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37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 6, 2008, 5:09 AM
238 points
78 comments9 min readLW link

Un­nat­u­ral Cat­e­gories Are Op­ti­mized for Deception

Zack_M_DavisJan 8, 2021, 8:54 PM
89 points
29 comments33 min readLW link1 review

Where to Draw the Boundaries?

Zack_M_DavisApr 13, 2019, 9:34 PM
124 points
109 comments13 min readLW link3 reviews

Philos­o­phy in the Dark­est Timeline: Ba­sics of the Evolu­tion of Meaning

Zack_M_DavisJun 7, 2020, 7:52 AM
132 points
16 comments14 min readLW link

A rev­olu­tion in philos­o­phy: the rise of con­cep­tual engineering

Suspended ReasonJun 2, 2020, 6:30 PM
141 points
50 comments21 min readLW link

Maybe Ly­ing Can’t Ex­ist?!

Zack_M_DavisAug 23, 2020, 12:36 AM
58 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Agree­ing With Stalin in Ways That Ex­hibit Gen­er­ally Ra­tion­al­ist Principles

Zack_M_DavisMar 2, 2024, 10:05 PM
29 points
25 comments58 min readLW link
(unremediatedgender.space)

Schel­ling Cat­e­gories, and Sim­ple Mem­ber­ship Tests

Zack_M_DavisAug 26, 2019, 2:43 AM
59 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Fuzzy Boundaries, Real Concepts

orthonormalMay 7, 2018, 3:39 AM
27 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Ta­boo Your Words

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 15, 2008, 10:53 PM
284 points
133 comments3 min readLW link

The Cat­e­gories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

Scott AlexanderNov 21, 2014, 2:34 PM
103 points
9 comments18 min readLW link

Sapir-Whorf for Rationalists

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Jan 25, 2023, 7:58 AM
154 points
49 comments19 min readLW link

Pon­der­ing the paucity of vol­canic pro­fan­ity post Pom­peii perusal

CraigMichaelSep 1, 2022, 9:29 AM
21 points
2 comments15 min readLW link

Sneak­ing in Connotations

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 19, 2008, 7:41 PM
84 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Blue is Arbitrary

lsusrMar 14, 2021, 9:04 AM
64 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Re­ply to Nate Soares on Dolphins

Zack_M_DavisJun 10, 2021, 4:53 AM
46 points
49 comments5 min readLW link

Dis­guised Queries

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 9, 2008, 12:05 AM
183 points
108 comments5 min readLW link

Mean­ing is Quasi-Idempotent

Chris_LeongJul 24, 2020, 4:08 AM
5 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing the Question

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 8, 2008, 3:17 AM
149 points
122 comments5 min readLW link

Ter­mi­nal Values and In­stru­men­tal Values

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 15, 2007, 7:56 AM
116 points
46 comments10 min readLW link

Words and Implications

johnswentworthOct 1, 2020, 5:37 PM
62 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

Disput­ing Definitions

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 12, 2008, 12:15 AM
118 points
46 comments5 min readLW link

How An Al­gorithm Feels From Inside

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 11, 2008, 2:35 AM
284 points
85 comments4 min readLW link

The Cluster Struc­ture of Thingspace

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 8, 2008, 12:07 AM
154 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Con­cepts Don’t Work That Way

lukeprogSep 28, 2011, 2:01 AM
88 points
92 comments8 min readLW link

Only say ‘ra­tio­nal’ when you can’t elimi­nate the word

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 31, 2012, 6:56 AM
100 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Words as Hid­den Inferences

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 3, 2008, 11:36 PM
98 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

The Fu­til­ity of Emergence

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 26, 2007, 10:10 PM
115 points
142 comments3 min readLW link

A Hill of Val­idity in Defense of Meaning

Zack_M_DavisJul 15, 2023, 5:57 PM
25 points
119 comments73 min readLW link1 review
(unremediatedgender.space)

