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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JmGtMzYLpDj5LY4wG/registrations-open-for-2024-nyc-secular-solstice-and | JmGtMzYLpDj5LY4wG | Registrations Open for 2024 NYC Secular Solstice & Megameetup | Joe Rogero | On December 14th, New York City will have a Secular Solstice. Solstice is a holiday for people comfortable with uncomfortable truths and who believe in good. Secular Solstices take place in many cities around the world, but for us New York City is the best place for it. The first Solstice started here, amid towers that... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9PWnesdwmY5SHSNyx/basics-of-handling-disagreements-with-people | 9PWnesdwmY5SHSNyx | Basics of Handling Disagreements with People | Camille Berger | Epistemic Status: This is a collection of useful heuristics I’ve gathered from a wide range of books and workshops, all rather evidence-based (robustness varies). These techniques are designed to supplement basics of rationalist discourse, helping facilitate interactions—mostly with those unfamiliar with rationalist th... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JQefBJDHG6Wgffw6T/a-straightforward-explanation-of-the-good-regulator-theorem | JQefBJDHG6Wgffw6T | A Straightforward Explanation of the Good Regulator Theorem | Alfred Harwood | This post was written during the agent foundations fellowship with Alex Altair funded by the LTFF. Thanks to Alex, Jose, Daniel, Cole, and Einar for reading and commenting on a draft.
The Good Regulator Theorem, as published by Conant and Ashby in their 1970 paper (cited over 1700 times!) claims to show that 'every goo... | 2024-11-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3KzJdNLR7KfZkKrJ5/2025-q1-pivotal-research-fellowship-technical-and-policy | 3KzJdNLR7KfZkKrJ5 | 2025 Q1 Pivotal Research Fellowship (Technical & Policy) | clearthis | We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for our 2025 Q1 Pivotal Research Fellowship, a 9-week program designed to enable promising researchers to produce impactful research and accelerate their careers in technical AI safety, AI governance, and biosecurity.
About the Fellowship
The Pivotal Research Fel... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jJrD7KZgTNCKdKtmN/the-humanitarian-economy | jJrD7KZgTNCKdKtmN | The Humanitarian Economy | kylefurlong | In the past ten years, I have been developing ideas to resolve key issues that I have encountered in my own life, and in the lives of the people around me. In probing these issues for their root causes, I have identified the threat and reality of economic deprivation as the primary motivator of everyday suffering. Just... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aQoKLy9wqgpFuG3E7/expected-utility-geometric-utility-and-other-equivalent | aQoKLy9wqgpFuG3E7 | Expected Utility, Geometric Utility, and Other Equivalent Representations | StrivingForLegibility | In Scott Garrabrant's excellent Geometric Rationality sequence, he points out an equivalence between modelling an agent as
Maximizing the expected logarithm of some quantity V, E[ln(V)]Maximizing the geometric expectation of V, G[V]
And as we'll show in this post, not only can we prove a geometric version of the VNM ut... | 2024-11-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xz3kway2rhbCabEpF/theories-with-mentalistic-atoms-are-as-validly-called | xz3kway2rhbCabEpF | Theories With Mentalistic Atoms Are As Validly Called Theories As Theories With Only Non-Mentalistic Atoms | Lorec | [ This is supposed to be a didactic post. I'm not under the impression that I'm saying anything genuinely new. Thanks to Stephen Wolfram. ]
I'm about an hour in to the Yudkowsky-Wolfram discussion [AI-generated transcript from which I'm quoting]. Wolfram thinks we should not fear AI doom very much in particular. I thin... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CDcfWQyBgZ98MfybM/the-lying-p-value | CDcfWQyBgZ98MfybM | The lying p value | kqr | Quick check: do you agree or disagree with the following statement:
If a study finds a result significant at a p=0.05 level, that means they have followed a methodology which produces this conclusion correctly 95 % of the time.
Yes or no? Keep that in mind, and we’ll get back to it.
I’m reading the Fisher book where he... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yBfJAFgDvYeorLmiD/modeling-ai-driven-occupational-change-over-the-next-10 | yBfJAFgDvYeorLmiD | Modeling AI-driven occupational change over the next 10 years and beyond | 2120eth | Hello everyone! Occasional lurker, first time poster here (working in government tech ops, writer in my free time). I learned a lot from this forum when I wrote an exploratory piece about 6 key AI variables to watch last October.
