Close the Gates to an In­hu­man Fu­ture: How and why we should choose to not de­velop su­per­hu­man gen­eral-pur­pose ar­tifi­cial intelligence

aaguirreFeb 9, 2024, 8:25 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Cross­post] Deep Dive: The Com­ing Tech­nolog­i­cal Sin­gu­lar­ity—How to sur­vive in a Post-hu­man Era

simulacra.exeFeb 9, 2024, 6:49 PM
2 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

The Ideal Speech Si­tu­a­tion as a Tool for AI Eth­i­cal Reflec­tion: A Frame­work for Alignment

kenneth myersFeb 9, 2024, 6:40 PM
6 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

What’s ChatGPT’s Fa­vorite Ice Cream Fla­vor? An In­ves­ti­ga­tion Into Syn­thetic Respondents

Greg RobisonFeb 9, 2024, 6:38 PM
19 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion

O OFeb 9, 2024, 4:15 PM
13 points
29 comments1 min readLW link
(decrypt.co)

[Question] Con­stituency-sized AI congress?

Nathan Helm-BurgerFeb 9, 2024, 4:01 PM
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

One True Love

ZviFeb 9, 2024, 3:10 PM
34 points
7 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Ex­ec­u­tive func­tion ad­vice from peo­ple who are good at it?

TeaTieAndHatFeb 9, 2024, 10:11 AM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you want to make an AI Align­ment song?

Kabir KumarFeb 9, 2024, 8:22 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Skills I’d like my col­lab­o­ra­tors to have

RaemonFeb 9, 2024, 8:20 AM
106 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Trans­fer learn­ing and gen­er­al­iza­tion-qua-ca­pa­bil­ity in Bab­bage and Davinci (or, why di­vi­sion is bet­ter than Span­ish)

RP and agg
Feb 9, 2024, 7:00 AM
50 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Bi­den-Har­ris Ad­minis­tra­tion An­nounces First-Ever Con­sor­tium Ded­i­cated to AI Safety

Ben SmithFeb 9, 2024, 6:40 AM
22 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.nist.gov)

Run­ning the Num­bers on a Heat Pump

jefftkFeb 9, 2024, 3:00 AM
30 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How do high-trust so­cieties form?

Shankar SivarajanFeb 9, 2024, 1:11 AM
23 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do health sys­tems work in ad­e­quate wor­lds?

mukashiFeb 9, 2024, 12:54 AM
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Twin Cities ACX Meetup—Fe­bru­ary 2024

Timothy M.Feb 8, 2024, 11:26 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

A re­view of “Don’t for­get the bound­ary prob­lem...”

jessicataFeb 8, 2024, 11:19 PM
12 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

ain­telope pro­ject update

Gunnar_ZarnckeFeb 8, 2024, 6:32 PM
24 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Up­date­less­ness doesn’t solve most problems

Martín SotoFeb 8, 2024, 5:30 PM
135 points
45 comments12 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing Align­ment Award Win­ners Us­ing ChatGPT 4

Shoshannah TekofskyFeb 8, 2024, 2:38 PM
16 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

AI #50: The Most Danger­ous Thing

ZviFeb 8, 2024, 2:30 PM
53 points
4 comments24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to de­velop a pho­to­graphic mem­ory 3/​3

PhilosophicalSoulFeb 8, 2024, 9:22 AM
6 points
2 comments18 min readLW link

Believ­ing In

AnnaSalamonFeb 8, 2024, 7:06 AM
241 points
51 comments13 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing pre-peer-re­view epistemic status

Jakub SmékalFeb 8, 2024, 5:09 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

A Chess-GPT Lin­ear Emer­gent World Representation

Adam KarvonenFeb 8, 2024, 4:25 AM
105 points
14 comments7 min readLW link
(adamkarvonen.github.io)

Do­mes­tic Pro­duc­tion vs In­ter­na­tional Wealth Creation

100YearPantsFeb 8, 2024, 4:25 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­di­tional pre­dic­tion mar­kets are ev­i­den­tial, not causal

philhFeb 7, 2024, 9:52 PM
55 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

A Back-Of-The-En­velope Calcu­la­tion On How Un­likely The Cir­cum­stan­tial Ev­i­dence Around Covid-19 Is

RokoFeb 7, 2024, 9:49 PM
−1 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

Nitric ox­ide for covid and other viral infections

ElizabethFeb 7, 2024, 9:30 PM
39 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

De­bat­ing with More Per­sua­sive LLMs Leads to More Truth­ful Answers

Feb 7, 2024, 9:28 PM
89 points
14 comments9 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] Choos­ing a book on causality

martinkunevFeb 7, 2024, 9:16 PM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

More Hyphenation

Arjun PanicksseryFeb 7, 2024, 7:43 PM
88 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Read­ing writ­ing ad­vice doesn’t make writ­ing easier

Henry SleightFeb 7, 2024, 7:14 PM
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

[Question] What’s this 3rd se­cret di­rec­tive of evolu­tion called? (sur­vive & spread & ___)

lemonhopeFeb 7, 2024, 2:11 PM
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing of su­per­in­tel­li­gence is se­cretly adversarial

quetzal_rainbowFeb 7, 2024, 1:38 PM
15 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

The Math of Sus­pi­cious Coincidences

RokoFeb 7, 2024, 1:32 PM
25 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How to deal with the sense of de­mo­ti­va­tion that comes from think­ing about de­ter­minism?

SpectrumDTFeb 7, 2024, 10:53 AM
13 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

Quan­tum Dar­winism, so­cial con­structs, and the sci­en­tific method

pchvykovFeb 7, 2024, 7:04 AM
6 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Why I think it’s net harm­ful to do tech­ni­cal safety re­search at AGI labs

RemmeltFeb 7, 2024, 4:17 AM
26 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

story-based de­ci­sion-making

bhauthFeb 7, 2024, 2:35 AM
90 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Full Driv­ing En­gage­ment Optional

jefftkFeb 7, 2024, 2:30 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How to train your own “Sleeper Agents”

evhubFeb 7, 2024, 12:31 AM
92 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

My guess at Con­jec­ture’s vi­sion: trig­ger­ing a nar­ra­tive bifurcation

Alexandre VariengienFeb 6, 2024, 7:10 PM
75 points
12 comments16 min readLW link

Ar­ro­gance and Peo­ple Pleasing

Jonathan MoregårdFeb 6, 2024, 6:43 PM
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

What does davi­dad want from «bound­aries»?

Feb 6, 2024, 5:45 PM
47 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] How can I effi­ciently read all the Dath Ilan wor­ld­build­ing?

mike_hawkeFeb 6, 2024, 4:52 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Prevent­ing model exfil­tra­tion with up­load limits

ryan_greenblattFeb 6, 2024, 4:29 PM
71 points
22 comments14 min readLW link

Evolu­tion is an ob­ser­va­tion, not a process

Neil Feb 6, 2024, 2:49 PM
8 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we need an un­der­stand­ing of the real world to pre­dict the next to­kens in a body of text?

Valentin BaltadzhievFeb 6, 2024, 2:43 PM
2 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

On the De­bate Between Je­zos and Leahy

ZviFeb 6, 2024, 2:40 PM
64 points
6 comments63 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)