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You are too dumb to understand insurance
Lorec
Jan 9, 2025, 11:33 PM
1
point
12
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Is AI Hitting a Wall or Moving Faster Than Ever?
garrison
Jan 9, 2025, 10:18 PM
12
points
5
comments
LW
link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)
Expevolu, Part II: Buying land to create countries
Fernando
Jan 9, 2025, 9:11 PM
4
points
0
comments
20
min read
LW
link
(expevolu.substack.com)
Last week of the Discussion Phase
Raemon
Jan 9, 2025, 7:26 PM
35
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation
Benquo
Jan 9, 2025, 4:47 PM
52
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Can we rescue Effective Altruism?
Elizabeth
Jan 9, 2025, 4:40 PM
21
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
AI #98: World Ends With Six Word Story
Zvi
Jan 9, 2025, 4:30 PM
36
points
2
comments
38
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Many Worlds and the Problems of Evil
Jonah Wilberg
Jan 9, 2025, 4:10 PM
−3
points
2
comments
9
min read
LW
link
PIBBSS Fellowship 2025: Bounties and Cooperative AI Track Announcement
DusanDNesic
and
Lucas Teixeira
Jan 9, 2025, 2:23 PM
20
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The “Everyone Can’t Be Wrong” Prior causes AI risk denial but helped prehistoric people
Knight Lee
Jan 9, 2025, 5:54 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Governance Course—Week 1 Reflections
Alice Blair
Jan 9, 2025, 4:48 AM
4
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on the In-Context Scheming AI Experiment
ExCeph
Jan 9, 2025, 2:19 AM
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A Systematic Approach to AI Risk Analysis Through Cognitive Capabilities
Tom DAVID
Jan 9, 2025, 12:18 AM
2
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Gothenburg LW / ACX meetup
Stefan
Jan 8, 2025, 9:39 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Aristocracy and Hostage Capital
Arjun Panickssery
Jan 8, 2025, 7:38 PM
108
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)
[Question]
What is the most impressive game LLMs can play well?
Cole Wyeth
Jan 8, 2025, 7:38 PM
19
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Type of Writing that Pushes Women Away
Dahlia
Jan 8, 2025, 6:54 PM
22
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Ann Altman has filed a lawsuit in US federal court alleging that she was sexually abused by Sam Altman
quanticle
Jan 8, 2025, 2:59 PM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI Safety Outreach Seminar & Social (online)
Linda Linsefors
Jan 8, 2025, 1:25 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
XX by Rian Hughes: Pretentious Bullshit
Yair Halberstadt
Jan 8, 2025, 1:02 PM
33
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Activation space interpretability may be doomed
bilalchughtai
and
Lucius Bushnaq
Jan 8, 2025, 12:49 PM
148
points
34
comments
8
min read
LW
link
AI Safety as a YC Startup
Lukas Petersson
Jan 8, 2025, 10:46 AM
56
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The absolute basics of representation theory of finite groups
Dmitry Vaintrob
Jan 8, 2025, 9:47 AM
21
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
Implications of the AI Security Gap
Dan Braun
Jan 8, 2025, 8:31 AM
45
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
What are polysemantic neurons?
Vishakha
and
Algon
Jan 8, 2025, 7:35 AM
8
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(aisafety.info)
Tips On Empirical Research Slides
James Chua
,
John Hughes
,
Ethan Perez
and
Owain_Evans
Jan 8, 2025, 5:06 AM
90
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
On Eating the Sun
jessicata
Jan 8, 2025, 4:57 AM
94
points
96
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)
Book review: Range by David Epstein
PatrickDFarley
Jan 8, 2025, 4:27 AM
12
points
0
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Can we have Epiphanies and Eureka moments more frequently?
CstineSublime
Jan 8, 2025, 2:20 AM
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Job Opening: SWE to help improve grant-making software
Ethan Ashkie
Jan 8, 2025, 12:54 AM
22
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(survivalandflourishing.com)
Markov’s Inequality Explained
criticalpoints
Jan 8, 2025, 12:31 AM
13
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(eregis.github.io)
Stream Entry
lsusr
Jan 7, 2025, 11:56 PM
76
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Don’t fall for ontology pyramid schemes
Lorec
Jan 7, 2025, 11:29 PM
16
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bridgewater x Metaculus Forecasting Contest Goes Global — Feb 3, $25k, Opportunities
ChristianWilliams
Jan 7, 2025, 9:40 PM
10
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.metaculus.com)
A Principled Cartoon Guide to NVC
plex
and
Espedair Street
Jan 7, 2025, 9:01 PM
39
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Disagreement on AGI Suggests It’s Near
tangerine
Jan 7, 2025, 8:42 PM
30
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Role embeddings: making authorship more salient to LLMs
Nina Panickssery
and
Christopher Ackerman
Jan 7, 2025, 8:13 PM
50
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Will bird flu be the next Covid? “Little chance” says my dashboard.
Nathan Young
Jan 7, 2025, 8:10 PM
27
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty
tandem
Jan 7, 2025, 7:11 PM
137
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Predicting AI Releases Through Side Channels
Reworr R
Jan 7, 2025, 7:06 PM
16
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Rebuttals for ~all criticisms of AIXI
Cole Wyeth
Jan 7, 2025, 5:41 PM
25
points
17
comments
14
min read
LW
link
OpenAI #10: Reflections
Zvi
Jan 7, 2025, 5:00 PM
149
points
7
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Some implications of radical empathy
MichaelStJules
Jan 7, 2025, 4:10 PM
3
points
0
comments
LW
link
Actualism, asymmetry and extinction
MichaelStJules
7 Jan 2025 16:02 UTC
1
point
4
comments
LW
link
Meditation insights as phase shifts in your self-model
Jonas Hallgren
7 Jan 2025 10:09 UTC
13
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Alleviating shrimp pain is immoral.
G Wood
7 Jan 2025 7:28 UTC
−7
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
D&D.Sci Dungeonbuilding: the Dungeon Tournament Evaluation & Ruleset
aphyer
7 Jan 2025 5:02 UTC
33
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Incredibow
jefftk
7 Jan 2025 3:30 UTC
17
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Building Big Science from the Bottom-Up: A Fractal Approach to AI Safety
Lauren Greenspan
7 Jan 2025 3:08 UTC
37
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
My Experience With A Magnet Implant
Vale
7 Jan 2025 3:01 UTC
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(vale.rocks)
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