Sep 22, 2024, 9:04 PM

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

My 10-year retrospective on trying SSRIs

Kaj_SotalaSep 22, 2024, 8:30 PM

80 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Making Eggs Without Ovaries

Niko_McCarty and Metacelsus

Sep 22, 2024, 5:44 PM

58 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

(www.asimov.press)

Becket First

jefftkSep 22, 2024, 5:10 PM

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

On the Role of Proto-Languages

adamShimiSep 22, 2024, 4:50 PM

54 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

I’m creating a deep dive podcast episode about the original Leverage Research—would you like to take part?

spencergSep 22, 2024, 2:03 PM

37 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Who Feels More Alone?

marvinscheffoldSep 22, 2024, 11:54 AM

−8 points

2 comments39 min readLW link

Another argument against utility-centric alignment paradigms

Fiora SunshineSep 22, 2024, 7:28 AM

67 points

39 comments8 min readLW link

My hopes for YouCongress.com

Nathan Helm-BurgerSep 22, 2024, 3:20 AM

14 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

How Often Does Taking Away Options Help?

niplavSep 21, 2024, 9:52 PM

21 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

A Rational Company—Seeking Advisors

AlignmentOptimizerSep 21, 2024, 7:51 PM

0 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Seeking mentorship

Kevin AfachaoSep 21, 2024, 4:54 PM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Applications of Chaos: Saying No (with Hastings Greer)

ElizabethSep 21, 2024, 4:30 PM

50 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Investigating an insurance-for-AI startup

L Rudolf L and Florence Hinder

Sep 21, 2024, 3:29 PM

70 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(www.strataoftheworld.com)

An Unmeasured Song of Measurement

jan SijanSep 21, 2024, 3:08 PM

−3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

Maxwell TabarrokSep 21, 2024, 2:13 PM

18 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Work with me on agent foundations: independent fellowship

Alex_AltairSep 21, 2024, 1:59 PM

59 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Electric Mandola

jefftkSep 21, 2024, 1:40 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Glitch Token Catalog - (Almost) a Full Clear

Lao MeinSep 21, 2024, 12:22 PM

38 points

3 comments37 min readLW link

The Other Existential Crisis

James Stephen BrownSep 21, 2024, 1:16 AM

9 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Apply to MATS 7.0!

Ryan Kidd and K Richards

Sep 21, 2024, 12:23 AM

32 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Moscow – ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2024

red-haraSep 20, 2024, 11:03 PM

−1 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Validating / finding alignment-relevant concepts using neural data

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaSep 20, 2024, 9:12 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Augmenting Statistical Models with Natural Language Parameters

jsteinhardtSep 20, 2024, 6:30 PM

34 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Fun With The Tabula Muris (Senis)

sarahconstantinSep 20, 2024, 6:20 PM

25 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

My Critique of Effective Altruism

Dylan PriceSep 20, 2024, 5:41 PM

−10 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why be moral if we can’t measure how moral we are? Is it even possible to measure morality?

OKlogicSep 20, 2024, 5:40 PM

−2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

On Measuring Intellectual Performance—personal experience and several thoughts

Alexander GufanSep 20, 2024, 5:21 PM

3 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Introduction to Super Powers (for kids!)

Shoshannah TekofskySep 20, 2024, 5:17 PM

25 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(kidquest.substack.com)

Collapsing “Collapsing the Belief/Knowledge Distinction”

JeremiasSep 20, 2024, 4:11 PM

3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

A New Class of Glitch Tokens—BPE Subtoken Artifacts (BSA)

Lao MeinSep 20, 2024, 1:13 PM

37 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

o1-preview is pretty good at doing ML on an unknown dataset

Håvard Tveit IhleSep 20, 2024, 8:39 AM

67 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Moral Trade, Impact Distributions and Large Worlds

LarksSep 20, 2024, 3:45 AM

7 points

0 comments LW link

Keyboard Gremlins

jefftkSep 20, 2024, 2:30 AM

10 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The case for more Alignment Target Analysis (ATA)

Chi Nguyen and ThomasCederborg

Sep 20, 2024, 1:14 AM

27 points

13 comments17 min readLW link

Piling bounded arguments

momom2Sep 19, 2024, 10:27 PM

7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

We Don’t Know Our Own Values, but Reward Bridges The Is-Ought Gap

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Sep 19, 2024, 10:22 PM

49 points

48 comments5 min readLW link

Interested in Cognitive Bootcamp?

RaemonSep 19, 2024, 10:12 PM

48 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Just How Good Are Modern Chess Computers?

nemSep 19, 2024, 6:57 PM

10 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

RLHF is the worst possible thing done when facing the alignment problem

tailcalledSep 19, 2024, 6:56 PM

32 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

AISafety.info: What are Inductive Biases?

AlgonSep 19, 2024, 5:26 PM

11 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(aisafety.info)

Physics of Language models (part 2.1)

Nathan Helm-BurgerSep 19, 2024, 4:48 PM

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Why good things often don’t lead to better outcomes

DMMFSep 19, 2024, 4:37 PM

16 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(danfrank.ca)

To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaSep 19, 2024, 4:13 PM

21 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Laziness death spirals

PatrickDFarleySep 19, 2024, 3:58 PM

276 points

40 comments8 min readLW link

[Intuitive self-models] 1. Preliminaries

Steven ByrnesSep 19, 2024, 1:45 PM

91 points

23 comments15 min readLW link

AI #82: The Governor Ponders

ZviSep 19, 2024, 1:30 PM

50 points

8 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Slave Morality: A place for every man and every man in his place

Martin SustrikSep 19, 2024, 4:20 AM

16 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Which LessWrong/Alignment topics would you like to be tutored in? [Poll]

RubySep 19, 2024, 1:35 AM

43 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

The Obliqueness Thesis

jessicataSep 19, 2024, 12:26 AM

95 points

19 comments17 min readLW link