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Why Improving Dialogue Feels So Hard

matto20 Jan 2024 21:26 UTC

21 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Research Log, RLLMv2: Phi-1.5, GPT2XL and Falcon-RW-1B as paperclip maximizers

MiguelDev20 Jan 2024 15:30 UTC

6 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Against the Burden of Knowledge

Maxwell Tabarrok20 Jan 2024 14:37 UTC

21 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

legged robot scaling laws

bhauth20 Jan 2024 5:45 UTC

34 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Legibility Makes Logical Line-Of-Sight Transitive

StrivingForLegibility19 Jan 2024 23:39 UTC

12 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Decent plan prize winner & highlights

lukehmiles19 Jan 2024 23:30 UTC

25 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

A quick investigation of AI pro-AI bias

Fabien Roger19 Jan 2024 23:26 UTC

52 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What Software Should Exist?

Tomás B.19 Jan 2024 21:43 UTC

27 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

On “Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths”

alkjash and Gordon Seidoh Worley

19 Jan 2024 21:04 UTC

31 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

There is way too much serendipity

Malmesbury19 Jan 2024 19:37 UTC

351 points

56 comments7 min readLW link

Estimating efficiency improvements in LLM pre-training

Daan19 Jan 2024 19:32 UTC

42 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

Update: Orienting Ourselves in 2024 | Guild of the ROSE

moridinamael19 Jan 2024 16:48 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

I Want XMP But I Know Why I Can’t Have It

jefftk19 Jan 2024 15:30 UTC

23 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Arguments for Robustness in AI Alignment

Fabian Schimpf19 Jan 2024 10:24 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What rationality failure modes are there?

Ulisse Mini19 Jan 2024 9:12 UTC

42 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with online media and our ability to get sh*t done?

TeaTieAndHat19 Jan 2024 9:12 UTC

2 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Logical Line-Of-Sight Makes Games Sequential or Loopy

StrivingForLegibility19 Jan 2024 4:05 UTC

38 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Are there high-quality surveys available detailing the rates of polyamory among Americans age 18-45 in metropolitan areas in the United States?

Evan_Gaensbauer18 Jan 2024 23:50 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Manifund: 2023 in Review

Austin Chen18 Jan 2024 23:50 UTC

32 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(manifund.substack.com)

The Underreaction to OpenAI

Sherrinford18 Jan 2024 22:08 UTC

19 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Against Nonlinear (Thing Of Things)

tailcalled18 Jan 2024 21:40 UTC

58 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(thingofthings.substack.com)

Toward A Mathematical Framework for Computation in Superposition

Dmitry Vaintrob, jake_mendel and Kaarel

18 Jan 2024 21:06 UTC

182 points

17 comments73 min readLW link

The True Story of How GPT-2 Became Maximally Lewd

Writer and Jai

18 Jan 2024 21:03 UTC

70 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Gaia Network: An Illustrated Primer

Rafael Kaufmann Nedal and Roman Leventov

18 Jan 2024 18:23 UTC

1 point

2 comments15 min readLW link

On the abolition of man

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2024 18:17 UTC

88 points

18 comments41 min readLW link

More Usable Recipes

jefftk18 Jan 2024 17:40 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Good job opportunities for helping with the most important century

HoldenKarnofsky18 Jan 2024 17:30 UTC

34 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Flexibility and the Singularity

Jonathan Moregård18 Jan 2024 15:29 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

AI #48: Exponentials in Geometry

Zvi18 Jan 2024 14:20 UTC

59 points

9 comments54 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Worrisome misunderstanding of the core issues with AI transition

Roman Leventov18 Jan 2024 10:05 UTC

5 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What evidence is there for (or against) theories about the extent to which effective altruist interests motivated the ouster of Sam Altman last year?

Evan_Gaensbauer18 Jan 2024 5:14 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Does literacy remove your ability to be a bard as good as Homer?

Adrià Garriga-alonso18 Jan 2024 3:43 UTC

51 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Hypersphere Analysis Part 4: Fine-tuning and Wrapup

aphyer18 Jan 2024 3:06 UTC

23 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Some heuristics I use for deciding how much I trust scientific results

NathanBarnard18 Jan 2024 2:48 UTC

13 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Newport News VA Meetup—Living Museum

Daniel18 Jan 2024 2:05 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Experiments to Test the Probability of Strategic Deceptive Misalignment?

Oliver Daniels-Koch18 Jan 2024 0:13 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

In Strategic Time, Open-Source Games Are Loopy

StrivingForLegibility18 Jan 2024 0:08 UTC

18 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Four visions of Transformative AI success

Steven Byrnes17 Jan 2024 20:45 UTC

112 points

22 comments15 min readLW link

AI Disclosure Ballot Initiative (and voting method)

Aaron Hamlin17 Jan 2024 20:02 UTC

−8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Hatching the Cosmic Egg (Hymn to Dionysus)

rogersbacon17 Jan 2024 18:34 UTC

7 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

[Question] What do people colloquially mean by deep breathing? Slow, large, or diaphragmatic?

VipulNaik17 Jan 2024 18:01 UTC

13 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

alyssavance17 Jan 2024 17:17 UTC

45 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

On Anthropic’s Sleeper Agents Paper

Zvi17 Jan 2024 16:10 UTC

54 points

5 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Pedagogical Guide to Corrigibility

A.H.17 Jan 2024 11:45 UTC

6 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

An Introduction To The Mandelbrot Set That Doesn’t Mention Complex Numbers

Yitz17 Jan 2024 9:48 UTC

81 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

Vote in the LessWrong review! (LW 2022 Review voting phase)

habryka17 Jan 2024 7:22 UTC

26 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Coalescer Models

DaemonicSigil and bhauth

17 Jan 2024 6:39 UTC

16 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Maybe talking isn’t the best way to communicate with LLMs

mnvr17 Jan 2024 6:24 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(mrmr.io)

D&D.Sci Hypersphere Analysis Part 3: Beat it with Linear Algebra

aphyer16 Jan 2024 22:44 UTC

26 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The weak-to-strong generalization (WTSG) paper in 60 seconds

sudo16 Jan 2024 22:44 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)