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A short calculation about a Twitter poll

Ege ErdilAug 14, 2023, 7:48 PM

64 points

34 votes

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64 comments11 min readLW link

Decomposing independent generalizations in neural networks via Hessian analysis

Dmitry Vaintrob and Nina Panickssery

Aug 14, 2023, 5:04 PM

84 points

39 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Memetic Judo #2: Incorporal Switches and Levers Compendium

Max TKAug 14, 2023, 4:53 PM

19 points

12 votes

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6 comments17 min readLW link

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

AlexFromSafeTransitionAug 14, 2023, 10:53 AM

−18 points

12 votes

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6 comments4 min readLW link

Stepping down as moderator on LW

Kaj_SotalaAug 14, 2023, 10:46 AM

82 points

44 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Announcing Manifest 2023 (Sep 22-24 in Berkeley)

Saul Munn and Austin Chen

Aug 14, 2023, 5:13 AM

31 points

14 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Coherence Therapy with LLMs—quick demo

Chris LakinAug 14, 2023, 3:34 AM

19 points

14 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

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

Yashvardhan SharmaAug 14, 2023, 2:53 AM

1 point

6 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

Recipe: Hessian eigenvector computation for PyTorch models

Nina PanicksseryAug 14, 2023, 2:48 AM

32 points

14 votes

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5 comments5 min readLW link

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

ryan_bAug 13, 2023, 9:34 PM

7 points

1 vote

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Twin Cities ACX Meetup September 2023

Timothy M.Aug 13, 2023, 8:10 PM

1 point

1 vote

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4 comments1 min readLW link

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

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 13, 2023, 6:55 PM

19 points

9 votes

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4 comments12 min readLW link

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

Leon LangAug 13, 2023, 6:03 PM

90 points

53 votes

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14 comments5 min readLW link

AGI is easier than robotaxis

Daniel KokotajloAug 13, 2023, 5:00 PM

41 points

41 votes

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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)

kuiraAug 13, 2023, 4:32 PM

−2 points

5 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Abstract Theories of Everything

PhilosophistryAug 13, 2023, 6:06 AM

−17 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaAug 12, 2023, 10:02 PM

42 points

23 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

bigdickproblemsAug 12, 2023, 6:23 PM

−30 points

9 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

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

FCCCAug 12, 2023, 2:25 PM

5 points

5 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Learning as you play: anthropic shadow in deadly games

dr_sAug 12, 2023, 7:34 AM

37 points

26 votes

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28 comments35 min readLW link

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

Scott AlexanderAug 12, 2023, 12:53 AM

91 points

37 votes

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3 comments33 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Simulate the CEO

robotelvisAug 12, 2023, 12:09 AM

23 points

25 votes

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5 comments5 min readLW link

(messyprogress.substack.com)

How to decide under low-stakes uncertainty

dkl9Aug 11, 2023, 6:07 PM

11 points

8 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

The Pandemic is Only Beginning: The Long COVID Disaster

salvatore matteraAug 11, 2023, 5:36 PM

−6 points

26 votes

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15 comments8 min readLW link

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

VikaAug 11, 2023, 1:38 PM

124 points

65 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

What are the flaws in this AGI argument?

William the Kiwi Aug 11, 2023, 11:31 AM

5 points

3 votes

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14 comments1 min readLW link

Google DeepMind’s RT-2

SandXboxAug 11, 2023, 11:26 AM

9 points

5 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(robotics-transformer2.github.io)

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

David MearsAug 11, 2023, 8:22 AM

25 points

11 votes

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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

Aug 11, 2023, 3:59 AM

64 points

16 votes

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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)Aug 11, 2023, 1:40 AM

0 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Concepts Writeup: WebGPT

JustisMillsAug 11, 2023, 1:35 AM

9 points

4 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] What is science?

Adam ZernerAug 11, 2023, 12:00 AM

6 points

2 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Three configurable prettyprinters

philhAug 10, 2023, 11:10 PM

9 points

4 votes

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0 comments22 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

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

mishkaAug 10, 2023, 7:07 PM

22 points

11 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

Seeking Input to AI Safety Book for non-technical audience

Darren McKeeAug 10, 2023, 5:58 PM

10 points

6 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating GPT-4 Theory of Mind Capabilities

gcmac and Nathan

Aug 10, 2023, 5:57 PM

15 points

11 votes

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2 comments14 min readLW link

Some alignment ideas

SelonNeriasAug 10, 2023, 5:51 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments11 min readLW link

Self Supervised Learning (SSL)

Varshul GuptaAug 10, 2023, 5:43 PM

5 points

2 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

(dubverseblack.substack.com)

Predicting Virus Relative Abundance in Wastewater

jefftkAug 10, 2023, 3:46 PM

33 points

14 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(naobservatory.org)

AI #24: Week of the Podcast

ZviAug 10, 2023, 3:00 PM

49 points

22 votes

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5 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Could We Automate AI Alignment Research?

Stephen McAleeseAug 10, 2023, 12:17 PM

34 points

17 votes

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10 comments21 min readLW link

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

AdamYedidiaAug 10, 2023, 1:58 AM

27 points

11 votes

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4 comments13 min readLW link

LLMs are (mostly) not helped by filler tokens

Kshitij SachanAug 10, 2023, 12:48 AM

66 points

38 votes

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36 comments6 min readLW link

2023 ACX Meetups Everywhere—Newton, MA

duck_masterAug 9, 2023, 10:47 PM

6 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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

jasoncrawfordAug 9, 2023, 7:22 PM

18 points

7 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

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

CallumMcDougallAug 9, 2023, 7:14 PM

36 points

22 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

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

JorterderAug 9, 2023, 6:13 PM

−15 points

9 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Marginal Revolution unofficial birthday party

Derek M. JonesAug 9, 2023, 2:35 PM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

A content analysis of the SQ-R questionnaire and a proposal for testing EQ-SQ theory

tailcalledAug 9, 2023, 1:51 PM

10 points

3 votes

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2 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Does LessWrong allow exempting posts from being scraped by GPTBot?

micAug 9, 2023, 1:02 PM

29 points

13 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

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