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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8qLMF25s3ctCpgx7e/how-to-choose-what-to-work-on | 8qLMF25s3ctCpgx7e | How to choose what to work on | jasoncrawford | So you want to advance human progress. And you’re wondering, what should you, personally, do? Say you have talent, ambition, and drive—how do you choose a project or career?
There are a few frameworks for making this decision. Recently, though, I’ve started to see pitfalls with some of them, and I have a new variation ... | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CtsqycgJFNgm7Pe3g/intention-to-treat-re-how-harmful-is-music-really | CtsqycgJFNgm7Pe3g | Intention-to-Treat (Re: How harmful is music, really?) | kqr | I have long wanted to write about intention-to-treat because it's such a neat idea, and the recent article How harmful is music, really? spurred me to finally do it.
The reported results were
DayMean moodMusic0.29No music0.22
Making some very rough assumptions about variation, this difference is maybe 1–2 standard erro... | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z2u6wpfeXFzAvR4o7/endogenous-growth-and-human-intelligence | z2u6wpfeXFzAvR4o7 | Endogenous Growth and Human Intelligence | nicholas-d | Hi everyone! I’ve written an article I’m rather happy with on the history of endogenous growth models, and on the influence of intelligence on country level outcomes. As it is quite long, I will excerpt only a part — I sincerely hope you read the whole thing.
https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/endogenous-growth-and-... | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xhLopzaJHtdkz9siQ/the-case-for-a-negative-alignment-tax | xhLopzaJHtdkz9siQ | The case for a negative alignment tax | cameron-berg | TL;DR:
Alignment researchers have historically predicted that building safe advanced AI would necessarily incur a significant alignment tax compared to an equally capable but unaligned counterfactual AI.
We put forward a case here that this prediction looks increasingly unlikely given the current ‘state of the board,’ ... | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zz9gei8SGv6nsbx4F/inquisitive-vs-adversarial-rationality | zz9gei8SGv6nsbx4F | Inquisitive vs. adversarial rationality | ghb | Epistemic status: prima facie unlikely in the usual framework, which I'll try to reframe. Corroborated by loads of empirical observations. YMMV, but if you've held some contrarian view in the past that you came to realize was wrong, this might resonate.
In practical (and also not-so-practical) life, we often have to ma... | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zrHHLngm5CmQLD2zk/pronouns-are-annoying | zrHHLngm5CmQLD2zk | Pronouns are Annoying | ymeskhout | This post isn’t totally about the culture war topic du jour. Not at first.
As with any other topic that soaks up angst like an ultra-absorbent sponge, I wonder how many have lost track of how we arrived here. Why are pronouns? Pronouns have always been meant to serve as a shortcut substitute reference for other nouns, ... | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZhqEShJMMbASxzfEL/is-superhuman-ai-forecasting-bs-some-experiments-on-the-539 | ZhqEShJMMbASxzfEL | Is "superhuman" AI forecasting BS? Some experiments on the "539" bot from the Centre for AI Safety | lombertini | null | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rjeEfAP2t2Gb5Cxc7/piling-bounded-arguments | rjeEfAP2t2Gb5Cxc7 | Piling bounded arguments | amaury-lorin | TL;DR: A series of valid bounded arguments all arguing the same proposition can only provide as much evidence as that proposition at best, so even if it looks like they're piling up in favor of a higher point, they're only as good as the most central of them.
Epistemic status: Armchair epistemology. Something I noticed... | 2024-09-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ivWPqkipkKywQbdDw/contextual-constitutional-ai | ivWPqkipkKywQbdDw | Contextual Constitutional AI | aksh-n | Summary
In this post, I motivate an extension of constitutional AI (CAI) and present one possible concrete execution of that strategy.
TL;DR: When generating AI feedback during the CAI process, principles from the constitution are randomized for each pair of red-teamed prompts and initial responses. A helpful-only mode... | 2024-09-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/thc4RemfLcM5AdJDa/skills-from-a-year-of-purposeful-rationality-practice | thc4RemfLcM5AdJDa | Skills from a year of Purposeful Rationality Practice | Raemon | A year ago, I started trying to deliberate practice skills that would "help people figure out the answers to confusing, important questions." I experimented with Thinking Physics questions, GPQA questions, Puzzle Games , Strategy Games, and a stupid twitchy reflex game I had struggled to beat for 8 years[1]. Then I wen... | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jMn3YXCjqmJu3Zx5o/where-to-find-reliable-reviews-of-ai-products | jMn3YXCjqmJu3Zx5o | Where to find reliable reviews of AI products? | pktechgirl | Being able to quickly incorporate AI tools seems important, including for working on AI risk (people who disagree: there's a thread for doing so in the comments). But there are a lot of AI products and most of them suck. Does anyone know a good source of reviews, or even just listing product features and naming obviou... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KFrfBSE8inZfLvgyy/knowledge-s-practicability | KFrfBSE8inZfLvgyy | Knowledge's practicability | ted-nguyen | Knowledge can be useless. Much of what we learned isn't used.
