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Video essay: How Will We Know When AI is Conscious?

JanPro6 Sep 2023 18:10 UTC

11 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

My First Post

Jaivardhan Nawani6 Sep 2023 17:42 UTC

35 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

ActAdd: Steering Language Models without Optimization

technicalities, TurnTrout, lisathiergart, David Udell, Ulisse Mini and Monte M

6 Sep 2023 17:21 UTC

105 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Monthly Roundup #10: September 2023

Zvi6 Sep 2023 13:20 UTC

35 points

4 comments56 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Find Hot French Food Near Me: A Follow-up

aphyer6 Sep 2023 12:32 UTC

75 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Manifest 2023

Saul Munn and Austin Chen

6 Sep 2023 11:24 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Last Chance: Get tickets to Manifest 2023! (Sep 22-24 in Berkeley)

Saul Munn and Austin Chen

6 Sep 2023 10:35 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What I’ve been reading, September 2023

jasoncrawford6 Sep 2023 9:32 UTC

17 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Decision Theory: A (Normative) Introduction

Pareto Optimal6 Sep 2023 8:22 UTC

−1 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(paretooptimal.substack.com)

[Question] What’s the easiest way to make a luminator?

kuira6 Sep 2023 0:07 UTC

7 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Ordinary claims require ordinary evidence

blake80865 Sep 2023 22:09 UTC

1 point

3 comments2 min readLW link

Conversation about paradigms, intellectual progress, social consensus, and AI

Ruby and RobertM

5 Sep 2023 21:30 UTC

14 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

LawrenceC5 Sep 2023 19:19 UTC

220 points

10 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

The Evolutionary Pathway from Biological to Digital Intelligence: A Cosmic Perspective

George3605 Sep 2023 17:47 UTC

−17 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

The Illusion of Universal Morality: A Dynamic Perspective on Genetic Fitness and Ethical Complexity

George3605 Sep 2023 17:47 UTC

−9 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Benchmarks for Detecting Measurement Tampering [Redwood Research]

ryan_greenblatt and Fabien Roger

5 Sep 2023 16:44 UTC

87 points

22 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

(arxiv.org)

[Question] Strongest real-world examples supporting AI risk claims?

rosehadshar5 Sep 2023 15:12 UTC

41 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #21: Google DeepMind’s GPT-4 Competitor, Military Investments in Autonomous Drones, The UK AI Safety Summit, and Case Studies in AI Policy

Dan H5 Sep 2023 15:03 UTC

15 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Who Has the Best Food?

Zvi5 Sep 2023 13:40 UTC

52 points

61 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

World, mind, and learnability: A note on the metaphysical structure of the cosmos [& LLMs]

Bill Benzon5 Sep 2023 12:19 UTC

4 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Deleted

goktu5 Sep 2023 8:10 UTC

−12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2023 I

jefftk5 Sep 2023 2:00 UTC

75 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Action theory is not policy theory is not agent theory

Cole Wyeth5 Sep 2023 1:38 UTC

15 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(colewyeth.com)

The purpose of the (Mosaic) law

mruwnik4 Sep 2023 23:38 UTC

7 points

5 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

174 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

109 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Impending AGI doesn’t make everything else unimportant

Igor Ivanov4 Sep 2023 12:34 UTC

29 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

15 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

18 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)