This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Nathan Young24 Apr 2024 21:21 UTC

53 points

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(fs.blog)

Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction

Andy Arditi, Oscar Obeso, Aaquib111, wesg and Neel Nanda

27 Apr 2024 11:13 UTC

68 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

So What’s Up With PUFAs Chemically?

J Bostock27 Apr 2024 13:32 UTC

31 points

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Losing Faith In Contrarianism

omnizoid25 Apr 2024 20:53 UTC

38 points

31 comments5 min readLW link

D&D.Sci

abstractapplic5 Dec 2020 23:26 UTC

51 points

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Duct Tape security

Isaac King26 Apr 2024 18:57 UTC

66 points

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Spatial attention as a “tell” for empathetic simulation?

Steven Byrnes26 Apr 2024 15:10 UTC

49 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

Superintelligence FAQ

Scott Alexander20 Sep 2016 19:00 UTC

128 points

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Open Thread Spring 2024

habryka11 Mar 2024 19:17 UTC

22 points

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My experience using financial commitments to overcome akrasia

William Howard15 Apr 2024 22:57 UTC

107 points

29 comments18 min readLW link

From Deep Learning to Constructability: Plainly-coded AGIs may be feasible in the near future

Épiphanie Gédéon and Charbel-Raphaël

27 Apr 2024 16:04 UTC

34 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Evaluation and Ruleset

abstractapplic12 Dec 2020 15:00 UTC

46 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

WSJ: Thinking doesn’t have to feel so hard

trevor27 Apr 2024 10:14 UTC

8 points

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(www.wsj.com)

Thoughts on seed oil

dynomight20 Apr 2024 12:29 UTC

260 points

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(dynomight.net)

We Are Less Wrong than E. T. Jaynes on Loss Functions in Human Society

Zack_M_Davis5 Jun 2023 5:34 UTC

45 points

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On Not Pulling The Ladder Up Behind You

Screwtape26 Apr 2024 21:58 UTC

74 points

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We are headed into an extreme compute overhang

devrandom26 Apr 2024 21:38 UTC

29 points

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Mercy to the Machine: Thoughts & Rights

False Name27 Apr 2024 16:36 UTC

10 points

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[Question] Examples of Highly Counterfactual Discoveries?

johnswentworth23 Apr 2024 22:19 UTC

154 points

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My Detailed Notes & Commentary from Secular Solstice

Jeffrey Heninger23 Mar 2024 18:48 UTC

35 points

12 comments13 min readLW link