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Funding for programs and events on global catastrophic risk, effective altruism, and other topics

abergal and reallyeli

Aug 14, 2024, 11:59 PM

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Funding for work that builds capacity to address risks from transformative AI

abergal and reallyeli

Aug 14, 2024, 11:52 PM

16 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

GPT-2 Sometimes Fails at IOI

Ronak_MehtaAug 14, 2024, 11:24 PM

13 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(ronakrm.github.io)

Toward a Human Hybrid Language for Enhanced Human-Machine Communication: Addressing the AI Alignment Problem

Andndn DheudndAug 14, 2024, 10:19 PM

−4 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Adverse Selection by Life-Saving Charities

vaishnav92Aug 14, 2024, 8:46 PM

41 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(www.everythingisatrolley.com)

The great Enigma in the sky: The universe as an encryption machine

Alex_ShleizerAug 14, 2024, 1:21 PM

4 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

An anti-inductive sequence

ViliamAug 14, 2024, 12:28 PM

37 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Rabin’s Paradox

Charlie SteinerAug 14, 2024, 5:40 AM

18 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing the $200k EA Community Choice

Austin ChenAug 14, 2024, 12:39 AM

58 points

8 comments LW link

(manifund.substack.com)

Debate: Is it ethical to work at AI capabilities companies?

Ben Pace and LawrenceC

Aug 14, 2024, 12:18 AM

39 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

Fields that I reference when thinking about AI takeover prevention

BuckAug 13, 2024, 11:08 PM

144 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

(redwoodresearch.substack.com)

Ten counter-arguments that AI is (not) an existential risk (for now)

kwiat.devAug 13, 2024, 10:35 PM

20 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Alignment from equivariance

hamishtodd1Aug 13, 2024, 9:09 PM

3 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

[LDSL#6] When is quantification needed, and when is it hard?

tailcalledAug 13, 2024, 8:39 PM

32 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

A computational complexity argument for many worlds

jessicataAug 13, 2024, 7:35 PM

32 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

The Consciousness Conundrum: Why We Can’t Dismiss Machine Sentience

SystematicApproachAug 13, 2024, 6:01 PM

−22 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Ten arguments that AI is an existential risk

KatjaGrace and Nathan Young

Aug 13, 2024, 5:00 PM

118 points

42 comments7 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Eugenics And Reproduction Licenses FAQs: For the Common Good

Zero ContradictionsAug 13, 2024, 4:34 PM

−8 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

Superintelligent AI is possible in the 2020s

HunterJayAug 13, 2024, 6:03 AM

41 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

Debate: Get a college degree?

Ben Pace and Saul Munn

Aug 12, 2024, 10:23 PM

42 points

14 comments21 min readLW link

Extracting SAE task features for in-context learning

Dmitrii Kharlapenko, neverix, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

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 comments LW 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 comments LW 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

Ben Goldhaber and Steve_Omohundro

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