Datasets that change the odds you exist

dynomightJun 29, 2024, 6:45 PM
56 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

A “Scal­ing Monose­man­tic­ity” Explainer

Jun 29, 2024, 5:50 PM
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Anal­y­sis of key AI analogies

Kevin KohlerJun 29, 2024, 10:55 AM
10 points
2 comments15 min readLW link

Ge­or­gism Crash Course

Zero ContradictionsJun 29, 2024, 6:18 AM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(zerocontradictions.net)

Ac­ti­va­tion Pat­tern SVD: A pro­posal for SAE Interpretability

Daniel TanJun 28, 2024, 10:12 PM
15 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Pod­cast: Eliz­a­beth & Austin on “What Man­i­fold was al­lowed to do”

Austin ChenJun 28, 2024, 10:10 PM
20 points
0 commentsLW link
(share.descript.com)

The In­cred­ible Fen­tanyl-De­tect­ing Machine

sarahconstantinJun 28, 2024, 10:10 PM
156 points
26 comments7 min readLW link
(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Sav­ing Lives Re­duces Over-Pop­u­la­tion—A Counter-In­tu­itive Non-Zero-Sum Game

James Stephen BrownJun 28, 2024, 7:29 PM
6 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

Men­tor­ship in AGI Safety: Ap­pli­ca­tions for men­tor­ship are open!

Jun 28, 2024, 2:49 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­tra Ace­moglu on AI

Maxwell TabarrokJun 28, 2024, 1:13 PM
48 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Five toy wor­lds to think about her­i­ta­bil­ity

David Hugh-JonesJun 28, 2024, 1:11 PM
13 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

[Question] How do nat­u­ral sci­ences prove cau­sa­tion?

Kongo LandwalkerJun 28, 2024, 11:58 AM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong/​ACX meetup Tran­sil­vanya tour—Sibiu

Marius Adrian NicoarăJun 28, 2024, 11:41 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Bayes’ The­o­rem: In Search of Gold (Les­son 1)

bayesyatinaJun 28, 2024, 8:39 AM
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

How a chip is designed

YMJun 28, 2024, 8:04 AM
65 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

The Wis­dom of Liv­ing for 200 Years

Martin SustrikJun 28, 2024, 4:44 AM
25 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

A Gen­er­ally In­tel­li­gent Game

snerxJun 28, 2024, 1:31 AM
−1 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Cor­rigi­bil­ity = Tool-ness?

Jun 28, 2024, 1:19 AM
78 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

Si­tu­a­tional Awareness

PeterMcCluskeyJun 28, 2024, 1:08 AM
11 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Toward a tax­on­omy of cog­ni­tive bench­marks for agen­tic AGIs

Ben SmithJun 27, 2024, 11:50 PM
15 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

How Big a Deal are MatMul-Free Trans­form­ers?

JustisMillsJun 27, 2024, 10:28 PM
19 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(justismills.substack.com)

Se­condary forces of debt

KatjaGraceJun 27, 2024, 9:10 PM
81 points
18 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Distil­la­tion of ‘Do lan­guage mod­els plan for fu­ture to­kens’

TheManxLoinerJun 27, 2024, 8:57 PM
26 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

how birds sense mag­netic fields

bhauthJun 27, 2024, 6:59 PM
51 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Rep­re­sen­ta­tion Tuning

Christopher AckermanJun 27, 2024, 5:44 PM
35 points
9 comments13 min readLW link

An is­sue with train­ing schemers with su­per­vised fine-tuning

Fabien RogerJun 27, 2024, 3:37 PM
49 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

AI #70: A Beau­tiful Sonnet

ZviJun 27, 2024, 2:40 PM
38 points
0 comments44 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

De­tect­ing Ge­net­i­cally Eng­ineered Viruses With Me­tage­nomic Sequencing

jefftkJun 27, 2024, 2:01 PM
87 points
10 commentsLW link
(naobservatory.org)

Cross Robin

jefftkJun 27, 2024, 3:10 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Live The­ory Part 0: Tak­ing In­tel­li­gence Seriously

SahilJun 26, 2024, 9:37 PM
101 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal vs Ter­mi­nal Desiderata

Max HarmsJun 26, 2024, 8:57 PM
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Im­bue (Gen­er­ally In­tel­li­gent) con­tinue to make progress

Nathan Helm-BurgerJun 26, 2024, 8:41 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(imbue.com)

Trac­ing the steps

matimissonaJun 26, 2024, 7:22 PM
−8 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Coun­ter­ing AI dis­in­for­ma­tion and deep fakes with digi­tal signatures

Dave LindberghJun 26, 2024, 6:09 PM
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Progress Con­fer­ence 2024: Toward Abun­dant Futures

jasoncrawfordJun 26, 2024, 3:39 PM
40 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Schel­ling points in the AGI policy space

mesaoptimizerJun 26, 2024, 1:19 PM
52 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Bad les­sons learned from the debate

bayesyatinaJun 26, 2024, 11:54 AM
8 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Child­hood and Ed­u­ca­tion Roundup #6: Col­lege Edition

ZviJun 26, 2024, 11:40 AM
28 points
8 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New fast trans­former in­fer­ence ASIC — Sohu by Etched

lemonhopeJun 26, 2024, 9:56 AM
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.etched.com)

Em­piri­cal vs. Math­e­mat­i­cal Joints of Nature

Jun 26, 2024, 1:55 AM
35 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

My Cur­rent Claims and Cruxes on LLM Fore­cast­ing & Epistemics

ozziegooenJun 26, 2024, 12:40 AM
11 points
0 commentsLW link

In favour of ex­plor­ing nag­ging doubts about x-risk

owencbJun 25, 2024, 11:52 PM
105 points
2 commentsLW link

What is a Tool?

Jun 25, 2024, 11:40 PM
62 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] When do al­ign­ment re­searchers re­tire?

Jordan TaylorJun 25, 2024, 11:30 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Com­pute Gover­nance Liter­a­ture Re­view

sijarvisJun 25, 2024, 10:41 PM
11 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity as an In­tu­ition Pump for LLM Gen­er­al­ity

aribrillJun 25, 2024, 8:25 PM
18 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Failure Modes of Teach­ing AI Safety

Eleni AngelouJun 25, 2024, 7:07 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Kingfisher Sum­mer Tour 2024

jefftkJun 25, 2024, 6:50 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

In­cen­tive Learn­ing vs Dead Sea Salt Experiment

Steven ByrnesJun 25, 2024, 5:49 PM
30 points
1 comment28 min readLW link

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Sparse Au­toen­coders for Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity of LLMs

Adam KarvonenJun 25, 2024, 3:57 PM
27 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(adamkarvonen.github.io)