Parad­dic­tions: un­rea­son­ably com­pel­ling be­hav­iors and their uses

Michael CohnNov 22, 2024, 8:53 PM
13 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Liter­acy Rates Haven’t Fallen By 20% Since the Depart­ment of Ed­u­ca­tion Was Created

Maxwell TabarrokNov 22, 2024, 8:53 PM
44 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Plau­si­bly Fac­tor­ing Con­jec­tures

Nov 22, 2024, 8:11 PM
22 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Prob­lem-Solv­ing Strate­gies Through Pre­dic­tion Markets

patrik-cihalNov 22, 2024, 7:58 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Do­ing Re­search Part-Time is Great

casualphysicsenjoyerNov 22, 2024, 7:01 PM
38 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Re­think­ing Laplace’s Rule of Succession

Cleo NardoNov 22, 2024, 6:46 PM
11 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

(Salt) Water Gar­gling as an Antiviral

ElizabethNov 22, 2024, 6:00 PM
88 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

The Man­u­fac­tured Cri­sis: How So­ciety Is Willingly Ty­ing Its Own Noose

PROPHETNov 22, 2024, 5:45 PM
−2 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Side­load­ing: cre­at­ing a model of a per­son via LLM with very large prompt

Nov 22, 2024, 4:41 PM
12 points
4 comments35 min readLW link

Neu­ro­science of hu­man so­cial in­stincts: a sketch

Steven ByrnesNov 22, 2024, 4:16 PM
69 points
0 comments31 min readLW link

Re­but­ting Every Ob­jec­tion To Giv­ing To The Shrimp Welfare Pro­ject

omnizoidNov 22, 2024, 4:12 PM
−10 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

A very strange prob­a­bil­ity paradox

Terence CoelhoNov 22, 2024, 2:01 PM
90 points
27 comments9 min readLW link

The boat

RomanSNov 22, 2024, 12:56 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Which things were you sur­prised to learn are metaphors?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 22, 2024, 3:46 AM
29 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

LLM chat­bots have ~half of the kinds of “con­scious­ness” that hu­mans be­lieve in. Hu­mans should avoid go­ing crazy about that.

Andrew_CritchNov 22, 2024, 3:26 AM
76 points
53 comments5 min readLW link

Read­ing RFK Jr so that you don’t have to

bracesNov 22, 2024, 12:59 AM
59 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Don’t want Good­hart? — Spec­ify the damn variables

Yan LyutnevNov 21, 2024, 10:45 PM
−3 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Don’t want Good­hart? — Spec­ify the vari­ables more

YanLyutnevNov 21, 2024, 10:43 PM
2 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Align­ing AI Safety Pro­jects with a Repub­li­can Administration

Deric ChengNov 21, 2024, 10:12 PM
33 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

En­tropic strat­egy in Two Truths and a Lie

dkl9Nov 21, 2024, 10:03 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

The Three Warn­ings of the Zentradi

Trevor Hill-HandNov 21, 2024, 8:28 PM
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] Which things were you sur­prised to learn are not metaphors?

Eric NeymanNov 21, 2024, 6:56 PM
135 points
88 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic sta­tus: po­etry (and other po­ems)

Richard_NgoNov 21, 2024, 6:13 PM
51 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

LucaRighettiNov 21, 2024, 5:28 PM
124 points
6 comments7 min readLW link
(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

I Have A New Paper Out Ar­gu­ing Against The Asym­me­try And For The Ex­is­tence of Happy Peo­ple Be­ing Very Good

omnizoidNov 21, 2024, 5:21 PM
9 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Danger­ous ca­pa­bil­ity tests should be harder

LucaRighettiNov 21, 2024, 5:20 PM
44 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

Ac­tion deriva­tives: You’re not do­ing what you think you’re doing

PatrickDFarleyNov 21, 2024, 4:24 PM
26 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

AI #91: Deep Thinking

ZviNov 21, 2024, 2:30 PM
47 points
11 comments56 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sec­u­lar Sols­tice Round Up 2024

dspeyerNov 21, 2024, 10:49 AM
76 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

An Episte­molog­i­cal Nightmare

Ariel ChengNov 21, 2024, 2:08 AM
6 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.mit.edu)

A Con­flicted Linkspost

ScrewtapeNov 21, 2024, 12:37 AM
52 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Deep­Seek beats o1-pre­view on math, ties on cod­ing; will re­lease weights

Zach Stein-PerlmanNov 20, 2024, 11:50 PM
113 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pected Utility, Geo­met­ric Utility, and Other Equiv­a­lent Representations

StrivingForLegibilityNov 20, 2024, 11:28 PM
10 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Green thumb

Pug stankyNov 20, 2024, 9:52 PM
−12 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe RogeroNov 20, 2024, 9:32 PM
75 points
13 commentsLW link
(subatomicarticles.com)

China Hawks are Man­u­fac­tur­ing an AI Arms Race

garrisonNov 20, 2024, 6:17 PM
144 points
44 commentsLW link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Why I Think All The Species Of Sig­nifi­cantly De­bated Con­scious­ness Are Con­scious And Suffer Intensely

omnizoidNov 20, 2024, 4:48 PM
25 points
5 comments33 min readLW link

as­pira­tional leadership

dhruvmethiNov 20, 2024, 4:07 PM
2 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Zvi’s Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF

ZviNov 20, 2024, 1:40 PM
91 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Lit­tle Depth Goes a Long Way: the Ex­pres­sive Power of Log-Depth Transformers

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 20, 2024, 11:48 AM
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openreview.net)

[Question] What changes should hap­pen in the HHS?

ChristianKlNov 20, 2024, 11:04 AM
0 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the good ra­tio­nal­ity films?

Ben PaceNov 20, 2024, 6:04 AM
83 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Valence Need Not Be Bounded; Utility Need Not Synthesize

LorecNov 20, 2024, 1:37 AM
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Value/​Utility: A History

LorecNov 19, 2024, 11:01 PM
9 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Why Don’t We Just… Shog­goth+Face+Para­phraser?

Nov 19, 2024, 8:53 PM
145 points
58 comments14 min readLW link

Every niche event should also be a meetup

DMMFNov 19, 2024, 8:47 PM
18 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(danfrank.ca)

U.S.-China Eco­nomic and Se­cu­rity Re­view Com­mis­sion pushes Man­hat­tan Pro­ject-style AI initiative

worseNov 19, 2024, 6:42 PM
56 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

In­trin­sic Power-Seek­ing: AI Might Seek Power for Power’s Sake

TurnTroutNov 19, 2024, 6:36 PM
40 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(turntrout.com)

Evolu­tion’s se­lec­tion tar­get de­pends on your weighting

tailcalledNov 19, 2024, 6:24 PM
23 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #44: The Trump Cir­cle on AI Safety Plus, Chi­nese re­searchers used Llama to cre­ate a mil­i­tary tool for the PLA, a Google AI sys­tem dis­cov­ered a zero-day cy­ber­se­cu­rity vuln­er­a­bil­ity, and Com­plex Sys­tems

Nov 19, 2024, 4:36 PM
9 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)