De­bate: Get a col­lege de­gree?

12 Aug 2024 22:23 UTC
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SYSTEMA ROBOTICA

Ali Ahmed12 Aug 2024 20:34 UTC
12 points
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Ex­tract­ing SAE task fea­tures for in-con­text learning

12 Aug 2024 20:34 UTC
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Hyppotherapy

Marius Adrian Nicoară12 Aug 2024 20:07 UTC
−3 points
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Cal­ifor­ni­ans, tell your reps to vote yes on SB 1047!

Holly_Elmore12 Aug 2024 19:50 UTC
40 points
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[LDSL#5] Com­par­i­son and mag­ni­tude/​diminishment

tailcalled12 Aug 2024 18:47 UTC
21 points
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In Defense of Open-Minded UDT

abramdemski12 Aug 2024 18:27 UTC
72 points
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Hu­man­ity isn’t re­motely longter­mist, so ar­gu­ments for AGI x-risk should fo­cus on the near term

Seth Herd12 Aug 2024 18:10 UTC
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Creat­ing a “Con­science Calcu­la­tor” to Guard-Rail an AGI

sweenesm12 Aug 2024 16:03 UTC
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Shift­ing Headspaces—Tran­si­tional Beast-Mode

Jonathan Moregård12 Aug 2024 13:02 UTC
36 points
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(honestliving.substack.com)

Si­mul­ta­neous Foot­bass and Foot­drums II

jefftk11 Aug 2024 23:50 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

CultFrisbee

Gauraventh11 Aug 2024 21:36 UTC
16 points
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(y1d2.com)

Plea­sure and suffer­ing are not con­cep­tual opposites

MichaelStJules11 Aug 2024 18:32 UTC
10 points
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Com­pu­ta­tional ir­re­ducibil­ity challenges the simu­la­tion hypothesis

Clément L11 Aug 2024 16:14 UTC
3 points
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[LDSL#4] Root cause anal­y­sis ver­sus effect size estimation

tailcalled11 Aug 2024 16:12 UTC
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Closed to Interpretation

Yeshua God11 Aug 2024 15:51 UTC
−18 points
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The­o­ries of Knowledge

Zero Contradictions11 Aug 2024 8:55 UTC
−1 points
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(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Un­nat­u­ral abstractions

Aprillion10 Aug 2024 22:31 UTC
3 points
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(peter.hozak.info)

[LDSL#3] In­for­ma­tion-ori­en­ta­tion is in ten­sion with mag­ni­tude-orientation

tailcalled10 Aug 2024 21:58 UTC
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The AI reg­u­la­tor’s toolbox: A list of con­crete AI gov­er­nance practices

Adam Jones10 Aug 2024 21:15 UTC
7 points
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(adamjones.me)

Diffu­sion Guided NLP: bet­ter steer­ing, mostly a good thing

Nathan Helm-Burger10 Aug 2024 19:49 UTC
13 points
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(arxiv.org)

Tall tales and long odds

Solenoid_Entity10 Aug 2024 15:22 UTC
11 points
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The Great Or­ganism The­ory of Evolution

rogersbacon10 Aug 2024 12:26 UTC
20 points
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(www.secretorum.life)

Emer­gence, The Blind Spot of GenAI In­ter­pretabil­ity?

Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI10 Aug 2024 10:07 UTC
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Row­ing vs steering

Saul Munn10 Aug 2024 7:00 UTC
42 points
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(www.brasstacks.blog)

Over­pop­u­la­tion FAQs

Zero Contradictions10 Aug 2024 4:21 UTC
−12 points
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(zerocontradictions.net)

Fermi Es­ti­mat­ing How Long an Al­gorithm Takes

SatvikBeri10 Aug 2024 1:34 UTC
1 point
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What’s so spe­cial about like­li­hoods?

mfatt10 Aug 2024 1:07 UTC
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Prov­ably Safe AI: Wor­ld­view and Projects

9 Aug 2024 23:21 UTC
51 points
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All The Lat­est Hu­man tFUS Studies

sarahconstantin9 Aug 2024 22:20 UTC
46 points
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(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

But Where do the Vari­ables of my Causal Model come from?

Dalcy9 Aug 2024 22:07 UTC
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[LDSL#2] La­tent vari­able mod­els, net­work mod­els, and lin­ear diffu­sion of sparse lognormals

tailcalled9 Aug 2024 19:57 UTC
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“Which Fu­ture Mind is Me?” Is a Ques­tion of Values

dadadarren9 Aug 2024 18:17 UTC
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Si­mu­la­tion-aware causal de­ci­sion the­ory: A case for one-box­ing in CDT

kongus_bongus9 Aug 2024 18:09 UTC
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The gate­keep­ers of the AI al­gorithms will shape our society

ProfessorFalken9 Aug 2024 17:59 UTC
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[Question] Prac­ti­cal ad­vice for se­cure vir­tual com­mu­ni­ca­tion post easy AI voice-clon­ing?

hmys9 Aug 2024 17:32 UTC
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The Carnot Eng­ine of Economics

StrivingForLegibility9 Aug 2024 15:59 UTC
5 points
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HVM Su­per­po­si­tion Node Pro­gram Search Flake

Johannes C. Mayer9 Aug 2024 14:03 UTC
10 points
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(github.com)

Ou­trage Bonding

Jonathan Moregård9 Aug 2024 13:46 UTC
62 points
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(honestliving.substack.com)

Non-Trans­ac­tional Compliments

Jonathan Moregård9 Aug 2024 13:42 UTC
16 points
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(honestliving.substack.com)

Far­mKind’s Illu­sory Offer

jefftk9 Aug 2024 11:30 UTC
71 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Altru­ism and Selfishness

Zero Contradictions9 Aug 2024 6:15 UTC
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(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Michael Stream­lines on Buddhism

Chris_Leong9 Aug 2024 4:44 UTC
8 points
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(x.com)

Altru­ism and Vi­tal­ism Aren’t Fel­low Travelers

Arjun Panickssery9 Aug 2024 2:01 UTC
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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Car­ing only about your child may in­crease hu­man suffering

Cipolla8 Aug 2024 23:47 UTC
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The Hes­sian rank bounds the learn­ing coefficient

Lucius Bushnaq8 Aug 2024 20:55 UTC
68 points
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GPT-4o Sys­tem Card

Zach Stein-Perlman8 Aug 2024 20:30 UTC
68 points
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(openai.com)

Par­a­sites (not a metaphor)

lemonhope8 Aug 2024 20:07 UTC
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Some Unortho­dox Ways To Achieve High GDP Growth

8 Aug 2024 18:58 UTC
57 points
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You can re­move GPT2’s Lay­erNorm by fine-tun­ing for an hour

StefanHex8 Aug 2024 18:33 UTC
161 points
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