The Dark Mir­a­cle of Optics

Suspended ReasonJun 24, 2020, 3:09 AM
27 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

The Parable of the Dagger

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 1, 2008, 8:53 PM
232 points
105 comments1 min readLW link

Blood Is Thicker Than Water 🐬

Zack_M_DavisSep 28, 2021, 3:21 AM
37 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Philo­soph­i­cal In­ves­ti­ga­tions by Wittgenstein

Chris_LeongOct 12, 2021, 8:14 PM
34 points
11 comments34 min readLW link

Com­ment on “De­cep­tion as Co­op­er­a­tion”

Zack_M_DavisNov 27, 2021, 4:04 AM
23 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Challenges to Yud­kowsky’s Pro­noun Re­form Proposal

Zack_M_DavisMar 13, 2022, 8:38 PM
50 points
56 comments39 min readLW link1 review
(unremediatedgender.space)

The Cage of the Language

Martin SustrikApr 13, 2022, 5:20 AM
54 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 2 - Why do words have mean­ing?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 18, 2022, 8:54 PM
15 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

Gen­ders Discrimination

Jacob FalkovichJul 7, 2022, 3:20 PM
10 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Feel the Meaning

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 13, 2008, 1:01 AM
61 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Please (re)ex­plain your per­sonal jargon

Nathan Helm-BurgerAug 22, 2022, 2:30 PM
23 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

The Ar­gu­ment from Com­mon Usage

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 13, 2008, 4:24 PM
62 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

No re­ally, the Sticker Short­cut fal­lacy is in­deed a fallacy

ymeskhoutJun 21, 2024, 10:27 PM
11 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(www.ymeskhout.com)

Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial Con­ceptspace, and Sim­ple Words

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 24, 2008, 11:59 PM
65 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Play­ing shell games with definitions

weverkaDec 8, 2022, 7:35 PM
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Sazen

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Dec 21, 2022, 7:54 AM
280 points
83 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews

Lan­guage Ex Machina

janusJan 15, 2023, 9:19 AM
41 points
23 comments24 min readLW link
(generative.ink)

Ly­ing Align­ment Chart

Zack_M_DavisNov 29, 2023, 4:15 PM
77 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT un­der­stands language

philosophybearJan 27, 2023, 7:14 AM
27 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

Chom­sky on ChatGPT (link)

mukashiMar 9, 2023, 7:00 AM
2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Blegg Mode

Zack_M_DavisMar 11, 2019, 3:04 PM
18 points
68 comments1 min readLW link
(unremediatedgender.space)

What is a defi­ni­tion, how can it be ex­trap­o­lated?

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 14, 2023, 6:08 PM
34 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Scott AlexanderMay 30, 2010, 9:16 PM
537 points
356 comments9 min readLW link

Notes on Sincer­ity and such

David GrossDec 1, 2020, 5:09 AM
9 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 5 - How do we know what we know?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 28, 2022, 1:28 AM
10 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

If Clar­ity Seems Like Death to Them

Zack_M_DavisDec 30, 2023, 5:40 PM
47 points
192 comments87 min readLW link1 review
(unremediatedgender.space)

Wor­ri­some mi­s­un­der­stand­ing of the core is­sues with AI transition

Roman LeventovJan 18, 2024, 10:05 AM
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Whether LLMs “un­der­stand” any­thing is mostly a ter­minolog­i­cal dispute

RobertMJul 9, 2023, 3:31 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

2-Place and 1-Place Words

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 27, 2008, 7:39 AM
125 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Two Hot Takes about Quine

Charlie SteinerJul 11, 2023, 6:42 AM
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­la­bel­ings vs. Ex­ter­nal References

Chris_LeongSep 20, 2019, 2:20 AM
12 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

En­forc­ing Type Distinction

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Jul 31, 2020, 11:39 AM
25 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Wrong Questions

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 8, 2008, 5:11 PM
81 points
138 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Honesty

