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Bayesian inference without priors

DanielFilan24 Apr 2024 23:50 UTC

25 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

The Inner Ring by C. S. Lewis

Saul Munn24 Apr 2024 22:48 UTC

68 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

(www.lewissociety.org)

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Nathan Young24 Apr 2024 21:21 UTC

56 points

16 comments13 min readLW link

(fs.blog)

Is being a trans woman (or just low-T) +20 IQ?

lukehmiles24 Apr 2024 20:04 UTC

14 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Betadine oral rinses for covid and other viral infections

Elizabeth24 Apr 2024 17:50 UTC

22 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

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

Bill Benzon24 Apr 2024 14:56 UTC

−3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Magic by forgetting

avturchin24 Apr 2024 14:32 UTC

15 points

30 comments4 min readLW link

Changes in College Admissions

Zvi24 Apr 2024 13:50 UTC

49 points

10 comments39 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Nathan Young24 Apr 2024 11:25 UTC

16 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

How to use and interpret activation patching

StefanHex and Neel Nanda

24 Apr 2024 8:35 UTC

12 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

AI Generated Music as a Method of Installing Essential Rationalist Skills

keltan24 Apr 2024 7:48 UTC

11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Electronic Harp Mandolin Prototype

jefftk24 Apr 2024 2:20 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Examples of Highly Counterfactual Discoveries?

johnswentworth23 Apr 2024 22:19 UTC

181 points

98 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there software to practice reading expressions?

lsusr23 Apr 2024 21:53 UTC

36 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Design A School, Part 1

Sable23 Apr 2024 21:50 UTC

54 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

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

trevor23 Apr 2024 21:33 UTC

37 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

(www.wsj.com)

On Minicircle

Metacelsus23 Apr 2024 21:28 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Simple probes can catch sleeper agents

Monte M, Carson Denison, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, David Duvenaud, Sam Bowman, Ethan Perez and evhub

23 Apr 2024 21:10 UTC

119 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Manifold “exploring real cash prizes”

Rana Dexsin23 Apr 2024 21:07 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(manifoldmarkets.notion.site)

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

Chi Nguyen23 Apr 2024 21:07 UTC

20 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Deep Utopia

PeterMcCluskey23 Apr 2024 19:55 UTC

42 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

On what research policymakers actually need

MondSemmel23 Apr 2024 19:50 UTC

38 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.slowboring.com)

Dequantifying first-order theories

jessicata23 Apr 2024 19:04 UTC

39 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Vector Planning in a Lattice Graph

Johannes C. Mayer and Thomas Kehrenberg

23 Apr 2024 16:58 UTC

20 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

ProLU: A Nonlinearity for Sparse Autoencoders

Glen Taggart23 Apr 2024 14:09 UTC

36 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Subjective Questions Require Subjective information

Ben23 Apr 2024 13:16 UTC

7 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Rejecting Television

Declan Molony23 Apr 2024 4:59 UTC

73 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

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

Ruby and RobertM

23 Apr 2024 3:58 UTC

66 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on Zero Points

depressurize23 Apr 2024 2:22 UTC

31 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(sexandchicago.substack.com)

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