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The Problem with Reasoners by Aidan McLaughin

t14nNov 25, 2024, 8:24 PM

12 points

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(aidanmclaughlin.notion.site)

Locally optimal psychology

Chris LakinNov 25, 2024, 6:35 PM

41 points

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

a space habitat design

bhauthNov 25, 2024, 5:28 PM

55 points

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13 comments9 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

Arthropod (non) sentience

Arturo MaciasNov 25, 2024, 4:01 PM

9 points

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Crosspost: Developing the middle ground on polarized topics

juliawiseNov 25, 2024, 2:39 PM

13 points

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16 comments3 min readLW link

Two flavors of computational functionalism

EuanMcLeanNov 25, 2024, 10:47 AM

28 points

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Alignment is not intelligent

Donatas LučiūnasNov 25, 2024, 6:59 AM

−23 points

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18 comments5 min readLW link

Zaragoza ACX/LW Meetup

Fernand0Nov 25, 2024, 6:56 AM

1 point

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A better “Statement on AI Risk?”

Knight LeeNov 25, 2024, 4:50 AM

9 points

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6 comments3 min readLW link

Reflections on ML4Good

james__pNov 25, 2024, 2:40 AM

13 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

satopiNov 25, 2024, 2:31 AM

−7 points

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I, Token

Ivan VendrovNov 25, 2024, 2:20 AM

14 points

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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

140 points

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39 comments31 min readLW link

Decorated pedestrian tunnels

dkl9Nov 24, 2024, 10:16 PM

0 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Gothenburg LW/ACX meetup

StefanNov 24, 2024, 7:40 PM

2 points

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

Thane RuthenisNov 24, 2024, 7:30 PM

40 points

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30 comments5 min readLW link

Perils of Generalizing from One’s Social Group

localdeityNov 24, 2024, 3:31 PM

64 points

36 votes

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Disentangling Representations through Multi-task Learning

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 24, 2024, 1:10 PM

14 points

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(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

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(www.eff.org)

Mechanistic Interpretability of Llama 3.2 with Sparse Autoencoders

PaulPaulsNov 24, 2024, 5:45 AM

19 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

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

Rahul ChandNov 24, 2024, 2:29 AM

−2 points

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Beyond Gaussian: Language Model Representations and Distributions

Matt LevinsonNov 24, 2024, 1:53 AM

6 points

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Compute and size limits on AI are the actual danger

ShmiNov 23, 2024, 9:29 PM

32 points

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Paradigm Shifts—change everything… except almost everything

James Stephen BrownNov 23, 2024, 6:34 PM

2 points

3 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

A Sober Look at Steering Vectors for LLMs

Joschka Braun, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, RobertKirk, Daniel Tan and David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)

Nov 23, 2024, 5:30 PM

40 points

23 votes

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Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2018

jefftkNov 23, 2024, 12:50 PM

21 points

11 votes

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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

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On The Rationalist Megameetup

ScrewtapeNov 23, 2024, 9:08 AM

25 points

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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

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A few questions about recent developments in EA

Peter BerggrenNov 23, 2024, 2:36 AM

24 points

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Paraddictions: unreasonably compelling behaviors and their uses

Michael CohnNov 22, 2024, 8:53 PM

13 points

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

Maxwell TabarrokNov 22, 2024, 8:53 PM

44 points

16 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Plausibly Factoring Conjectures

Quinn and dspivak

Nov 22, 2024, 8:11 PM

22 points

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Optimizing Problem-Solving Strategies Through Prediction Markets

patrik-cihalNov 22, 2024, 7:58 PM

1 point

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Doing Research Part-Time is Great

casualphysicsenjoyerNov 22, 2024, 7:01 PM

38 points

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7 comments5 min readLW link

Rethinking Laplace’s Rule of Succession

Cleo NardoNov 22, 2024, 6:46 PM

13 points

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(Salt) Water Gargling as an Antiviral

ElizabethNov 22, 2024, 6:00 PM

88 points

30 votes

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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

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2 comments8 min readLW link

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

avturchin and RomanS

Nov 22, 2024, 4:41 PM

13 points

9 votes

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4 comments35 min readLW link

Neuroscience of human social instincts: a sketch

Steven ByrnesNov 22, 2024, 4:16 PM

72 points

24 votes

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2 comments31 min readLW link

Rebutting Every Objection To Giving To The Shrimp Welfare Project

Bentham's BulldogNov 22, 2024, 4:12 PM

−10 points

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A very strange probability paradox

Terence CoelhoNov 22, 2024, 2:01 PM

90 points

51 votes

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The boat

RomanSNov 22, 2024, 12:56 PM

6 points

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

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 22, 2024, 3:46 AM

29 points

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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

79 points

51 votes

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Reading RFK Jr so that you don’t have to

bracesNov 22, 2024, 12:59 AM

59 points

22 votes

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Don’t want Goodhart? — Specify the damn variables

Yan LyutnevNov 21, 2024, 10:45 PM

−3 points

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Don’t want Goodhart? — Specify the variables more

YanLyutnevNov 21, 2024, 10:43 PM

2 points

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Aligning AI Safety Projects with a Republican Administration

Deric ChengNov 21, 2024, 10:12 PM

33 points

9 votes

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Entropic strategy in Two Truths and a Lie

dkl9Nov 21, 2024, 10:03 PM

4 points

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(dkl9.net)

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