David GrossOct 28, 2020, 12:54 AM
46 points
6 comments20 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Vague Ver­biage in Forecasting

trevorMar 22, 2024, 6:05 PM
11 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(goodjudgment.com)

Lin­guis­tic Freedom

Chris_LeongJan 6, 2021, 7:23 AM
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Sticker Short­cut Fal­lacy — The Real Worst Ar­gu­ment in the World

ymeskhoutJun 12, 2024, 2:52 PM
27 points
15 comments4 min readLW link
(www.ymeskhout.com)

al­ign your la­tent spaces

bhauthDec 24, 2023, 4:30 PM
27 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Fal­la­cies of Compression

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 17, 2008, 6:51 PM
100 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

The Parable of Hemlock

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 3, 2008, 2:01 AM
92 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­ten­sions and Intensions

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 4, 2008, 9:34 PM
100 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Similar­ity Clusters

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 6, 2008, 3:34 AM
64 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Hedge drift and ad­vanced motte-and-bailey

Stefan_SchubertMay 1, 2016, 2:45 PM
54 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Typ­i­cal­ity and Asym­met­ri­cal Similarity

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 6, 2008, 9:20 PM
56 points
69 comments3 min readLW link

Referenc­ing the Unreferencable

Chris_LeongApr 4, 2020, 10:42 AM
16 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Lan­guage, the Key to Everything

chris82179Feb 12, 2019, 5:06 AM
−2 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

How webs of mean­ing grow and change

HazardAug 14, 2020, 1:58 PM
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Neu­ral Categories

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 10, 2008, 12:33 AM
63 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­tended Pic­ture The­ory or Models in­side Models in­side Models

Chris_LeongMar 10, 2021, 1:24 PM
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Re­quires Com­mon In­ter­ests or Differ­en­tial Sig­nal Costs

Zack_M_DavisMar 26, 2021, 6:41 AM
40 points
13 comments3 min readLW link1 review

There’s no such thing as a tree (phy­lo­ge­net­i­cally)

eukaryoteMay 3, 2021, 3:47 AM
338 points
59 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

De­liber­ately Vague Lan­guage is Bullshit

lsusrMay 14, 2021, 9:17 AM
35 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Words as Men­tal Paint­brush Handles

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 1, 2008, 11:58 PM
50 points
76 comments3 min readLW link

Ques­tions are tools to help an­swer­ers op­ti­mize utility

ozziegooenMay 24, 2021, 7:30 PM
33 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Un­gen­dered Spanish

jefftkDec 7, 2019, 4:20 PM
20 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

En­tan­gle­ment and in­tu­ition about words and mean­ing

Bill BenzonOct 4, 2023, 2:16 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Trans­la­tions Should Invert

abramdemskiOct 5, 2023, 5:44 PM
48 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Where is the Mean­ing?

HazardJul 22, 2019, 8:18 PM
21 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

ESR’s com­ments on some EY:OB/​LW posts

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 20, 2009, 12:16 AM
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

No, Newspeak Won’t Make You Stupid

MikkWDec 18, 2020, 12:56 AM
21 points
38 comments7 min readLW link

Are (at least some) Large Lan­guage Models Holo­graphic Me­mory Stores?

Bill BenzonOct 20, 2023, 1:07 PM
11 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

On the na­ture of pur­pose

Nora_AmmannJan 22, 2021, 8:30 AM
29 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

Ab­strac­tions and translation

Amir BolousMay 20, 2021, 2:45 AM
5 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What words should be shorter in the ra­tio­nal dic­tio­nary?

brookApr 2, 2022, 4:46 PM
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Vague con­cepts, fam­ily re­sem­blance and cluster prop­er­ties

Q HomeAug 20, 2022, 10:21 AM
18 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

In­for­mal se­man­tics and Orders

Q HomeAug 27, 2022, 4:17 AM
14 points
10 comments26 min readLW link

Wis­dom Can­not Be Unzipped

SableOct 22, 2022, 12:28 AM
74 points
17 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(affablyevil.substack.com)

