Bayesian in­fer­ence with­out priors

DanielFilanApr 24, 2024, 11:50 PM
26 points
8 comments8 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

The In­ner Ring by C. S. Lewis

Saul MunnApr 24, 2024, 10:48 PM
69 points
6 comments13 min readLW link
(www.lewissociety.org)

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Nathan YoungApr 24, 2024, 9:21 PM
60 points
16 comments13 min readLW link
(fs.blog)

Be­ta­dine oral rinses for covid and other viral infections

ElizabethApr 24, 2024, 5:50 PM
22 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

At last! ChatGPT does, shall we say, in­ter­est­ing imi­ta­tions of “Kubla Khan”

Bill BenzonApr 24, 2024, 2:56 PM
−3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Magic by forgetting

avturchinApr 24, 2024, 2:32 PM
18 points
39 comments4 min readLW link

Changes in Col­lege Admissions

ZviApr 24, 2024, 1:50 PM
50 points
11 comments39 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

1-page out­line of Car­l­smith’s oth­er­ness and con­trol series

Nathan YoungApr 24, 2024, 11:25 AM
22 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

How to use and in­ter­pret ac­ti­va­tion patching

Apr 24, 2024, 8:35 AM
13 points
6 comments18 min readLW link

AI Gen­er­ated Mu­sic as a Method of In­stal­ling Essen­tial Ra­tion­al­ist Skills

keltanApr 24, 2024, 7:48 AM
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Elec­tronic Harp Man­dolin Prototype

jefftkApr 24, 2024, 2:20 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Ex­am­ples of Highly Coun­ter­fac­tual Dis­cov­er­ies?

johnswentworthApr 23, 2024, 10:19 PM
197 points
108 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there soft­ware to prac­tice read­ing ex­pres­sions?

lsusrApr 23, 2024, 9:53 PM
37 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s De­sign A School, Part 1

SableApr 23, 2024, 9:50 PM
56 points
5 comments11 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

WSJ: In­side Ama­zon’s Se­cret Oper­a­tion to Gather In­tel on Rivals

trevorApr 23, 2024, 9:33 PM
37 points
5 comments5 min readLW link
(www.wsj.com)

On Minicircle

MetacelsusApr 23, 2024, 9:28 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Sim­ple probes can catch sleeper agents

Apr 23, 2024, 9:10 PM
133 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

Man­i­fold “ex­plor­ing real cash prizes”

Rana DexsinApr 23, 2024, 9:07 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(manifoldmarkets.notion.site)

[Question] (When) Should you work through the night when in­spira­tion strikes you?

Chi NguyenApr 23, 2024, 9:07 PM
21 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Book re­view: Deep Utopia

PeterMcCluskeyApr 23, 2024, 7:55 PM
45 points
14 comments4 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

On what re­search poli­cy­mak­ers ac­tu­ally need

MondSemmelApr 23, 2024, 7:50 PM
38 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.slowboring.com)

De­quan­tify­ing first-or­der theories

jessicataApr 23, 2024, 7:04 PM
40 points
9 comments8 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Vec­tor Plan­ning in a Lat­tice Graph

Apr 23, 2024, 4:58 PM
20 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

ProLU: A Non­lin­ear­ity for Sparse Autoencoders

Glen TaggartApr 23, 2024, 2:09 PM
44 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Sub­jec­tive Ques­tions Re­quire Sub­jec­tive information

BenApr 23, 2024, 1:16 PM
7 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Re­ject­ing Television

Declan MolonyApr 23, 2024, 4:59 AM
90 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

LW Front­page Ex­per­i­ments! (aka “Take the wheel, Shog­goth!”)

Apr 23, 2024, 3:58 AM
71 points
27 comments5 min readLW link

Thoughts on Zero Points

depressurizeApr 23, 2024, 2:22 AM
31 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(sexandchicago.substack.com)

Funny Anec­dote of Eliezer From His Sister

Noah BirnbaumApr 22, 2024, 10:05 PM
207 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

How LLMs Work, in the Style of The Economist

utilistrutilApr 22, 2024, 7:06 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing Co­her­ence and Goal-Direct­ed­ness in RL Policies

dx26Apr 22, 2024, 6:26 PM
10 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

AI Reg­u­la­tion is Unsafe

Maxwell TabarrokApr 22, 2024, 4:37 PM
40 points
41 comments4 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Pri­ors and Prejudice

MathiasKBApr 22, 2024, 3:00 PM
151 points
31 comments7 min readLW link

For­get Every­thing (Statis­ti­cal Me­chan­ics Part 1)

J BostockApr 22, 2024, 1:33 PM
41 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

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

ZviApr 22, 2024, 1:10 PM
63 points
4 comments47 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

titotalApr 22, 2024, 11:49 AM
70 points
5 commentsLW link
(titotal.substack.com)

Should we break up Google Deep­Mind?

Hauke HillebrandtApr 22, 2024, 9:16 AM
3 points
0 commentsLW link

What should our con­tain­ers do?

Richard HenageApr 22, 2024, 6:17 AM
1 point
1 comment2 min readLW link

Goal ori­ented cog­ni­tion in “a sin­gle for­ward pass”

Apr 22, 2024, 5:03 AM
20 points
15 comments26 min readLW link

Time com­plex­ity for de­ter­minis­tic string machines

alcatalApr 21, 2024, 10:35 PM
21 points
2 comments21 min readLW link

Trans­fer Learn­ing in Humans

niplavApr 21, 2024, 8:49 PM
61 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

I cre­ated an Asi Align­ment Tier List

TimeGoatApr 21, 2024, 6:44 PM
−6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The los­ing iden­tity of Twitter

Itay DreyfusApr 21, 2024, 1:43 PM
20 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(productidentity.co)

Good Bings copy, great Bings steal

dr_sApr 21, 2024, 9:52 AM
31 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

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

Tristan WegnerApr 21, 2024, 6:45 AM
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(storage.googleapis.com)

Con­tra Chord Simplification

jefftkApr 21, 2024, 2:30 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A cou­ple pro­duc­tivity tips for overthinkers

Steven ByrnesApr 20, 2024, 4:05 PM
79 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

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

Chris_LeongApr 20, 2024, 2:54 PM
5 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Past Tense Features

CanApr 20, 2024, 2:34 PM
12 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on seed oil

dynomightApr 20, 2024, 12:29 PM
357 points
130 comments17 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)