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Secular interpretations of core perennialist claims

zhukeepa25 Aug 2024 23:41 UTC

82 points

32 comments14 min readLW link

Darwinian Traps and Existential Risks

KristianRonn25 Aug 2024 22:37 UTC

76 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

DIY LessWrong Jewelry

Fluffnutt25 Aug 2024 21:33 UTC

33 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Meta: On viewing the latest LW posts

quiet_NaN25 Aug 2024 19:31 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

you should probably eat oatmeal sometimes

bhauth25 Aug 2024 14:50 UTC

42 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

Referendum Mechanics in a Marketplace of Ideas

Martin Sustrik25 Aug 2024 8:30 UTC

57 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Please stop using mediocre AI art in your posts

Raemon25 Aug 2024 0:13 UTC

109 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 35 - Peter Hase on LLM Beliefs and Easy-to-Hard Generalization

DanielFilan24 Aug 2024 22:30 UTC

21 points

0 comments74 min readLW link

The top 30 books to expand the capabilities of AI: a biased reading list

Jonathan Mugan24 Aug 2024 21:48 UTC

−6 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

The Ap Distribution

criticalpoints24 Aug 2024 21:45 UTC

14 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(eregis.github.io)

What is it to solve the alignment problem?

Joe Carlsmith24 Aug 2024 21:19 UTC

68 points

17 comments53 min readLW link

Examine self modification as an intuition provider for the concept of consciousness

weightt an24 Aug 2024 20:48 UTC

−5 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Looking to interview AI Safety researchers for a book

jeffreycaruso24 Aug 2024 19:57 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Perplexity wins my AI race

Elizabeth24 Aug 2024 19:20 UTC

107 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Why should anyone boot you up?

onur24 Aug 2024 17:51 UTC

−1 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(solmaz.io)

Understanding Hidden Computations in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

rokosbasilisk24 Aug 2024 16:35 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

August 2024 Time Tracking

jefftk24 Aug 2024 13:50 UTC

22 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Training a Sparse Autoencoder in < 30 minutes on 16GB of VRAM using an S3 cache

Louka Ewington-Pitsos24 Aug 2024 7:39 UTC

17 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Looking for intuitions to extend bargaining notions

ProgramCrafter24 Aug 2024 5:00 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Owain Evans on Situational Awareness and Out-of-Context Reasoning in LLMs

Michaël Trazzi24 Aug 2024 4:30 UTC

55 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Developing Positive Habits through Video Games

pzas24 Aug 2024 3:47 UTC

1 point

5 comments1 min readLW link

“Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?”, Epoch AI (yes)

gwern24 Aug 2024 1:40 UTC

128 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

What’s important in “AI for epistemics”?

Lukas Finnveden24 Aug 2024 1:27 UTC

41 points

0 comments28 min readLW link

(lukasfinnveden.substack.com)

Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs

Bart Bussmann, Michael Pearce, Patrick Leask, Joseph Bloom, Lee Sharkey and Neel Nanda

24 Aug 2024 0:56 UTC

60 points

9 comments20 min readLW link

Using ideologically-charged language to get gpt-3.5-turbo to disobey it’s system prompt: a demo

Milan W24 Aug 2024 0:13 UTC

2 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Crafting Polysemantic Transformer Benchmarks with Known Circuits

Evan Anders and Adrià Garriga-alonso

23 Aug 2024 22:03 UTC

10 points

0 comments25 min readLW link

[Question] What is an appropriate sample size when surveying billions of data points?

Blake23 Aug 2024 21:54 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

Kola Ayonrinde, Michael Pearce and Lee Sharkey

23 Aug 2024 18:52 UTC

39 points

5 comments16 min readLW link

How I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy

zhukeepa23 Aug 2024 17:40 UTC

126 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What do you expect AI capabilities may look like in 2028?

nonzerosum23 Aug 2024 16:59 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Invitation to lead a project at AI Safety Camp (Virtual Edition, 2025)

Linda Linsefors, Remmelt Ellen and Robert Kralisch

23 Aug 2024 14:18 UTC

17 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

If we solve alignment, do we die anyway?

Seth Herd23 Aug 2024 13:13 UTC

70 points

92 comments4 min readLW link

What’s going on with Per-Component Weight Updates?

4gate22 Aug 2024 21:22 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

Interoperable High Level Structures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives

johnswentworth and David Lorell

22 Aug 2024 21:12 UTC

49 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Interest poll: A time-waster blocker for desktop Linux programs

nahoj22 Aug 2024 20:44 UTC

4 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Turning 22 in the Pre-Apocalypse

testingthewaters22 Aug 2024 20:28 UTC

37 points

14 comments24 min readLW link

(utilityhotbar.github.io)

A Robust Natural Latent Over A Mixed Distribution Is Natural Over The Distributions Which Were Mixed

johnswentworth and David Lorell

22 Aug 2024 19:19 UTC

42 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

what becoming more secure did for me

Chipmonk22 Aug 2024 17:44 UTC

25 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

A primer on the current state of longevity research

Abhishaike Mahajan22 Aug 2024 17:14 UTC

109 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

Some reasons to start a project to stop harmful AI

Remmelt22 Aug 2024 16:23 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The economics of space tethers

harsimony22 Aug 2024 16:15 UTC

67 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

(splittinginfinity.substack.com)

Dima’s Shortform

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov22 Aug 2024 14:49 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI #78: Some Welcome Calm

Zvi22 Aug 2024 14:20 UTC

61 points

15 comments33 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How do we know dreams aren’t real?

Logan Zoellner22 Aug 2024 12:41 UTC

5 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Measuring Structure Development in Algorithmic Transformers

Micurie and Einar Urdshals

22 Aug 2024 8:38 UTC

56 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

Deception and Jailbreak Sequence: 1. Iterative Refinement Stages of Deception in LLMs

Winnie Yang and Jojo Yang

22 Aug 2024 7:32 UTC

23 points

1 comment21 min readLW link

Just because an LLM said it doesn’t mean it’s true: an illustrative example

dirk21 Aug 2024 21:05 UTC

26 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

We still have many ways to fight for AGI aligning: it’s too early to capitulate.

Crazy philosopher21 Aug 2024 20:06 UTC

−9 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you finish your tasks faster?

Cipolla21 Aug 2024 20:01 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Newsletter #40: California AI Legislation Plus, NVIDIA Delays Chip Production, and Do AI Safety Benchmarks Actually Measure Safety?

Corin Katzke, Julius, Alexa Pan and Dan H

21 Aug 2024 18:09 UTC

11 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)