Word-Dis­tance vs Idea-Dis­tance: The Case for Lanoitaring

SableNov 6, 2022, 5:25 AM
7 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

Re­cent ad­vances in Nat­u­ral Lan­guage Pro­cess­ing—Some Woolly spec­u­la­tions (2019 es­say on se­man­tics and lan­guage mod­els)

philosophybearDec 27, 2022, 2:11 AM
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link

Against John Searle, Gary Mar­cus, the Chi­nese Room thought ex­per­i­ment and its world

philosophybearDec 29, 2022, 3:26 AM
21 points
43 comments8 min readLW link

Cri­tique of some re­cent philos­o­phy of LLMs’ minds

Roman LeventovJan 20, 2023, 12:53 PM
52 points
8 comments20 min readLW link

The Knock­down Ar­gu­ment Paradox

Bryan FrancesJan 28, 2023, 7:23 PM
−12 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

The Lin­guis­tic Blind Spot of Value-Aligned Agency, Nat­u­ral and Ar­tifi­cial

Roman LeventovFeb 14, 2023, 6:57 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Writ­ing Rus­sian and Ukrainian words in Latin script

ViliamOct 23, 2022, 3:25 PM
19 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

MonoPoly Restricted Trust

ymeskhoutJan 2, 2024, 11:02 PM
42 points
37 comments9 min readLW link

A Chi­nese Room Con­tain­ing a Stack of Stochas­tic Parrots

RogerDearnaleyJan 12, 2024, 6:29 AM
20 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Wittgen­stein and the Pri­vate Lan­guage Argument

TMFOWMar 24, 2024, 8:06 PM
4 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(tmfow.substack.com)

[Question] Could LLMs Help Gen­er­ate New Con­cepts in Hu­man Lan­guage?

Pekka LampeltoMar 24, 2024, 8:13 PM
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

I uni­ver­sally try­ing to re­ject the Mind Pro­jec­tion Fal­lacy—consequences

YanLyutnevAug 30, 2024, 5:42 PM
−2 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Lan­guage and Ca­pa­bil­ities: Test­ing LLM Math­e­mat­i­cal Abil­ities Across Languages

Ethan EdwardsApr 4, 2024, 1:18 PM
24 points
2 comments36 min readLW link

Is Wittgen­stein’s Lan­guage Game used when helping Ai un­der­stand lan­guage?

VisionaryHeraJun 4, 2024, 7:41 AM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is LLM Trans­la­tion Without Rosetta Stone pos­si­ble?

cubefoxApr 11, 2024, 12:36 AM
14 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

If lan­guage is for com­mu­ni­ca­tion, what does that im­ply about LLMs?

Bill BenzonMay 12, 2024, 2:55 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Phonose­man­tic Duplication

bitcoinssgJun 12, 2024, 8:19 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Could Things Be Very Differ­ent?—How His­tor­i­cal In­er­tia Might Blind Us To Op­ti­mal Solutions

James Stephen BrownSep 11, 2024, 9:53 AM
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

Walk­ing Sue

Matthew McRedmondDec 18, 2024, 1:19 PM
2 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Wittgen­stein and Word2vec: Cap­tur­ing Re­la­tional Mean­ing in Lan­guage and Thought

cleanwhiteroomJul 28, 2024, 7:55 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Col­laps­ing “Col­laps­ing the Belief/​Knowl­edge Distinc­tion”

JeremiasSep 20, 2024, 4:11 PM
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

When to join a re­spectabil­ity cascade

B JacobsSep 24, 2024, 7:54 AM
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(bobjacobs.substack.com)

I, Token

Ivan VendrovNov 25, 2024, 2:20 AM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(nothinghuman.substack.com)

We need a uni­ver­sal defi­ni­tion of ‘agency’ and re­lated words

CstineSublimeJan 11, 2025, 3:22 AM
18 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Get­tier cases, Rigid Des­ig­na­tors, and Refer­en­tial Opacity

AntigoneJan 28, 2025, 6:46 PM
1 point
0 comments21 min readLW link

elimi­nat­ing bias through lan­guage?

