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Toki pona FAQ

dkl9Mar 17, 2024, 9:44 PM

43 points

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

EA ErFiN Project work

Max_He-HoMar 17, 2024, 8:42 PM

2 points

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EA ErFiN Project work

Max_He-HoMar 17, 2024, 8:37 PM

2 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Alice and Bob is debating on a technique. Alice says Bob should try it before denying it. Is it a fallacy or something similar?

OokerMar 17, 2024, 8:01 PM

0 points

3 votes

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19 comments2 min readLW link

Is there a way to calculate the P(we are in a 2nd cold war)?

cloakMar 17, 2024, 8:01 PM

−9 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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

johnswentworthMar 17, 2024, 6:11 PM

136 points

92 votes

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51 comments4 min readLW link

Applying simulacrum levels to hobbies, interests and goals

DMMFMar 17, 2024, 4:18 PM

15 points

11 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

(danfrank.ca)

What is the best argument that LLMs are shoggoths?

JoshuaFoxMar 17, 2024, 11:36 AM

26 points

10 votes

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22 comments1 min readLW link

Invitation to the Princeton AI Alignment and Safety Seminar

Sadhika MalladiMar 17, 2024, 1:10 AM

6 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Anxiety vs. Depression

SableMar 17, 2024, 12:15 AM

87 points

57 votes

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35 comments3 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

Celiefs

TheLemmaLlamaMar 16, 2024, 11:56 PM

3 points

10 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology

Eric NeymanMar 16, 2024, 10:56 PM

262 points

125 votes

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14 comments7 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

How people stopped dying from diarrhea so much (& other life-saving decisions)

WriterMar 16, 2024, 4:00 PM

45 points

19 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Enter the WorldsEnd

Akram ChoudharyMar 16, 2024, 1:34 AM

−25 points

13 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Strong-Misalignment: Does Yudkowsky (or Christiano, or TurnTrout, or Wolfram, or…etc.) Have an Elevator Speech I’m Missing?

Benjamin BourlierMar 15, 2024, 11:17 PM

−4 points

8 votes

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3 comments16 min readLW link

Introducing METR’s Autonomy Evaluation Resources

Megan Kinniment and Beth Barnes

Mar 15, 2024, 11:16 PM

90 points

29 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(metr.github.io)

Are AIs conscious? It might depend

Logan ZoellnerMar 15, 2024, 11:09 PM

6 points

6 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

Beyond Maxipok — good reflective governance as a target for action

owencbMar 15, 2024, 10:22 PM

20 points

7 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Middle Child Phenomenon

PhilosophicalSoulMar 15, 2024, 8:47 PM

3 points

7 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Capability or Alignment? Respect the LLM Base Model’s Capability During Alignment

Jingfeng YangMar 15, 2024, 5:56 PM

7 points

3 votes

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0 comments24 min readLW link

Rational Animations offers animation production and writing services!

WriterMar 15, 2024, 5:26 PM

33 points

11 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Improving SAE’s by Sqrt()-ing L1 & Removing Lowest Activating Features

Logan Riggs and Jannik Brinkmann

Mar 15, 2024, 4:30 PM

26 points

18 votes

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5 comments4 min readLW link

Stuttgart, Germany—ACX Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024

Benjamin RMar 15, 2024, 2:59 PM

2 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Controlling AGI Risk

TeaSeaMar 15, 2024, 4:56 AM

6 points

4 votes

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8 comments4 min readLW link

Ulm, Germany—ACX Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024

Benjamin RMar 15, 2024, 1:32 AM

2 points

2 votes

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Newport News/ Virginia ACX Meetup

DanielMar 14, 2024, 11:46 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Constructive Cauchy sequences vs. Dedekind cuts

jessicataMar 14, 2024, 11:04 PM

47 points

11 votes

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23 comments4 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

A Nail in the Coffin of Exceptionalism

Yeshua GodMar 14, 2024, 10:41 PM

−17 points

7 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Towards a Broader Conception of Adverse Selection

Ricki HeicklenMar 14, 2024, 10:40 PM

177 points

112 votes

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61 comments13 min readLW link

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

More people getting into AI safety should do a PhD

AdamGleaveMar 14, 2024, 10:14 PM

61 points

45 votes

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24 comments12 min readLW link

(gleave.me)

Collection (Part 6 of “The Sense Of Physical Necessity”)

LoganStrohlMar 14, 2024, 9:37 PM

28 points

4 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

Fixed point or oscillate or noise

lemonhopeMar 14, 2024, 6:37 PM

3 points

7 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

How useful is “AI Control” as a framing on AI X-Risk?

habryka and ryan_greenblatt

Mar 14, 2024, 6:06 PM

70 points

19 votes

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4 comments34 min readLW link

Sparse autoencoders find composed features in small toy models

Evan Anders, Clement Neo, Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier and Jessica N. Howard

Mar 14, 2024, 6:00 PM

33 points

18 votes

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12 comments15 min readLW link

AI #55: Keep Clauding Along

ZviMar 14, 2024, 3:40 PM

62 points

28 votes

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16 comments70 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

To the average human, controlled AI is just as lethal as ‘misaligned’ AI

YonatanKMar 14, 2024, 2:52 PM

7 points

9 votes

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20 comments5 min readLW link

Claude vs GPT

Maxwell TabarrokMar 14, 2024, 12:41 PM

12 points

6 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

A brief review of China’s AI industry and regulations

Elliot MckernonMar 14, 2024, 12:19 PM

24 points

15 votes

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0 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] Can any LLM be represented as an Equation?

Valentin BaltadzhievMar 14, 2024, 9:51 AM

1 point

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

‘Empiricism!’ as Anti-Epistemology

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 14, 2024, 2:02 AM

170 points

116 votes

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92 comments25 min readLW link

Opportunistic Time-Management

Richard HenageMar 13, 2024, 9:38 PM

13 points

8 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

AI governance and strategy: a list of research agendas and work that could be done.

NathanBarnard and Erin Robertson

Mar 13, 2024, 9:23 PM

7 points

6 votes

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1 comment17 min readLW link

Highlights from Lex Fridman’s interview of Yann LeCun

Joel BurgetMar 13, 2024, 8:58 PM

48 points

27 votes

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15 comments41 min readLW link

On the Latest TikTok Bill

ZviMar 13, 2024, 6:50 PM

58 points

23 votes

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7 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Recommended book for a balanced take and lessons learned from covid pandemic response

Martin Hare RobertsonMar 13, 2024, 6:14 PM

4 points

2 votes

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ACX/LW Seattle spring meetup 2024

nsokolskyMar 13, 2024, 5:24 PM

12 points

4 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Laying the Foundations for Vision and Multimodal Mechanistic Interpretability & Open Problems

Sonia Joseph and Neel Nanda

Mar 13, 2024, 5:09 PM

44 points

28 votes

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13 comments14 min readLW link

I was raised by devout Mormons, AMA [&|] Soliciting Advice

ErioirEMar 13, 2024, 4:52 PM

32 points

21 votes

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41 comments2 min readLW link

Relational Agency: Consistently Reaching Out

Jonathan MoregårdMar 13, 2024, 2:34 PM

16 points

9 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

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

TsviBTMar 13, 2024, 2:19 PM

78 points

44 votes

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23 comments3 min readLW link

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