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[Question] Are there high-quality surveys available detailing the rates of polyamory among Americans age 18-45 in metropolitan areas in the United States?

Evan_Gaensbauer18 Jan 2024 23:50 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Manifund: 2023 in Review

Austin Chen18 Jan 2024 23:50 UTC

32 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(manifund.substack.com)

The Underreaction to OpenAI

Sherrinford18 Jan 2024 22:08 UTC

21 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Against Nonlinear (Thing Of Things)

tailcalled18 Jan 2024 21:40 UTC

58 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(thingofthings.substack.com)

Toward A Mathematical Framework for Computation in Superposition

Dmitry Vaintrob, jake_mendel and Kaarel

18 Jan 2024 21:06 UTC

203 points

18 comments63 min readLW link

The True Story of How GPT-2 Became Maximally Lewd

Writer and Jai

18 Jan 2024 21:03 UTC

70 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Gaia Network: An Illustrated Primer

Rafael Kaufmann Nedal and Roman Leventov

18 Jan 2024 18:23 UTC

3 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

On the abolition of man

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2024 18:17 UTC

88 points

18 comments41 min readLW link

More Usable Recipes

jefftk18 Jan 2024 17:40 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Good job opportunities for helping with the most important century

HoldenKarnofsky18 Jan 2024 17:30 UTC

36 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Flexibility and the Singularity

Jonathan Moregård18 Jan 2024 15:29 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

AI #48: Exponentials in Geometry

Zvi18 Jan 2024 14:20 UTC

59 points

9 comments54 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Worrisome misunderstanding of the core issues with AI transition

Roman Leventov18 Jan 2024 10:05 UTC

5 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What evidence is there for (or against) theories about the extent to which effective altruist interests motivated the ouster of Sam Altman last year?

Evan_Gaensbauer18 Jan 2024 5:14 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Does literacy remove your ability to be a bard as good as Homer?

Adrià Garriga-alonso18 Jan 2024 3:43 UTC

51 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Hypersphere Analysis Part 4: Fine-tuning and Wrapup

aphyer18 Jan 2024 3:06 UTC

25 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Some heuristics I use for deciding how much I trust scientific results

NathanBarnard18 Jan 2024 2:48 UTC

13 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Newport News VA Meetup—Living Museum

Daniel18 Jan 2024 2:05 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Experiments to Test the Probability of Strategic Deceptive Misalignment?

Oliver Daniels18 Jan 2024 0:13 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

In Strategic Time, Open-Source Games Are Loopy

StrivingForLegibility18 Jan 2024 0:08 UTC

21 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Four visions of Transformative AI success

Steven Byrnes17 Jan 2024 20:45 UTC

112 points

22 comments15 min readLW link

AI Disclosure Ballot Initiative (and voting method)

Aaron Hamlin17 Jan 2024 20:02 UTC

−8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Hatching the Cosmic Egg (Hymn to Dionysus)

rogersbacon17 Jan 2024 18:34 UTC

7 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

[Question] What do people colloquially mean by deep breathing? Slow, large, or diaphragmatic?

VipulNaik17 Jan 2024 18:01 UTC

13 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

alyssavance17 Jan 2024 17:17 UTC

45 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

On Anthropic’s Sleeper Agents Paper

Zvi17 Jan 2024 16:10 UTC

54 points

5 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Pedagogical Guide to Corrigibility

A.H.17 Jan 2024 11:45 UTC

6 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

An Introduction To The Mandelbrot Set That Doesn’t Mention Complex Numbers

Yitz17 Jan 2024 9:48 UTC

82 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

Vote in the LessWrong review! (LW 2022 Review voting phase)

habryka17 Jan 2024 7:22 UTC

26 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Coalescer Models

DaemonicSigil and bhauth

17 Jan 2024 6:39 UTC

16 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Maybe talking isn’t the best way to communicate with LLMs

mnvr17 Jan 2024 6:24 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(mrmr.io)

D&D.Sci Hypersphere Analysis Part 3: Beat it with Linear Algebra

aphyer16 Jan 2024 22:44 UTC

26 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The weak-to-strong generalization (WTSG) paper in 60 seconds

sudo16 Jan 2024 22:44 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Social media alignment test

amayhew16 Jan 2024 20:56 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com)

Medical Roundup #1

Zvi16 Jan 2024 20:30 UTC

57 points

9 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Being nicer than Clippy

Joe Carlsmith16 Jan 2024 19:44 UTC

109 points

32 comments27 min readLW link

How polysemantic can one neuron be? Investigating features in TinyStories.

Evan Anders16 Jan 2024 19:10 UTC

14 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(evanhanders.blog)

Applying AI Safety concepts to astronomy

Faris16 Jan 2024 18:29 UTC

1 point

0 comments12 min readLW link

Managing catastrophic misuse without robust AIs

ryan_greenblatt and Buck

16 Jan 2024 17:27 UTC

61 points

17 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What are the most common social insecurities?

Chipmonk16 Jan 2024 17:24 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Why wasn’t preservation with the goal of potential future revival started earlier in history?

Andy_McKenzie16 Jan 2024 16:15 UTC

31 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] Why are people unkeen to immortality that would come from technological advancements and/or AI?

Gabi QUENE16 Jan 2024 14:23 UTC

12 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

Dealing with Awkwardness

Jonathan Moregård16 Jan 2024 12:32 UTC

13 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

The impossible problem of due process

mingyuan16 Jan 2024 5:18 UTC

195 points

64 comments14 min readLW link

[Retracted] Newton’s law of cooling from first principles

Nisan16 Jan 2024 4:21 UTC

9 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Sparse Autoencoders Work on Attention Layer Outputs

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

16 Jan 2024 0:26 UTC

83 points

9 comments18 min readLW link

Goals selected from learned knowledge: an alternative to RL alignment

Seth Herd15 Jan 2024 21:52 UTC

41 points

17 comments7 min readLW link

Introducing REBUS: A Robust Evaluation Benchmark of Understanding Symbols

Arjun Panickssery and agg

15 Jan 2024 21:21 UTC

33 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Live Sound: Big-O Improvements

jefftk15 Jan 2024 19:50 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Investigating Bias Representations in LLMs via Activation Steering

DawnLu15 Jan 2024 19:39 UTC

29 points

4 comments5 min readLW link