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Funny Anecdote of Eliezer From His Sister

Daniel Birnbaum22 Apr 2024 22:05 UTC

194 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

How LLMs Work, in the Style of The Economist

Rocket22 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC

0 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Measuring Coherence and Goal-Directedness in RL Policies

dx2622 Apr 2024 18:26 UTC

2 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

AI Regulation is Unsafe

Maxwell Tabarrok22 Apr 2024 16:37 UTC

38 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Priors and Prejudice

MathiasKB22 Apr 2024 15:00 UTC

82 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Forget Everything (Statistical Mechanics Part 1)

J Bostock22 Apr 2024 13:33 UTC

39 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

On Llama-3 and Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast with Zuckerberg

Zvi22 Apr 2024 13:10 UTC

62 points

4 comments47 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Motivation gaps: Why so much EA criticism is hostile and lazy

titotal22 Apr 2024 11:49 UTC

69 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(titotal.substack.com)

Should we break up Google DeepMind?

Hauke Hillebrandt22 Apr 2024 9:16 UTC

−1 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What should our containers do?

Richard Henage22 Apr 2024 6:17 UTC

1 point

1 comment2 min readLW link

Goal oriented cognition in “a single forward pass”

dxu and habryka

22 Apr 2024 5:03 UTC

19 points

14 comments26 min readLW link

Time complexity for deterministic string machines

alcatal21 Apr 2024 22:35 UTC

21 points

0 comments21 min readLW link

Transfer Learning in Humans

niplav21 Apr 2024 20:49 UTC

53 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

I created an Asi Alignment Tier List

TimeGoat21 Apr 2024 18:44 UTC

−6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The losing identity of Twitter

Itay Dreyfus21 Apr 2024 13:43 UTC

20 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

(productidentity.co)

Good Bings copy, great Bings steal

dr_s21 Apr 2024 9:52 UTC

31 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Paper: “The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants” -Google DeepMind

Tristan Wegner21 Apr 2024 6:45 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(storage.googleapis.com)

Contra Chord Simplification

jefftk21 Apr 2024 2:30 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

326 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

23 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

102 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)