Since then, I've taken a deeper dive into how quickly occupations typically change each de... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/m9mpuLxvqhktPJwca/how-to-live-well-my-philosophy-of-life-1 | m9mpuLxvqhktPJwca | How to Live Well: My Philosophy of Life | Philosofer123 | A brief summary and a link to the full document may be found here: http://philosofer123.wordpress.com
Constructive feedback is welcome. | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hecJynmtxhe2L8hCC/festival-stats-2024 | hecJynmtxhe2L8hCC | Festival Stats 2024 | jkaufman | Each year (
2014,
2015,
2016,
2017,
2018,
2019,
2023)
I put out a list of how many dance
weekends, festivals, camps, and long dances contra bands and callers
are doing. I don't really know why I do this, but it's about an hours
work on top of that I'm already collecting for
trycontra.com/events so I
might as well keep... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ha4Lk6D4eZd2LRTqq/consider-tabooing-i-think | Ha4Lk6D4eZd2LRTqq | Consider tabooing "I think" | adamzerner | People say "I think" a lot. Here are some examples:
I think you brought me the wrong order.I think the numbers in the report are wrong.I think you need to turn left at the light.I think we need to replace the whole water heater.I think iPhones are better than Android phones.I think you should quit your job and start a ... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BEFbC8sLkur7DGCYB/o1-is-a-bad-idea | BEFbC8sLkur7DGCYB | o1 is a bad idea | abramdemski | This post comes a bit late with respect to the news cycle, but I argued in a recent interview that o1 is an unfortunate twist on LLM technologies, making them particularly unsafe compared to what we might otherwise have expected:
The basic argument is that the technology behind o1 doubles down on a reinforcement learni... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pox6NtZxDvCgKtbfT/inferential-game-the-foraging-ex-bandit | pox6NtZxDvCgKtbfT | Inferential Game: The Foraging (Ex-)Bandit | abstractapplic | The encampment is empty when you awaken. This isn’t necessarily a bad sign, as you weren’t sure you’d wake up at all: there were a lot of ways your fellow bandits could have taken your impassioned impromptu speech exhorting them to “be a bit more Robin Hood about the whole thing”, and departing in the dead of night was... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gJJEjJpKiddoYGZKk/the-evals-gap | gJJEjJpKiddoYGZKk | The Evals Gap | marius-hobbhahn | In our engagements with governments, AI safety institutes, and frontier AI developers, we found the concept of the “evaluation gap” (short: ‘evals gap’) helpful to communicate the current state of the art and what is needed for the field to move towards more robust evaluations. In this post, we briefly explain the conc... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/euAMyQAQWTYyWZW8Z/summary-imagining-and-building-wise-machines-the-centrality | euAMyQAQWTYyWZW8Z | Summary: "Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition" by Johnson, Karimi, Bengio, et al. | Chris_Leong | Authors:
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Yoshua Bengio, Nick Chater, Tobias Gerstenberg, Kate Larson, Sydney Levine, Melanie Mitchell, Iyad Rahwan, Bernhard Schölkopf, Igor Grossmann
Abstract:
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have produced systems capable of increasingly sophisticated performa... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ/the-online-sports-gambling-experiment-has-failed | tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ | The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed | Zvi | Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The Gamblers I have previously been heavily involved in sports betting. That world was very good to me. The times were good, as were the profits. It was a skill game, and a form of positive-sum entertainment, and I was happy to participate and help ensure the sophisticated customer go... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uXPFAKBzZLrJnBQRs/how-i-learned-that-you-should-push-children-into-ponds | uXPFAKBzZLrJnBQRs | How I Learned That You Should Push Children Into Ponds | omnizoid | Crosspost of this, on my blog.
Effective altruism, the capitalist ultracapitalist movement in favor of capitalism and capitalism, is a white cishet settler colonialist movement. It talks a big game about doing good effectively but then some people in the movement said bad things in 1996—so how good can it really be? It... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r4FF9YWqDzcnfBZ88/the-new-ruling-philosophy-regarding-ai | r4FF9YWqDzcnfBZ88 | The new ruling philosophy regarding AI | Mitchell_Porter | I suggest that (for now) it's a mix of Marc Andreessen, Leopold Aschenbrenner, and Guillaume Verdon.
But let's back up first. What was the Biden-Harris administration's philosophy regarding AI? For the first half of Biden's term, I would say they didn't have one. As with most of the world, it was the release of ChatGPT... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zgAws2AoFE3adigvy/what-ketamine-therapy-is-like | zgAws2AoFE3adigvy | What Ketamine Therapy Is Like | Sable | Sniff-click. Sniff-click.
One shot in each nostril, and here…we…go.
A while ago, I started Ketamine therapy for depression. I didn’t finish - I changed jobs, which switched insurances, which messed everything up - but I was doing it for two and half weeks (five doses) before then, and had good results with it.
(For tho... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hf4YAmj3tdKg4mnLf/ethical-implications-of-the-quantum-multiverse | hf4YAmj3tdKg4mnLf | Ethical Implications of the Quantum Multiverse | jrwilb@googlemail.com | What kinds of ethical implications should we expect from the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (MWI)? I’ll argue that we shouldn’t expect decision-making to change. The implications are more about how we should think or feel about events in our lives, and the virtues of taking a cosmic perspective.
Accord... | 2024-11-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nKQbALm3QPZvFKQAX/current-attitudes-toward-ai-provide-little-data-relevant-to | nKQbALm3QPZvFKQAX | Current Attitudes Toward AI Provide Little Data Relevant to Attitudes Toward AGI | Seth Herd | Epistemic status: Sudden public attitude shift seems quite possible, but I haven't seen it much in discussion, so I thought I'd float the idea again. This is somewhat dashed off since the goal is just to toss out a few possibilities and questions.
In Current AIs Provide Nearly No Data Relevant to AGI Alignment, Thane R... | 2024-11-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/o3wvNSqsFunBucPaC/spherical-cow | o3wvNSqsFunBucPaC | Spherical cow | dkl9 | "Are you about to assume the lotus position?" asked Pat.
"I'm about to assume a spherical cow," retorted the Zen master.
"That's a physicist's term," Pat noted.
"I studied physics when I was younger," continued the master. "Physics will teach you how to send a rocket to the moon. It can't teach you how to properly expe... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dmXBbfQ6NiRSX9gzh/how-to-truly-feel-my-beliefs | dmXBbfQ6NiRSX9gzh | how to truly feel my beliefs? | avery-liu | I have some beliefs that I believe, but I don't feel them. Like, I consciously believe them, but subconsciously I don't. Consciously, I am fully aware that we could all go extinct by the hand of one of the many existential risks we are currently facing as a species. But I don't feel it, deep inside of me. Just like I k... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5m8B7yK2wQuoWbLfd/bay-winter-solstice-2024-song-leading-auditions | 5m8B7yK2wQuoWbLfd | Bay Winter Solstice 2024: song leading auditions | tcheasdfjkl | Hello! I am looking for community members to lead songs at the Bay Winter Solstice this year. (I am the music director; Ozy is the overall creative lead.)
