The Prob­lem with Rea­son­ers by Ai­dan McLaughin

t14nNov 25, 2024, 8:24 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(aidanmclaughlin.notion.site)

Lo­cally op­ti­mal psychology

ChipmonkNov 25, 2024, 6:35 PM
41 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

a space habitat design

bhauthNov 25, 2024, 5:28 PM
55 points
13 comments9 min readLW link
(bhauth.com)

Arthro­pod (non) sentience

Arturo MaciasNov 25, 2024, 4:01 PM
9 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Cross­post: Devel­op­ing the mid­dle ground on po­larized topics

juliawiseNov 25, 2024, 2:39 PM
13 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Two fla­vors of com­pu­ta­tional functionalism

EuanMcLeanNov 25, 2024, 10:47 AM
28 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Align­ment is not intelligent

Donatas LučiūnasNov 25, 2024, 6:59 AM
−23 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Zaragoza ACX/​LW Meetup

Fernand0Nov 25, 2024, 6:56 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

A bet­ter “State­ment on AI Risk?”

Knight LeeNov 25, 2024, 4:50 AM
9 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on ML4Good

james__pNov 25, 2024, 2:40 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Spe­cial­ized in ML Train­ing Could Create ASI: AGI Is Unnecessary

satopiNov 25, 2024, 2:31 AM
−5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

I, Token

Ivan VendrovNov 25, 2024, 2:20 AM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(nothinghuman.substack.com)

Pas­sages I High­lighted in The Let­ters of J.R.R.Tolkien

Ivan VendrovNov 25, 2024, 1:47 AM
139 points
39 comments31 min readLW link

Dec­o­rated pedes­trian tunnels

dkl9Nov 24, 2024, 10:16 PM
0 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

Gothen­burg LW/​ACX meetup

StefanNov 24, 2024, 7:40 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are You More Real If You’re Really For­get­ful?

Thane RuthenisNov 24, 2024, 7:30 PM
39 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

Per­ils of Gen­er­al­iz­ing from One’s So­cial Group

localdeityNov 24, 2024, 3:31 PM
63 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Disen­tan­gling Rep­re­sen­ta­tions through Multi-task Learning

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 24, 2024, 1:10 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

The U.S. Na­tional Se­cu­rity State is Here to Make AI Even Less Trans­par­ent and Accountable

Matrice JacobineNov 24, 2024, 9:36 AM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.eff.org)

Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity of Llama 3.2 with Sparse Autoencoders

PaulPaulsNov 24, 2024, 5:45 AM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

SB-1047, ChatGPT and AI’s Game of Thrones

Rahul ChandNov 24, 2024, 2:29 AM
−3 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Beyond Gaus­sian: Lan­guage Model Rep­re­sen­ta­tions and Distributions

Matt LevinsonNov 24, 2024, 1:53 AM
6 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

How Univer­sal Ba­sic In­come Could Help Us Build a Brighter Future

Yanling GuoNov 23, 2024, 10:03 PM
−13 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Com­pute and size limits on AI are the ac­tual danger

ShmiNov 23, 2024, 9:29 PM
32 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Paradigm Shifts—change ev­ery­thing… ex­cept al­most everything

James Stephen BrownNov 23, 2024, 6:34 PM
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

A Sober Look at Steer­ing Vec­tors for LLMs

Nov 23, 2024, 5:30 PM
38 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2018

jefftkNov 23, 2024, 12:50 PM
21 points
0 comments24 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Re­ward Bases: A sim­ple mechanism for adap­tive ac­qui­si­tion of mul­ti­ple re­ward type

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 23, 2024, 12:45 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On The Ra­tion­al­ist Megameetup

ScrewtapeNov 23, 2024, 9:08 AM
25 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Have we seen any “ReLU in­stead of sig­moid-type im­prove­ments” recently

KvmanThinkingNov 23, 2024, 3:51 AM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A few ques­tions about re­cent de­vel­op­ments in EA

Peter BerggrenNov 23, 2024, 2:36 AM
24 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

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
13 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

Bentham's BulldogNov 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