You’re Play­ing a Rough Game

jefftk17 Oct 2024 19:20 UTC
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P=NP

OnePolynomial17 Oct 2024 17:56 UTC
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Fac­tor­ing P(doom) into a bayesian network

Joseph Gardi17 Oct 2024 17:55 UTC
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un­der­stand­ing bureaucracy

dhruvmethi17 Oct 2024 17:55 UTC
1 point
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AI #86: Just Think of the Potential

Zvi17 Oct 2024 15:10 UTC
58 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Con­crete benefits of mak­ing predictions

17 Oct 2024 14:23 UTC
32 points
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(fatebook.io)

Arith­metic is an un­der­rated world-mod­el­ing technology

dynomight17 Oct 2024 14:00 UTC
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The Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity of Cir­cuit Dis­cov­ery for In­ner Interpretability

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea17 Oct 2024 13:18 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

[Question] is there a big dic­tio­nary some­where with all your jar­gon and acronyms and what­not?

KvmanThinking17 Oct 2024 11:30 UTC
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[Question] Is there a known method to find oth­ers who came across the same po­ten­tial in­fo­haz­ard with­out spoiling it to the pub­lic?

hive17 Oct 2024 10:47 UTC
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It is time to start war gam­ing for AGI

yanni kyriacos17 Oct 2024 5:14 UTC
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[Question] Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: Essen­tial Step Towards AGI or Ir­rele­vant?

Double17 Oct 2024 3:37 UTC
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[Question] En­deav­orOTC le­git?

FinalFormal217 Oct 2024 1:33 UTC
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The Cog­ni­tive Boot­camp Agreement

Raemon16 Oct 2024 23:24 UTC
34 points
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Bit­ter les­sons about lu­cid dreaming

avturchin16 Oct 2024 21:27 UTC
77 points
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Towards Quan­ti­ta­tive AI Risk Management

16 Oct 2024 19:26 UTC
28 points
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Why Academia is Mostly Not Truth-Seeking

Zero Contradictions16 Oct 2024 19:14 UTC
−7 points
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Launch­ing Ad­ja­cent News

Lucas Kohorst16 Oct 2024 17:58 UTC
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[Question] In­ter­est in Leet­code, but for Ra­tion­al­ity?

Gregory 16 Oct 2024 17:54 UTC
74 points
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Re­quest for ad­vice: Re­search for Con­ver­sa­tional Game The­ory for LLMs

Rome Viharo16 Oct 2024 17:53 UTC
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Why hu­mans won’t con­trol su­per­hu­man AIs.

Spiritus Dei16 Oct 2024 16:48 UTC
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Against em­pa­thy-by-default

Steven Byrnes16 Oct 2024 16:38 UTC
60 points
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can­cer rates af­ter gene therapy

bhauth16 Oct 2024 15:32 UTC
49 points
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(bhauth.com)

Monthly Roundup #23: Oc­to­ber 2024

Zvi16 Oct 2024 13:50 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Change My Mind: Thirders in “Sleep­ing Beauty” are Just Do­ing Episte­mol­ogy Wrong

DragonGod16 Oct 2024 10:20 UTC
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[Question] After up­load­ing your con­scious­ness...

Jinge Wang16 Oct 2024 3:52 UTC
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The ELYSIUM Pro­posal - Ex­trap­o­lated voLi­tions Yield­ing Separate In­di­vi­d­u­al­ized Utopias for Mankind

Roko16 Oct 2024 1:24 UTC
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Bel­le­vue Meetup

Cedar16 Oct 2024 1:07 UTC
3 points
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Sin­gu­lar Learn­ing The­ory for Dummies

Rahul Chand15 Oct 2024 21:13 UTC
2 points
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Distil­la­tion Of Deep­Seek-Prover V1.5

IvanLin15 Oct 2024 18:53 UTC
4 points
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Im­prov­ing Model-Writ­ten Evals for AI Safety Benchmarking

15 Oct 2024 18:25 UTC
27 points
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Tak­ing non­log­i­cal con­cepts seriously

Kris Brown15 Oct 2024 18:16 UTC
7 points
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(topos.site)

Rashomon—A news­bet­ting site

ideasthete15 Oct 2024 18:15 UTC
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On the Prac­ti­cal Ap­pli­ca­tions of Interpretability

Nick Jiang15 Oct 2024 17:18 UTC
3 points
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An­thropic’s up­dated Re­spon­si­ble Scal­ing Policy

Zac Hatfield-Dodds15 Oct 2024 16:46 UTC
51 points
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(www.anthropic.com)

[Question] When is re­ward ever the op­ti­miza­tion tar­get?

Noosphere8915 Oct 2024 15:09 UTC
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An Opinionated Evals Read­ing List

15 Oct 2024 14:38 UTC
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(www.apolloresearch.ai)

An­thropic rewrote its RSP

Zach Stein-Perlman15 Oct 2024 14:25 UTC
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[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 5. Dis­so­ci­a­tive Iden­tity (Mul­ti­ple Per­son­al­ity) Disorder

Steven Byrnes15 Oct 2024 13:31 UTC
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Eco­nomics Roundup #4

Zvi15 Oct 2024 13:20 UTC
19 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is School of Thought re­lated to the Ra­tion­al­ity Com­mu­nity?

Shoshannah Tekofsky15 Oct 2024 12:41 UTC
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In­verse Prob­lems In Every­day Life

silentbob15 Oct 2024 11:42 UTC
14 points
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Think­ing LLMs: Gen­eral In­struc­tion Fol­low­ing with Thought Generation

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea15 Oct 2024 9:21 UTC
7 points
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Thoughts On the Na­ture of Ca­pa­bil­ity Elic­i­ta­tion via Fine-tuning

Theodore Chapman15 Oct 2024 8:39 UTC
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Min­i­mal Mo­ti­va­tion of Nat­u­ral Latents

14 Oct 2024 22:51 UTC
45 points
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How long should poli­ti­cal (and other) terms be?

ohmurphy14 Oct 2024 21:38 UTC
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(ohmurphy.substack.com)

Ex­am­ples of How I Use LLMs

jefftk14 Oct 2024 17:10 UTC
29 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

It’s im­por­tant to know when to stop: Mechanis­tic Ex­plo­ra­tion of Gemma 2 List Generation

Gerard Boxo14 Oct 2024 17:04 UTC
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(gboxo.github.io)

[Question] LW re­sources on child­hood ex­pe­riences?

nahir9159514 Oct 2024 17:04 UTC
10 points
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Free Will, Neu­rotyp­i­cal Dom­i­nance, and the Path to ASI and Neu­ral­inks: Evolv­ing Beyond Scarcity

j_passeri14 Oct 2024 16:54 UTC
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