If you're interested, please send me your audition recordings by the end of November 24 via this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegrNKXJCTS69ioGUxSaM... | 2024-11-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z3pdjGqSmNkbqsjcg/a-coordination-cookbook | z3pdjGqSmNkbqsjcg | A Coordination Cookbook? | azergante | Coordination can improve default outcomes, i.e. what happens when individuals act according to their own interest assuming others will do the same.
For example in a flat share the default outcome may be that the common areas stay dirty because each flatmate is willing to spend time cleaning only if they are confident ... | 2024-11-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zc5uhndCoxEKZvXoQ/electric-grid-cyberattack-an-ai-informed-threat-model | zc5uhndCoxEKZvXoQ | Electric Grid Cyberattack: An AI-Informed Threat Model | moonlightmaze | Author’s note: This post was written during a two-week long research sprint at constellation.org. My analysis represents a preliminary attempt to formulate a detailed AI-cyber threat model of attacks against the energy grid. The conclusions reached here are therefore tentative and I seek further input from experts to r... | 2024-11-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MkrEMuqEv3gBzQNDj/towards-building-blocks-of-ontologies | MkrEMuqEv3gBzQNDj | Towards building blocks of ontologies | harper-owen | This dialogue is part of the agent foundations fellowship with Alex Altair, funded by the LTFF. Thank you Dalcy, Alex Altair and Alfred Harwood for feedback and comments.
Context: I (Daniel) am working on a project about ontology identification. I've found conversations to be a good way to discover inferential gaps whe... | 2025-02-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CNA8ksMwcuXHPjXRt/personal-ai-planning | CNA8ksMwcuXHPjXRt | Personal AI Planning | jkaufman | LLMs are getting much more capable, and progress is rapid. I
use them in my daily work,
and there are many tasks where they're usefully some combination of
faster and more capable than I am. I don't see signs of these
capability increases stopping or slowing down, and if they do continue
I expect the impact on societ... | 2024-11-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E7W2n6vfbuZw8Him8/towards-a-clever-hans-test-unmasking-sentience-biases-in | E7W2n6vfbuZw8Him8 | Towards a Clever Hans Test: Unmasking Sentience Biases in Chatbot Interactions
| glykokalyx | The famous story of Clever Hans has become a cautionary tale in animal cognition. Hans was a horse in Germany in the early 1900s who could seemingly perform all kinds of smart tasks, such as simple arithmetic and spelling words. It is not explicitly documented, but it is probably safe to assume that Hans would have eve... | 2024-11-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oXYcxCHjTForxitGo/how-should-vegans-think-about-methionine-needs | oXYcxCHjTForxitGo | How should vegans think about Methionine needs? | ChristianKl | Non-animal based protein sources mostly have a different amino acid profile than animal-based protein sources. Different plants also have a different composition.
From looking a bit at the data myself it seems that if you mix different plant protein sources, you can get a good balance for most amino acids with the exp... | 2024-11-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GtZ5NM9nvnddnCGGr/ai-alignment-via-civilizational-cognitive-updates | GtZ5NM9nvnddnCGGr | AI alignment via civilizational cognitive updates | atillayasar | (This started as a reply to @Tamsin Leake 's reply in my post about why cyborgism maybe should be open. This post does not require you to read our interaction, though it lead to this, and I'm very grateful for Tamsin's reply.)
In general, this is a counterargument against:
we should only share cyborg tools (software th... | 2024-11-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uaGQJPGLCgYJcnDSP/is-p-doom-meaningful-bayesian-vs-popperian-epistemology | uaGQJPGLCgYJcnDSP | Is P(Doom) Meaningful? Bayesian vs. Popperian Epistemology Debate | Liron | Vaden Masrani and Ben Chugg, hosts of the Increments Podcast, joined me on Doom Debates to debate Bayesian vs. Popperian epistemology.
I’m on the Bayesian side, heavily influenced by the writings of Eliezer Yudkowsky. Vaden and Ben are on the Popperian side, heavily influenced by David Deutsch and the writings of Poppe... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xFvEaJtDacJvk6Wf3/bellevue-library-meetup-nov-23 | xFvEaJtDacJvk6Wf3 | Bellevue Library Meetup - Nov 23 | xida-ren | Saturday of Week 47 of 2024
Location:
Meeting room 5, Bellevue Library
1111 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004'
Google Maps: https://g.co/kgs/ASXz22S
4hr Free Parking available in underground garage
Contact: cedar.ren@gmail.com
If you can't find us: please repeatedly call 7572794582
Bring boardgames
Bring questions
Might... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RzLcLHDie5t22X3ns/poll-what-s-your-impression-of-altruism | RzLcLHDie5t22X3ns | Poll: what’s your impression of altruism? | David_Gross | Altruism is truly selfless, and it’s good.Altruism is truly selfless, and it’s bad.Altruism is enlightened self-interest, which is good.Altruism is disguised/corrupted/decadent self-interest, which is bad.
To illustrate further, though at the risk of oversimplifying…
One exponent of option #1 would be Auguste Comte who... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dbooZpRcMrEPgvvCB/lifekeeper-diaries-exploring-misaligned-ai-through | dbooZpRcMrEPgvvCB | LifeKeeper Diaries: Exploring Misaligned AI Through Interactive Fiction | tristan-tran | TL;DR
We built an interactive storytelling website to explain misaligned objectives to our moms and you should check it out.
