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Why Improving Dialogue Feels So Hard

mattoJan 20, 2024, 9:26 PM

21 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

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

MiguelDevJan 20, 2024, 3:30 PM

6 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Against the Burden of Knowledge

Maxwell TabarrokJan 20, 2024, 2:37 PM

22 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

legged robot scaling laws

bhauthJan 20, 2024, 5:45 AM

34 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Legibility Makes Logical Line-Of-Sight Transitive

StrivingForLegibilityJan 19, 2024, 11:39 PM

13 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Decent plan prize winner & highlights

lemonhopeJan 19, 2024, 11:30 PM

25 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

A quick investigation of AI pro-AI bias

Fabien RogerJan 19, 2024, 11:26 PM

55 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

On “Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths”

alkjash and Gordon Seidoh Worley

Jan 19, 2024, 9:04 PM

31 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

There is way too much serendipity

MalmesburyJan 19, 2024, 7:37 PM

377 points

56 comments7 min readLW link

Estimating efficiency improvements in LLM pre-training

DaanJan 19, 2024, 7:32 PM

42 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

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

moridinamaelJan 19, 2024, 4:48 PM

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

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

jefftkJan 19, 2024, 3:30 PM

23 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Arguments for Robustness in AI Alignment

Fabian SchimpfJan 19, 2024, 10:24 AM

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What rationality failure modes are there?

Ulisse MiniJan 19, 2024, 9:12 AM

42 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

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

TeaTieAndHatJan 19, 2024, 9:12 AM

2 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Logical Line-Of-Sight Makes Games Sequential or Loopy

StrivingForLegibilityJan 19, 2024, 4:05 AM

40 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_GaensbauerJan 18, 2024, 11:50 PM

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Manifund: 2023 in Review

Austin ChenJan 18, 2024, 11:50 PM

32 points

0 comments LW link

(manifund.substack.com)

The Underreaction to OpenAI

SherrinfordJan 18, 2024, 10:08 PM

21 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Against Nonlinear (Thing Of Things)

tailcalledJan 18, 2024, 9:40 PM

58 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(thingofthings.substack.com)

Toward A Mathematical Framework for Computation in Superposition

Dmitry Vaintrob, jake_mendel and Kaarel

Jan 18, 2024, 9:06 PM

205 points

18 comments63 min readLW link

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

Jan 18, 2024, 9:03 PM

70 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Gaia Network: An Illustrated Primer

Rafael Kaufmann Nedal and Roman Leventov

Jan 18, 2024, 6:23 PM

3 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

On the abolition of man

Joe CarlsmithJan 18, 2024, 6:17 PM

90 points

18 comments41 min readLW link

More Usable Recipes

jefftkJan 18, 2024, 5:40 PM

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Good job opportunities for helping with the most important century

HoldenKarnofskyJan 18, 2024, 5:30 PM

36 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Flexibility and the Singularity

Jonathan MoregårdJan 18, 2024, 3:29 PM

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

AI #48: Exponentials in Geometry

ZviJan 18, 2024, 2:20 PM

59 points

9 comments54 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Worrisome misunderstanding of the core issues with AI transition

Roman LeventovJan 18, 2024, 10:05 AM

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_GaensbauerJan 18, 2024, 5:14 AM

10 points

0 comments LW link

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

Adrià Garriga-alonsoJan 18, 2024, 3:43 AM

51 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

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

aphyerJan 18, 2024, 3:06 AM

25 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

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

NathanBarnardJan 18, 2024, 2:48 AM

13 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Newport News VA Meetup—Living Museum

DanielJan 18, 2024, 2:05 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

In Strategic Time, Open-Source Games Are Loopy

StrivingForLegibilityJan 18, 2024, 12:08 AM

21 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Four visions of Transformative AI success

Steven ByrnesJan 17, 2024, 8:45 PM

112 points

22 comments15 min readLW link

AI Disclosure Ballot Initiative (and voting method)

Aaron HamlinJan 17, 2024, 8:02 PM

−8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Hatching the Cosmic Egg (Hymn to Dionysus)

rogersbaconJan 17, 2024, 6:34 PM

7 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

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

VipulNaikJan 17, 2024, 6:01 PM

13 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

alyssavanceJan 17, 2024, 5:17 PM

45 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

On Anthropic’s Sleeper Agents Paper

ZviJan 17, 2024, 4:10 PM

54 points

5 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Pedagogical Guide to Corrigibility

A.H.Jan 17, 2024, 11:45 AM

6 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

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

YitzJan 17, 2024, 9:48 AM

82 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

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

habrykaJan 17, 2024, 7:22 AM

26 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Coalescer Models

DaemonicSigil and bhauth

Jan 17, 2024, 6:39 AM

16 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

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

mnvrJan 17, 2024, 6:24 AM

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(mrmr.io)

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

aphyerJan 16, 2024, 10:44 PM

26 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

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

sudoJan 16, 2024, 10:44 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Social media alignment test

amayhewJan 16, 2024, 8:56 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com)

Medical Roundup #1

ZviJan 16, 2024, 8:30 PM

57 points

9 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)