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some questionable space launch guns

bhauthOct 13, 2024, 10:52 PM

17 points

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(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

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4 comments1 min readLW link

The Hopium Wars: the AGI Entente Delusion

Max TegmarkOct 13, 2024, 5:00 PM

236 points

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60 comments9 min readLW link

Parental Writing Selection Bias

jefftkOct 13, 2024, 2:00 PM

52 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Personal Philosophy

XorOct 13, 2024, 3:01 AM

3 points

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Contagious Beliefs—Simulating Political Alignment

James Stephen BrownOct 13, 2024, 12:27 AM

8 points

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Binary encoding as a simple explicit construction for superposition

tailcalledOct 12, 2024, 9:18 PM

12 points

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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

6 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

A Percentage Model of a Person

SableOct 12, 2024, 5:55 PM

41 points

19 votes

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5 comments9 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

AI Compute governance: Verifying AI chip location

FarhanOct 12, 2024, 5:36 PM

6 points

5 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

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

Stephen McAleeseOct 12, 2024, 4:41 PM

23 points

11 votes

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5 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] I = W/T?

HNXOct 12, 2024, 3:15 PM

0 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

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

ElizabethOct 12, 2024, 3:10 PM

64 points

25 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

SAE features for refusal and sycophancy steering vectors

neverix, Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

Oct 12, 2024, 2:54 PM

29 points

12 votes

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4 comments7 min readLW link

Prices are Bounties

Maxwell TabarrokOct 12, 2024, 2:51 PM

51 points

33 votes

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13 comments2 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Differential knowledge interconnection

Roman LeventovOct 12, 2024, 12:52 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Most arguments for AI Doom are either bad or weak

Logan ZoellnerOct 12, 2024, 11:57 AM

4 points

40 votes

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100 comments3 min readLW link

Kassel ACX/LW Meetup

Fernand0Oct 12, 2024, 7:47 AM

2 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Neural Network And Newton’s Second Law

Max MaOct 12, 2024, 6:25 AM

−10 points

4 votes

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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

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1 comment1 min readLW link

My motivation and theory of change for working in AI healthtech

Andrew_CritchOct 12, 2024, 12:36 AM

180 points

85 votes

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39 comments14 min readLW link

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

Jaehyuk Lim, Kanishk Tantia and Sinem

Oct 11, 2024, 11:06 PM

8 points

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2 comments10 min readLW link

Changing the Mind of an LLM

testingthewatersOct 11, 2024, 10:25 PM

2 points

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0 comments5 min readLW link

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

scasperOct 11, 2024, 10:13 PM

68 points

30 votes

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4 comments7 min readLW link

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

Matrice JacobineOct 11, 2024, 9:43 PM

63 points

39 votes

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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

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Open letter to young EAs

Leif WenarOct 11, 2024, 7:49 PM

9 points

16 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

The Great Bootstrap

KristianRonnOct 11, 2024, 7:46 PM

12 points

11 votes

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0 comments15 min readLW link

Embracing complexity when developing and evaluating AI responsibly

Aliya AmirovaOct 11, 2024, 5:46 PM

3 points

9 votes

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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

26 votes

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18 comments8 min readLW link

(jacquesthibodeau.com)

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

HNXOct 11, 2024, 4:55 PM

0 points

11 votes

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2 comments29 min readLW link

[Question] Who created the Less Wrong Gather Town?

ArepoOct 11, 2024, 8:53 AM

2 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

A Heuristic Proof of Practical Aligned Superintelligence

RokoOct 11, 2024, 5:05 AM

7 points

9 votes

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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

18 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

A Triple Decker for Elfland

jefftkOct 11, 2024, 1:50 AM

25 points

8 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

OODA your OODA Loop

RaemonOct 11, 2024, 12:50 AM

38 points

17 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Scaling prediction markets with meta-markets

DentosalOct 10, 2024, 9:17 PM

1 point

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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

22 votes

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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

15 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Rationality Quotes—Fall 2024

ScrewtapeOct 10, 2024, 6:37 PM

79 points

30 votes

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27 comments1 min readLW link

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

KvmanThinkingOct 10, 2024, 3:44 PM

8 points

5 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

AI #85: AI Wins the Nobel Prize

ZviOct 10, 2024, 1:40 PM

30 points

17 votes

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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

101 points

35 votes

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4 comments13 min readLW link

Joshua Achiam Public Statement Analysis

ZviOct 10, 2024, 12:50 PM

73 points

24 votes

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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

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalist Gnosticism

tailcalledOct 10, 2024, 9:06 AM

12 points

16 votes

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12 comments3 min readLW link

Values Are Real Like Harry Potter

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Oct 9, 2024, 11:42 PM

88 points

43 votes

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21 comments5 min readLW link

Momentum of Light in Glass

BenOct 9, 2024, 8:19 PM

144 points

68 votes

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47 comments11 min readLW link

vgillioz’s Shortform

vgilliozOct 9, 2024, 7:31 PM

1 point

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

adamShimiOct 9, 2024, 7:13 PM

8 points

1 vote

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0 comments6 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

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