Introduction
During a recent hackathon, we created an interactive narrative experience that illustrates a crucial concept in AI alignment: the potentially devastating consequences of seemingly be... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E3KLvSKyhMRPkEqjx/chaos-theory-in-ecology | E3KLvSKyhMRPkEqjx | Chaos Theory in Ecology | pktechgirl | One of the reasons I got into chaos theory as a model paradigm shift was the famous Gleick book on chaos. One of the reasons I believed the Gleick book was trustworthy was that its description of chaos in ecology and population biology matched what I learned in college, 25 years later. Recently I learned that the profe... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EDxoFR4XqiNWBJJCY/some-comments-on-recent-ai-safety-developments | EDxoFR4XqiNWBJJCY | Some Comments on Recent AI Safety Developments | testingthewaters | Overview of New Developments
Edit (4th of December, 2024): OpenAI has now signed up with Anduril, fulfilling my prediction that all three major AI developers will enter into agreements with the US military. See https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-partners-with-openai-to-advance-u-s-artificial-intelligence-leadershi... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Qf2752mkqFrhTaowD/formalize-the-hashiness-model-of-agi-uncontainability | Qf2752mkqFrhTaowD | Formalize the Hashiness Model of AGI Uncontainability | remmelt-ellen | null | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Er7zNyYKQgXDSz8ws/force-sequential-output-with-scp | Er7zNyYKQgXDSz8ws | Force Sequential Output with SCP? | jkaufman | In my bioinformatics work I often stream files between linux hosts and
Amazon S3. This could look like:
$ scp host:/path/to/file /dev/stdout | \
aws s3 cp - s3://bucket/path/to/file
This recently stopped working after upgrading:
ftruncate "/dev/stdout": Invalid argument
Couldn't write to "/dev/stdout": Illegal seek
I ... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HaeAdeuCZpB9hqADk/anthropic-teams-up-with-palantir-and-aws-to-sell-ai-to | HaeAdeuCZpB9hqADk | Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers | Matrice Jacobine | Anthropic on Thursday said it is teaming up with data analytics firm Palantir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude family of AI models.
The news comes as a growing number of AI vendors look to ink deals with U.S. defense customers for strategic and... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vxFbcmPLyqxCnKPEp/gpt-4o-can-in-some-cases-solve-moderately-complicated | vxFbcmPLyqxCnKPEp | GPT-4o Can In Some Cases Solve Moderately Complicated Captchas | abandon | Here are several examples; I found these captchas via the web rather than generating them anew, but none of them came attached to solutions so I'm not sure their presence in the training data would affect things in any case. (That said, it's possible that the lower resolution of the latter two degraded the adversarial ... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sacDi3xuqv9F3fERa/stone-age-herbalist-s-notes-on-ant-warfare-and-slavery | sacDi3xuqv9F3fERa | Stone Age Herbalist's notes on ant warfare and slavery | TrevorWiesinger | A fun piece on ants and instrumental convergence:
Each month millions of Argentine ants die along battlefronts that extend for miles around San Diego, where clashes occur with three other colonies in wars that may have been going on since the species arrived in the state a century ago.
Some notes on ant warfare
Many ar... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pKkw5kLi6HBaojwCC/overengineered-air-filter-shelving | pKkw5kLi6HBaojwCC | overengineered air filter shelving | bhauth | Let's consider air purifier design a bit.
preface
This post is about a potential new category of air purifier, but existing air purifiers are already worth using. You should probably have at least one at your home. For larger rooms, the Levoit Vital 200S-P is a reasonable option; that's an Amazon affiliate link. See al... | 2024-11-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MoF426vqQFmuwwnFf/bigger-livers | MoF426vqQFmuwwnFf | Bigger Livers? | sarahconstantin | My husband, Andrew Rettek, has a blog you should read. As he’s gotten into fitness, he’s started following exercise science, which is the (very new!) field of running small controlled experiments on diet and exercise on athletes who do exactly what you tell them to, under strict observation.
This is in contrast to fiel... | 2024-11-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rybwNZGGtGXA5uxsS/active-recall-and-spaced-repetition-are-different-things | rybwNZGGtGXA5uxsS | Active Recall and Spaced Repetition are Different Things | saul-munn | Epistemic status: splitting hairs. Originally published as a shortform; thanks @Arjun Panickssery for telling me to publish this as a full post.
There’s been a lot of recent work on memory. This is great, but popular communication of that progress consistently mixes up active recall and spaced repetition. That consiste... | 2024-11-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n9ANKEJnW9KAy5QSh/the-king-and-the-golem-the-animation | n9ANKEJnW9KAy5QSh | The King and the Golem - The Animation | Writer | Rational Animations' new video is an animation of The King and the Golem, by @Richard_Ngo, with minimal changes to the original text (we removed some dialogue tags). I hope you'll enjoy it! | 2024-11-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Lk7p4yCxrroQGdnHy/boring-and-straightforward-trauma-explanation | Lk7p4yCxrroQGdnHy | Boring & straightforward trauma explanation | lcmgcd | I thought of this a couple years ago and figured it was so obvious that it wasn't worth posting about, but people are still discussing trauma endlessly, and I have not seen an explanation written anywhere, so here's this.
"Trauma" is a bad experience deemed anomalous. It means "the world is not usually like that". We d... | 2024-11-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KiDKrD3sNnAgmyJxX/urbit-new-england-meetup | KiDKrD3sNnAgmyJxX | Urbit New England Meetup | conquerer-cohen | A social opportunity never to be forgotten
Urbit OS is a completely new, open-source, carefully architected software stack: a VM, programming language, and kernel designed to run software for an individual. It is computing with a human face, a world designed from the ground up to allow for the natural formation of com... | 2024-11-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RdrEBdfoo2qsGCYkX/agenda-manipulation | RdrEBdfoo2qsGCYkX | Agenda Manipulation | Pazzaz | Rigging an election can be hard. But sometimes it can be easy. If a committee has an agenda of proposals to choose from, where each proposal is compared pairwise using majority rule against another proposal, until a single proposal is victorious, then you can make any arbitrary proposal win. The McKelvey–Schofield chao... | 2024-11-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZFALpHojE4Wbe3wbc/fundamental-uncertainty-epilogue | ZFALpHojE4Wbe3wbc | Fundamental Uncertainty: Epilogue | gworley | I wrote a whole book! What's next?
