Some ways of spend­ing your time are bet­ter than others

depressurizeMar 4, 2024, 11:21 PM
6 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

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

Mikhail SaminMar 4, 2024, 11:05 PM
80 points
117 comments14 min readLW link

Mod­ify­ing Jones’ “AI Dilemma” Model

harsimonyMar 4, 2024, 9:55 PM
7 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(splittinginfinity.substack.com)

Benefits of adding poi­son to your DMT

George3d6Mar 4, 2024, 8:35 PM
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(morelucid.substack.com)

Notes on Awe

David GrossMar 4, 2024, 8:23 PM
20 points
1 comment33 min readLW link

Bos­ton’s Line 1

jefftkMar 4, 2024, 7:30 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An­thropic re­lease Claude 3, claims >GPT-4 Performance

LawrenceCMar 4, 2024, 6:23 PM
115 points
41 comments2 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

Ano­ma­lous Con­cept De­tec­tion for De­tect­ing Hid­den Cognition

Paul CologneseMar 4, 2024, 4:52 PM
24 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

INTERVIEW: StakeOut.AI w/​ Dr. Peter Park

jacobhaimesMar 4, 2024, 4:35 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(into-ai-safety.github.io)

Hous­ing Roundup #7

ZviMar 4, 2024, 3:00 PM
42 points
1 comment44 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Solu­tion to Sleep­ing Beauty

Ape in the coatMar 4, 2024, 6:46 AM
18 points
77 comments13 min readLW link

Are we so good to simu­late?

KatjaGraceMar 4, 2024, 5:20 AM
38 points
24 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Bro­ken Screw­driver and other parables

bhauthMar 4, 2024, 3:34 AM
49 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Grief is a fire sale

Nathan YoungMar 4, 2024, 1:11 AM
77 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] Good HPMoR scenes /​ pas­sages?

PhilGoetzMar 3, 2024, 10:42 PM
15 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

At­tend­ing Sold-Out Bean­town Stomp

jefftkMar 3, 2024, 9:30 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

AI things that are per­haps as im­por­tant as hu­man-con­trol­led AI

Chi NguyenMar 3, 2024, 6:07 PM
55 points
4 commentsLW link

A te­dious and effec­tive way to learn 汉字 (Chi­nese char­ac­ters)

dkl9Mar 3, 2024, 4:41 PM
7 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

Some costs of superposition

Linda LinseforsMar 3, 2024, 4:08 PM
46 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] If you con­trol­led the first agen­tic AGI, what would you set as its first task(s)?

sweenesmMar 3, 2024, 2:16 PM
−13 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Self-Re­solv­ing Pre­dic­tion Markets

PeterMcCluskeyMar 3, 2024, 2:39 AM
33 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

[Question] In­crease the tax value of dona­tions with high-var­i­ance in­vest­ments?

Brendan LongMar 3, 2024, 1:39 AM
20 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Com­mon Philo­soph­i­cal Mis­takes, ac­cord­ing to Joe Sch­mid [videos]

DanielFilanMar 3, 2024, 12:15 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Agree­ing With Stalin in Ways That Ex­hibit Gen­er­ally Ra­tion­al­ist Principles

Zack_M_DavisMar 2, 2024, 10:05 PM
30 points
25 comments58 min readLW link
(unremediatedgender.space)

The World in 2029

Nathan YoungMar 2, 2024, 6:03 PM
74 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

The Most Danger­ous Idea

rogersbaconMar 2, 2024, 5:53 PM
−8 points
2 comments26 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

Fu­ture life

DavidMadsenMar 2, 2024, 3:41 PM
−12 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ugo Conti’s Whis­tle-Con­trol­led Synthesizer

jefftkMar 2, 2024, 2:50 AM
15 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A one-sen­tence for­mu­la­tion of the AI X-Risk ar­gu­ment I try to make

tcelferactMar 2, 2024, 12:44 AM
3 points
0 commentsLW link

If you weren’t such an idiot...

Mar 2, 2024, 12:01 AM
158 points
74 comments2 min readLW link
(markxu.com)

In­creas­ing IQ is trivial

George3d6Mar 1, 2024, 10:43 PM
37 points
61 comments6 min readLW link
(epistemink.substack.com)

self-fulfilling prophe­cies when ap­ply­ing for funding

ChipmonkMar 1, 2024, 7:01 PM
31 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(chipmonk.substack.com)

An­tag­o­nis­tic AI

XybermancerMar 1, 2024, 6:50 PM
−8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Against Aug­men­ta­tion of In­tel­li­gence, Hu­man or Other­wise (An Anti-Natal­ist Ar­gu­ment)

Benjamin BourlierMar 1, 2024, 6:45 PM
−31 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Elon files grave charges against OpenAI

mako yassMar 1, 2024, 5:42 PM
38 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.courthousenews.com)

Notes on Dwarkesh Pa­tel’s Pod­cast with Demis Hassabis

ZviMar 1, 2024, 4:30 PM
93 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What does your philos­o­phy max­i­mize?

AntbMar 1, 2024, 4:10 PM
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Defence pro­duc­tion act and AI policy

NathanBarnardMar 1, 2024, 2:26 PM
37 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t En­dorse the Idea of Mar­ket Failure

Maxwell TabarrokMar 1, 2024, 2:04 PM
14 points
22 comments4 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

[Question] Is it pos­si­ble to make more spe­cific book­marks?

numpyNaNMar 1, 2024, 12:47 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Whole­some Culture

owencbMar 1, 2024, 12:08 PM
29 points
3 commentsLW link

Ad­ding Sen­sors to Man­dolin?

jefftkMar 1, 2024, 2:10 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Parable Of The Fallen Pen­du­lum—Part 1

johnswentworthMar 1, 2024, 12:25 AM
110 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Gra­da­tions of moral weight

MichaelStJulesFeb 29, 2024, 11:08 PM
1 point
0 commentsLW link

Ap­proach­ing Hu­man-Level Fore­cast­ing with Lan­guage Models

Feb 29, 2024, 10:36 PM
60 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Paper re­view: “The Un­rea­son­able Effec­tive­ness of Easy Train­ing Data for Hard Tasks”

Vassil TashevFeb 29, 2024, 6:44 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

What’s in the box?! – Towards in­ter­pretabil­ity by dis­t­in­guish­ing niches of value within neu­ral net­works.

Joshua ClancyFeb 29, 2024, 6:33 PM
3 points
4 comments128 min readLW link

Short Post: Discern­ing Truth from Trash

FinalFormal2Feb 29, 2024, 6:09 PM
−2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

AI #53: One More Leap

ZviFeb 29, 2024, 4:10 PM
45 points
0 comments38 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cry­on­ics p(suc­cess) es­ti­mates are only weakly as­so­ci­ated with in­ter­est in pur­su­ing cry­on­ics in the LW 2023 Survey

Andy_McKenzieFeb 29, 2024, 2:47 PM
28 points
6 comments1 min readLW link