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How Universal Basic Income Could Help Us Build a Brighter Future

Yanling Guo23 Nov 2024 22:03 UTC

−13 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Compute and size limits on AI are the actual danger

Shmi23 Nov 2024 21:29 UTC

31 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Paradigm Shifts—change everything… except almost everything

James Stephen Brown23 Nov 2024 18:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

A Sober Look at Steering Vectors for LLMs

Joschka Braun, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, RobertKirk, Daniel Tan and David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)

23 Nov 2024 17:30 UTC

31 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2018

jefftk23 Nov 2024 12:50 UTC

20 points

0 comments24 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Reward Bases: A simple mechanism for adaptive acquisition of multiple reward type

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea23 Nov 2024 12:45 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

On The Rationalist Megameetup

Screwtape23 Nov 2024 9:08 UTC

25 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Have we seen any “ReLU instead of sigmoid-type improvements” recently

KvmanThinking23 Nov 2024 3:51 UTC

2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

A few questions about recent developments in EA

Peter Berggren23 Nov 2024 2:36 UTC

24 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Paraddictions: unreasonably compelling behaviors and their uses

Michael Cohn22 Nov 2024 20:53 UTC

13 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Literacy Rates Haven’t Fallen By 20% Since the Department of Education Was Created

Maxwell Tabarrok22 Nov 2024 20:53 UTC

44 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Plausibly Factoring Conjectures

Quinn and dspivak

22 Nov 2024 20:11 UTC

22 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Optimizing Problem-Solving Strategies Through Prediction Markets

patrik-cihal22 Nov 2024 19:58 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Doing Research Part-Time is Great

casualphysicsenjoyer22 Nov 2024 19:01 UTC

37 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Rethinking Laplace’s Rule of Succession

Cleo Nardo22 Nov 2024 18:46 UTC

9 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(Salt) Water Gargling as an Antiviral

Elizabeth22 Nov 2024 18:00 UTC

88 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The Manufactured Crisis: How Society Is Willingly Tying Its Own Noose

PROPHET22 Nov 2024 17:45 UTC

−2 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Sideloading: creating a model of a person via LLM with very large prompt

avturchin and RomanS

22 Nov 2024 16:41 UTC

12 points

4 comments35 min readLW link

Neuroscience of human social instincts: a sketch

Steven Byrnes22 Nov 2024 16:16 UTC

55 points

0 comments31 min readLW link

Rebutting Every Objection To Giving To The Shrimp Welfare Project

omnizoid22 Nov 2024 16:12 UTC

−2 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

A very strange probability paradox

notfnofn22 Nov 2024 14:01 UTC

90 points

26 comments9 min readLW link

The boat

RomanS22 Nov 2024 12:56 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Which things were you surprised to learn are metaphors?

Gordon Seidoh Worley22 Nov 2024 3:46 UTC

28 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

LLM chatbots have ~half of the kinds of “consciousness” that humans believe in. Humans should avoid going crazy about that.

Andrew_Critch22 Nov 2024 3:26 UTC

77 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

Reading RFK Jr so that you don’t have to

braces22 Nov 2024 0:59 UTC

56 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Don’t want Goodhart? — Specify the damn variables

Yan Lyutnev21 Nov 2024 22:45 UTC

−3 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Don’t want Goodhart? — Specify the variables more

YanLyutnev21 Nov 2024 22:43 UTC

3 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Aligning AI Safety Projects with a Republican Administration

Deric Cheng21 Nov 2024 22:12 UTC

29 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Entropic strategy in Two Truths and a Lie

dkl921 Nov 2024 22:03 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

The Three Warnings of the Zentradi

Trevor Hill-Hand21 Nov 2024 20:28 UTC

11 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] Which things were you surprised to learn are not metaphors?

Eric Neyman21 Nov 2024 18:56 UTC

128 points

79 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic status: poetry (and other poems)

Richard_Ngo21 Nov 2024 18:13 UTC

47 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

LucaRighetti21 Nov 2024 17:28 UTC

124 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

I Have A New Paper Out Arguing Against The Asymmetry And For The Existence of Happy People Being Very Good

omnizoid21 Nov 2024 17:21 UTC

9 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Dangerous capability tests should be harder

LucaRighetti21 Nov 2024 17:20 UTC

44 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

Action derivatives: You’re not doing what you think you’re doing

PatrickDFarley21 Nov 2024 16:24 UTC

26 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

AI #91: Deep Thinking

Zvi21 Nov 2024 14:30 UTC

47 points

10 comments56 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Secular Solstice Round Up 2024

dspeyer21 Nov 2024 10:49 UTC

74 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

An Epistemological Nightmare

Ariel Cheng21 Nov 2024 2:08 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.mit.edu)

A Conflicted Linkspost

Screwtape21 Nov 2024 0:37 UTC

52 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

DeepSeek beats o1-preview on math, ties on coding; will release weights

Zach Stein-Perlman20 Nov 2024 23:50 UTC

111 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Expected Utility, Geometric Utility, and Other Equivalent Representations

StrivingForLegibility20 Nov 2024 23:28 UTC

10 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Green thumb

Pug stanky20 Nov 2024 21:52 UTC

−12 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe Rogero20 Nov 2024 21:32 UTC

74 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(subatomicarticles.com)

[Question] How can we prevent AGI value drift?

Dakara20 Nov 2024 18:19 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race

garrison20 Nov 2024 18:17 UTC

135 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Why I Think All The Species Of Significantly Debated Consciousness Are Conscious And Suffer Intensely

omnizoid20 Nov 2024 16:48 UTC

25 points

5 comments33 min readLW link

aspirational leadership

dhruvmethi20 Nov 2024 16:07 UTC

2 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Zvi’s Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF

Zvi20 Nov 2024 13:40 UTC

91 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Little Depth Goes a Long Way: the Expressive Power of Log-Depth Transformers

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea20 Nov 2024 11:48 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openreview.net)