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Politics are not serious by default

Neil Mar 28, 2024, 11:36 PM

19 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

From the outside, American schooling is weird

Jacob G-W and Malumit

Mar 28, 2024, 10:45 PM

23 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

A Dilemma in AI Suffering/Happiness

ivaMar 28, 2024, 8:53 PM

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Templates I made to run feedback rounds for Ethan Perez’s research fellows.

Henry SleightMar 28, 2024, 7:41 PM

34 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Narratives of business models

Itay DreyfusMar 28, 2024, 7:05 PM

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

How to safely use an optimizer

Simon FischerMar 28, 2024, 4:11 PM

47 points

21 comments7 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate

trevorMar 28, 2024, 4:03 PM

77 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(www.astralcodexten.com)

Idea black holes

Logan KiellerMar 28, 2024, 3:17 PM

0 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(logankieller.substack.com)

Inexistence of Rational Disagreement when Information can be Freely Exchanged

CheopsMar 28, 2024, 12:40 PM

−5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

AI #57: All the AI News That’s Fit to Print

ZviMar 28, 2024, 11:40 AM

26 points

14 comments67 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer (IKT)

MiguelDevMar 28, 2024, 8:14 AM

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

How do LLMs give truthful answers? A discussion of LLM vs. human reasoning, ensembles & parrots

Owain_EvansMar 28, 2024, 2:34 AM

27 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

UDT1.01: The Story So Far (1/10)

DiffractorMar 27, 2024, 11:22 PM

37 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

Some Things That Increase Blood Flow to the Brain

romeostevensitMar 27, 2024, 9:48 PM

31 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

[SP] The Edge of Morality

ZaneMar 27, 2024, 9:38 PM

−1 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Come to Manifest 2024 (June 7-9 in Berkeley)

Saul MunnMar 27, 2024, 9:30 PM

54 points

2 comments LW link

(news.manifold.markets)

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

jessicataMar 27, 2024, 7:59 PM

88 points

37 comments36 min readLW link

(unstablerontology.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Leif Wenar’s The Deaths of Effective Altruism

ArdenMar 27, 2024, 7:17 PM

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.wired.com)

[Question] Plausibility of cyborgism for protecting boundaries?

ChipmonkMar 27, 2024, 6:53 PM

10 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Towards White Box Deep Learning

Maciej SatkiewiczMar 27, 2024, 6:20 PM

18 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Was Releasing Claude-3 Net-Negative?

Logan RiggsMar 27, 2024, 5:41 PM

52 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Daniel Kahneman has died

DanielFilanMar 27, 2024, 3:59 PM

188 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.washingtonpost.com)

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

PeterHMar 27, 2024, 11:24 AM

73 points

5 comments LW link

(nickbostrom.com)

Decompiling Tracr Transformers—An interpretability experiment

Hannes ThurnherrMar 27, 2024, 9:49 AM

4 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Have we really forsaken natural selection?

KatjaGraceMar 27, 2024, 6:50 AM

16 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Robin Hanson and I talk about AI risk

KatjaGraceMar 27, 2024, 6:50 AM

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

20 minutes of work as an artist in one future

worseMar 27, 2024, 6:49 AM

10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Beauty and the Bets

Ape in the coatMar 27, 2024, 6:17 AM

18 points

31 comments12 min readLW link

More podcasts on 2023 AI survey: Cognitive Revolution and FLI

KatjaGraceMar 27, 2024, 5:50 AM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Failures in Kindness

silentbobMar 26, 2024, 9:30 PM

421 points

60 comments9 min readLW link

AE Studio @ SXSW: We need more AI consciousness research (and further resources)

AE Studio, Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins and Diogo de Lucena

Mar 26, 2024, 8:59 PM

67 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Meltdown: Interface for llama.cpp and ChatGPT

nextcallerMar 26, 2024, 6:29 PM

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Timelines to Transformative AI: an investigation

Zershaaneh QureshiMar 26, 2024, 6:28 PM

20 points

2 comments50 min readLW link

Summer Program for High-Schoolers to start working on impactful projects

nonplusMar 26, 2024, 6:26 PM

−1 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Modern Transformers are AGI, and Human-Level

abramdemskiMar 26, 2024, 5:46 PM

218 points

87 comments5 min readLW link

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

Zack_M_DavisMar 26, 2024, 5:18 PM

189 points

187 comments6 min readLW link

Barefoot FAQ

dkl9Mar 26, 2024, 4:29 PM

0 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

[Question] What’s Your Best AI Safety “Quip”?

False NameMar 26, 2024, 3:35 PM

−2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the nature of humans general intelligence and it’s implications for AGI?

Will_PearsonMar 26, 2024, 3:20 PM

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Economics Roundup #1

ZviMar 26, 2024, 2:00 PM

25 points

4 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Enhancing biosecurity with language models: defining research directions

micMar 26, 2024, 12:30 PM

12 points

0 comments LW link

(papers.ssrn.com)

Legality as a Career Harm Assessment Heuristic

jefftkMar 26, 2024, 11:20 AM

9 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Orthogonality Thesis seems wrong

Donatas LučiūnasMar 26, 2024, 7:33 AM

−7 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Perceptual Blindspots: How to Increase Self-Awareness

Declan MolonyMar 26, 2024, 5:37 AM

14 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Retro funder profile & Manifund team recs (ACX Grants 2024: Impact Market)

Saul MunnMar 26, 2024, 3:29 AM

9 points

0 comments LW link

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

Ben PaceMar 26, 2024, 2:34 AM

101 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(Less.Online)

Running a Basic ACX Everywhere Meetup

ScrewtapeMar 26, 2024, 1:57 AM

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Podcast interview series featuring Dr. Peter Park

jacobhaimesMar 26, 2024, 12:25 AM

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(into-ai-safety.github.io)

Third-party testing as a key ingredient of AI policy

Zac Hatfield-DoddsMar 25, 2024, 10:40 PM

11 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Idea: Safe Fallback Regulations for Widely Deployed AI Systems

Aaron_ScherMar 25, 2024, 9:27 PM

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

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