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Failures in Kindness
silentbob
Mar 26, 2024, 9:30 PM
416
points
60
comments
9
min read
LW
link
On green
Joe Carlsmith
Mar 21, 2024, 5:38 PM
269
points
35
comments
31
min read
LW
link
My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology
Eric Neyman
Mar 16, 2024, 10:56 PM
262
points
14
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
My Clients, The Liars
ymeskhout
Mar 5, 2024, 9:06 PM
247
points
86
comments
7
min read
LW
link
“How could I have thought that faster?”
mesaoptimizer
Mar 11, 2024, 10:56 AM
234
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(twitter.com)
Modern Transformers are AGI, and Human-Level
abramdemski
Mar 26, 2024, 5:46 PM
218
points
87
comments
5
min read
LW
link
ChatGPT can learn indirect control
Raymond D
Mar 21, 2024, 9:11 PM
213
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Slate Star Codex
Zack_M_Davis
Mar 26, 2024, 5:18 PM
189
points
187
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Daniel Kahneman has died
DanielFilan
Mar 27, 2024, 3:59 PM
186
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.washingtonpost.com)
Toward a Broader Conception of Adverse Selection
Ricki Heicklen
Mar 14, 2024, 10:40 PM
177
points
61
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(bayesshammai.substack.com)
‘Empiricism!’ as Anti-Epistemology
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 14, 2024, 2:02 AM
171
points
92
comments
25
min read
LW
link
Many arguments for AI x-risk are wrong
TurnTrout
Mar 5, 2024, 2:31 AM
162
points
87
comments
12
min read
LW
link
If you weren’t such an idiot...
kave
and
Mark Xu
Mar 2, 2024, 12:01 AM
154
points
74
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(markxu.com)
Using axis lines for good or evil
dynomight
Mar 6, 2024, 2:47 PM
151
points
39
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(dynomight.net)
Vernor Vinge, who coined the term “Technological Singularity”, dies at 79
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 21, 2024, 10:14 PM
149
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arstechnica.com)
On Devin
Zvi
Mar 18, 2024, 1:20 PM
148
points
34
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Some (problematic) aesthetics of what constitutes good work in academia
Steven Byrnes
Mar 11, 2024, 5:47 PM
147
points
12
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Read the Roon
Zvi
Mar 5, 2024, 1:50 PM
136
points
6
comments
19
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The Worst Form Of Government (Except For Everything Else We’ve Tried)
johnswentworth
Mar 17, 2024, 6:11 PM
134
points
47
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Community Notes by X
NicholasKees
Mar 18, 2024, 5:13 PM
127
points
15
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Social status part 1/2: negotiations over object-level preferences
Steven Byrnes
Mar 5, 2024, 4:29 PM
118
points
15
comments
21
min read
LW
link
Anthropic release Claude 3, claims >GPT-4 Performance
LawrenceC
Mar 4, 2024, 6:23 PM
115
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.anthropic.com)
The Parable Of The Fallen Pendulum—Part 1
johnswentworth
Mar 1, 2024, 12:25 AM
110
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Simple versus Short: Higher-order degeneracy and error-correction
Daniel Murfet
Mar 11, 2024, 7:52 AM
110
points
8
comments
13
min read
LW
link
SAE reconstruction errors are (empirically) pathological
wesg
Mar 29, 2024, 4:37 PM
106
points
16
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Notes from a Prompt Factory
Richard_Ngo
Mar 10, 2024, 5:13 AM
104
points
19
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)
General Thoughts on Secular Solstice
Jeffrey Heninger
Mar 23, 2024, 6:48 PM
101
points
60
comments
8
min read
LW
link
On attunement
Joe Carlsmith
Mar 25, 2024, 12:47 PM
100
points
12
comments
22
min read
LW
link
LessOnline (May 31—June 2, Berkeley, CA)
Ben Pace
Mar 26, 2024, 2:34 AM
100
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(Less.Online)
“Deep Learning” Is Function Approximation
Zack_M_Davis
Mar 21, 2024, 5:50 PM
98
points
28
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(zackmdavis.net)
Stagewise Development in Neural Networks
Jesse Hoogland
,
Liam Carroll
and
Daniel Murfet
Mar 20, 2024, 7:54 PM
96
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
Announcing Neuronpedia: Platform for accelerating research into Sparse Autoencoders
Johnny Lin
and
Joseph Bloom
Mar 25, 2024, 9:17 PM
93
points
7
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Notes on Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast with Demis Hassabis
Zvi
Mar 1, 2024, 4:30 PM
93
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
OpenAI: The Board Expands
Zvi
Mar 12, 2024, 2:00 PM
92
points
1
comment
30
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Introducing METR’s Autonomy Evaluation Resources
Megan Kinniment
and
Beth Barnes
Mar 15, 2024, 11:16 PM
90
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(metr.github.io)
Natural Latents: The Concepts
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Mar 20, 2024, 6:21 PM
90
points
18
comments
19
min read
LW
link
New report: Safety Cases for AI
joshc
Mar 20, 2024, 4:45 PM
89
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(twitter.com)
The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A Partial Summary and Review
jessicata
Mar 27, 2024, 7:59 PM
88
points
37
comments
36
min read
LW
link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)
Anxiety vs. Depression
Sable
Mar 17, 2024, 12:15 AM
86
points
35
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(affablyevil.substack.com)
Claude 3 claims it’s conscious, doesn’t want to die or be modified
Mikhail Samin
Mar 4, 2024, 11:05 PM
79
points
116
comments
14
min read
LW
link
The Parable Of The Fallen Pendulum—Part 2
johnswentworth
Mar 12, 2024, 9:41 PM
78
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Grief is a fire sale
Nathan Young
Mar 4, 2024, 1:11 AM
77
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
[Linkpost] Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate
trevor
Mar 28, 2024, 4:03 PM
77
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.astralcodexten.com)
[Question]
What could a policy banning AGI look like?
TsviBT
Mar 13, 2024, 2:19 PM
77
points
23
comments
3
min read
LW
link
On Claude 3.0
Zvi
Mar 6, 2024, 6:50 PM
76
points
5
comments
31
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Vote on Anthropic Topics to Discuss
Ben Pace
Mar 6, 2024, 7:43 PM
75
points
55
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MATS AI Safety Strategy Curriculum
Ronny Fernandez
and
Ryan Kidd
Mar 7, 2024, 7:59 PM
74
points
2
comments
16
min read
LW
link
“Artificial General Intelligence”: an extremely brief FAQ
Steven Byrnes
Mar 11, 2024, 5:49 PM
74
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The World in 2029
Nathan Young
Mar 2, 2024, 6:03 PM
74
points
37
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Nick Bostrom’s new book, “Deep Utopia”, is out today
PeterH
Mar 27, 2024, 11:24 AM
73
points
5
comments
LW
link
(nickbostrom.com)
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