The Cog­ni­tive Boot­camp Agreement

RaemonOct 16, 2024, 11:24 PM
36 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Bit­ter les­sons about lu­cid dreaming

avturchinOct 16, 2024, 9:27 PM
77 points
62 comments2 min readLW link

Towards Quan­ti­ta­tive AI Risk Management

Oct 16, 2024, 7:26 PM
28 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Why Academia is Mostly Not Truth-Seeking

Zero ContradictionsOct 16, 2024, 7:14 PM
−7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Launch­ing Ad­ja­cent News

Lucas KohorstOct 16, 2024, 5:58 PM
24 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] In­ter­est in Leet­code, but for Ra­tion­al­ity?

Gregory Oct 16, 2024, 5:54 PM
74 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Re­quest for ad­vice: Re­search for Con­ver­sa­tional Game The­ory for LLMs

Rome ViharoOct 16, 2024, 5:53 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why hu­mans won’t con­trol su­per­hu­man AIs.

Spiritus DeiOct 16, 2024, 4:48 PM
−11 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Against em­pa­thy-by-default

Steven ByrnesOct 16, 2024, 4:38 PM
60 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

can­cer rates af­ter gene therapy

bhauthOct 16, 2024, 3:32 PM
53 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(bhauth.com)

Monthly Roundup #23: Oc­to­ber 2024

ZviOct 16, 2024, 1:50 PM
39 points
13 comments50 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Change My Mind: Thirders in “Sleep­ing Beauty” are Just Do­ing Episte­mol­ogy Wrong

DragonGodOct 16, 2024, 10:20 AM
8 points
67 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] After up­load­ing your con­scious­ness...

Jinge WangOct 16, 2024, 3:52 AM
−2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The ELYSIUM Pro­posal - Ex­trap­o­lated voLi­tions Yield­ing Separate In­di­vi­d­u­al­ized Utopias for Mankind

RokoOct 16, 2024, 1:24 AM
9 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(transhumanaxiology.substack.com)

Bel­le­vue Meetup

CedarOct 16, 2024, 1:07 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sin­gu­lar Learn­ing The­ory for Dummies

Rahul ChandOct 15, 2024, 9:13 PM
1 point
0 comments8 min readLW link

Distil­la­tion Of Deep­Seek-Prover V1.5

IvanLinOct 15, 2024, 6:53 PM
4 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing Model-Writ­ten Evals for AI Safety Benchmarking

Oct 15, 2024, 6:25 PM
30 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Tak­ing non­log­i­cal con­cepts seriously

Kris BrownOct 15, 2024, 6:16 PM
7 points
5 comments18 min readLW link
(topos.site)

Rashomon—A news­bet­ting site

ideastheteOct 15, 2024, 6:15 PM
23 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

On the Prac­ti­cal Ap­pli­ca­tions of Interpretability

Nick JiangOct 15, 2024, 5:18 PM
4 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

An­thropic’s up­dated Re­spon­si­ble Scal­ing Policy

Zac Hatfield-DoddsOct 15, 2024, 4:46 PM
38 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

[Question] When is re­ward ever the op­ti­miza­tion tar­get?

Noosphere89Oct 15, 2024, 3:09 PM
37 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

An Opinionated Evals Read­ing List

Oct 15, 2024, 2:38 PM
65 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(www.apolloresearch.ai)

An­thropic rewrote its RSP

Zach Stein-PerlmanOct 15, 2024, 2:25 PM
46 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 5. Dis­so­ci­a­tive Iden­tity (Mul­ti­ple Per­son­al­ity) Disorder

Steven ByrnesOct 15, 2024, 1:31 PM
59 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

Eco­nomics Roundup #4

ZviOct 15, 2024, 1:20 PM
19 points
4 comments25 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is School of Thought re­lated to the Ra­tion­al­ity Com­mu­nity?

Shoshannah TekofskyOct 15, 2024, 12:41 PM
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

In­verse Prob­lems In Every­day Life

silentbobOct 15, 2024, 11:42 AM
14 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Think­ing LLMs: Gen­eral In­struc­tion Fol­low­ing with Thought Generation

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaOct 15, 2024, 9:21 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Thoughts On the Na­ture of Ca­pa­bil­ity Elic­i­ta­tion via Fine-tuning

Theodore ChapmanOct 15, 2024, 8:39 AM
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Min­i­mal Mo­ti­va­tion of Nat­u­ral Latents

Oct 14, 2024, 10:51 PM
46 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

How long should poli­ti­cal (and other) terms be?

ohmurphyOct 14, 2024, 9:38 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(ohmurphy.substack.com)

Ex­am­ples of How I Use LLMs

jefftkOct 14, 2024, 5:10 PM
31 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

It’s im­por­tant to know when to stop: Mechanis­tic Ex­plo­ra­tion of Gemma 2 List Generation

Gerard BoxoOct 14, 2024, 5:04 PM
9 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(gboxo.github.io)

[Question] LW re­sources on child­hood ex­pe­riences?

nahir91595Oct 14, 2024, 5:04 PM
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Free Will, Neu­rotyp­i­cal Dom­i­nance, and the Path to ASI and Neu­ral­inks: Evolv­ing Beyond Scarcity

j_passeriOct 14, 2024, 4:54 PM
−2 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Break­throughs, Neu­ro­di­ver­gence, and Work­ing Out­side the System

j_passeriOct 14, 2024, 4:54 PM
1 point
3 comments2 min readLW link

The case for un­learn­ing that re­moves in­for­ma­tion from LLM weights

Fabien RogerOct 14, 2024, 2:08 PM
96 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Cir­cuits in Su­per­po­si­tion: Com­press­ing many small neu­ral net­works into one

Oct 14, 2024, 1:06 PM
130 points
9 comments13 min readLW link

Beyond Defen­sive Technology

ejk64Oct 14, 2024, 11:34 AM
11 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Why Stop AI is bar­ri­cad­ing OpenAI

RemmeltOct 14, 2024, 7:12 AM
−16 points
32 commentsLW link
(docs.google.com)

The Ex­plore vs. Ex­ploit Dilemma

nathanjzhaoOct 14, 2024, 6:20 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(nathanzhao.cc)

AI Align­ment via Slow Sub­strates: Early Em­piri­cal Re­sults With StarCraft II

Lester LeongOct 14, 2024, 4:05 AM
60 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

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)