Toy Models of Su­per­po­si­tion: what about BitNets?

Alejandro TlaieAug 8, 2024, 4:29 PM
5 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[LDSL#1] Perfor­mance op­ti­miza­tion as a metaphor for life

tailcalledAug 8, 2024, 4:16 PM
32 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Four Ran­dom­ized Con­trol Tri­als In Economics

Maxwell TabarrokAug 8, 2024, 3:59 PM
20 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Cheap White­boards!

Johannes C. MayerAug 8, 2024, 1:52 PM
27 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

AI #76: Six Shorts Sto­ries About OpenAI

ZviAug 8, 2024, 1:50 PM
53 points
10 comments48 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What the cost differ­ence in pro­cess­ing in­put vs. out­put to­kens with LLMs?

kotrfaAug 8, 2024, 10:43 AM
3 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Meno’s Paradox

HudjefaAug 8, 2024, 5:59 AM
0 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Case Story: Lack of Con­sumer Pro­tec­tion Pro­ce­dures AI Ma­nipu­la­tion and the Threat of Fund Con­cen­tra­tion in Crypto Seek­ing As­sis­tance to Fund a Civil Case to Estab­lish Facts and Pro­tect Vuln­er­a­ble Con­sumers from Da­m­age Caused by Au­to­mated Sys­tems

Petr 'Margot' AndreevAug 8, 2024, 5:55 AM
−9 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Mo­ti­va­tion Theory

Zero ContradictionsAug 8, 2024, 5:05 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

It’s time for a self-re­pro­duc­ing machine

Carl FeynmanAug 7, 2024, 9:52 PM
102 points
70 comments9 min readLW link

[LDSL#0] Some episte­molog­i­cal conundrums

tailcalledAug 7, 2024, 7:52 PM
55 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

Help us seed AI Safety Brussels

Aug 7, 2024, 6:32 AM
3 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Adap­tive Coherence

Zero ContradictionsAug 7, 2024, 6:17 AM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

In­di­vi­d­ual Utilities Shift Con­tin­u­ously as Geo­met­ric Weights Shift

StrivingForLegibilityAug 7, 2024, 1:41 AM
2 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

Gra­di­ent As­cen­ders Reach the Harsanyi Hyperplane

StrivingForLegibilityAug 7, 2024, 1:40 AM
4 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Deriv­ing the Geo­met­ric Utili­tar­ian Weights

StrivingForLegibilityAug 7, 2024, 1:39 AM
2 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Prov­ing the Geo­met­ric Utili­tar­ian Theorem

StrivingForLegibilityAug 7, 2024, 1:39 AM
25 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

The Geo­met­ric Im­por­tance of Side Payments

StrivingForLegibilityAug 7, 2024, 1:38 AM
8 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

At­ten­tion-Fea­ture Tables in Gemma 2 Resi­d­ual Streams

J BostockAug 6, 2024, 10:56 PM
2 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] What are the strate­gic im­pli­ca­tions if aliens and Earth civ­i­liza­tions pro­duce similar util­ities?

Maxime RichéAug 6, 2024, 9:16 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

WTH is Cere­brolysin, ac­tu­ally?

Aug 6, 2024, 8:40 PM
181 points
23 comments17 min readLW link

The Prag­matic Side of Cryp­to­graph­i­cally Box­ing AI

Bart JaworskiAug 6, 2024, 5:46 PM
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

In­fer­ence-Only De­bate Ex­per­i­ments Us­ing Math Problems

Aug 6, 2024, 5:44 PM
31 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is an AI re­li­gion jus­tified?

p4rziv4lAug 6, 2024, 3:42 PM
−35 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Startup Roundup #2

ZviAug 6, 2024, 1:30 PM
45 points
0 comments32 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mechanis­tic Ano­maly De­tec­tion Re­search Update

Aug 6, 2024, 10:33 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.eleuther.ai)

Rea­son­ing is not search—a chess example

p.b.Aug 6, 2024, 9:29 AM
4 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Broadly hu­man level, cog­ni­tively com­plete AGI

p.b.Aug 6, 2024, 9:26 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Does Evolu­tion­ary The­ory Im­ply Ge­netic Trib­al­ism?

Zero ContradictionsAug 6, 2024, 5:43 AM
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

How I Learned To Stop Trust­ing Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets and Love the Arbitrage

orthonormalAug 6, 2024, 2:32 AM
200 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

John Schul­man leaves OpenAI for An­thropic [and then left An­thropic again for Think­ing Machines]

SodiumAug 6, 2024, 1:23 AM
57 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Self-ex­plain­ing SAE features

Aug 5, 2024, 10:20 PM
62 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

Value frag­ility and AI takeover

Joe CarlsmithAug 5, 2024, 9:28 PM
76 points
5 comments30 min readLW link

Ex­cur­sions into Sparse Au­toen­coders: What is monose­man­tic­ity?

Jakub SmékalAug 5, 2024, 7:22 PM
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Madrid—ACX Mee­tups Every­where Fall 2024

Pablo VillalobosAug 5, 2024, 6:36 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

LLMs stifle cre­ativity, elimi­nate op­por­tu­ni­ties for serendipi­tous dis­cov­ery and dis­rupt in­ter­gen­er­a­tional trans­fer of wisdom

GhdzAug 5, 2024, 6:27 PM
6 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Cir­cu­lar Reasoning

abramdemskiAug 5, 2024, 6:10 PM
91 points
40 comments8 min readLW link

Fear of cen­tral­ized power vs. fear of mis­al­igned AGI: Vi­talik Bu­terin on 80,000 Hours

Seth HerdAug 5, 2024, 3:38 PM
66 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

Four Phases of AGI

Gabe MAug 5, 2024, 1:15 PM
13 points
3 comments13 min readLW link

AI Safety at the Fron­tier: Paper High­lights, July ’24

gasteigerjoAug 5, 2024, 1:00 PM
8 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Game The­ory and Society

Zero ContradictionsAug 5, 2024, 4:27 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Near-mode think­ing on AI

Olli JärviniemiAug 4, 2024, 8:47 PM
128 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Water­marks: Sign­ing, Brand­ing, and Boobytrapping

Shankar SivarajanAug 4, 2024, 8:41 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Model­ling So­cial Ex­change: A Sys­tem­a­tised Method to Judge Friend­ship Quality

Wynn WalkerAug 4, 2024, 6:49 PM
6 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

We’re not as 3-Di­men­sional as We Think

silentbobAug 4, 2024, 2:39 PM
46 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

You don’t know how bad most things are nor pre­cisely how they’re bad.

Solenoid_EntityAug 4, 2024, 2:12 PM
331 points
49 comments5 min readLW link

Can We Pre­dict Per­sua­sive­ness Bet­ter Than An­thropic?

Lennart FinkeAug 4, 2024, 2:05 PM
22 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What should we do about COVID in 2024?

ChristianKlAug 4, 2024, 10:57 AM
20 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

To­k­enized SAEs: In­fus­ing per-to­ken bi­ases.

Aug 4, 2024, 9:17 AM
20 points
20 comments15 min readLW link

Thoughts On Democracy

Zero ContradictionsAug 4, 2024, 6:02 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(zerocontradictions.net)