Cult of Error

bayesyatina30 Apr 2023 23:33 UTC
5 points
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How can one ra­tio­nally have very high or very low prob­a­bil­ities of ex­tinc­tion in a pre-paradig­matic field?

Shmi30 Apr 2023 21:53 UTC
39 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

A small up­date to the Sparse Cod­ing in­terim re­search report

30 Apr 2023 19:54 UTC
61 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion about AI Safety fund­ing (FB tran­script)

Akash30 Apr 2023 19:05 UTC
75 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Sup­port me in a Week-Long Pick­et­ing Cam­paign Near OpenAI’s HQ: Seek­ing Sup­port and Ideas from the LessWrong Community

Percy30 Apr 2023 17:48 UTC
−21 points
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money ≠ value

stonefly30 Apr 2023 17:47 UTC
2 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Vac­cine Poli­cies Need Updating

jefftk30 Apr 2023 17:20 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 7 - Why is truth use­ful?

Gordon Seidoh Worley30 Apr 2023 16:48 UTC
10 points
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Si­mu­la­tors In­crease the Like­li­hood of Align­ment by Default

Wuschel Schulz30 Apr 2023 16:32 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Con­nec­tomics seems great from an AI x-risk perspective

Steven Byrnes30 Apr 2023 14:38 UTC
98 points
7 comments10 min readLW link1 review

The voy­age of novelty

TsviBT30 Apr 2023 12:52 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Munich

Erich30 Apr 2023 8:28 UTC
1 point
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Call for sub­mis­sions: Choice of Fu­tures sur­vey questions

c.trout30 Apr 2023 6:59 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(airtable.com)

The Unifi­ca­tion of Physics and Me­ta­physics: 22 Ax­ioms for All Existences

30 Apr 2023 4:16 UTC
−42 points
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Fo­rum Pro­posal: Karma Transfers

DirectedEvolution30 Apr 2023 0:34 UTC
20 points
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[Question] Ac­cu­racy of ar­gu­ments that are seen as ridicu­lous and in­tu­itively false but don’t have good counter-arguments

Christopher King29 Apr 2023 23:58 UTC
30 points
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A Brief In­tro­duc­tion to ACI, 3.5: How ACI im­proves Ac­tive Inference

Akira Pyinya29 Apr 2023 23:51 UTC
−7 points
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A Guide to Fore­cast­ing AI Science Ca­pa­bil­ities

Eleni Angelou29 Apr 2023 23:24 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

(A Failed Ap­proach) From Prece­dent to Utility Function

Akira Pyinya29 Apr 2023 21:55 UTC
0 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Biolog­i­cal DOOM: a brief overview of biolog­i­cal computation

Metacelsus29 Apr 2023 20:02 UTC
53 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

Hori­zon­tal vs ver­ti­cal generality

tailcalled29 Apr 2023 19:14 UTC
10 points
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[Question] Which tech­nolo­gies are stuck on ini­tial adop­tion?

Vanessa Kosoy29 Apr 2023 17:37 UTC
59 points
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Will GPT-5 be able to self-im­prove?

Nathan Helm-Burger29 Apr 2023 17:34 UTC
18 points
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Re­search agenda: Su­per­vis­ing AIs im­prov­ing AIs

29 Apr 2023 17:09 UTC
76 points
5 comments19 min readLW link

The Many Sto­ries of Science

amayhew29 Apr 2023 16:49 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com)

One bit of ob­ser­va­tion can un­lock many of op­ti­miza­tion—but at what cost?

dr_s29 Apr 2023 10:53 UTC
42 points
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[SEE NEW EDITS] No, *You* Need to Write Clearer

Nicholas / Heather Kross29 Apr 2023 5:04 UTC
261 points
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(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Pro­gram­ming an IFS for al­ter­nate uses

SilverFlame29 Apr 2023 0:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Utopia for ar­tifi­cial minds

Ocracoke28 Apr 2023 22:52 UTC
6 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Lo­cat­ing Ful­crum Experiences

LoganStrohl28 Apr 2023 20:14 UTC
73 points
31 comments17 min readLW link

“notkil­lev­ery­oneism” sounds dumb

bhauth28 Apr 2023 19:46 UTC
8 points
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Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: the Game

CrimsonChin28 Apr 2023 19:32 UTC
5 points
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LLMs and com­pu­ta­tion complexity

Jonathan Marcus28 Apr 2023 17:48 UTC
57 points
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Stu­dent com­pe­ti­tion for draft­ing a treaty on mora­to­rium of large-scale AI ca­pa­bil­ities R&D

Nayanika28 Apr 2023 17:45 UTC
1 point
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The Net­worked Me­mory Hier­ar­chy Overhang

austinsilveria28 Apr 2023 17:44 UTC
1 point
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Hiring for the role of AI Fellow

Nidhi28 Apr 2023 17:42 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.linkedin.com)

[Linkpost] Sam Alt­man’s 2015 Blog Posts Ma­chine In­tel­li­gence Parts 1 & 2

OliviaJ28 Apr 2023 16:02 UTC
70 points
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[Question] Real­is­tic near-fu­ture sce­nar­ios of AI doom un­der­stand­able for non-techy peo­ple?

RomanS28 Apr 2023 14:45 UTC
4 points
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The So­cial Align­ment Problem

irving28 Apr 2023 14:16 UTC
98 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

PhD Po­si­tion: AI In­ter­pretabil­ity in Ber­lin, Germany

Tiberius28 Apr 2023 13:44 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(stephanw.net)

A Clearer Think­ing tool that teaches you to use In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems concepts

spencerg28 Apr 2023 13:42 UTC
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(programs.clearerthinking.org)

cy­ber­punk raccoons

bhauth28 Apr 2023 2:52 UTC
20 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(bhauth.com)

AI safety logo de­sign con­test, due mid-May

Adrian Cipriani28 Apr 2023 2:00 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Dropout can cre­ate a priv­ileged ba­sis in the ReLU out­put model.

lewis smith28 Apr 2023 1:59 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Pod­cast with Divia Eden and Ronny Fer­nan­dez on the strong or­thog­o­nal­ity thesis

DanielFilan28 Apr 2023 1:30 UTC
18 points
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(youtu.be)

Si­mul­ta­neous Foot­bass and Footdrums

jefftk28 Apr 2023 0:50 UTC
10 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Tun­ing your Cog­ni­tive Strategies

Raemon27 Apr 2023 20:32 UTC
155 points
57 comments9 min readLW link
(bewelltuned.com)

The LW cross­roads of purpose

Caerulea-Lawrence27 Apr 2023 19:53 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Me­tac­u­lus Event: Fore­cast Fri­day, April 28th at 12pm ET — Speed Fore­cast­ing Ses­sion!

ChristianWilliams27 Apr 2023 19:50 UTC
0 points
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In­frafunc­tions Proofs

Diffractor27 Apr 2023 19:25 UTC
12 points
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