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

titotalApr 22, 2024, 11:49 AM

70 points

5 comments LW link

(titotal.substack.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)

Duct Tape security

Isaac KingApr 26, 2024, 6:57 PM

69 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 27 - AI Control with Buck Shlegeris and Ryan Greenblatt

DanielFilanApr 11, 2024, 9:30 PM

69 points

10 comments107 min readLW link

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2020

jefftkApr 13, 2024, 10:30 PM

69 points

3 comments19 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The 2nd Demographic Transition

Maxwell TabarrokApr 6, 2024, 2:10 PM

68 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

“Fractal Strategy” workshop report

RaemonApr 6, 2024, 9:26 PM

68 points

23 comments10 min readLW link

Ophiology (or, how the Mamba architecture works)

Danielle Ensign, SrGonao and Adrià Garriga-alonso

Apr 9, 2024, 7:31 PM

67 points

8 comments10 min readLW link

Superposition is not “just” neuron polysemanticity

LawrenceCApr 26, 2024, 11:22 PM

66 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Improving Dictionary Learning with Gated Sparse Autoencoders

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, lewis smith, Tom Lieberum, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár, Rohin Shah and Neel Nanda

Apr 25, 2024, 6:43 PM

63 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

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)

Moving on from community living

VikaApr 17, 2024, 5:02 PM

63 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

[Question] What’s with all the bans recently?

Gerald MonroeApr 4, 2024, 6:16 AM

62 points

83 comments4 min readLW link

Transfer Learning in Humans

niplavApr 21, 2024, 8:49 PM

61 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Nathan YoungApr 24, 2024, 9:21 PM

60 points

16 comments13 min readLW link

(fs.blog)

LessOnline Festival Updates Thread

Ben PaceApr 18, 2024, 9:55 PM

59 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

“Why I Write” by George Orwell (1946)

Arjun PanicksseryApr 25, 2024, 4:02 PM

59 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(www.orwellfoundation.com)

Gradient Descent on the Human Brain

Jozdien and gaspode

Apr 1, 2024, 10:39 PM

59 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

So What’s Up With PUFAs Chemically?

J BostockApr 27, 2024, 1:32 PM

57 points

23 comments6 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)

Experiment on repeating choices

KatjaGraceApr 19, 2024, 4:20 AM

56 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

A D&D.Sci Dodecalogue

abstractapplicApr 12, 2024, 1:10 AM

56 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Towards a formalization of the agent structure problem

Alex_AltairApr 29, 2024, 8:28 PM

55 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

Spatial attention as a “tell” for empathetic simulation?

Steven ByrnesApr 26, 2024, 3:10 PM

55 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

Math-to-English Cheat Sheet

nahojApr 8, 2024, 9:19 AM

54 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

[Closed] PIBBSS is hiring in a variety of roles (alignment research and incubation program)

Nora_Ammann, Lucas Teixeira and DusanDNesic

Apr 9, 2024, 8:12 AM

54 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

We are headed into an extreme compute overhang

devrandomApr 26, 2024, 9:38 PM

54 points

34 comments2 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #17: April 2024

ZviApr 15, 2024, 12:10 PM

54 points

4 comments76 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

LLMs seem (relatively) safe

JustisMillsApr 25, 2024, 10:13 PM

53 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

(justismills.substack.com)

So You Created a Sociopath—New Book Announcement!

Garrett BakerApr 1, 2024, 6:02 PM

52 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

On Complexity Science

Garrett BakerApr 5, 2024, 2:24 AM

51 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

on the dollar-yen exchange rate

bhauthApr 7, 2024, 4:49 AM

50 points

21 comments10 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Changes in College Admissions

ZviApr 24, 2024, 1:50 PM

50 points

11 comments39 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Koan: divining alien datastructures from RAM activations

TsviBTApr 5, 2024, 6:04 PM

49 points

10 comments21 min readLW link

My intellectual journey to (dis)solve the hard problem of consciousness

Charbel-RaphaëlApr 6, 2024, 9:32 AM

49 points

44 comments30 min readLW link

AI #58: Stargate AGI

ZviApr 4, 2024, 1:10 PM

49 points

9 comments60 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Run evals on base models too!

orthonormalApr 4, 2024, 6:43 PM

49 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci: The Mad Tyrant’s Pet Turtles [Evaluation and Ruleset]

abstractapplicApr 9, 2024, 2:01 PM

48 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

The Mom Test: Summary and Thoughts

Adam ZernerApr 18, 2024, 3:34 AM

48 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

An Introduction to AI Sandbagging

Teun van der Weij, Felix Hofstätter and Francis Rhys Ward

Apr 26, 2024, 1:40 PM

47 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

I’m open for projects (sort of)

cousin_itApr 18, 2024, 6:05 PM

46 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

LLM Evaluators Recognize and Favor Their Own Generations

Arjun Panickssery, Sam Bowman and Shi Feng

Apr 17, 2024, 9:09 PM

46 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(tiny.cc)

Apply to LASR Labs: a London-based technical AI safety research programme

Erin Robertson, charlie_griffin and joehardie

Apr 9, 2024, 5:34 PM

45 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Announcing Atlas Computing

miyazonoApr 11, 2024, 3:56 PM

45 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Book review: Deep Utopia

PeterMcCluskeyApr 23, 2024, 7:55 PM

45 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Things Solenoid Narrates

Solenoid_EntityApr 12, 2024, 11:57 PM

45 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Long War: Defender of Data-mocracy

aphyerApr 26, 2024, 10:30 PM

44 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

ProLU: A Nonlinearity for Sparse Autoencoders

Glen TaggartApr 23, 2024, 2:09 PM

44 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

AI #60: Oh the Humanity

ZviApr 18, 2024, 2:10 PM

44 points

7 comments62 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Aspiration-based designs] 1. Informal introduction

B Jacobs, Jobst Heitzig, Simon Fischer and Simon Dima

28 Apr 2024 13:00 UTC

44 points

4 comments8 min readLW link