Failures in Kindness

silentbobMar 26, 2024, 9:30 PM
416 points
60 comments9 min readLW link

On green

Joe CarlsmithMar 21, 2024, 5:38 PM
269 points
35 comments31 min readLW link

My PhD the­sis: Al­gorith­mic Bayesian Epistemology

Eric NeymanMar 16, 2024, 10:56 PM
262 points
14 comments7 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

My Clients, The Liars

ymeskhoutMar 5, 2024, 9:06 PM
247 points
86 comments7 min readLW link

“How could I have thought that faster?”

mesaoptimizerMar 11, 2024, 10:56 AM
234 points
32 comments2 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Modern Trans­form­ers are AGI, and Hu­man-Level

abramdemskiMar 26, 2024, 5:46 PM
218 points
87 comments5 min readLW link

ChatGPT can learn in­di­rect control

Raymond DMar 21, 2024, 9:11 PM
213 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

My In­ter­view With Cade Metz on His Re­port­ing About Slate Star Codex

Zack_M_DavisMar 26, 2024, 5:18 PM
189 points
187 comments6 min readLW link

Daniel Kah­ne­man has died

DanielFilanMar 27, 2024, 3:59 PM
186 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.washingtonpost.com)

Toward a Broader Con­cep­tion of Ad­verse Selection

Ricki HeicklenMar 14, 2024, 10:40 PM
177 points
61 comments13 min readLW link
(bayesshammai.substack.com)

‘Em­piri­cism!’ as Anti-Epistemology

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 14, 2024, 2:02 AM
171 points
92 comments25 min readLW link

Many ar­gu­ments for AI x-risk are wrong

TurnTroutMar 5, 2024, 2:31 AM
162 points
87 comments12 min readLW link

If you weren’t such an idiot...

Mar 2, 2024, 12:01 AM
154 points
74 comments2 min readLW link
(markxu.com)

Us­ing axis lines for good or evil

dynomightMar 6, 2024, 2:47 PM
151 points
39 comments4 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Ver­nor Vinge, who coined the term “Tech­nolog­i­cal Sin­gu­lar­ity”, dies at 79

Kaj_SotalaMar 21, 2024, 10:14 PM
149 points
25 comments1 min readLW link
(arstechnica.com)

On Devin

ZviMar 18, 2024, 1:20 PM
148 points
34 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some (prob­le­matic) aes­thet­ics of what con­sti­tutes good work in academia

Steven ByrnesMar 11, 2024, 5:47 PM
147 points
12 comments12 min readLW link

Read the Roon

ZviMar 5, 2024, 1:50 PM
136 points
6 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Worst Form Of Govern­ment (Ex­cept For Every­thing Else We’ve Tried)

johnswentworthMar 17, 2024, 6:11 PM
134 points
47 comments4 min readLW link

Com­mu­nity Notes by X

NicholasKeesMar 18, 2024, 5:13 PM
127 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

So­cial sta­tus part 1/​2: ne­go­ti­a­tions over ob­ject-level preferences

Steven ByrnesMar 5, 2024, 4:29 PM
118 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

An­thropic re­lease Claude 3, claims >GPT-4 Performance

LawrenceCMar 4, 2024, 6:23 PM
115 points
41 comments2 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

The Parable Of The Fallen Pen­du­lum—Part 1

johnswentworthMar 1, 2024, 12:25 AM
110 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Sim­ple ver­sus Short: Higher-or­der de­gen­er­acy and er­ror-correction

Daniel MurfetMar 11, 2024, 7:52 AM
110 points
8 comments13 min readLW link

SAE re­con­struc­tion er­rors are (em­piri­cally) pathological

wesgMar 29, 2024, 4:37 PM
106 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Notes from a Prompt Factory

Richard_NgoMar 10, 2024, 5:13 AM
104 points
19 comments9 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Gen­eral Thoughts on Sec­u­lar Solstice

Jeffrey HeningerMar 23, 2024, 6:48 PM
101 points
60 comments8 min readLW link

On attunement

Joe CarlsmithMar 25, 2024, 12:47 PM
100 points
12 comments22 min readLW link

LessOn­line (May 31—June 2, Berkeley, CA)

Ben PaceMar 26, 2024, 2:34 AM
100 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(Less.Online)

“Deep Learn­ing” Is Func­tion Approximation

Zack_M_DavisMar 21, 2024, 5:50 PM
98 points
28 comments10 min readLW link
(zackmdavis.net)

Stage­wise Devel­op­ment in Neu­ral Networks

Mar 20, 2024, 7:54 PM
96 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Neu­ron­pe­dia: Plat­form for ac­cel­er­at­ing re­search into Sparse Autoencoders

Mar 25, 2024, 9:17 PM
93 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Notes on Dwarkesh Pa­tel’s Pod­cast with Demis Hassabis

ZviMar 1, 2024, 4:30 PM
93 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

OpenAI: The Board Expands

ZviMar 12, 2024, 2:00 PM
92 points
1 comment30 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In­tro­duc­ing METR’s Au­ton­omy Eval­u­a­tion Resources

Mar 15, 2024, 11:16 PM
90 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(metr.github.io)

Nat­u­ral La­tents: The Concepts

Mar 20, 2024, 6:21 PM
90 points
18 comments19 min readLW link

New re­port: Safety Cases for AI

joshcMar 20, 2024, 4:45 PM
89 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

The Cog­ni­tive-The­o­retic Model of the Uni­verse: A Par­tial Sum­mary and Review

jessicataMar 27, 2024, 7:59 PM
88 points
37 comments36 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Anx­iety vs. Depression

SableMar 17, 2024, 12:15 AM
86 points
35 comments3 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

Claude 3 claims it’s con­scious, doesn’t want to die or be modified

Mikhail SaminMar 4, 2024, 11:05 PM
79 points
116 comments14 min readLW link

The Parable Of The Fallen Pen­du­lum—Part 2

johnswentworthMar 12, 2024, 9:41 PM
78 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Grief is a fire sale

Nathan YoungMar 4, 2024, 1:11 AM
77 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Prac­ti­cally-A-Book Re­view: Root­claim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate

trevorMar 28, 2024, 4:03 PM
77 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

[Question] What could a policy ban­ning AGI look like?

TsviBTMar 13, 2024, 2:19 PM
77 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

On Claude 3.0

ZviMar 6, 2024, 6:50 PM
76 points
5 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vote on An­thropic Topics to Discuss

Ben PaceMar 6, 2024, 7:43 PM
75 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

MATS AI Safety Strat­egy Curriculum

Mar 7, 2024, 7:59 PM
74 points
2 comments16 min readLW link

“Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence”: an ex­tremely brief FAQ

Steven ByrnesMar 11, 2024, 5:49 PM
74 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

The World in 2029

Nathan YoungMar 2, 2024, 6:03 PM
74 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom’s new book, “Deep Utopia”, is out today

PeterHMar 27, 2024, 11:24 AM
73 points
5 commentsLW link
(nickbostrom.com)