27 Feb 2024 23:03 UTC

102 points

188 comments14 min readLW link

Which animals realize which types of subjective welfare?

MichaelStJules27 Feb 2024 19:31 UTC

4 points

0 comments18 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)

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

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

43 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

59 points

64 comments16 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

Chris Lakin26 Feb 2024 18:59 UTC

8 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

55 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)

[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

40 points

29 comments6 min readLW link

Ideological Bayesians

Kevin Dorst25 Feb 2024 14:17 UTC

98 points

5 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 comments11 min readLW link

Cooperating with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer

Chi Nguyen, _will_ and Orpheus16

24 Feb 2024 22:58 UTC

57 points

8 comments20 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

117 points

26 comments15 min readLW link

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

Raemon24 Feb 2024 20:33 UTC

69 points

31 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

Terence Coelho24 Feb 2024 15:41 UTC

1 point

9 comments1 min readLW link

Balancing Games

jefftk24 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC

62 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

How well do truth probes generalise?

mishajw24 Feb 2024 14:12 UTC

96 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

51 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

20 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

The Shutdown Problem: Incomplete Preferences as a Solution

EJT23 Feb 2024 16:01 UTC

54 points

33 comments42 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

17 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

53 points

18 comments2 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

Popular conceptions of “boundaries” don’t make sense

Chris Lakin23 Feb 2024 1:09 UTC

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(chrislakin.blog)