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LLMs Look Increasingly Like General Reasoners

eggsyntaxNov 8, 2024, 11:47 PM

94 points

45 comments3 min readLW link

overengineered air filter shelving

bhauthNov 8, 2024, 10:04 PM

26 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

Bigger Livers?

sarahconstantinNov 8, 2024, 9:50 PM

98 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

New UChicago Rationality Group

Noah BirnbaumNov 8, 2024, 9:20 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Active Recall and Spaced Repetition are Different Things

Saul MunnNov 8, 2024, 8:14 PM

49 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.brasstacks.blog)

What AI safety researchers can learn from Mahatma Gandhi

Lysandre TerrisseNov 8, 2024, 7:49 PM

−6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The King and the Golem—The Animation

WriterNov 8, 2024, 6:23 PM

70 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Boring & straightforward trauma explanation

lemonhopeNov 8, 2024, 9:45 AM

24 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Curriculum of Ascension

andrew sauerNov 7, 2024, 11:54 PM

13 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Analyzing how SAE features evolve across a forward pass

bensenberner, danibalcells, Michael Oesterle, Ediz Ucar and StefanHex

Nov 7, 2024, 10:07 PM

47 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Markets Are Information—Beating the Sportsbooks at Their Own Game

JJXWNov 7, 2024, 8:58 PM

9 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(thehobbyist.substack.com)

Signaling with Small Orange Diamonds

jefftkNov 7, 2024, 8:20 PM

40 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Fundamental Uncertainty: Chapter 9 - How do we live with uncertainty?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 7, 2024, 6:15 PM

11 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

AI #89: Trump Card

ZviNov 7, 2024, 4:30 PM

42 points

12 comments42 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Quantum Immortality: A Perspective if AI Doomers are Probably Right

avturchin and James_Miller

Nov 7, 2024, 4:06 PM

11 points

55 comments14 min readLW link

On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback

Marcus Williams, micahcarroll, Adhyyan Narang, Constantin Weisser and Brendan Murphy

Nov 7, 2024, 3:39 PM

51 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

In the Name of All That Needs Saving

pleiotrothNov 7, 2024, 3:26 PM

18 points

3 comments22 min readLW link

Agency overhang as a proxy for Sharp left turn

Eris and Iuliia Levin

Nov 7, 2024, 12:14 PM

6 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Case Against Moral Realism

Zero ContradictionsNov 7, 2024, 10:14 AM

−5 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

[Question] What are the primary drivers that caused selection pressure for intelligence in humans?

Towards_KeeperhoodNov 7, 2024, 9:40 AM

8 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

The Logistics of Distribution of Meaning: Against Epistemic Bureaucratization

SahilNov 7, 2024, 5:27 AM

27 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

SAEs are highly dataset dependent: a case study on the refusal direction

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

Nov 7, 2024, 5:22 AM

66 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

Should CA, TX, OK, and LA merge into a giant swing state, just for elections?

Thomas KwaNov 6, 2024, 11:01 PM

115 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

New Funding Category Open in Foresight’s AI Safety Grants

Allison DuettmannNov 6, 2024, 10:59 PM

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Scattered thoughts on what it means for an LLM to believe

TheManxLoinerNov 6, 2024, 10:10 PM

5 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

The Bayesian Conspiracy Live Recording

EneaszNov 6, 2024, 4:25 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Anthropic: Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components

Zach Stein-PerlmanNov 6, 2024, 4:00 PM

95 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

Meme Talking Points

ymeskhoutNov 6, 2024, 3:27 PM

34 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Advisors for Smaller Major Donors?

jefftkNov 6, 2024, 2:30 PM

18 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Scissors Statements for President?

AnnaSalamonNov 6, 2024, 10:38 AM

118 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to cite LessWrong as an academic source?

PhilosophicalSoulNov 6, 2024, 8:28 AM

6 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

How to put California and Texas on the campaign trail!

Yair HalberstadtNov 6, 2024, 6:08 AM

25 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

LDT (and everything else) can be irrational

Christopher KingNov 6, 2024, 4:05 AM

10 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Join my new subscriber chat

sarahconstantinNov 6, 2024, 2:30 AM

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Graceful Degradation

ScrewtapeNov 5, 2024, 11:57 PM

83 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

An alternative approach to superbabies

Towards_KeeperhoodNov 5, 2024, 10:56 PM

48 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Apply to be a mentor in SPAR!

agucovaNov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM

5 points

0 comments LW link

Going Beyond “immaturity”

moisentinelNov 5, 2024, 8:51 PM

−3 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Intent alignment as a stepping-stone to value alignment

Seth HerdNov 5, 2024, 8:43 PM

37 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging

Abhishaike MahajanNov 5, 2024, 2:51 PM

29 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

Winning isn’t enough

JesseClifton and Anthony DiGiovanni

Nov 5, 2024, 11:37 AM

38 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Anthropic—The case for targeted regulation

anagumaNov 5, 2024, 7:07 AM

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

The Shallow Bench

Karl Faulks5 Nov 2024 5:07 UTC

48 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Using Narrative Prompting to Extract Policy Forecasts from LLMs

Max Ghenis5 Nov 2024 4:37 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

ML4Good (AI Safety Bootcamp) - Experience report

JanEbbing5 Nov 2024 1:18 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Catastrophic Cyber Capabilities Benchmark (3CB): Robustly Evaluating LLM Agent Cyber Offense Capabilities

Jonathan N, abra, Connor Axiotes and Esben Kran

5 Nov 2024 1:01 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(www.apartresearch.com)

[Question] Could orcas be (trained to be) smarter than humans? 

Towards_Keeperhood4 Nov 2024 23:29 UTC

56 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Metastatic Cancer Treatment Since 2010: The Success Stories

sarahconstantin4 Nov 2024 22:50 UTC

51 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Bay Winter Solstice 2024: Speech Auditions

ozymandias4 Nov 2024 22:31 UTC

32 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Empathy/Systemizing Quotient is a poor/biased model for the autism/sex link

tailcalled4 Nov 2024 21:11 UTC

43 points

0 comments7 min readLW link