I'm currently doing an edit pass on the entire book. I need to rewrite some of the early sections, fix some consistency issues, and generally look with fresh eyes on words I wrote months or years ago. Many of you provided helpful comments, and I'm using those to make the second draft ... | 2024-11-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LBuZdjqqoc9qK43zb/sam-harris-s-argument-for-objective-morality | LBuZdjqqoc9qK43zb | Sam Harris’s Argument For Objective Morality | Zero Contradictions | Apparently, the following is an argument made by Sam Harris on twitter, in a series of tweets. Unfortunately, the original tweets have been deleted, so I relied on a secondary source.
Let’s assume that there are no ought’s or should’s in this universe. There is only what *is*—the totality of actual (and possible) facts... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LzmHNZLw9thABxyaY/curriculum-of-ascension | LzmHNZLw9thABxyaY | Curriculum of Ascension | andrew-sauer | Not sure whether this belongs here or not, but there are plenty of fiction posts here. This is sort of halfway between a story and a worldbuilding document, based on many ideas I've learned from here and from adjacent spaces. Hopefully it will be interesting or useful to somebody.
======================================... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uFogwwsA8rnoiXb2q/markets-are-information-beating-the-sportsbooks-at-their-own | uFogwwsA8rnoiXb2q | Markets Are Information - Beating the Sportsbooks at Their Own Game | JJXW | TL;DR Sports betting markets are weird because there are many market makers and they unilaterally set their own prices. This combined with the fact that some sports books are better than others presents an opportunity for sharp bettors to execute a statistical arbitrage strategy across books by using information from m... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tLMrm7ELg2dPmP2a7/signaling-with-small-orange-diamonds | tLMrm7ELg2dPmP2a7 | Signaling with Small Orange Diamonds | jkaufman | There are so many important efforts to make the world better that are
significantly limited by funding, and it would be great if we could
have a culture where significant and thoughtful giving was normal and
common. It's hard to build that sort of norm if people keep their
giving private, however, and so I've
long bee... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xaqR7AxSYmcpsuEPW/ai-89-trump-card | xaqR7AxSYmcpsuEPW | AI #89: Trump Card | Zvi | A lot happened in AI this week, but most people’s focus was very much elsewhere.
I’ll start with what Trump might mean for AI policy, then move on to the rest. This is the future we have to live in, and potentially save. Back to work, as they say.
Table of Contents
Trump Card. What does Trump’s victory mean for AI poli... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hB2CTaxqJAeh5jdfF/quantum-immortality-a-perspective-if-ai-doomers-are-probably | hB2CTaxqJAeh5jdfF | Quantum Immortality: A Perspective if AI Doomers are Probably Right | avturchin | Epistemic status: This text presents a thought experiment suggested by James Miller, along with Alexey Turchin's musings on possible solutions. While our thoughts are largely aligned (we both accept high chances of quantum Immortality and the timeline selection principle), some ideas are more personal (e.g., Turchin's ... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2KduK9QYkDqPZRJBM/in-the-name-of-all-that-needs-saving | 2KduK9QYkDqPZRJBM | In the Name of All That Needs Saving | pleiotroth | There is some difference between despotic and cosmopolitan agents. A despotic agent builds a universe grabbing Singleton and makes it satisfy its own desires. A cosmopolitan agent builds a universe grabbing Singleton and makes it satisfy the desires of all the things which ought be granted some steering-power. The cosm... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gKmKLKsEF5czxwLiQ/agency-overhang-as-a-proxy-for-sharp-left-turn | gKmKLKsEF5czxwLiQ | Agency overhang as a proxy for Sharp left turn | anton-zheltoukhov | I've been accepted as a mentor for the next AI Safety Camp. You can apply to work with me and the team.
The deadline for applicants is November 17.
The program will run from January 11 to April 27.
Summary
Core underlying hypothesis - we believe that there is a significant agency overhang in the modern LLMs, meaning th... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CFyt5fRpCQk8spDuR/what-are-the-primary-drivers-that-caused-selection-pressure | CFyt5fRpCQk8spDuR | What are the primary drivers that caused selection pressure for intelligence in humans? | Simon Skade | I just read the wikipedia article on the evolution of human intelligence, and TBH I wasn't super impressed with the quality of the considerations there.
I currently have 3 main (categories of) hypotheses for what caused selection pressure for intelligence in humans. (But please post an answer if you have other hypothes... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MhBRGfTRJKtjc44eJ/the-logistics-of-distribution-of-meaning-against-epistemic | MhBRGfTRJKtjc44eJ | The Logistics of Distribution of Meaning: Against Epistemic Bureaucratization | Sahil | This is an excerpt from the Introduction section to a book-length project that was kicked off as a response to the framing of the essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy. Many unrelated-seeming threads open in this post, that will come together by the end of the overall sequence.
If you don't like ... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ABYqFqd3wzgguexjT/should-ca-tx-ok-and-la-merge-into-a-giant-swing-state-just | ABYqFqd3wzgguexjT | Should CA, TX, OK, and LA merge into a giant swing state, just for elections? | thomas-kwa | As Americans know, the electoral college gives disproportionate influence to swing states, which means a vote in the extremely blue state of California was basically wasted in the 2024 election, as are votes in extremely red states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. State legislatures have the Constitutional power to... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wwYsbiEduyvH4NM8y/new-funding-category-open-in-foresight-s-ai-safety-grants | wwYsbiEduyvH4NM8y | New Funding Category Open in Foresight's AI Safety Grants | allison-duettmann | Foresight Institute's AI Safety Grants Program added a new focus area in response to the continually evolving field. Moving forward, our funding ($1.5M-$2M annually) will be allocated across the following four focus areas:
Automating AI-relevant research and forecastingScaling AI-enabled research to support safe AGI de... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QgAawjgMfxudZfdQt/what-ai-safety-researchers-can-learn-from-mahatma-gandhi | QgAawjgMfxudZfdQt | What AI safety researchers can learn from Mahatma Gandhi | Lysandre Terrisse | Summary
There should be more people like Mahatma Gandhi in the AI safety community, so that AI safety is a source of inspiration for both future and current generations. Without nonviolence and benevolence, we may be unable to advocate for AI safety.
