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Failures in Kindness

silentbob26 Mar 2024 21:30 UTC

432 points

61 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

On green

Joe Carlsmith21 Mar 2024 17:38 UTC

321 points

46 comments31 min readLW link 3 reviews

My Clients, The Liars

ymeskhout5 Mar 2024 21:06 UTC

283 points

92 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology

Eric Neyman16 Mar 2024 22:56 UTC

262 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

“How could I have thought that faster?”

mesaoptimizer11 Mar 2024 10:56 UTC

247 points

37 comments2 min readLW link 4 reviews

(twitter.com)

Modern Transformers are AGI, and Human-Level

abramdemski26 Mar 2024 17:46 UTC

232 points

88 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

ChatGPT can learn indirect control

Raymond Douglas21 Mar 2024 21:11 UTC

213 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Slate Star Codex

Zack_M_Davis26 Mar 2024 17:18 UTC

206 points

187 comments6 min readLW link

Daniel Kahneman has died

DanielFilan27 Mar 2024 15:59 UTC

189 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.washingtonpost.com)

Towards a Broader Conception of Adverse Selection

Ricki Heicklen14 Mar 2024 22:40 UTC

188 points

66 comments13 min readLW link 3 reviews

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

‘Empiricism!’ as Anti-Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Mar 2024 2:02 UTC

177 points

96 comments25 min readLW link 1 review

Many arguments for AI x-risk are wrong

TurnTrout5 Mar 2024 2:31 UTC

173 points

96 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

If you weren’t such an idiot...

kave and Mark Xu

2 Mar 2024 0:01 UTC

173 points

76 comments2 min readLW link

(markxu.com)

Some (problematic) aesthetics of what constitutes good work in academia

Steven Byrnes11 Mar 2024 17:47 UTC

155 points

12 comments12 min readLW link

Using axis lines for good or evil

dynomight6 Mar 2024 14:47 UTC

151 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Vernor Vinge, who coined the term “Technological Singularity”, dies at 79

Kaj_Sotala21 Mar 2024 22:14 UTC

151 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

(arstechnica.com)

On Devin

Zvi18 Mar 2024 13:20 UTC

148 points

35 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Worst Form Of Government (Except For Everything Else We’ve Tried)

johnswentworth17 Mar 2024 18:11 UTC

140 points

52 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Read the Roon

Zvi5 Mar 2024 13:50 UTC

136 points

6 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Community Notes by X

NicholasKees18 Mar 2024 17:13 UTC

129 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

Social status part 1/2: negotiations over object-level preferences

Steven Byrnes5 Mar 2024 16:29 UTC

119 points

16 comments21 min readLW link 1 review

The Parable Of The Fallen Pendulum—Part 1

johnswentworth1 Mar 2024 0:25 UTC

116 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

Anthropic release Claude 3, claims >GPT-4 Performance

LawrenceC4 Mar 2024 18:23 UTC

115 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Simple versus Short: Higher-order degeneracy and error-correction

Daniel Murfet11 Mar 2024 7:52 UTC

111 points

12 comments13 min readLW link 3 reviews

On attunement

Joe Carlsmith25 Mar 2024 12:47 UTC

108 points

13 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

SAE reconstruction errors are (empirically) pathological

wesg29 Mar 2024 16:37 UTC

108 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

Notes from a Prompt Factory

Richard_Ngo10 Mar 2024 5:13 UTC

104 points

19 comments9 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

LessOnline (May 31—June 2, Berkeley, CA)

Ben Pace26 Mar 2024 2:34 UTC

101 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

(Less.Online)

General Thoughts on Secular Solstice

Jeffrey Heninger23 Mar 2024 18:48 UTC

101 points

60 comments8 min readLW link

“Deep Learning” Is Function Approximation

Zack_M_Davis21 Mar 2024 17:50 UTC

98 points

29 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(zackmdavis.net)

Stagewise Development in Neural Networks

Jesse Hoogland, Liam Carroll and Daniel Murfet

20 Mar 2024 19:54 UTC

96 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Natural Latents: The Concepts

johnswentworth and David Lorell

20 Mar 2024 18:21 UTC

96 points

25 comments19 min readLW link

Announcing Neuronpedia: Platform for accelerating research into Sparse Autoencoders

Johnny Lin and Joseph Bloom

25 Mar 2024 21:17 UTC

96 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Notes on Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast with Demis Hassabis

Zvi1 Mar 2024 16:30 UTC

93 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

OpenAI: The Board Expands

Zvi12 Mar 2024 14:00 UTC

92 points

1 comment30 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New report: Safety Cases for AI

joshc20 Mar 2024 16:45 UTC

91 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A Partial Summary and Review

jessicata27 Mar 2024 19:59 UTC

90 points

38 comments36 min readLW link

(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Introducing METR’s Autonomy Evaluation Resources

Megan Kinniment and Beth Barnes

15 Mar 2024 23:16 UTC

90 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(metr.github.io)

Anxiety vs. Depression

Sable17 Mar 2024 0:15 UTC

88 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

The Parable Of The Fallen Pendulum—Part 2

johnswentworth12 Mar 2024 21:41 UTC

79 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What could a policy banning AGI look like?

TsviBT13 Mar 2024 14:19 UTC

78 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

Grief is a fire sale

Nathan Young4 Mar 2024 1:11 UTC

77 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Claude 3 claims it’s conscious, doesn’t want to die or be modified

Mikhail Samin4 Mar 2024 23:05 UTC

76 points

118 comments14 min readLW link

On Claude 3.0

Zvi6 Mar 2024 18:50 UTC

76 points

5 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vote on Anthropic Topics to Discuss

Ben Pace6 Mar 2024 19:43 UTC

75 points

55 comments1 min readLW link

“Artificial General Intelligence”: an extremely brief FAQ

Steven Byrnes11 Mar 2024 17:49 UTC

75 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

The World in 2029

Nathan Young2 Mar 2024 18:03 UTC

74 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

MATS AI Safety Strategy Curriculum

Ronny Fernandez and Ryan Kidd

7 Mar 2024 19:59 UTC

74 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom’s new book, “Deep Utopia”, is out today

peter_hartree27 Mar 2024 11:24 UTC

73 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(nickbostrom.com)

Understanding SAE Features with the Logit Lens

Joseph Bloom and Johnny Lin

11 Mar 2024 0:16 UTC

71 points

2 comments14 min readLW link