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The purpose of the (Mosaic) law

mruwnik4 Sep 2023 23:38 UTC

7 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Against the Open Source / Closed Source Dichotomy: Regulated Source as a Model for Responsible AI Development

alex.herwix4 Sep 2023 20:25 UTC

4 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Notes on nukes, IR, and AI from “Arsenals of Folly” (and other books)

tlevin4 Sep 2023 19:02 UTC

11 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Hertford, Sourbut (rationality lessons from University Challenge)

Oliver Sourbut4 Sep 2023 18:44 UTC

28 points

7 comments14 min readLW link

(www.oliversourbut.net)

a rant on politician-engineer coalitional conflict

bhauth4 Sep 2023 17:15 UTC

64 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

How ForumMagnum builds communities of inquiry

Jim Fisher4 Sep 2023 16:52 UTC

33 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

Interpreting a matrix-valued word embedding with a mathematically proven characterization of all optima

Joseph Van Name4 Sep 2023 16:19 UTC

3 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

Hard Questions Are Language Bugs

George3d64 Sep 2023 14:44 UTC

29 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

(ontologi.cc)

Defunding My Mistake

ymeskhout4 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC

171 points

41 comments6 min readLW link

The omnizoid—Heighn FDT Debate #1: Why FDT Isn’t Crazy

Heighn4 Sep 2023 12:57 UTC

24 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Paper: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs

Owain_Evans, Daniel Kokotajlo, Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak, Asa Cooper Stickland, Meg and Maximilian Kaufmann

4 Sep 2023 12:54 UTC

108 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Impending AGI doesn’t make everything else unimportant

Igor Ivanov4 Sep 2023 12:34 UTC

28 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Open Thread – Autumn 2023

Raemon3 Sep 2023 22:54 UTC

26 points

111 comments1 min readLW link

What must be the case that ChatGPT would have memorized “To be or not to be”? – Three kinds of conceptual objects for LLMs

Bill Benzon3 Sep 2023 18:39 UTC

19 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Fundamental question: What determines a mind’s effects?

TsviBT3 Sep 2023 17:15 UTC

12 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

An embedding decoder model, trained with a different objective on a different dataset, can decode another model’s embeddings surprisingly accurately

Logan Zoellner3 Sep 2023 11:34 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Series of absurd upgrades in nature’s great search

lemonhope3 Sep 2023 9:35 UTC

15 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Conservation of Expected Evidence and Random Sampling in Anthropics

Ape in the coat3 Sep 2023 6:55 UTC

9 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

The goal of physics

Jim Pivarski2 Sep 2023 23:08 UTC

46 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Will value of paid sex drop right before the end of the world?

azamatvaliev2 Sep 2023 19:03 UTC

−13 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

PIBBSS Summer Symposium 2023

Nora_Ammann and DusanDNesic

2 Sep 2023 17:22 UTC

25 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

The smallest possible button (or: moth traps!)

Neil 2 Sep 2023 15:24 UTC

122 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(neilwarren.substack.com)

Steven Harnad: Symbol grounding and the structure of dictionaries

Bill Benzon2 Sep 2023 12:28 UTC

5 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Is Metaethics Unnecessary Given Intent-Aligned AI?

CBiddulph2 Sep 2023 9:48 UTC

10 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Rational Agents Cooperate in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Isaac King2 Sep 2023 6:15 UTC

17 points

66 comments12 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea2 Sep 2023 6:00 UTC

22 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Plum Cooking Temperature

jefftk2 Sep 2023 1:30 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What did you learn from leaked documents?

wassname2 Sep 2023 1:28 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

One Minute Every Moment

abramdemski1 Sep 2023 20:23 UTC

125 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

Tensor Trust: An online game to uncover prompt injection vulnerabilities

Luke Bailey and qxcv

1 Sep 2023 19:31 UTC

30 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(tensortrust.ai)

Reproducing ARC Evals’ recent report on language model agents

Thomas Broadley1 Sep 2023 16:52 UTC

103 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(thomasbroadley.com)

[Question] Why aren’t more people in AIS familiar with PDP?

Prometheus1 Sep 2023 15:27 UTC

4 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

AGI isn’t just a technology

Seth Herd1 Sep 2023 14:35 UTC

18 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Can an LLM identify ring-composition in a literary text? [ChatGPT]

Bill Benzon1 Sep 2023 14:18 UTC

4 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

What is OpenAI’s plan for making AI Safer?

brook1 Sep 2023 11:15 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(aisafetyexplained.substack.com)

Progress links digest, 2023-09-01: How ancient people manipulated water, and more

jasoncrawford1 Sep 2023 4:33 UTC

13 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX

jacobjacob1 Sep 2023 4:03 UTC

181 points

23 comments24 min readLW link

[Question] Would AI experts ever agree that AGI systems have attained “consciousness”?

Super AGI1 Sep 2023 3:57 UTC

−16 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Meta Questions about Metaphilosophy

Wei Dai1 Sep 2023 1:17 UTC

150 points

78 comments3 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Michael Nielsen remarks on ‘Oppenheimer’

22tom31 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

78 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(michaelnotebook.com)

My thoughts on AI and personal future plan after learning about AI Safety for 4 months

Ziyue Wang31 Aug 2023 15:32 UTC

7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Which Questions Are Anthropic Questions?

dadadarren31 Aug 2023 15:15 UTC

16 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

The Tree of Life, and a Note on Job

Bill Benzon31 Aug 2023 14:03 UTC

13 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Cleaning a SoundCraft Mixer

jefftk31 Aug 2023 13:20 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AI #27: Portents of Gemini

Zvi31 Aug 2023 12:40 UTC

54 points

37 comments47 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS] San Francisco ACX Meetup “First Saturday”

guenael31 Aug 2023 12:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Long-Term Future Fund Ask Us Anything (September 2023)

Linch, calebp99, abergal, habryka, Thomas Larsen, LawrenceC and Lauro Langosco

31 Aug 2023 0:28 UTC

33 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Responses to apparent rationalist confusions about game / decision theory

Anthony DiGiovanni30 Aug 2023 22:02 UTC

142 points

14 comments12 min readLW link

Invulnerable Incomplete Preferences: A Formal Statement

SCP30 Aug 2023 21:59 UTC

131 points

38 comments35 min readLW link

Report on Frontier Model Training

YafahEdelman30 Aug 2023 20:02 UTC

122 points

21 comments21 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)