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My Experience Using Gamification

Wyatt SJul 26, 2024, 11:06 PM

13 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

How the AI safety technical landscape has changed in the last year, according to some practitioners

tlevinJul 26, 2024, 7:06 PM

57 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

A Visual Task that’s Hard for GPT-4o, but Doable for Primary Schoolers

Lennart FinkeJul 26, 2024, 5:51 PM

25 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Unaligned AI is coming regardless.

verbalshadowJul 26, 2024, 4:41 PM

−15 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Index of rationalist groups in the Bay Area June 2025

Lucie Philippon, Czynski and Screwtape

Jul 26, 2024, 4:32 PM

39 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

End Single Family Zoning by Overturning Euclid V Ambler

Maxwell TabarrokJul 26, 2024, 2:08 PM

32 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Common Uses of “Acceptance”

Yi-YangJul 26, 2024, 11:18 AM

14 points

5 comments24 min readLW link

Universal Basic Income and Poverty

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 26, 2024, 7:23 AM

328 points

141 comments9 min readLW link

A Solomonoff Inductor Walks Into a Bar: Schelling Points for Communication

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jul 26, 2024, 12:33 AM

95 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

What does a Gambler’s Verity world look like?

ErioirEJul 25, 2024, 10:03 PM

7 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Pacing Outside the Box: RNNs Learn to Plan in Sokoban

Adrià Garriga-alonso, taufeeque, AdamGleave and ChengCheng

Jul 25, 2024, 10:00 PM

59 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Sex, Death, and Complexity

Zero ContradictionsJul 25, 2024, 9:22 PM

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Does robustness improve with scale?

ChengCheng, niki.h, Ian McKenzie, Oskar Hollinsworth, Tom Tseng and AdamGleave

Jul 25, 2024, 8:55 PM

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(far.ai)

Organisation for Program Equilibrium reading group

Smaug123Jul 25, 2024, 7:11 PM

11 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

In Text

Valerii KremnevJul 25, 2024, 6:22 PM

−3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

“AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems”

gjmJul 25, 2024, 3:58 PM

133 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

[Talk transcript] What “structure” is and why it matters

Alex_AltairJul 25, 2024, 3:49 PM

23 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

AI #74: GPT-4o Mini Me and Llama 3

ZviJul 25, 2024, 1:50 PM

30 points

6 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI Constitutions are a tool to reduce societal scale risk

Sammy MartinJul 25, 2024, 11:18 AM

30 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

Determining the power of investors over Frontier AI Labs is strategically important to reduce x-risk

Lucie PhilipponJul 25, 2024, 1:12 AM

18 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

FLI is hiring across Comms and Ops

beisenpressJul 25, 2024, 12:06 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

A framework for thinking about AI power-seeking

Joe CarlsmithJul 24, 2024, 10:41 PM

62 points

15 comments16 min readLW link

Llama Llama-3-405B?

ZviJul 24, 2024, 7:40 PM

51 points

9 comments30 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI Safety Memes Wiki

plex and Vishakha

Jul 24, 2024, 6:53 PM

37 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(aisafety.info)

Research Discussion on PSCA with Claude Sonnet 3.5

Robert KralischJul 24, 2024, 4:53 PM

−2 points

0 comments25 min readLW link

Reading More Each Day: A Simple $35 Tool

aysajanJul 24, 2024, 1:54 PM

29 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

You should go to ML conferences

Jan_KulveitJul 24, 2024, 11:47 AM

112 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

The last era of human mistakes

owencbJul 24, 2024, 9:58 AM

34 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Longevity: A critical look at “Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging”

Anna CrowJul 24, 2024, 1:40 AM

14 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

The Cancer Resolution?

PeterMcCluskeyJul 24, 2024, 12:25 AM

34 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Positive visions for AI

L Rudolf L and Florence Hinder

Jul 23, 2024, 8:15 PM

27 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

(www.florencehinder.com)

How reasonable is taking extinction risk?

FVeldeJul 23, 2024, 6:05 PM

2 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Unlearning via RMU is mostly shallow

Andy Arditi and bilalchughtai

Jul 23, 2024, 4:07 PM

54 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #20: July 2024

ZviJul 23, 2024, 12:50 PM

33 points

9 comments38 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Confusing the metric for the meaning: Perhaps correlated attributes are “natural”

NickyPJul 23, 2024, 12:43 PM

33 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

My covid-related beliefs and questions

Severin T. SeehrichJul 23, 2024, 3:27 AM

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a Schelling point for group house room listings?

NoSignalNoNoiseJul 23, 2024, 3:03 AM

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Room Available in Boston Group House

NoSignalNoNoiseJul 23, 2024, 2:55 AM

15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Scenario Index

aphyer and abstractapplic

Jul 23, 2024, 2:00 AM

73 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

How to avoid death by AI.

KrantzJul 23, 2024, 1:59 AM

−4 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

ML Safety Research Advice—GabeM

Gabe MJul 23, 2024, 1:45 AM

31 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Ransomware Payments Should Require a Sin Tax

Brian BienJul 22, 2024, 9:16 PM

20 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

The Elusive Root Cause of Schizophrenia—Thesis Introduction Only

kareempforbesJul 22, 2024, 8:24 PM

−9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Is Chinese AGI a valid concern for the USA?

sammyboizJul 22, 2024, 8:21 PM

0 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Trying to understand Hanson’s Cultural Drift argument

KempJul 22, 2024, 8:20 PM

9 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Efficient Dictionary Learning with Switch Sparse Autoencoders

Anish MudideJul 22, 2024, 6:45 PM

118 points

20 comments12 min readLW link

Analyzing DeepMind’s Probabilistic Methods for Evaluating Agent Capabilities

Axel Højmark, Govind Pimpale, Arjun Panickssery, Marius Hobbhahn and Jérémy Scheurer

Jul 22, 2024, 4:17 PM

69 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

The Garden of Eden

Alexander TurokJul 22, 2024, 4:07 PM

23 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Caring about excellence

owencbJul 22, 2024, 2:24 PM

47 points

4 comments LW link

Tim Dillon’s fake business is the most influential video I have watched in the last 24 months

Stuart JohnsonJul 22, 2024, 12:54 PM

−4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

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