Introduction
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi... | 2024-11-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wN4oWB4xhiiHJF9bS/llms-look-increasingly-like-general-reasoners | wN4oWB4xhiiHJF9bS | LLMs Look Increasingly Like General Reasoners | eggsyntax | Summary
Four months after my post 'LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux', new research on o1-preview should update us significantly toward LLMs being capable of general reasoning, and hence of scaling straight to AGI, and shorten our timeline estimates.
Summary of previous post
In June of 2024, I wrote a post, 'LLM Genera... | 2024-11-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eco7BGbbrKkRi6mqH/new-uchicago-rationality-group | eco7BGbbrKkRi6mqH | New UChicago Rationality Group | daniel-birnbaum | Hey y'all!
I just started a rationality group on the UChicago campus and wanted to post it here to advertise it to UChicago-affiliated LessWrong readers. We've had a couple meetings so far which have been great, and I'm excited for more! A few more things:
(1) You can join the email list by submitting this form to be u... | 2024-11-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zmDdjxmBrcY3tqsJ8/the-bayesian-conspiracy-live-recording | zmDdjxmBrcY3tqsJ8 | The Bayesian Conspiracy Live Recording | Eneasz | Both hosts of The Bayesian Conspiracy podcast will be at Lighthaven in Berkeley on Wednesday Nov 13th. Eneasz Brodski and Steven Zuber take questions from the audience and online for a free-form live recording of The Bayesian Conspiracy podcast, from 4pm to 6pm, in Glass Hall. | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KfzX5SQmCGxJuWn5X/meme-talking-points | KfzX5SQmCGxJuWn5X | Meme Talking Points | ymeskhout | I’m going to describe a phenomenon that’s likely very obvious, but nevertheless I think it’s worth documenting because I’ve noticed it more and more. I’ll refer to it as Meme Talking Points, and the first instance I noticed this was based on my conversation on the Ray Epps conspiracy theory earlier this year. My interl... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RZDTDJwR7taQGgmhm/advisors-for-smaller-major-donors | RZDTDJwR7taQGgmhm | Advisors for Smaller Major Donors? | jkaufman | Open Philanthropy (OP) is the largest grantmaker who is moving money to the
things I think are most valuable, including (disclosure!)
my work at the NAO. There's
been a lot of discussion in the effective altruism community about
where this leaves smaller donors, and where they might have a
comparative
advantage. For ... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FkYAYQQig4FDTN6r5/scissors-statements-for-president | FkYAYQQig4FDTN6r5 | Scissors Statements for President? | AnnaSalamon | (Epistemic status: I spoke simply / without "appears to" hedges, but I'm not sure of this at all.)
I’m confused why we keep getting scissors statements as our Presidential candidates, but we do. (That is: the candidates seem to break many minds/communities.)
A toy model:[1]
Take two capacities, A and B. Ideally anti-... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zhcd4Ap487u8sWAaE/how-to-cite-lesswrong-as-an-academic-source | Zhcd4Ap487u8sWAaE | How to cite LessWrong as an academic source? | LiamLaw | Hi there.
Quick question. I am using a few articles from LessWrong for a dissertation. Are there any mainstream articles/sources that reference LessWrong as being the catalyst/partial source for AI alignment, researchers, and other academic literature? I think it's snobbish, or, discriminatory to regard LessWrong as me... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RveeCTcoApkAtd7oA/anthropic-three-sketches-of-asl-4-safety-case-components | RveeCTcoApkAtd7oA | Anthropic: Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components | Zach Stein-Perlman | The cleanest argument that current-day AI models will not cause a catastrophe is probably that they lack the capability to do so. However, as capabilities improve, we’ll need new tools for ensuring that AI models won’t cause a catastrophe even if we can’t rule out the capability. Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wK6G4Bdjs3mAaNR4w/how-to-put-california-and-texas-on-the-campaign-trail | wK6G4Bdjs3mAaNR4w | How to put California and Texas on the campaign trail! | yair-halberstadt | In the USA, the president isn't determined by a straight vote. Instead, each state gets a certain number of Electoral College (EC) votes, and the candidate with 270 EC votes wins.
It's up to each state to decide how to allocate its EC votes. Most do “winner-takes-all,” but some, e.g., Maine and Nebraska, split them up.... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2LvMxknC8g9Aq3S5j/ldt-and-everything-else-can-be-irrational | 2LvMxknC8g9Aq3S5j | LDT (and everything else) can be irrational | christopher-king | you should not reject the 'offer' of a field that yields an 'unfair' amount of grain! - Ultimatum Game (Arbital)
In this post, I demonstrate a problem in which there is an agent that outperforms Logical Decision Theory, and show how for any agent you can construct a problem and competing agent that outperforms it. Defi... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rtp6n7Z23uJpEH7od/saes-are-highly-dataset-dependent-a-case-study-on-the | rtp6n7Z23uJpEH7od | SAEs are highly dataset dependent: a case study on the refusal direction | ckkissane | This is an interim report sharing preliminary results. We hope this update will be useful to related research occurring in parallel.
