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

LintzA28 Jan 2025 23:36 UTC

118 points

30 comments13 min readLW link

Reconceptualizing the Nothingness and Existence

Htarlov28 Jan 2025 20:29 UTC

8 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Fake thinking and real thinking

Joe Carlsmith28 Jan 2025 20:05 UTC

111 points

17 comments38 min readLW link

SAE regularization produces more interpretable models

Peter Lai and StefanHex

28 Jan 2025 20:02 UTC

21 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Operator

Zvi28 Jan 2025 20:00 UTC

35 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

DeepSeek Panic at the App Store

Zvi28 Jan 2025 19:30 UTC

51 points

14 comments33 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“Sharp Left Turn” discourse: An opinionated review

Steven Byrnes28 Jan 2025 18:47 UTC

220 points

31 comments31 min readLW link

Detecting out of distribution text with surprisal and entropy

Sandy Fraser28 Jan 2025 18:46 UTC

24 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

Should Art Carry the Weight of Shaping our Values?

Krishna Maneesha Dendukuri28 Jan 2025 18:43 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The memorization-generalization spectrum and learning coefficients

Dmitry Vaintrob28 Jan 2025 16:53 UTC

17 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Ten people on the inside

Buck28 Jan 2025 16:41 UTC

139 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Constitutions for ASI?

ukc1001428 Jan 2025 16:32 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

SpectrumDT28 Jan 2025 14:29 UTC

14 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Will LLMs supplant the field of creative writing?

Mr. Keating28 Jan 2025 6:42 UTC

8 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Nvidia doesn’t just sell shovels

winstonBosan28 Jan 2025 4:56 UTC

15 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Reinforcement Learning by AI Punishment

Abhishaike Mahajan28 Jan 2025 0:57 UTC

29 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

The Goodness of Morning

YanLyutnev27 Jan 2025 23:25 UTC

−11 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Jevon’s paradox and economic intuitions

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir27 Jan 2025 23:04 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Deference and Decision-Making

ben_levinstein, Daniel Herrmann and Aydin Mohseni

27 Jan 2025 22:02 UTC

28 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

How different LLMs answered PhilPapers 2020 survey

Satron27 Jan 2025 21:41 UTC

15 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

AI Strategy Updates that You Should Make

Alice Blair27 Jan 2025 21:10 UTC

20 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

A critique of Soares “4 background claims”

YanLyutnev27 Jan 2025 20:27 UTC

−8 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

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

Anthony DiGiovanni27 Jan 2025 20:25 UTC

67 points

16 comments22 min readLW link

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

anon_databoy12327 Jan 2025 19:58 UTC

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?

SpectrumDT27 Jan 2025 16:47 UTC

7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding AI World Models w/ Chris Canal

jacobhaimes27 Jan 2025 16:32 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(kairos.fm)

The present perfect tense is ruining your life

PatrickDFarley27 Jan 2025 16:14 UTC

26 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

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

Bentham's Bulldog27 Jan 2025 16:03 UTC

30 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

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

Linda Linsefors27 Jan 2025 15:33 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

To know or not to know

arisAlexis27 Jan 2025 13:17 UTC

0 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

My supervillain origin story

Dmitry Vaintrob27 Jan 2025 12:20 UTC

112 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

The Clueless Sniper and the Principle of Indifference

Jim Buhler27 Jan 2025 11:52 UTC

11 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

Scanless Whole Brain Emulation

Knight Lee27 Jan 2025 10:00 UTC

10 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

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

Alex_Steiner27 Jan 2025 3:59 UTC

3 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

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

Kristaps Zilgalvis27 Jan 2025 1:05 UTC

21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Lazy Hasselback Pommes Anna

Brendan Long26 Jan 2025 21:30 UTC

16 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

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2025 20:52 UTC

8 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

The generalization phase diagram

Dmitry Vaintrob26 Jan 2025 20:30 UTC

26 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

Starting an Egan High School

Chris Wintergreen26 Jan 2025 19:02 UTC

9 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Narratives as catalysts of catastrophic trajectories

EQ26 Jan 2025 19:01 UTC

6 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(eqmind.substack.com)

The many failure modes of consumer-grade LLMs

dereshev26 Jan 2025 19:01 UTC

2 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

so you have a chronic health issue

agencypilled26 Jan 2025 19:00 UTC

23 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

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

Logan Zoellner26 Jan 2025 18:04 UTC

6 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

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

Nathan Young26 Jan 2025 18:02 UTC

13 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

Why care about AI personhood?

Francis Rhys Ward26 Jan 2025 11:24 UTC

43 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

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

j_passeri26 Jan 2025 8:23 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Kessler’s Second Syndrome

Jesse Hoogland26 Jan 2025 7:04 UTC

70 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

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

Pathways26 Jan 2025 6:48 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Brainrot

Jesse Hoogland26 Jan 2025 5:35 UTC

43 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Notes on Argentina

Annapurna26 Jan 2025 3:51 UTC

18 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)