27 Feb 2024 23:03 UTC

99 points

177 comments14 min readLW link

Which animals realize which types of subjective welfare?

MichaelStJules27 Feb 2024 19:31 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Biosecurity and AI: Risks and Opportunities

Steve Newman27 Feb 2024 18:45 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(www.safe.ai)

Infants’ understanding of the causal power of agents and tools

Bruce W. Lee27 Feb 2024 18:36 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.pnas.org)

The Gemini Incident Continues

Zvi27 Feb 2024 16:00 UTC

45 points

6 comments48 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How I internalized my achievements to better deal with negative feelings

Raymond Koopmanschap27 Feb 2024 15:10 UTC

42 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

On Frustration and Regret

silentbob27 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Facts vs Interpretations: Reinterpreting the Past for a Better Future

Declan Molony27 Feb 2024 7:57 UTC

5 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

San Francisco ACX Meetup “Third Saturday”

Nate Sternberg and guenael

27 Feb 2024 7:07 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Examining Language Model Performance with Reconstructed Activations using Sparse Autoencoders

Evan Anders and Joseph Bloom

27 Feb 2024 2:43 UTC

41 points

16 comments15 min readLW link

Project idea: an iterated prisoner’s dilemma competition/game

Adam Zerner26 Feb 2024 23:06 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Acting Wholesomely

owencb26 Feb 2024 21:49 UTC

57 points

64 comments1 min readLW link

Getting rational now or later: navigating procrastination and time-inconsistent preferences for new rationalists

milo_thoughts26 Feb 2024 19:38 UTC

1 point

0 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Whom Do You Trust?

JackOfAllTrades26 Feb 2024 19:38 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Boundary Violations vs Boundary Dissolution

Chipmonk26 Feb 2024 18:59 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can we get an AI to do our alignment homework for us?

Chris_Leong26 Feb 2024 7:56 UTC

53 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

How I build and run behavioral interviews

benkuhn26 Feb 2024 5:50 UTC

32 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Hidden Cognition Detection Methods and Benchmarks

Paul Colognese26 Feb 2024 5:31 UTC

22 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Cellular respiration as a steam engine

dkl925 Feb 2024 20:17 UTC

24 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Sëbus: An out-world intro

SashaWu25 Feb 2024 19:55 UTC

8 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Rationalism and Dependent Origination?

Baometrus25 Feb 2024 18:16 UTC

2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

China-AI forecasts

NathanBarnard25 Feb 2024 16:49 UTC

38 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

Ideological Bayesians

Kevin Dorst25 Feb 2024 14:17 UTC

95 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(kevindorst.substack.com)

Deconfusing In-Context Learning

Arjun Panickssery25 Feb 2024 9:48 UTC

37 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Everett branches, inter-light cone trade and other alien matters: Appendix to “An ECL explainer”

Chi Nguyen and _will_

24 Feb 2024 23:09 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Cooperating with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer

Chi Nguyen, _will_ and Akash

24 Feb 2024 22:58 UTC

53 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Choosing My Quest (Part 2 of “The Sense Of Physical Necessity”)

LoganStrohl24 Feb 2024 21:31 UTC

40 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

Rationality Research Report: Towards 10x OODA Looping?

Raemon24 Feb 2024 21:06 UTC

112 points

21 comments15 min readLW link

Let’s ask some of the largest LLMs for tips and ideas on how to take over the world

Super AGI24 Feb 2024 20:35 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

Exercise: Planmaking, Surprise Anticipation, and “Baba is You”

Raemon24 Feb 2024 20:33 UTC

41 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

In search of God.

Spiritus Dei24 Feb 2024 18:59 UTC

−19 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Impossibility of Anthropocentric-Alignment

False Name24 Feb 2024 18:31 UTC

−8 points

2 comments39 min readLW link

The Inner Alignment Problem

Jakub Halmeš24 Feb 2024 17:55 UTC

1 point

1 comment3 min readLW link

(jakubhalmes.substack.com)

We Need Major, But Not Radical, FDA Reform

Maxwell Tabarrok24 Feb 2024 16:54 UTC

42 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

After Overmorrow: Scattered Musings on the Immediate Post-AGI World

Yuli_Ban24 Feb 2024 15:49 UTC

−3 points

0 comments26 min readLW link

[Question] CDT vs. EDT on Deterrence

notfnofn24 Feb 2024 15:41 UTC

1 point

9 comments1 min readLW link

Balancing Games

jefftk24 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC

61 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

How well do truth probes generalise?

mishajw24 Feb 2024 14:12 UTC

87 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

Rawls’s Veil of Ignorance Doesn’t Make Any Sense

Arjun Panickssery24 Feb 2024 13:18 UTC

9 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can someone explain to me what went wrong with ChatGPT?

Valentin Baltadzhiev24 Feb 2024 11:50 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Sense Of Physical Necessity: A Naturalism Demo (Introduction)

LoganStrohl24 Feb 2024 2:56 UTC

59 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Instrumental deception and manipulation in LLMs—a case study

Olli Järviniemi24 Feb 2024 2:07 UTC

39 points

13 comments12 min readLW link

A starting point for making sense of task structure (in machine learning)

Kaarel, RP and jake_mendel

24 Feb 2024 1:51 UTC

39 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

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)