Executive Summary
Problem: Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat SAEs trained on the pile (webtext) fail to find sparse, interpretable reconstructions of the refusal direction from Arditi et al. The most ref... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hogP9Ho4J5Ff6tmqZ/join-my-new-subscriber-chat | hogP9Ho4J5Ff6tmqZ | Join my new subscriber chat | sarahconstantin | Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: Rough Diamonds subscriber chat.
This is a conversation space exclusively for subscribers—kind of like a group chat or live hangout. I’ll post questions and updates that come my way, and you can jump into the discussion.
Join chat
How to get started
G... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N65uQ5RP6dYEC6CHW/graceful-degradation | N65uQ5RP6dYEC6CHW | Graceful Degradation | Screwtape | There’s a concept I think about when teaching, which I call Graceful Degradation. The basic idea is, how well does this lesson work if someone doesn’t remember it very well or if I teach it badly?
I picked up Graceful Degradation as an engineer, and you might be familiar with it from that milieu. It's basically the sam... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/g9A3Kj4FXzsYQr9Zm/apply-to-be-a-mentor-in-spar | g9A3Kj4FXzsYQr9Zm | Apply to be a mentor in SPAR! | agucova | null | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/587AsXewhzcFBDesH/intent-alignment-as-a-stepping-stone-to-value-alignment | 587AsXewhzcFBDesH | Intent alignment as a stepping-stone to value alignment | Seth Herd | I think Instruction-following AGI is easier and more likely than value aligned AGI, and that this accounts for one major crux of disagreement on alignment difficulty. I got several responses to that piece that didn't dispute that intent alignment is easier, but argued we shouldn't give up on value alignment. I think th... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HvTcWmHnpXnTpC3yJ/scattered-thoughts-on-what-it-means-for-an-llm-to-believe | HvTcWmHnpXnTpC3yJ | Scattered thoughts on what it means for an LLM to believe | TheManxLoiner | I had a 2-hour mini-sprint with Max Heitmann (a co-founder of Aether) and Miles Kodama about whether large language models (LLMs) or LLM agents have beliefs, and the relevance of this to AI safety.
The conversation was mostly free-form, with the three of us bouncing ideas and resources with each other. This is my attem... | 2024-11-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vKM4CTjz5fPB7vznb/an-alternative-approach-to-superbabies | vKM4CTjz5fPB7vznb | An alternative approach to superbabies | Simon Skade | (Note: This post might be slightly funnily written but it is not a joke but serious and important.)
Me: I think it's possible that we might not need to figure out biotechnological advances for how we can create superbabies through embryo selection or so, but that actually they might already be around 1000 or more supe... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h2qZvjbWsxmiqNF3y/going-beyond-immaturity | h2qZvjbWsxmiqNF3y | Going Beyond "immaturity" | moisentinel | I have been using Linux (EndeavorOS) for a couple of months now. I've had a lot of issues running it smoothly: things don't work out-of-the-box, and you have to put in a lot of time, effort and brain-cells to make things work. And so, by no means it is a perfect OS, but will I ever go back to using Windows? NEVER.
Why?... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5SsSZx5dMkRksrT85/why-recursion-pharmaceuticals-abandoned-cell-painting-for | 5SsSZx5dMkRksrT85 | Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging | abhishaike-mahajan | Note: thank you to Brita Belli, senior communications manager at Recursion, for connecting me to Charles Baker, a VP at Recursion, who led a lot of this work I’ll discuss here + allowed me to interview him about it! I am not affiliated with Recursion in any capacity.
One more note: a few people have pointed it out that... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DqNxuLH3kaiwwEmWZ/anthropic-the-case-for-targeted-regulation | DqNxuLH3kaiwwEmWZ | Anthropic - The case for targeted regulation | anaguma | The first two sections are below:
Increasingly powerful AI systems have the potential to accelerate scientific progress, unlock new medical treatments, and grow the economy. But along with the remarkable new capabilities of these AIs come significant risks. Governments should urgently take action on AI policy in the ne... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9XtMrLzuf6Pmymckv/the-shallow-bench | 9XtMrLzuf6Pmymckv | The Shallow Bench | karl-faulks | Cross posting from my personal blog: https://spiralprogress.com/2024/10/28/the-shallow-bench/
Spoilers for "Project Hail Mary", stop reading here if you don't want to be spoiled.
Project Hail Mary follows Ryland Grace, a disgraced academic turned high school biology teacher who gets selected as part of a crew of three ... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WwZApEvHKLJjvxnXu/using-narrative-prompting-to-extract-policy-forecasts-from | WwZApEvHKLJjvxnXu | Using Narrative Prompting to Extract Policy Forecasts from LLMs | MaxGhenis | Testing Cross-Model Consistency in Economic and Policy Predictions
Building on Pham & Cunningham (2024)'s findings on narrative-prompted predictions, I conducted a large-scale experiment comparing how different LLMs forecast economic and policy outcomes under different electoral scenarios. GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, and Grok... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qovWG7EmYBzcea9Mh/ml4good-ai-safety-bootcamp-experience-report | qovWG7EmYBzcea9Mh | ML4Good (AI Safety Bootcamp) - Experience report | JanEbbing | Introduction
This is a short summary of my experience attending the ML4Good UK bootcamp in September 2024. There are 2 previous experience reports I link to at the bottom, but because the program is refined each time, I wanted to describe my experience and add my two cents. This is useful for you if you are contemplati... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QxoGM89f8zr3JmNrz/winning-isn-t-enough | QxoGM89f8zr3JmNrz | Winning isn't enough | JesseClifton | In our jobs as AI safety researchers, we think a lot about what it means to have reasonable beliefs and to make good decisions. This matters because we want to understand how powerful AI systems might behave. It also matters because we ourselves need to know how to make good decisions in light of tremendous uncertainty... | 2024-11-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gRShuaWgKjizM4xPM/could-orcas-be-trained-to-be-smarter-than-humans | gRShuaWgKjizM4xPM | Could orcas be (trained to be) smarter than humans? | Simon Skade | (Btw everything I write here about orcas also applies to a slightly lesser extent to pilot whales (especially long finned ones)[1].)
