De­bate: Get a col­lege de­gree?

Aug 12, 2024, 10:23 PM
42 points
14 comments21 min readLW link

Ex­tract­ing SAE task fea­tures for in-con­text learning

Aug 12, 2024, 8:34 PM
31 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Hyppotherapy

Marius Adrian NicoarăAug 12, 2024, 8:07 PM
−3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cal­ifor­ni­ans, tell your reps to vote yes on SB 1047!

Holly_ElmoreAug 12, 2024, 7:50 PM
40 points
24 commentsLW link

[LDSL#5] Com­par­i­son and mag­ni­tude/​diminishment

tailcalledAug 12, 2024, 6:47 PM
24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

In Defense of Open-Minded UDT

abramdemskiAug 12, 2024, 6:27 PM
79 points
28 comments11 min readLW link

Hu­man­ity isn’t re­motely longter­mist, so ar­gu­ments for AGI x-risk should fo­cus on the near term

Seth HerdAug 12, 2024, 6:10 PM
46 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing a “Con­science Calcu­la­tor” to Guard-Rail an AGI

sweenesmAug 12, 2024, 4:03 PM
−2 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Shift­ing Headspaces—Tran­si­tional Beast-Mode

Jonathan MoregårdAug 12, 2024, 1:02 PM
37 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

Si­mul­ta­neous Foot­bass and Foot­drums II

jefftkAug 11, 2024, 11:50 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

CultFrisbee

GauraventhAug 11, 2024, 9:36 PM
16 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(y1d2.com)

Plea­sure and suffer­ing are not con­cep­tual opposites

MichaelStJulesAug 11, 2024, 6:32 PM
7 points
0 commentsLW link

Com­pu­ta­tional ir­re­ducibil­ity challenges the simu­la­tion hypothesis

Clément LAug 11, 2024, 4:14 PM
4 points
17 comments7 min readLW link

[LDSL#4] Root cause anal­y­sis ver­sus effect size estimation

tailcalledAug 11, 2024, 4:12 PM
29 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Closed to Interpretation

Yeshua GodAug 11, 2024, 3:51 PM
−18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The­o­ries of Knowledge

Zero ContradictionsAug 11, 2024, 8:55 AM
−1 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Un­nat­u­ral abstractions

AprillionAug 10, 2024, 10:31 PM
3 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(peter.hozak.info)

[LDSL#3] In­for­ma­tion-ori­en­ta­tion is in ten­sion with mag­ni­tude-orientation

tailcalledAug 10, 2024, 9:58 PM
33 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The AI reg­u­la­tor’s toolbox: A list of con­crete AI gov­er­nance practices

Adam JonesAug 10, 2024, 9:15 PM
9 points
1 comment34 min readLW link
(adamjones.me)

Diffu­sion Guided NLP: bet­ter steer­ing, mostly a good thing

Nathan Helm-BurgerAug 10, 2024, 7:49 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Tall tales and long odds

Solenoid_EntityAug 10, 2024, 3:22 PM
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

The Great Or­ganism The­ory of Evolution

rogersbaconAug 10, 2024, 12:26 PM
20 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

Emer­gence, The Blind Spot of GenAI In­ter­pretabil­ity?

Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXIAug 10, 2024, 10:07 AM
16 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Row­ing vs steering

Saul MunnAug 10, 2024, 7:00 AM
43 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(www.brasstacks.blog)

Over­pop­u­la­tion FAQs

Zero ContradictionsAug 10, 2024, 4:21 AM
−12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(zerocontradictions.net)

Fermi Es­ti­mat­ing How Long an Al­gorithm Takes

SatvikBeriAug 10, 2024, 1:34 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

What’s so spe­cial about like­li­hoods?

mfattAug 10, 2024, 1:07 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Prov­ably Safe AI: Wor­ld­view and Projects

Aug 9, 2024, 11:21 PM
54 points
44 comments7 min readLW link

All The Lat­est Hu­man tFUS Studies

sarahconstantinAug 9, 2024, 10:20 PM
46 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

But Where do the Vari­ables of my Causal Model come from?

DalcyAug 9, 2024, 10:07 PM
38 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

[LDSL#2] La­tent vari­able mod­els, net­work mod­els, and lin­ear diffu­sion of sparse lognormals

tailcalledAug 9, 2024, 7:57 PM
26 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

“Which Fu­ture Mind is Me?” Is a Ques­tion of Values

dadadarrenAug 9, 2024, 6:17 PM
17 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion-aware causal de­ci­sion the­ory: A case for one-box­ing in CDT

kongus_bongusAug 9, 2024, 6:09 PM
15 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

The gate­keep­ers of the AI al­gorithms will shape our society

ProfessorFalkenAug 9, 2024, 5:59 PM
−5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prac­ti­cal ad­vice for se­cure vir­tual com­mu­ni­ca­tion post easy AI voice-clon­ing?

hmysAug 9, 2024, 5:32 PM
6 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

The Carnot Eng­ine of Economics

StrivingForLegibilityAug 9, 2024, 3:59 PM
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Ou­trage Bonding

Jonathan MoregårdAug 9, 2024, 1:46 PM
63 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

Non-Trans­ac­tional Compliments

Jonathan MoregårdAug 9, 2024, 1:42 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

Far­mKind’s Illu­sory Offer

jefftkAug 9, 2024, 11:30 AM
71 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Altru­ism and Selfishness

Zero ContradictionsAug 9, 2024, 6:15 AM
−3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Michael Stream­lines on Buddhism

Chris_LeongAug 9, 2024, 4:44 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(x.com)

Altru­ism and Vi­tal­ism Aren’t Fel­low Travelers

Arjun PanicksseryAug 9, 2024, 2:01 AM
24 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Car­ing only about your child may in­crease hu­man suffering

CipollaAug 8, 2024, 11:47 PM
−15 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

The Hes­sian rank bounds the learn­ing coefficient

Lucius BushnaqAug 8, 2024, 8:55 PM
68 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

GPT-4o Sys­tem Card

Zach Stein-PerlmanAug 8, 2024, 8:30 PM
68 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(openai.com)

Par­a­sites (not a metaphor)

lemonhopeAug 8, 2024, 8:07 PM
133 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Some Unortho­dox Ways To Achieve High GDP Growth

Aug 8, 2024, 6:58 PM
57 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

You can re­move GPT2’s Lay­erNorm by fine-tun­ing for an hour

StefanHexAug 8, 2024, 6:33 PM
165 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

Leav­ing MIRI, Seek­ing Funding

abramdemskiAug 8, 2024, 6:32 PM
264 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Does VETLM solve AI su­per­al­ign­ment?

Oleg TrottAug 8, 2024, 6:22 PM
−1 points
10 comments1 min readLW link