A cou­ple pro­duc­tivity tips for overthinkers

Steven Byrnes20 Apr 2024 16:05 UTC
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“You’re the most beau­tiful girl in the world” and Wittgen­stei­nian Lan­guage Games

Chris_Leong20 Apr 2024 14:54 UTC
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Past Tense Features

Can20 Apr 2024 14:34 UTC
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Thoughts on seed oil

dynomight20 Apr 2024 12:29 UTC
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How to know whether you are an ideal­ist or a phys­i­cal­ist/​materialist

JackOfAllTrades20 Apr 2024 11:53 UTC
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How I Think, Part Four: Money is Weird

Richard Henage20 Apr 2024 6:21 UTC
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The power of finite and the weak­ness of in­finite bi­nary point numbers

AxiomWriter20 Apr 2024 6:03 UTC
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WISDOMISM A Mo­ral The­ory for the Age of Information

Peter lawless 19 Apr 2024 23:06 UTC
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In­duc­ing Un­prompted Misal­ign­ment in LLMs

19 Apr 2024 20:00 UTC
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Introspection

A*19 Apr 2024 19:10 UTC
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[Full Post] Progress Up­date #1 from the GDM Mech In­terp Team

19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC
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[Sum­mary] Progress Up­date #1 from the GDM Mech In­terp Team

19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC
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Daniel Den­nett has died (1942-2024)

kave19 Apr 2024 16:17 UTC
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Events Book­ing New Callers?

jefftk19 Apr 2024 15:50 UTC
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[Question] What is the best way to talk about prob­a­bil­ities you ex­pect to change with ev­i­dence/​ex­per­i­ments?

Will_Pearson19 Apr 2024 15:35 UTC
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CTMU in­sight: maybe con­scious­ness *can* af­fect quan­tum out­comes?

zhukeepa19 Apr 2024 15:23 UTC
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De­mon­strate and eval­u­ate risks from AI to so­ciety at the AI x Democ­racy re­search hackathon

Esben Kran19 Apr 2024 14:46 UTC
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[Question] How to Model the Fu­ture of Open-Source LLMs?

Joel Burget19 Apr 2024 14:28 UTC
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What’s up with all the non-Mor­mons? Weirdly spe­cific uni­ver­sal­ities across LLMs

mwatkins19 Apr 2024 13:43 UTC
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[Question] If digi­tal goods in vir­tual wor­lds in­crease GDP, do we ac­tu­ally be­come richer?

No77e19 Apr 2024 10:06 UTC
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Ex­per­i­ment on re­peat­ing choices

KatjaGrace19 Apr 2024 4:20 UTC
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Effec­tive Altru­ists and Ra­tion­al­ists Views & The case for us­ing mar­ket­ing to high­light AI risks.

gilch19 Apr 2024 4:16 UTC
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Co­he­sion and busi­ness problems

Adam Zerner19 Apr 2024 0:45 UTC
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The Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics of Death

Peter lawless 19 Apr 2024 0:36 UTC
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Back­yard Office

jefftk19 Apr 2024 0:31 UTC
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hy­dro­gen tube transport

bhauth18 Apr 2024 22:47 UTC
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LessOn­line Fes­ti­val Up­dates Thread

Ben Pace18 Apr 2024 21:55 UTC
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A Re­view of In-Con­text Learn­ing Hy­pothe­ses for Au­to­mated AI Align­ment Research

alamerton18 Apr 2024 18:29 UTC
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I’m open for pro­jects (sort of)

cousin_it18 Apr 2024 18:05 UTC
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Blessed in­for­ma­tion, garbage in­for­ma­tion, cursed information

tailcalled18 Apr 2024 16:56 UTC
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[Fic­tion] A Confession

Arjun Panickssery18 Apr 2024 16:28 UTC
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Discrim­i­nat­ing Be­hav­iorally Iden­ti­cal Clas­sifiers: a model prob­lem for ap­ply­ing in­ter­pretabil­ity to scal­able oversight

Sam Marks18 Apr 2024 16:17 UTC
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Co­op­er­a­tion is op­ti­mal, with weaker agents too  -  tldr

Ryo 18 Apr 2024 15:03 UTC
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How to co­or­di­nate de­spite our bi­ases? - tldr

Ryo 18 Apr 2024 15:03 UTC
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Knowl­edge Base 7: Long-tail knowl­edge and col­lec­tive intelligence

iwis18 Apr 2024 14:21 UTC
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AI #60: Oh the Humanity

Zvi18 Apr 2024 14:10 UTC
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UDT1.01: Log­i­cal In­duc­tors and Im­plicit Beliefs (5/​10)

Diffractor18 Apr 2024 8:39 UTC
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An ex­am­i­na­tion of GPT-2′s bor­ing yet effec­tive glitch

MiguelDev18 Apr 2024 5:26 UTC
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[Question] What if Ethics is Prov­ably Self-Con­tra­dic­tory?

Yitz18 Apr 2024 5:12 UTC
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The Mom Test: Sum­mary and Thoughts

Adam Zerner18 Apr 2024 3:34 UTC
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Ex­press in­ter­est in an “FHI of the West”

habryka18 Apr 2024 3:32 UTC
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Why Would Belief-States Have A Frac­tal Struc­ture, And Why Would That Mat­ter For In­ter­pretabil­ity? An Explainer

18 Apr 2024 0:27 UTC
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AXRP Epi­sode 28 - Su­ing Labs for AI Risk with Gabriel Weil

DanielFilan17 Apr 2024 21:42 UTC
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LLM Eval­u­a­tors Rec­og­nize and Fa­vor Their Own Generations

17 Apr 2024 21:09 UTC
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(tiny.cc)

SFS: Foun­da­tions of Forecasting

MAD217 Apr 2024 17:46 UTC
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An eth­i­cal frame­work to su­per­sede Utilitarianism

metalcrow17 Apr 2024 17:18 UTC
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Mov­ing on from com­mu­nity living

Vika17 Apr 2024 17:02 UTC
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Staged release

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Apr 2024 16:00 UTC
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[Question] Dis­com­fort Stacking

Lewis O’Brien17 Apr 2024 14:49 UTC
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FHI (Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute) has shut down (2005–2024)

gwern17 Apr 2024 13:54 UTC
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