(I'm very very far from an orca expert - basically everything I know about them I learned today.)
I always thought that bigger animals might have bigger brains than humans but not actuall... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5mgAd5kY6Jag7d5o9/metastatic-cancer-treatment-since-2010-the-success-stories | 5mgAd5kY6Jag7d5o9 | Metastatic Cancer Treatment Since 2010: The Success Stories | sarahconstantin | Midjourney, “metastatic cancer”
Metastatic Cancer Is Usually Deadly
When my mom was diagnosed with cancer, it was already metastatic; her lymph nodes, said the nurse, “lit up like a Christmas tree.”
Most people with any kind of metastatic cancer — that is, instead of a single tumor, a cancer that has spread to multiple... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoT6G6raWWuSqpdR7/bay-winter-solstice-2024-speech-auditions | DoT6G6raWWuSqpdR7 | Bay Winter Solstice 2024: Speech Auditions | ozymandias | Hello! I'm looking for community members to read speeches at the Bay Winter Solstice event this year. If you're interested, please email me at ozybrennan@gmail.com by the end of November 17 with the speeches you're potentially interested in. I'll ask you to record yourself reading it (no need to be particularly polishe... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WCtnc2YHtrjjJvJrx/update-on-the-mysterious-trump-buyers-on-polymarket | WCtnc2YHtrjjJvJrx | Update on the Mysterious Trump Buyers on Polymarket | jorge-velez | I've written a follow-up post on the mysterious Trump buyers on Polymarket. While mainstream media has extensively covered this story, it has overlooked some critical details—most notably, that this trader's bet on Trump is closer to $75 million USDC, making it the largest election market wager to date. Regardless of t... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FHKisc3oADd2SH3cJ/noticing-the-world | FHKisc3oADd2SH3cJ | Noticing the World | bioluminescent-darkness | There are a lot of problems facing the world right now. To decide which to confront, you must know enough about the overall class of problems to say "yes, I want to work on x" because I feel that breakthrough "y" makes it possible to solve this problem and others aren't working on it for so and so reasons. How does one... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bkcBDkuSMHdwEjNbH/does-the-ancient-wisdom-argument-have-any-validity-if-a | bkcBDkuSMHdwEjNbH | Does the "ancient wisdom" argument have any validity? If a particular teaching or tradition is old, to what extent does this make it more trustworthy? | SpectrumDT | Proponents of spirituality and alternative medicine often use the argument "this has been practiced for 2000 years", with the subtext "therefore it must work". Does this argument have any validity?
At first glance I want to reject the argument entirely, but that might be premature. Are there situations where this kind ... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G8FWk2e2hPJv3xkgC/a-brief-history-of-the-automated-corporation | G8FWk2e2hPJv3xkgC | A brief history of the automated corporation | owencb | Looking back from 2041
When people in the early 21st Century imagined an AI-empowered economy, they tended to project person-like AI entities doing the work. “There will be demand for agent-like systems,” they argued, “so we’ll see AI labs making agents which can then be deployed to various problems”.
We now know that ... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YTmNCEkqvF7ZrnvoR/zombies-substance-dualist-zombies | YTmNCEkqvF7ZrnvoR | Zombies! Substance Dualist Zombies? | Ape in the coat | Introduction
In the classical Zombies! Zombies? post, Eliezer has thoroughly analyzed the so called Zombie Argument and demonstrated its absurdity. So what else can even be said here? Case closed.
Well, not so fast. Apparently, a lot of people, including David Chalmers himself, still manage to take the argument serious... | 2024-12-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pztgKjcSeiXXDCKNp/linkpost-building-altruistic-and-moral-ai-agent-with-brain | pztgKjcSeiXXDCKNp | [Linkpost] Building Altruistic and Moral AI Agent with
Brain-inspired Affective Empathy Mechanisms | Gunnar_Zarncke | Abstract
As AI closely interacts with human society, it is crucial to ensure that its decision-making is safe, altruistic, and aligned with human ethical and moral values. However, existing research on embedding ethical and moral considerations into AI remains insufficient, and previous external constraints based on pr... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kxu2Akgse4AEqdx8o/distributed-espionage | Kxu2Akgse4AEqdx8o | Distributed espionage | margetmagenta | The Mole is a documentary of how a Danish chef and a French ex-conman bluffed their way into trading ballistic missiles with Kim Jong Un. High resolution espionage footage is available on youtube.
(It's possible this video gets deleted from youtube in future, consider making an offline copy or even seeding a torrent of... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WwxG8RRHrorJgpoAk/effects-of-non-uniform-sparsity-on-superposition-in-toy | WwxG8RRHrorJgpoAk | Effects of Non-Uniform Sparsity on Superposition in Toy Models | shreyans-jain | Abstract
This post summarises my findings on the effects of Non-Uniform feature sparsity on Superposition in the ReLU output model, introduced in the Toy Models of Superposition paper, the ReLU output model is a toy model which is shown to exhibit features in superposition instead of a dedicated dimension ('individual ... | 2024-11-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BarHSeciXJqzRuLzw/survival-without-dignity | BarHSeciXJqzRuLzw | Survival without dignity | LRudL | I open my eyes and find myself lying on a bed in a hospital room. I blink.
"Hello", says a middle-aged man with glasses, sitting on a chair by my bed. "You've been out for quite a long while."
"Oh no ... is it Friday already? I had that report due -"
"It's Thursday", the man says.
"Oh great", I say. "I still have time.... | 2024-11-04 |
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