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A couple productivity tips for overthinkers

Steven Byrnes20 Apr 2024 16:05 UTC

77 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

“You’re the most beautiful girl in the world” and Wittgensteinian Language Games

Chris_Leong20 Apr 2024 14:54 UTC

4 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Past Tense Features

Can20 Apr 2024 14:34 UTC

11 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on seed oil

dynomight20 Apr 2024 12:29 UTC

317 points

118 comments17 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

How to know whether you are an idealist or a physicalist/materialist

JackOfAllTrades20 Apr 2024 11:53 UTC

−3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

How I Think, Part Four: Money is Weird

Richard Henage20 Apr 2024 6:21 UTC

0 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

The power of finite and the weakness of infinite binary point numbers

AxiomWriter20 Apr 2024 6:03 UTC

−3 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

WISDOMISM A Moral Theory for the Age of Information

Peter lawless 19 Apr 2024 23:06 UTC

2 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Inducing Unprompted Misalignment in LLMs

Sam Svenningsen, evhub and Henry Sleight

19 Apr 2024 20:00 UTC

37 points

6 comments16 min readLW link

[Full Post] Progress Update #1 from the GDM Mech Interp Team

Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, lsgos, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár and Vikrant Varma

19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC

71 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

[Summary] Progress Update #1 from the GDM Mech Interp Team

Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, lsgos, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár and Vikrant Varma

19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC

68 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Daniel Dennett has died (1942-2024)

kave19 Apr 2024 16:17 UTC

144 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(dailynous.com)

Events Booking New Callers?

jefftk19 Apr 2024 15:50 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What is the best way to talk about probabilities you expect to change with evidence/experiments?

Will_Pearson19 Apr 2024 15:35 UTC

14 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

CTMU insight: maybe consciousness can affect quantum outcomes?

zhukeepa19 Apr 2024 15:23 UTC

9 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Demonstrate and evaluate risks from AI to society at the AI x Democracy research hackathon

Esben Kran19 Apr 2024 14:46 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.apartresearch.com)

[Question] How to Model the Future of Open-Source LLMs?

Joel Burget19 Apr 2024 14:28 UTC

25 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

What’s up with all the non-Mormons? Weirdly specific universalities across LLMs

mwatkins19 Apr 2024 13:43 UTC

39 points

13 comments27 min readLW link

[Question] If digital goods in virtual worlds increase GDP, do we actually become richer?

No77e19 Apr 2024 10:06 UTC

6 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Experiment on repeating choices

KatjaGrace19 Apr 2024 4:20 UTC

56 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Effective Altruists and Rationalists Views & The case for using marketing to highlight AI risks.

gilch19 Apr 2024 4:16 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Cohesion and business problems

Adam Zerner19 Apr 2024 0:45 UTC

12 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

The Thermodynamics of Death

Peter lawless 19 Apr 2024 0:36 UTC

6 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Backyard Office

jefftk19 Apr 2024 0:31 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

hydrogen tube transport

bhauth18 Apr 2024 22:47 UTC

34 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

LessOnline Festival Updates Thread

Ben Pace18 Apr 2024 21:55 UTC

59 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

A Review of In-Context Learning Hypotheses for Automated AI Alignment Research

alamerton18 Apr 2024 18:29 UTC

24 points

4 comments15 min readLW link

I’m open for projects (sort of)

cousin_it18 Apr 2024 18:05 UTC

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Blessed information, garbage information, cursed information

tailcalled18 Apr 2024 16:56 UTC

22 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

[Fiction] A Confession

Arjun Panickssery18 Apr 2024 16:28 UTC

37 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Discriminating Behaviorally Identical Classifiers: a model problem for applying interpretability to scalable oversight

Sam Marks18 Apr 2024 16:17 UTC

101 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

Cooperation is optimal, with weaker agents too - tldr

Ryo 18 Apr 2024 15:03 UTC

12 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

(medium.com)

How to coordinate despite our biases? - tldr

Ryo 18 Apr 2024 15:03 UTC

3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Knowledge Base 7: Long-tail knowledge and collective intelligence

iwis18 Apr 2024 14:21 UTC

−8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI #60: Oh the Humanity

Zvi18 Apr 2024 14:10 UTC

44 points

7 comments62 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

UDT1.01: Logical Inductors and Implicit Beliefs (5/10)

Diffractor18 Apr 2024 8:39 UTC

31 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

An examination of GPT-2′s boring yet effective glitch

MiguelDev18 Apr 2024 5:26 UTC

5 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What if Ethics is Provably Self-Contradictory?

Yitz18 Apr 2024 5:12 UTC

3 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

The Mom Test: Summary and Thoughts

Adam Zerner18 Apr 2024 3:34 UTC

47 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Express interest in an “FHI of the West”

habryka18 Apr 2024 3:32 UTC

264 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

Why Would Belief-States Have A Fractal Structure, And Why Would That Matter For Interpretability? An Explainer

johnswentworth and David Lorell

18 Apr 2024 0:27 UTC

171 points

18 comments7 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 28 - Suing Labs for AI Risk with Gabriel Weil

DanielFilan17 Apr 2024 21:42 UTC

10 points

0 comments65 min readLW link

LLM Evaluators Recognize and Favor Their Own Generations

Arjun Panickssery, Sam Bowman and Shi Feng

17 Apr 2024 21:09 UTC

44 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(tiny.cc)

SFS: Foundations of Forecasting

MAD217 Apr 2024 17:46 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

An ethical framework to supersede Utilitarianism

metalcrow17 Apr 2024 17:18 UTC

1 point

4 comments4 min readLW link

Moving on from community living

Vika17 Apr 2024 17:02 UTC

54 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

Staged release

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Apr 2024 16:00 UTC

9 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Discomfort Stacking

Lewis O’Brien17 Apr 2024 14:49 UTC

5 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

FHI (Future of Humanity Institute) has shut down (2005–2024)

gwern17 Apr 2024 13:54 UTC

174 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

(www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)

Childhood and Education Roundup #5

Zvi17 Apr 2024 13:00 UTC

36 points

3 comments25 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)