Ayn Rand’s model of “liv­ing money”; and an up­side of burnout

AnnaSalamonNov 16, 2024, 2:59 AM
229 points
59 comments5 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Epilogue

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 16, 2024, 12:57 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Mak­ing a con­ser­va­tive case for alignment

Nov 15, 2024, 6:55 PM
208 points
67 comments7 min readLW link

The Case For Giv­ing To The Shrimp Welfare Project

omnizoidNov 15, 2024, 4:03 PM
−5 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Win/​con­tinue/​lose sce­nar­ios and ex­e­cute/​re­place/​au­dit protocols

BuckNov 15, 2024, 3:47 PM
64 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Antonym Heads Pre­dict Se­man­tic Op­po­sites in Lan­guage Models

Jake WardNov 15, 2024, 3:32 PM
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Propos­ing the Con­di­tional AI Safety Treaty (linkpost TIME)

otto.bartenNov 15, 2024, 1:59 PM
10 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(time.com)

A The­ory of Equil­ibrium in the Offense-Defense Balance

Maxwell TabarrokNov 15, 2024, 1:51 PM
25 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Bos­ton Sec­u­lar Sols­tice 2024: Call for Singers and Musicans

jefftkNov 15, 2024, 1:50 PM
22 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An Un­canny Moat

Adam NewgasNov 15, 2024, 11:39 AM
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.boristhebrave.com)

If I care about mea­sure, choices have ad­di­tional bur­den (+AI gen­er­ated LW-com­ments)

avturchinNov 15, 2024, 10:27 AM
5 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

What are Emo­tions?

Myles HNov 15, 2024, 4:20 AM
4 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

The Third Fun­da­men­tal Question

ScrewtapeNov 15, 2024, 4:01 AM
66 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Dance Differentiation

jefftkNov 15, 2024, 2:30 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Break­ing be­liefs about sav­ing the world

OxidizeNov 15, 2024, 12:46 AM
−1 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Col­lege tech­ni­cal AI safety hackathon ret­ro­spec­tive—Ge­or­gia Tech

yixNov 15, 2024, 12:22 AM
41 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Gw­ern Bran­wen in­ter­view on Dwarkesh Pa­tel’s pod­cast: “How an Anony­mous Re­searcher Pre­dicted AI’s Tra­jec­tory”

Said AchmizNov 14, 2024, 11:53 PM
86 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

In­ter­nal mu­sic player: phe­nomenol­ogy of earworms

dkl9Nov 14, 2024, 11:29 PM
6 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

The For­ag­ing (Ex-)Ban­dit [Rule­set & Reflec­tions]

abstractapplicNov 14, 2024, 8:16 PM
27 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Seven les­sons I didn’t learn from elec­tion day

Eric NeymanNov 14, 2024, 6:39 PM
97 points
33 comments13 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Effects of Non-Uniform Spar­sity on Su­per­po­si­tion in Toy Models

Shreyans JainNov 14, 2024, 4:59 PM
4 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

AI #90: The Wall

ZviNov 14, 2024, 2:10 PM
32 points
8 comments42 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Evolu­tion­ary prompt op­ti­miza­tion for SAE fea­ture visualization

Nov 14, 2024, 1:06 PM
21 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 38.0 - Zhijing Jin on LLMs, Causal­ity, and Multi-Agent Systems

DanielFilanNov 14, 2024, 7:00 AM
14 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Fron­tierMath: A Bench­mark for Eval­u­at­ing Ad­vanced Math­e­mat­i­cal Rea­son­ing in AI

TamayNov 14, 2024, 6:13 AM
33 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(epoch.ai)

Con­crete Meth­ods for Heuris­tic Es­ti­ma­tion on Neu­ral Networks

Oliver DanielsNov 14, 2024, 5:07 AM
28 points
0 comments27 min readLW link

Here­sies in the Shadow of the Sequences

Cole WyethNov 14, 2024, 5:01 AM
19 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

liter­ally Hitler

David GrossNov 14, 2024, 3:20 AM
−14 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts af­ter the Wolfram and Yud­kowsky discussion

TahpNov 14, 2024, 1:43 AM
25 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Neutrality

sarahconstantinNov 13, 2024, 11:10 PM
159 points
27 comments11 min readLW link
(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Anvil Shortage

ScrewtapeNov 13, 2024, 10:57 PM
92 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Us­ing hex to get mur­der ad­vice from GPT-4o

Laurence FreemanNov 13, 2024, 6:30 PM
10 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Con­fronting the le­gion of doom.

Spiritus DeiNov 13, 2024, 5:03 PM
−20 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Is Deep Learn­ing Ac­tu­ally Hit­ting a Wall? Eval­u­at­ing Ilya Sutskever’s Re­cent Claims

garrisonNov 13, 2024, 5:00 PM
84 points
14 commentsLW link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

MIT Fu­tureTech are hiring ‍a Product and Data Vi­su­al­iza­tion Designer

peterslatteryNov 13, 2024, 2:48 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Sparks of Consciousness

Charlie SandersNov 13, 2024, 4:58 AM
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.dailymicrofiction.com)

Con­tra Mu­si­cian Gen­der II

jefftkNov 13, 2024, 3:30 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Flip­ping Out: The Cos­mic Coin­flip Thought Ex­per­i­ment Is Bad Philosophy

Joe RogeroNov 12, 2024, 11:55 PM
34 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

In­cen­tive de­sign and ca­pa­bil­ity elicitation

Joe CarlsmithNov 12, 2024, 8:56 PM
31 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

The Hu­man­i­tar­ian Economy

Kyle FurlongNov 12, 2024, 6:25 PM
1 point
14 comments6 min readLW link

Cur­rent At­ti­tudes Toward AI Provide Lit­tle Data Rele­vant to At­ti­tudes Toward AGI

Seth HerdNov 12, 2024, 6:23 PM
19 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Ba­sics of Han­dling Disagree­ments with People

Camille Berger Nov 12, 2024, 5:55 PM
34 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Regis­tra­tions Open for 2024 NYC Sec­u­lar Sols­tice & Megameetup

Nov 12, 2024, 5:50 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

2024 NYC Sec­u­lar Sols­tice & Megameetup

Nov 12, 2024, 5:46 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

2025 Q1 Pivotal Re­search Fel­low­ship (Tech­ni­cal & Policy)

Nov 12, 2024, 10:56 AM
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The­o­ries With Men­tal­is­tic Atoms Are As Val­idly Called The­o­ries As The­o­ries With Only Non-Men­tal­is­tic Atoms

LorecNov 12, 2024, 6:45 AM
5 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

The ly­ing p value

kqrNov 12, 2024, 6:12 AM
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(entropicthoughts.com)

Model­ing AI-driven oc­cu­pa­tional change over the next 10 years and beyond

2120ethNov 12, 2024, 4:58 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

How to Live Well: My Philos­o­phy of Life

Philosofer123Nov 12, 2024, 4:05 AM
−5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Pack­ag­ing and the Payload

ScrewtapeNov 12, 2024, 3:07 AM
76 points
1 comment5 min readLW link