some ques­tion­able space launch guns

bhauthOct 13, 2024, 10:52 PM
17 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(bhauth.com)

[Question] What are your fa­vorite books or blogs that are out of print, or whose do­mains have ex­pired (es­pe­cially if they also aren’t on LibGen/​Way­back/​etc, or on Ama­zon)?

Arjun PanicksseryOct 13, 2024, 8:21 PM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Hopium Wars: the AGI En­tente Delusion

Max TegmarkOct 13, 2024, 5:00 PM
226 points
60 comments9 min readLW link

Parental Writ­ing Selec­tion Bias

jefftkOct 13, 2024, 2:00 PM
52 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Per­sonal Philosophy

XorOct 13, 2024, 3:01 AM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Con­ta­gious Beliefs—Si­mu­lat­ing Poli­ti­cal Alignment

James Stephen BrownOct 13, 2024, 12:27 AM
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

Bi­nary en­cod­ing as a sim­ple ex­plicit con­struc­tion for superposition

tailcalledOct 12, 2024, 9:18 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How Should We Use Limited Time to Max­i­mize Long-Term Im­pact?

queeliusOct 12, 2024, 8:02 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A Per­centage Model of a Person

SableOct 12, 2024, 5:55 PM
37 points
5 comments9 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

AI Com­pute gov­er­nance: Ver­ify­ing AI chip location

FarhanOct 12, 2024, 5:36 PM
6 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Ge­offrey Hin­ton on the Past, Pre­sent, and Fu­ture of AI

Stephen McAleeseOct 12, 2024, 4:41 PM
22 points
5 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] I = W/​T?

HNXOct 12, 2024, 3:15 PM
0 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

AI re­search as­sis­tants com­pe­ti­tion 2024Q3: Tie be­tween Elicit and You.com

ElizabethOct 12, 2024, 3:10 PM
64 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

SAE fea­tures for re­fusal and syco­phancy steer­ing vectors

Oct 12, 2024, 2:54 PM
29 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Prices are Bounties

Maxwell TabarrokOct 12, 2024, 2:51 PM
51 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Differ­en­tial knowl­edge interconnection

Roman LeventovOct 12, 2024, 12:52 PM
6 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Most ar­gu­ments for AI Doom are ei­ther bad or weak

Logan ZoellnerOct 12, 2024, 11:57 AM
4 points
101 comments3 min readLW link

Kas­sel ACX/​LW Meetup

Fernand0Oct 12, 2024, 7:47 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Neu­ral Net­work And New­ton’s Se­cond Law

Max MaOct 12, 2024, 6:25 AM
−10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If the DoJ goes through with the Google breakup,where does Deep­mind end up?

O OOct 12, 2024, 5:06 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

My mo­ti­va­tion and the­ory of change for work­ing in AI healthtech

Andrew_CritchOct 12, 2024, 12:36 AM
178 points
39 comments14 min readLW link

HDBSCAN is Sur­pris­ingly Effec­tive at Find­ing In­ter­pretable Clusters of the SAE De­coder Matrix

Oct 11, 2024, 11:06 PM
8 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Chang­ing the Mind of an LLM

testingthewatersOct 11, 2024, 10:25 PM
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

EIS XIV: Is mechanis­tic in­ter­pretabil­ity about to be prac­ti­cally use­ful?

scasperOct 11, 2024, 10:13 PM
68 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Dario Amodei — Machines of Lov­ing Grace

Matrice JacobineOct 11, 2024, 9:43 PM
63 points
26 comments1 min readLW link
(darioamodei.com)

“Deep Galac­tic Chillout” a space to re­lax dur­ing SF tech week & meet whole­some, fun people

Jared M.Oct 11, 2024, 7:50 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open let­ter to young EAs

Leif WenarOct 11, 2024, 7:49 PM
9 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

The Great Bootstrap

KristianRonnOct 11, 2024, 7:46 PM
12 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Em­brac­ing com­plex­ity when de­vel­op­ing and eval­u­at­ing AI re­spon­si­bly

Aliya AmirovaOct 11, 2024, 5:46 PM
2 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

How much I’m pay­ing for AI pro­duc­tivity soft­ware (and the fu­ture of AI use)

jacquesthibsOct 11, 2024, 5:11 PM
59 points
18 comments8 min readLW link
(jacquesthibodeau.com)

AI: The Philoso­pher’s Stone of the 21st Century

HNXOct 11, 2024, 4:55 PM
0 points
2 comments29 min readLW link

[Question] Who cre­ated the Less Wrong Gather Town?

ArepoOct 11, 2024, 8:53 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Heuris­tic Proof of Prac­ti­cal Aligned Superintelligence

RokoOct 11, 2024, 5:05 AM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(transhumanaxiology.substack.com)

An AI crash is our best bet for re­strict­ing AI

RemmeltOct 11, 2024, 2:12 AM
26 points
3 commentsLW link

A Triple Decker for Elfland

jefftkOct 11, 2024, 1:50 AM
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

OODA your OODA Loop

RaemonOct 11, 2024, 12:50 AM
38 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Scal­ing pre­dic­tion mar­kets with meta-markets

DentosalOct 10, 2024, 9:17 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Startup Suc­cess Rates Are So Low Be­cause the Re­wards Are So Large

AppliedDivinityStudiesOct 10, 2024, 8:22 PM
42 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Can AI Out­pre­dict Hu­mans? Re­sults From Me­tac­u­lus’s Q3 AI Fore­cast­ing Benchmark

ChristianWilliamsOct 10, 2024, 6:58 PM
53 points
2 commentsLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes—Fall 2024

ScrewtapeOct 10, 2024, 6:37 PM
79 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] why won’t this al­ign­ment plan work?

KvmanThinkingOct 10, 2024, 3:44 PM
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

AI #85: AI Wins the No­bel Prize

ZviOct 10, 2024, 1:40 PM
30 points
6 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Be­hav­ioral red-team­ing is un­likely to pro­duce clear, strong ev­i­dence that mod­els aren’t scheming

BuckOct 10, 2024, 1:36 PM
100 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Joshua Achiam Public State­ment Analysis

ZviOct 10, 2024, 12:50 PM
73 points
14 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Do you want to do a de­bate on youtube? I’m look­ing for po­lite, truth-seek­ing par­ti­ci­pants.

Nathan YoungOct 10, 2024, 9:32 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Gnosticism

tailcalledOct 10, 2024, 9:06 AM
11 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Values Are Real Like Harry Potter

Oct 9, 2024, 11:42 PM
86 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

Mo­men­tum of Light in Glass

BenOct 9, 2024, 8:19 PM
143 points
44 comments11 min readLW link

vgillioz’s Shortform

vgilliozOct 9, 2024, 7:31 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Tri­an­gu­lat­ing My In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Meth­ods: Black Boxes by Marco J. Nathan

adamShimiOct 9, 2024, 7:13 PM
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)