFF Look Like? Funding Priorities and Grantmaking Thresholds at the Long-Term Future Fund

Linch, calebp99 and Daniel_Eth

11 Aug 2023 3:59 UTC

64 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Will posting any thread on LW guarantee that a LLM will index all my content, and if questions people ask to the LLM after my name will surface up all my LW content?

Alex K. Chen (parrot)11 Aug 2023 1:40 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Concepts Writeup: WebGPT

JustisMills11 Aug 2023 1:35 UTC

9 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] What is science?

Adam Zerner11 Aug 2023 0:00 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Three configurable prettyprinters

philh10 Aug 2023 23:10 UTC

9 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Ilya Sutskever’s thoughts on AI safety (July 2023): a transcript with my comments

mishka10 Aug 2023 19:07 UTC

21 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Seeking Input to AI Safety Book for non-technical audience

Darren McKee10 Aug 2023 17:58 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating GPT-4 Theory of Mind Capabilities

gcmac and Nathan

10 Aug 2023 17:57 UTC

15 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

Some alignment ideas

SelonNerias10 Aug 2023 17:51 UTC

1 point

0 comments11 min readLW link

Self Supervised Learning (SSL)

Varshul Gupta10 Aug 2023 17:43 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(dubverseblack.substack.com)

Predicting Virus Relative Abundance in Wastewater

jefftk10 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

33 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(naobservatory.org)

AI #24: Week of the Podcast

Zvi10 Aug 2023 15:00 UTC

49 points

5 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Could We Automate AI Alignment Research?

Stephen McAleese10 Aug 2023 12:17 UTC

27 points

10 comments21 min readLW link

The positional embedding matrix and previous-token heads: how do they actually work?

AdamYedidia10 Aug 2023 1:58 UTC

26 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

LLMs are (mostly) not helped by filler tokens

Kshitij Sachan10 Aug 2023 0:48 UTC

64 points

35 comments6 min readLW link

2023 ACX Meetups Everywhere—Newton, MA

duck_master9 Aug 2023 22:47 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Progress links digest, 2023-08-09: US adds new nuclear, Katalin Karikó interview, and more

jasoncrawford9 Aug 2023 19:22 UTC

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Mech Interp Challenge: August—Deciphering the First Unique Character Model

CallumMcDougall9 Aug 2023 19:14 UTC

34 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Real Meaning of life has been found. Eliezer discovered it in 2000′s.

Jorterder9 Aug 2023 18:13 UTC

−15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Marginal Revolution unofficial birthday party

Derek M. Jones9 Aug 2023 14:35 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Convexity

Jesse Richardson9 Aug 2023 14:09 UTC

19 points

3 comments1 min readLW link