KvmanThinkingFeb 4, 2025, 1:52 AM
1 point
12 comments1 min readLW link

Why There Is No An­swer to Your Philo­soph­i­cal Question

Bryan FrancesMar 24, 2023, 11:22 PM
−12 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

If it quacks like a duck...

RationalMindsetMar 26, 2023, 6:54 PM
−4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Ber­mudez In­ter­face Problem

Motor VehicleMar 27, 2023, 6:11 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

How Large Lan­guage Models Nuke our Naive No­tions of Truth and Reality

Sean LeeApr 17, 2023, 6:08 PM
0 points
23 comments11 min readLW link

math ter­minol­ogy as convolution

bhauthOct 30, 2023, 1:05 AM
34 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Si­tu­at­ing LessWrong in con­tem­po­rary philos­o­phy: An in­ter­view with Jon Livengood

Suspended ReasonJul 1, 2020, 12:37 AM
117 points
21 comments19 min readLW link

The Unifi­ca­tion of Physics and Me­ta­physics: 22 Ax­ioms for All Existences

Apr 30, 2023, 4:16 AM
−42 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

How Speci­fic­ity Works

LironSep 3, 2019, 12:11 PM
90 points
47 comments7 min readLW link

The Re­la­tion Pro­jec­tion Fal­lacy and the pur­pose of life

AcademianDec 28, 2012, 4:14 AM
129 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

What Bos­ton Can Teach Us About What a Wo­man Is

ymeskhoutMay 1, 2023, 3:34 PM
18 points
45 comments12 min readLW link

The First Step is to Ad­mit That You Have a Problem

AlicornOct 6, 2009, 8:59 PM
86 points
87 comments3 min readLW link

En­tropy, and Short Codes

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 23, 2008, 3:16 AM
86 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Re­place the Sym­bol with the Substance

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 16, 2008, 6:12 PM
92 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and the English Language

Eliezer YudkowskySep 12, 2007, 10:55 PM
143 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ing “By Defi­ni­tion”

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 20, 2008, 11:37 PM
85 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

Words, Lo­cally Defined

abramdemskiMay 3, 2018, 11:26 PM
19 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Defend­ing points you don’t care about

HazardJun 19, 2019, 8:40 PM
41 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Sim­pli­cio and Sophisticus

ZviJul 22, 2018, 1:30 PM
42 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Plu­ral­is­tic Mo­ral Reductionism

lukeprogJun 1, 2011, 12:59 AM
64 points
327 comments15 min readLW link

Sta­tus 451 on Di­ag­no­sis: Rus­sell Aphasia

Zack_M_DavisAug 6, 2019, 4:43 AM
48 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(status451.com)

Con­cep­tual Anal­y­sis and Mo­ral Theory

lukeprogMay 16, 2011, 6:28 AM
95 points
481 comments8 min readLW link

Empty Labels

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 14, 2008, 11:50 PM
52 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Cat­e­go­riz­ing Has Consequences

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 19, 2008, 1:40 AM
74 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Where to Draw the Boundary?

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 21, 2008, 7:14 PM
85 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

The sen­tence struc­ture of mathematics

countedblessingsOct 7, 2019, 6:58 PM
41 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

SotW: Be Specific

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 3, 2012, 6:11 AM
86 points
294 comments12 min readLW link

Surely, rhetor­i­cal ques­tion?

GustJan 11, 2018, 8:56 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(gusbicalho.com.br)

Leaky Generalizations

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 22, 2007, 9:16 PM
59 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What are ques­tions?

