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Some ways of spending your time are better than others
depressurize
Mar 4, 2024, 11:21 PM
6
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Claude 3 claims it’s conscious, doesn’t want to die or be modified
Mikhail Samin
Mar 4, 2024, 11:05 PM
80
points
117
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Modifying Jones’ “AI Dilemma” Model
harsimony
Mar 4, 2024, 9:55 PM
7
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(splittinginfinity.substack.com)
Benefits of adding poison to your DMT
George3d6
Mar 4, 2024, 8:35 PM
6
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(morelucid.substack.com)
Notes on Awe
David Gross
Mar 4, 2024, 8:23 PM
20
points
1
comment
33
min read
LW
link
Boston’s Line 1
jefftk
Mar 4, 2024, 7:30 PM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Anthropic release Claude 3, claims >GPT-4 Performance
LawrenceC
Mar 4, 2024, 6:23 PM
115
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.anthropic.com)
Anomalous Concept Detection for Detecting Hidden Cognition
Paul Colognese
Mar 4, 2024, 4:52 PM
24
points
3
comments
10
min read
LW
link
INTERVIEW: StakeOut.AI w/ Dr. Peter Park
jacobhaimes
Mar 4, 2024, 4:35 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(into-ai-safety.github.io)
Housing Roundup #7
Zvi
Mar 4, 2024, 3:00 PM
42
points
1
comment
44
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The Solution to Sleeping Beauty
Ape in the coat
Mar 4, 2024, 6:46 AM
18
points
77
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Are we so good to simulate?
KatjaGrace
Mar 4, 2024, 5:20 AM
38
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
The Broken Screwdriver and other parables
bhauth
Mar 4, 2024, 3:34 AM
49
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Grief is a fire sale
Nathan Young
Mar 4, 2024, 1:11 AM
77
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Good HPMoR scenes / passages?
PhilGoetz
Mar 3, 2024, 10:42 PM
15
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Attending Sold-Out Beantown Stomp
jefftk
Mar 3, 2024, 9:30 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
AI things that are perhaps as important as human-controlled AI
Chi Nguyen
Mar 3, 2024, 6:07 PM
55
points
4
comments
LW
link
A tedious and effective way to learn 汉字 (Chinese characters)
dkl9
Mar 3, 2024, 4:41 PM
7
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(dkl9.net)
Some costs of superposition
Linda Linsefors
Mar 3, 2024, 4:08 PM
46
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
If you controlled the first agentic AGI, what would you set as its first task(s)?
sweenesm
Mar 3, 2024, 2:16 PM
−13
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Self-Resolving Prediction Markets
PeterMcCluskey
Mar 3, 2024, 2:39 AM
33
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(bayesianinvestor.com)
[Question]
Increase the tax value of donations with high-variance investments?
Brendan Long
Mar 3, 2024, 1:39 AM
20
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Common Philosophical Mistakes, according to Joe Schmid [videos]
DanielFilan
Mar 3, 2024, 12:15 AM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles
Zack_M_Davis
Mar 2, 2024, 10:05 PM
30
points
25
comments
58
min read
LW
link
(unremediatedgender.space)
The World in 2029
Nathan Young
Mar 2, 2024, 6:03 PM
74
points
37
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Most Dangerous Idea
rogersbacon
Mar 2, 2024, 5:53 PM
−8
points
2
comments
26
min read
LW
link
(www.secretorum.life)
Future life
DavidMadsen
Mar 2, 2024, 3:41 PM
−12
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Ugo Conti’s Whistle-Controlled Synthesizer
jefftk
Mar 2, 2024, 2:50 AM
15
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
A one-sentence formulation of the AI X-Risk argument I try to make
tcelferact
Mar 2, 2024, 12:44 AM
3
points
0
comments
LW
link
If you weren’t such an idiot...
kave
and
Mark Xu
Mar 2, 2024, 12:01 AM
158
points
74
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(markxu.com)
Increasing IQ is trivial
George3d6
Mar 1, 2024, 10:43 PM
37
points
61
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(epistemink.substack.com)
self-fulfilling prophecies when applying for funding
Chipmonk
Mar 1, 2024, 7:01 PM
31
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(chipmonk.substack.com)
Antagonistic AI
Xybermancer
Mar 1, 2024, 6:50 PM
−8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Against Augmentation of Intelligence, Human or Otherwise (An Anti-Natalist Argument)
Benjamin Bourlier
Mar 1, 2024, 6:45 PM
−31
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Elon files grave charges against OpenAI
mako yass
Mar 1, 2024, 5:42 PM
38
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.courthousenews.com)
Notes on Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast with Demis Hassabis
Zvi
Mar 1, 2024, 4:30 PM
93
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
What does your philosophy maximize?
Antb
Mar 1, 2024, 4:10 PM
0
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Defence production act and AI policy
NathanBarnard
Mar 1, 2024, 2:26 PM
37
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Don’t Endorse the Idea of Market Failure
Maxwell Tabarrok
Mar 1, 2024, 2:04 PM
14
points
22
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.maximum-progress.com)
[Question]
Is it possible to make more specific bookmarks?
numpyNaN
Mar 1, 2024, 12:47 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Wholesome Culture
owencb
Mar 1, 2024, 12:08 PM
29
points
3
comments
LW
link
Adding Sensors to Mandolin?
jefftk
Mar 1, 2024, 2:10 AM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
The Parable Of The Fallen Pendulum—Part 1
johnswentworth
Mar 1, 2024, 12:25 AM
110
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Gradations of moral weight
MichaelStJules
Feb 29, 2024, 11:08 PM
1
point
0
comments
LW
link
Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models
Fred Zhang
,
dannyhalawi
and
jsteinhardt
Feb 29, 2024, 10:36 PM
60
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Paper review: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Easy Training Data for Hard Tasks”
Vassil Tashev
Feb 29, 2024, 6:44 PM
11
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What’s in the box?! – Towards interpretability by distinguishing niches of value within neural networks.
Joshua Clancy
Feb 29, 2024, 6:33 PM
3
points
4
comments
128
min read
LW
link
Short Post: Discerning Truth from Trash
FinalFormal2
Feb 29, 2024, 6:09 PM
−2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI #53: One More Leap
Zvi
Feb 29, 2024, 4:10 PM
45
points
0
comments
38
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Cryonics p(success) estimates are only weakly associated with interest in pursuing cryonics in the LW 2023 Survey
Andy_McKenzie
Feb 29, 2024, 2:47 PM
28
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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