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Video essay: How Will We Know When AI is Conscious?

JanProSep 6, 2023, 6:10 PM

11 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

My First Post

Jaivardhan NawaniSep 6, 2023, 5:42 PM

35 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

ActAdd: Steering Language Models without Optimization

technicalities, TurnTrout, lisathiergart, David Udell, Ulisse Mini and Monte M

Sep 6, 2023, 5:21 PM

105 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Monthly Roundup #10: September 2023

ZviSep 6, 2023, 1:20 PM

35 points

4 comments56 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Find Hot French Food Near Me: A Follow-up

aphyerSep 6, 2023, 12:32 PM

75 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Manifest 2023

Saul Munn and Austin Chen

Sep 6, 2023, 11:24 AM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Last Chance: Get tickets to Manifest 2023! (Sep 22-24 in Berkeley)

Saul Munn and Austin Chen

Sep 6, 2023, 10:35 AM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What I’ve been reading, September 2023

jasoncrawfordSep 6, 2023, 9:32 AM

17 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Decision Theory: A (Normative) Introduction

Pareto OptimalSep 6, 2023, 8:22 AM

−1 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(paretooptimal.substack.com)

[Question] What’s the easiest way to make a luminator?

kuiraSep 6, 2023, 12:07 AM

7 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Ordinary claims require ordinary evidence

blake8086Sep 5, 2023, 10:09 PM

1 point

3 comments2 min readLW link

Conversation about paradigms, intellectual progress, social consensus, and AI

Ruby and RobertM

Sep 5, 2023, 9:30 PM

14 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

LawrenceCSep 5, 2023, 7:19 PM

220 points

10 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

The Evolutionary Pathway from Biological to Digital Intelligence: A Cosmic Perspective

George360Sep 5, 2023, 5:47 PM

−17 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

The Illusion of Universal Morality: A Dynamic Perspective on Genetic Fitness and Ethical Complexity

George360Sep 5, 2023, 5:47 PM

−9 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Benchmarks for Detecting Measurement Tampering [Redwood Research]

ryan_greenblatt and Fabien Roger

Sep 5, 2023, 4:44 PM

94 points

22 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

(arxiv.org)

[Question] Strongest real-world examples supporting AI risk claims?

rosehadsharSep 5, 2023, 3:12 PM

41 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #21: Google DeepMind’s GPT-4 Competitor, Military Investments in Autonomous Drones, The UK AI Safety Summit, and Case Studies in AI Policy

Dan HSep 5, 2023, 3:03 PM

15 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Who Has the Best Food?

ZviSep 5, 2023, 1:40 PM

52 points

61 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

World, mind, and learnability: A note on the metaphysical structure of the cosmos [& LLMs]

Bill BenzonSep 5, 2023, 12:19 PM

4 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

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goktuSep 5, 2023, 8:10 AM

−12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2023 I

jefftkSep 5, 2023, 2:00 AM

75 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Action theory is not policy theory is not agent theory

Cole WyethSep 5, 2023, 1:38 AM

20 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(colewyeth.com)

The purpose of the (Mosaic) law

mruwnikSep 4, 2023, 11:38 PM

7 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Against the Open Source / Closed Source Dichotomy: Regulated Source as a Model for Responsible AI Development

alex.herwixSep 4, 2023, 8:25 PM

4 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Notes on nukes, IR, and AI from “Arsenals of Folly” (and other books)

tlevinSep 4, 2023, 7:02 PM

11 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Hertford, Sourbut (rationality lessons from University Challenge)

Oliver SourbutSep 4, 2023, 6:44 PM

28 points

7 comments14 min readLW link

(www.oliversourbut.net)

a rant on politician-engineer coalitional conflict

bhauthSep 4, 2023, 5:15 PM

64 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

How ForumMagnum builds communities of inquiry

Jim FisherSep 4, 2023, 4:52 PM

33 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

Interpreting a matrix-valued word embedding with a mathematically proven characterization of all optima

Joseph Van NameSep 4, 2023, 4:19 PM

3 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

Hard Questions Are Language Bugs

George3d6Sep 4, 2023, 2:44 PM

30 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

(ontologi.cc)

Defunding My Mistake

ymeskhoutSep 4, 2023, 2:43 PM

178 points

41 comments6 min readLW link

The omnizoid—Heighn FDT Debate #1: Why FDT Isn’t Crazy

HeighnSep 4, 2023, 12:57 PM

24 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Paper: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs

Owain_Evans, Daniel Kokotajlo, Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak, Asa Cooper Stickland, Meg and Maximilian Kaufmann

Sep 4, 2023, 12:54 PM

109 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Impending AGI doesn’t make everything else unimportant

Igor IvanovSep 4, 2023, 12:34 PM

29 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Open Thread – Autumn 2023

RaemonSep 3, 2023, 10:54 PM

26 points

111 comments1 min readLW link

What must be the case that ChatGPT would have memorized “To be or not to be”? – Three kinds of conceptual objects for LLMs

Bill BenzonSep 3, 2023, 6:39 PM

19 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Fundamental question: What determines a mind’s effects?

TsviBTSep 3, 2023, 5:15 PM

15 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

An embedding decoder model, trained with a different objective on a different dataset, can decode another model’s embeddings surprisingly accurately

Logan ZoellnerSep 3, 2023, 11:34 AM

20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Series of absurd upgrades in nature’s great search

lemonhopeSep 3, 2023, 9:35 AM

15 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Conservation of Expected Evidence and Random Sampling in Anthropics

Ape in the coatSep 3, 2023, 6:55 AM

9 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

The goal of physics

Jim PivarskiSep 2, 2023, 11:08 PM

46 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Will value of paid sex drop right before the end of the world?

azamatvalievSep 2, 2023, 7:03 PM

−13 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

PIBBSS Summer Symposium 2023

Nora_Ammann and DusanDNesic

Sep 2, 2023, 5:22 PM

25 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

The smallest possible button (or: moth traps!)

Neil Sep 2, 2023, 3:24 PM

122 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(neilwarren.substack.com)

Steven Harnad: Symbol grounding and the structure of dictionaries

Bill BenzonSep 2, 2023, 12:28 PM

5 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Is Metaethics Unnecessary Given Intent-Aligned AI?

Caleb BiddulphSep 2, 2023, 9:48 AM

10 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Rational Agents Cooperate in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Isaac KingSep 2, 2023, 6:15 AM

17 points

68 comments12 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaSep 2, 2023, 6:00 AM

22 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Plum Cooking Temperature

jefftkSep 2, 2023, 1:30 AM

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)