Should you have chil­dren? All LessWrong posts about the topic

SherrinfordNov 26, 2024, 11:52 PM
17 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

Dave Kas­ten’s AGI-by-2027 vignette

davekastenNov 26, 2024, 11:20 PM
49 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Frac­tals to Quasiparticles

James CamachoNov 26, 2024, 8:19 PM
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What ep­silon do you sub­tract from “cer­tainty” in your own prob­a­bil­ity es­ti­mates?

DagonNov 26, 2024, 7:13 PM
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­tions—How Con­scious Sig­nifi­cance Could In­form Our lives

James Stephen BrownNov 26, 2024, 5:42 PM
7 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Work­shop Re­port: Why cur­rent bench­marks ap­proaches are not suffi­cient for safety?

Nov 26, 2024, 5:20 PM
3 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

You are not too “ir­ra­tional” to know your prefer­ences.

DaystarEldNov 26, 2024, 3:01 PM
233 points
50 comments13 min readLW link

AI & Li­a­bil­ity Ideathon

Kabir KumarNov 26, 2024, 1:54 PM
20 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(lu.ma)

Do Large Lan­guage Models Perform La­tent Multi-Hop Rea­son­ing with­out Ex­ploit­ing Short­cuts?

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 26, 2024, 9:58 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Should you in­crease AI al­ign­ment fund­ing, or in­crease AI reg­u­la­tion?

Knight LeeNov 26, 2024, 9:17 AM
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Miti­gat­ing Geo­mag­netic Storm and EMP Risks to the Elec­tri­cal Grid (Shal­low Dive)

DavidmanheimNov 26, 2024, 8:00 AM
16 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Filled Cupcakes

jefftkNov 26, 2024, 3:20 AM
21 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

notes on pri­ori­tiz­ing tasks & cog­ni­tion-threads

EmrikNov 26, 2024, 12:28 AM
3 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] Why are there no in­ter­est­ing (1D, 2-state) quan­tum cel­lu­lar au­tomata?

Optimization ProcessNov 26, 2024, 12:11 AM
29 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Count­ing AGIs

Nov 26, 2024, 12:06 AM
75 points
19 comments32 min readLW link

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