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(Maybe) A Bag of Heuristics is All There Is & A Bag of Heuristics is All You Need

SodiumOct 3, 2024, 7:11 PM

35 points

17 comments17 min readLW link

Does natural selection favor AIs over humans?

cdkgOct 3, 2024, 6:47 PM

20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(link.springer.com)

What Hayek Taught Us About Nature

Ground Truth DataOct 3, 2024, 6:20 PM

−1 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Biasing VLM Response with Visual Stimuli

Jaehyuk LimOct 3, 2024, 6:04 PM

5 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

AI #84: Better Than a Podcast

ZviOct 3, 2024, 3:00 PM

56 points

7 comments52 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] If I have some money, whom should I donate it to in order to reduce expected P(doom) the most?

KvmanThinkingOct 3, 2024, 11:31 AM

35 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

Shutting down all competing AI projects might not buy a lot of time due to Internal Time Pressure

ThomasCederborgOct 3, 2024, 12:01 AM

12 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

“25 Lessons from 25 Years of Marriage” by honorary rationalist Ferrett Steinmetz

CronoDASOct 2, 2024, 10:42 PM

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(theferrett.substack.com)

MIT FutureTech are hiring for a Head of Operations role

peterslatteryOct 2, 2024, 5:11 PM

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Can AI Quantity beat AI Quality?

Gianluca CalcagniOct 2, 2024, 3:21 PM

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Intuitive self-models] 3. The Homunculus

Steven ByrnesOct 2, 2024, 3:20 PM

78 points

39 comments25 min readLW link

AI Safety University Organizing: Early Takeaways from Thirteen Groups

agucovaOct 2, 2024, 3:14 PM

26 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Three main arguments that AI will save humans and one meta-argument

avturchinOct 2, 2024, 11:39 AM

8 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Should we abstain from voting? (In nondeterministic elections)

B JacobsOct 2, 2024, 10:07 AM

5 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(bobjacobs.substack.com)

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, September ’24

gasteigerjoOct 2, 2024, 9:49 AM

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Self-Help Corner: Loop Detection

adamShimiOct 2, 2024, 8:33 AM

88 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

The murderous shortcut: a toy model of instrumental convergence

Thomas KwaOct 2, 2024, 6:48 AM

37 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Switching to a Yamaha P-121 Keyboard

jefftkOct 2, 2024, 2:20 AM

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Foresight Vision Weekend 2024

Allison DuettmannOct 1, 2024, 9:59 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Happy simulations

FateGrinderOct 1, 2024, 9:05 PM

−5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Three Subtle Examples of Data Leakage

abstractapplicOct 1, 2024, 8:45 PM

172 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

AI Safety Newsletter #42: Newsom Vetoes SB 1047 Plus, OpenAI’s o1, and AI Governance Summary

Corin Katzke, Corin Katzke, Julius, Alexa Pan, andrewz and Dan H

Oct 1, 2024, 8:35 PM

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Retrieval Augmented Genesis

João Ribeiro MedeirosOct 1, 2024, 8:18 PM

6 points

0 comments29 min readLW link

Likelihood calculation with duobels

Martin GerdesOct 1, 2024, 4:21 PM

4 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Is Text Watermarking a lost cause?

egor.timatkovOct 1, 2024, 4:20 PM

17 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Information dark matter

Logan KiellerOct 1, 2024, 3:05 PM

33 points

4 comments28 min readLW link

(logankieller.substack.com)

Conventional footnotes considered harmful

dkl9Oct 1, 2024, 2:54 PM

25 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Newsom Vetoes SB 1047

ZviOct 1, 2024, 12:20 PM

84 points

6 comments32 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Will AI and Humanity Go to War?

Simon GoldsteinOct 1, 2024, 6:35 AM

9 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] AMA: International School Student in China

NoviceOct 1, 2024, 6:00 AM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AGI Farm

Rahul ChandOct 1, 2024, 4:29 AM

1 point

0 comments8 min readLW link

Why comparative advantage does not help horses

SherrinfordSep 30, 2024, 10:27 PM

107 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Intelligence explosion: a rational assessment.

p4rziv4lSep 30, 2024, 9:17 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Peak Human Capital

PeterMcCluskeySep 30, 2024, 9:13 PM

72 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Sam Altman’s Business Negging

Julian BradshawSep 30, 2024, 9:06 PM

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

In-Context Learning: An Alignment Survey

alamertonSep 30, 2024, 6:44 PM

8 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Not Just For Therapy Chatbots: The Case For Compassion In AI Moral Alignment Research

kenneth_diaoSep 30, 2024, 6:37 PM

2 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Exploring Decomposability of SAE Features

Vikram_NSep 30, 2024, 6:28 PM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Knowledge Base 1: Could it increase intelligence and make it safer?

iwisSep 30, 2024, 4:00 PM

−4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Point of Failure: Semiconductor-Grade Quartz

AnnapurnaSep 30, 2024, 3:57 PM

41 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

on bacteria, on teeth

bhauthSep 30, 2024, 3:56 PM

62 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

SB 1047 gets vetoed

ryan_bSep 30, 2024, 3:49 PM

25 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.reuters.com)

Of Birds and Bees

RussellThorSep 30, 2024, 10:52 AM

7 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

A new process for mapping discussions

Nathan YoungSep 30, 2024, 8:57 AM

29 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

MATS Alumni Impact Analysis

utilistrutil, Juan Gil, yams, LauraVaughan, K Richards and Ryan Kidd

Sep 30, 2024, 2:35 AM

62 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Most capable publicly available agents?

GabeSep 30, 2024, 12:04 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated

nostalgebraistSep 29, 2024, 10:07 PM

266 points

43 comments11 min readLW link

Pomodoro Method Randomized Self Experiment

niplavSep 29, 2024, 9:55 PM

14 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Toy Models of Superposition: Simplified by Hand

Axel SorensenSep 29, 2024, 9:19 PM

9 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

LLMs are likely not conscious

research_prime_spaceSep 29, 2024, 8:57 PM

6 points

9 comments1 min readLW link