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[Question] How does someone prove that their general intelligence is above average?

M. Y. Zuo16 Sep 2024 21:01 UTC

−3 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does life actually locally increase entropy?

tailcalled16 Sep 2024 20:30 UTC

10 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Xenosystems

jessicata16 Sep 2024 20:17 UTC

50 points

18 comments37 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

MIRI’s September 2024 newsletter

Harlan16 Sep 2024 18:15 UTC

46 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

Generative ML in chemistry is bottlenecked by synthesis

Abhishaike Mahajan16 Sep 2024 16:31 UTC

38 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

Secret Collusion: Will We Know When to Unplug AI?

schroederdewitt, srm, MikhailB, Lewis Hammond, chansmi and sofmonk

16 Sep 2024 16:07 UTC

56 points

7 comments31 min readLW link

GPT-o1

Zvi16 Sep 2024 13:40 UTC

86 points

34 comments46 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Can subjunctive dependence emerge from a simplicity prior?

Daniel C16 Sep 2024 12:39 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Longevity and the Mind

George3d616 Sep 2024 9:43 UTC

5 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the Deal with Logical Uncertainty?

Ape in the coat16 Sep 2024 8:11 UTC

32 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

Reinforcement Learning from Information Bazaar Feedback, and other uses of information markets

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir16 Sep 2024 1:04 UTC

5 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Hyperpolation

Gunnar_Zarncke15 Sep 2024 21:37 UTC

22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Question] If I wanted to spend WAY more on AI, what would I spend it on?

Logan Zoellner15 Sep 2024 21:24 UTC

52 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Superintelligence Can’t Solve the Problem of Deciding What You’ll Do

Vladimir_Nesov15 Sep 2024 21:03 UTC

27 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

For Limited Superintelligences, Epistemic Exclusion is Harder than Robustness to Logical Exploitation

Lorec15 Sep 2024 20:49 UTC

3 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Why I funded PIBBSS

Ryan Kidd15 Sep 2024 19:56 UTC

115 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

My disagreements with “AGI ruin: A List of Lethalities”

Noosphere8915 Sep 2024 17:22 UTC

36 points

46 comments18 min readLW link

Thirty random thoughts about AI alignment

Lysandre Terrisse15 Sep 2024 16:24 UTC

6 points

1 comment29 min readLW link

Proveably Safe Self Driving Cars [Modulo Assumptions]

Davidmanheim15 Sep 2024 13:58 UTC

27 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

SCP Foundation—Anti memetic Division Hub

landscape_kiwi15 Sep 2024 13:40 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(scp-wiki.wikidot.com)

Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding?

Isaac King15 Sep 2024 8:28 UTC

171 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

Not every accommodation is a Curb Cut Effect: The Handicapped Parking Effect, the Clapper Effect, and more

Michael Cohn15 Sep 2024 5:27 UTC

80 points

39 comments10 min readLW link

(perplexedguide.net)

AlignedCut: Visual Concepts Discovery on Brain-Guided Universal Feature Space

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea14 Sep 2024 23:23 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

How you can help pass important AI legislation with 10 minutes of effort

ThomasW14 Sep 2024 22:10 UTC

59 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Calibration training for ‘percentile rankings’?

david reinstein14 Sep 2024 21:51 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

OpenAI o1, Llama 4, and AlphaZero of LLMs

Vladimir_Nesov14 Sep 2024 21:27 UTC

83 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Forever Leaders

Justice Howard14 Sep 2024 20:55 UTC

6 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Emergent Authorship: Creativity à la Communing

gswonk14 Sep 2024 19:02 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Compression Moves for Prediction

adamShimi14 Sep 2024 17:51 UTC

20 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Pay-on-results personal growth: first success

Chipmonk14 Sep 2024 3:39 UTC

63 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Avoiding the Bog of Moral Hazard for AI

Nathan Helm-Burger13 Sep 2024 21:24 UTC

19 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] If I ask an LLM to think step by step, how big are the steps?

ryan_b13 Sep 2024 20:30 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Estimating Tail Risk in Neural Networks

Mark Xu13 Sep 2024 20:00 UTC

68 points

9 comments23 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

If-Then Commitments for AI Risk Reduction [by Holden Karnofsky]

habryka13 Sep 2024 19:38 UTC

28 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(carnegieendowment.org)

Can startups be impactful in AI safety?

Esben Kran and Archana Vaidheeswaran

13 Sep 2024 19:00 UTC

15 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

I just can’t agree with AI safety. Why am I wrong?

Ya Polkovnik13 Sep 2024 17:48 UTC

0 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Keeping it (less than) real: Against ℶ₂ possible people or worlds

quiet_NaN13 Sep 2024 17:29 UTC

17 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Why I’m bearish on mechanistic interpretability: the shards are not in the network

tailcalled13 Sep 2024 17:09 UTC

22 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

Increasing the Span of the Set of Ideas

Jeffrey Heninger13 Sep 2024 15:52 UTC

6 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

How difficult is AI Alignment?

Sammy Martin13 Sep 2024 15:47 UTC

44 points

6 comments23 min readLW link

The Great Data Integration Schlep

sarahconstantin13 Sep 2024 15:40 UTC

267 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

“Real AGI”

Seth Herd13 Sep 2024 14:13 UTC

18 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

AI, centralization, and the One Ring

owencb13 Sep 2024 14:00 UTC

80 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Evidence against Learned Search in a Chess-Playing Neural Network

p.b.13 Sep 2024 11:59 UTC

56 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

My career exploration: Tools for building confidence

lynettebye13 Sep 2024 11:37 UTC

18 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

Contra papers claiming superhuman AI forecasting

nikos, Peter Mühlbacher, Lawrence Phillips and dschwarz

12 Sep 2024 18:10 UTC

182 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

OpenAI o1

Zach Stein-Perlman12 Sep 2024 17:30 UTC

147 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

How to Give in to Threats (without incentivizing them)

Mikhail Samin12 Sep 2024 15:55 UTC

54 points

26 comments5 min readLW link

Open Problems in AIXI Agent Foundations

Cole Wyeth12 Sep 2024 15:38 UTC

42 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

On the destruction of America’s best high school

Chris_Leong12 Sep 2024 15:30 UTC

−6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(scottaaronson.blog)