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Why you, personally, should want a larger human population

jasoncrawford23 Feb 2024 19:48 UTC

32 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Deliberative Cognitive Algorithms as Scaffolding

Cole Wyeth23 Feb 2024 17:15 UTC

18 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

The Shutdown Problem: Incomplete Preferences as a Solution

EJT23 Feb 2024 16:01 UTC

50 points

22 comments41 min readLW link

In set theory, everything is a set

Jacob G-W23 Feb 2024 14:35 UTC

11 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

The role of philosophical thinking in understanding large language models: Calibrating and closing the gap between first-person experience and underlying mechanisms

Bill Benzon23 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC

4 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Deep and obvious points in the gap between your thoughts and your pictures of thought

KatjaGrace23 Feb 2024 7:30 UTC

42 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Parasocial relationship logic

KatjaGrace23 Feb 2024 7:30 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Shaming with and without naming

KatjaGrace23 Feb 2024 7:30 UTC

15 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Complexity of value but not disvalue implies more focus on s-risk. Moral uncertainty and preference utilitarianism also do.

Chi Nguyen23 Feb 2024 6:10 UTC

54 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does increasing the power of a multimodal LLM get you an agentic AI?

yanni kyriacos23 Feb 2024 4:14 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The natural boundaries between people

Chipmonk23 Feb 2024 1:09 UTC

20 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(chipmonk.substack.com)

Contra Ngo et al. “Every ‘Every Bay Area House Party’ Bay Area House Party”

Ricki Heicklen22 Feb 2024 23:56 UTC

184 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

AI #52: Oops

Zvi22 Feb 2024 21:50 UTC

51 points

9 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Embed your second brain in your first brain

dkl922 Feb 2024 21:46 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

The Gemini Incident

Zvi22 Feb 2024 21:00 UTC

80 points

19 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some Thoughts On Using Auctions For Land Valuation

harsimony22 Feb 2024 19:54 UTC

0 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

The Binding of Isaac & Transparent Newcomb’s Problem

suvjectibity22 Feb 2024 18:56 UTC

−11 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Research Post: Tasks That Language Models Don’t Learn

Bruce W. Lee and crayhippo

22 Feb 2024 18:52 UTC

39 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Sora What

Zvi22 Feb 2024 18:10 UTC

46 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Do sparse autoencoders find “true features”?

Demian Till22 Feb 2024 18:06 UTC

70 points

33 comments11 min readLW link

Everything Wrong with Roko’s Claims about an Engineered Pandemic

EZ9722 Feb 2024 15:59 UTC

90 points

10 comments16 min readLW link

The One and a Half Gemini

Zvi22 Feb 2024 13:10 UTC

73 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How do I make predictions about the future to make sense of what to do with my life?

Raj Thimmiah22 Feb 2024 11:22 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

How are voluntary commitments on vulnerability reporting going?

Adam Jones22 Feb 2024 8:43 UTC

23 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(adamjones.me)

Notes on Internal Objectives in Toy Models of Agents

Paul Colognese22 Feb 2024 8:02 UTC

16 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Byronic Hero Always Loses

Cole Wyeth22 Feb 2024 1:31 UTC

31 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Job Listing: Managing Editor / Writer

Gretta Duleba21 Feb 2024 23:41 UTC

43 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The Pareto Best and the Curse of Doom

Screwtape21 Feb 2024 23:10 UTC

110 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

AISN #31: A New AI Policy Bill in California Plus, Precedents for AI Governance and The EU AI Office

aogara and Dan H

21 Feb 2024 21:58 UTC

17 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Analogies between scaling labs and misaligned superintelligent AI

scasper21 Feb 2024 19:29 UTC

74 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Extinction Risks from AI: Invisible to Science?

VojtaKovarik, Chris van Merwijk and Ida Mattsson

21 Feb 2024 18:07 UTC

24 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Extinction-level Goodhart’s Law as a Property of the Environment

VojtaKovarik and Ida Mattsson

21 Feb 2024 17:56 UTC

23 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Dynamics Crucial to AI Risk Seem to Make for Complicated Models

VojtaKovarik and Ida Mattsson

21 Feb 2024 17:54 UTC

18 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Which Model Properties are Necessary for Evaluating an Argument?

VojtaKovarik and Ida Mattsson

21 Feb 2024 17:52 UTC

17 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Weak vs Quantitative Extinction-level Goodhart’s Law

VojtaKovarik and Ida Mattsson

21 Feb 2024 17:38 UTC

17 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Dual Wielding Kindle Scribes

mesaoptimizer21 Feb 2024 17:17 UTC

50 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

A Tale of Two Restaurant Types

Zvi21 Feb 2024 13:50 UTC

15 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Less Wrong automated systems are inadvertently Censoring me

Roko21 Feb 2024 12:57 UTC

8 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the research speed multiplier of the most advanced current LLMs?

wunan21 Feb 2024 12:39 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Jailbreaking GPT-4 with the tool API

mishajw21 Feb 2024 11:16 UTC

20 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Gut Renovating Another Bathroom

jefftk21 Feb 2024 3:00 UTC

22 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Thoughts for and against an ASI figuring out ethics for itself

sweenesm20 Feb 2024 23:40 UTC

6 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

AI #51: Altman’s Ambition

Zvi20 Feb 2024 19:50 UTC

83 points

5 comments38 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Third Gemini

Zvi20 Feb 2024 19:50 UTC

30 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why does generalization work?

Martín Soto20 Feb 2024 17:51 UTC

43 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

Representations of Abstract Relations in Infancy

Bruce W. Lee20 Feb 2024 17:40 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(direct.mit.edu)

ChatGPT refuses to accept a challenge where it would get shot between the eyes [game theory]

Bill Benzon20 Feb 2024 16:55 UTC

4 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Inducing human-like biases in moral reasoning LMs

Artyom Karpov, Austin Meek, Bogdan Ionut Cirstea and SCho

20 Feb 2024 16:28 UTC

19 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #15: February 2024

Zvi20 Feb 2024 13:10 UTC

22 points

7 comments32 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Selections From “The Trouble With Being Born”

Arjun Panickssery20 Feb 2024 10:07 UTC

23 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)