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The Game Board has been Flipped: Now is a good time to rethink what you’re doing

LintzAJan 28, 2025, 11:36 PM

115 points

30 comments13 min readLW link

Reconceptualizing the Nothingness and Existence

HtarlovJan 28, 2025, 8:29 PM

8 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Fake thinking and real thinking

Joe CarlsmithJan 28, 2025, 8:05 PM

110 points

13 comments38 min readLW link

SAE regularization produces more interpretable models

Peter Lai and StefanHex

Jan 28, 2025, 8:02 PM

21 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Operator

ZviJan 28, 2025, 8:00 PM

35 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

DeepSeek Panic at the App Store

ZviJan 28, 2025, 7:30 PM

51 points

14 comments33 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“Sharp Left Turn” discourse: An opinionated review

Steven ByrnesJan 28, 2025, 6:47 PM

208 points

26 comments31 min readLW link

Detecting out of distribution text with surprisal and entropy

Sandy FraserJan 28, 2025, 6:46 PM

16 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

Gettier cases, Rigid Designators, and Referential Opacity

AntigoneJan 28, 2025, 6:46 PM

1 point

1 comment21 min readLW link

Should Art Carry the Weight of Shaping our Values?

Krishna Maneesha DendukuriJan 28, 2025, 6:43 PM

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The memorization-generalization spectrum and learning coefficients

Dmitry VaintrobJan 28, 2025, 4:53 PM

17 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Ten people on the inside

BuckJan 28, 2025, 4:41 PM

139 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Constitutions for ASI?

ukc10014Jan 28, 2025, 4:32 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

All pigeons are ugly!

ErisJan 28, 2025, 3:18 PM

−9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Those of you with lots of meditation experience: How did it influence your understanding of philosophy of mind and topics such as qualia?

SpectrumDTJan 28, 2025, 2:29 PM

14 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Will LLMs supplant the field of creative writing?

Declan MolonyJan 28, 2025, 6:42 AM

4 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Nvidia doesn’t just sell shovels

winstonBosanJan 28, 2025, 4:56 AM

15 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Reinforcement Learning by AI Punishment

Abhishaike MahajanJan 28, 2025, 12:57 AM

28 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

The Goodness of Morning

YanLyutnevJan 27, 2025, 11:25 PM

−11 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Jevon’s paradox and economic intuitions

Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirJan 27, 2025, 11:04 PM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Deference and Decision-Making

ben_levinstein, Daniel Herrmann and Aydin Mohseni

Jan 27, 2025, 10:02 PM

28 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

How different LLMs answered PhilPapers 2020 survey

SatronJan 27, 2025, 9:41 PM

15 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

AI Strategy Updates that You Should Make

Alice BlairJan 27, 2025, 9:10 PM

20 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

A critique of Soares “4 background claims”

YanLyutnevJan 27, 2025, 8:27 PM

−8 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Should you go with your best guess?: Against precise Bayesianism and related views

Anthony DiGiovanniJan 27, 2025, 8:25 PM

65 points

15 comments LW link

Is it ethical to work in AI “content evaluation”?

anon_databoy123Jan 27, 2025, 7:58 PM

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Supposing that the “Dead Internet Theory” is true or largely true, how can we act on that information?

SpectrumDTJan 27, 2025, 4:47 PM

7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding AI World Models w/ Chris Canal

jacobhaimesJan 27, 2025, 4:32 PM

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(kairos.fm)

The present perfect tense is ruining your life

PatrickDFarleyJan 27, 2025, 4:14 PM

26 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children

Bentham's BulldogJan 27, 2025, 4:03 PM

29 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is the output of the softmax in a single transformer attention head usually winner-takes-all?

Linda LinseforsJan 27, 2025, 3:33 PM

25 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

To know or not to know

arisAlexisJan 27, 2025, 1:17 PM

0 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

My supervillain origin story

Dmitry VaintrobJan 27, 2025, 12:20 PM

106 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

The Clueless Sniper and the Principle of Indifference

Jim BuhlerJan 27, 2025, 11:52 AM

11 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

Scanless Whole Brain Emulation

Knight LeeJan 27, 2025, 10:00 AM

10 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Death vs. Suffering: The Endurist-Serenist Divide on Life’s Worst Fate

Alex_SteinerJan 27, 2025, 3:59 AM

3 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Are we trying to figure out if AI is conscious?

Kristaps ZilgalvisJan 27, 2025, 1:05 AM

21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Lazy Hasselback Pommes Anna

Brendan LongJan 26, 2025, 9:30 PM

15 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Links and short notes, 2025-01-26: Atlas Shrugged and the irreplaceable founder, pumping stations and civic pride, and thoughts on the eve of AGI

jasoncrawfordJan 26, 2025, 8:52 PM

8 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

The generalization phase diagram

Dmitry VaintrobJan 26, 2025, 8:30 PM

26 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

Starting an Egan High School

Chris WintergreenJan 26, 2025, 7:02 PM

9 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Narratives as catalysts of catastrophic trajectories

EQJan 26, 2025, 7:01 PM

6 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(eqmind.substack.com)

The many failure modes of consumer-grade LLMs

dereshevJan 26, 2025, 7:01 PM

2 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

so you have a chronic health issue

agencypilledJan 26, 2025, 7:00 PM

23 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

If you wanted to actually reduce the trade deficit, how would you do it?

Logan ZoellnerJan 26, 2025, 6:04 PM

6 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Anatomy of a Dance Class: A step by step guide

Nathan YoungJan 26, 2025, 6:02 PM

13 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

Why care about AI personhood?

Francis Rhys WardJan 26, 2025, 11:24 AM

43 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Navigating Diversity: Understanding Human Behaviors Through Genetics, Neurodivergence, and Trauma

j_passeriJan 26, 2025, 8:23 AM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Kessler’s Second Syndrome

Jesse HooglandJan 26, 2025, 7:04 AM

69 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Enhanced Clarity to Bridge the AI Labeling Gap?

PathwaysJan 26, 2025, 6:48 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link