Pee DoomJan 9, 2019, 7:37 AM
35 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

The Pink Sparkly Ball Thing (Use unique, non-ob­vi­ous terms for nu­anced con­cepts)

MalcolmOceanFeb 20, 2016, 11:25 PM
36 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

Vari­able Ques­tion Fallacies

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 5, 2008, 6:22 AM
47 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

The Na­ture of Logic

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 15, 2008, 6:20 AM
42 points
12 comments10 min readLW link

An LLM-based “ex­em­plary ac­tor”

Roman LeventovMay 29, 2023, 11:12 AM
16 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Large Lan­guage Models Con­verge on Brain-Like Word Representations

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaJun 11, 2023, 11:20 AM
36 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Un­nat­u­ral Categories

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 24, 2008, 1:00 AM
37 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Scal­ing laws for lan­guage en­cod­ing mod­els in fMRI

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaJun 8, 2023, 10:52 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Fabric of Real Things

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 12, 2012, 2:11 AM
43 points
308 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Map­ping Brains with Lan­guage Models: A Survey

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaJun 16, 2023, 9:49 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Se­quence Ex­er­cise: first 3 posts from “A Hu­man’s Guide to Words”

Normal_AnomalyApr 16, 2011, 5:21 PM
44 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Liv­ing Metaphorically

lukeprogNov 28, 2011, 3:01 PM
37 points
80 comments7 min readLW link

Cal­ibrate words, not just probabilities

MikkWJul 18, 2020, 5:56 AM
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Linkpost] A shared lin­guis­tic space for trans­mit­ting our thoughts from brain to brain in nat­u­ral conversations

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaJul 1, 2023, 1:57 PM
17 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Schematic Think­ing: heuris­tic gen­er­al­iza­tion us­ing Korzyb­ski’s method

romeostevensitOct 14, 2019, 7:29 PM
28 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Defi­ni­tions are about effi­ciency and con­sis­tency with com­mon lan­guage.

Nacruno96Jul 10, 2023, 11:46 PM
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ac­tors and scribes, words and deeds

BenquoApr 26, 2017, 5:12 AM
38 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tally Fuzzy Con­cepts Can’t Have Crisp Defi­ni­tions: Co­op­er­a­tion and Align­ment vs Math and Physics

VojtaKovarikJul 21, 2023, 9:03 PM
12 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

The Parable of the Dag­ger—The Animation

WriterJul 29, 2023, 2:03 PM
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Claiming Connotations

ErrorDec 9, 2012, 11:40 PM
37 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Fake Norms, or “Truth” vs. Truth

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 22, 2008, 10:23 AM
28 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

STRUCTURE: A Hazardous Guide to Words

HazardJun 20, 2019, 3:27 PM
8 points
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Words Aren’t Type Safe

HazardJun 19, 2019, 8:34 PM
22 points
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“Ar­bi­trary”

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 12, 2008, 5:55 PM
19 points
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Is Fair­ness Ar­bi­trary?

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 14, 2008, 1:54 AM
9 points
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Cat­e­gory Qual­ifi­ca­tions (w/​ ex­er­cises)

Logan RiggsSep 15, 2019, 4:28 PM
23 points
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The Power & Tragedy of Names

SocratesDissatisfiedNov 6, 2020, 10:50 PM
12 points
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[Linkpost] Large lan­guage mod­els con­verge to­ward hu­man-like con­cept organization

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaSep 2, 2023, 6:00 AM
22 points
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I be­lieve it’s doublethink

kerspoonFeb 21, 2012, 10:30 PM
32 points
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Fun­da­men­tal Philo­soph­i­cal Prob­lems In­her­ent in AI discourse

AlexSadlerSep 16, 2018, 9:03 PM
23 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

E-Prime

CannibalSmithApr 8, 2009, 1:01 PM
18 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Per­sua­sive­ness vs Soundness

PatrickApr 13, 2009, 8:43 AM
1 point
19 comments2 min readLW link

[un­ti­tled post]

verwindungSep 14, 2023, 4:22 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Great Disembedding

rogersbaconSep 27, 2023, 2:53 PM
16 points
4 comments16 min readLW link
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