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Fake think­ing and real thinking

Joe CarlsmithJan 28, 2025, 8:05 PM
37 points
0 comments38 min readLW link

“Sharp Left Turn” dis­course: An opinionated review

Steven ByrnesJan 28, 2025, 6:47 PM
110 points
2 comments31 min readLW link

De­tect­ing out of dis­tri­bu­tion text with sur­prisal and entropy

Sandy FraserJan 28, 2025, 6:46 PM
9 points
3 comments11 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
129 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Con­sti­tu­tions for ASI?

ukc10014Jan 28, 2025, 4:32 PM
3 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?

SpectrumDTJan 28, 2025, 2:29 PM
13 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing an LLM for cre­ative writ­ing feels wrong to me

Declan MolonyJan 28, 2025, 6:42 AM
3 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Nvidia doesn’t just sell shovels

winstonBosanJan 28, 2025, 4:56 AM
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing by AI Pu­n­ish­ment

Abhishaike MahajanJan 28, 2025, 12:57 AM
24 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.owlposting.com)

The Good­ness of Morning

YanLyutnevJan 27, 2025, 11:25 PM
−3 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

Jan 27, 2025, 10:02 PM
19 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

How differ­ent LLMs an­swered PhilPapers 2020 survey

SatronJan 27, 2025, 9:41 PM
15 points
1 comment14 min readLW link

A cri­tique of Soares “4 back­ground claims”

YanLyutnevJan 27, 2025, 8:27 PM
−4 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
66 points
7 comments1 min readLW 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
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The pre­sent perfect tense is ru­in­ing your life

PatrickDFarleyJan 27, 2025, 4:14 PM
17 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

To know or not to know

arisAlexisJan 27, 2025, 1:17 PM
0 points
3 comments6 min readLW link