The most famous example of useless knowledge must be schools.
But before discussing why school isn't practical, let's first talk about when knowledge is practical. I use this simple formula to decide if something has high application:
The practicality of som... | 2024-09-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FtwMA5fenkHeomz52/intuitive-self-models-1-preliminaries | FtwMA5fenkHeomz52 | [Intuitive self-models] 1. Preliminaries | steve2152 | 1.1 Summary & Table of Contents
This is the first of a series of eight blog posts. Here’s an overview of the whole series, and then we’ll jump right into the first post!
1.1.1 Summary & Table of Contents—for the whole series
This is a rather ambitious series of blog posts, in that I’ll attempt to explain what’s the dea... | 2024-09-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uvNeymCJDds8Jau7c/survey-psychological-impact-of-long-term-ai-engagement-1 | uvNeymCJDds8Jau7c | Survey - Psychological Impact of Long-Term AI Engagement | manuela-garcia | As part of the AI Safety, Ethics and Society Course, I’m conducting a survey to better understand the psychological and emotional effects of long-term engagement with AI technologies, particularly within the AI safety community. This is an invitation for you to take part in this anonymous questionnaire, which explores ... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MwfA74Hkexawtc8Gi/survey-psychological-impact-of-long-term-ai-engagement | MwfA74Hkexawtc8Gi | Survey - Psychological Impact of Long-Term AI Engagement | manuela-garcia | Hello everyone,
I’m conducting a survey to better understand the psychological and emotional effects of long-term engagement with AI technologies, particularly within the AI safety community. This is an invitation for you to take part in this anonymous questionnaire, which explores how engagement with AI could influenc... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dbkXFiB3JbD64W6fu/how-harmful-is-music-really | dbkXFiB3JbD64W6fu | How harmful is music, really? | dkl9 | For a while, I thought music was harmful, due largely to pervasive and arbitrary earworms. More recently, I started to find that earworms are ephemeral and lawful. A contrarian belief held like the former for years gets stuck as part of my identity, but maybe I should find the truth.
"Music is harmful" is hard to measu... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4gAqkRhCuK2kGJFQE/monthly-roundup-22-september-2024 | 4gAqkRhCuK2kGJFQE | Monthly Roundup #22: September 2024 | Zvi | It’s that time again for all the sufficiently interesting news that isn’t otherwise fit to print, also known as the Monthly Roundup.
Bad News
Beware the failure mode in strategy and decisions that implicitly assumes competence, or wishes away difficulties, and remember to reverse all advice you hear.
Stefan Schubert (q... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2d5o75nmTpLiSP4WL/i-finally-got-chatgpt-to-sound-like-me | 2d5o75nmTpLiSP4WL | I finally got ChatGPT to sound like me | lsusr | I publish lots of words on the Internet. These words are fed into LLMs such as ChatGPT. I have published enough training data that the world's most powerful AIs have a simulation of me inside of them. I have basically uploaded a copy of myself into the cloud. The AI simulation of me gets smarter every time OpenAI and i... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nycJPtbCNzpJzy9Gw/superposition-through-active-learning-lens | nycJPtbCNzpJzy9Gw | Superposition through Active Learning Lens | akankshanc | Introduction:
'How can we control whether superposition and polysemanticity occur?’ was one of the open questions mentioned by the authors of ‘Toy Models of Superposition’ and this work was an attempt to do so with the help of Active Learning.
The idea behind this work was to examine whether it is possible to decode Su... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCzunytMFWQeyivWm/how-does-someone-prove-that-their-general-intelligence-is | yCzunytMFWQeyivWm | How does someone prove that their general intelligence is above average? | M. Y. Zuo | Many talk about IQ in many places, in all kinds of contexts and situations, and IQ can be ‘provable’ to a certain degree of reliability and consistency using methods such as Raven’s progressive matrices.
But how is the general intelligence of the individual proven to any degree of reliability/consistency/validity/etc…?... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FRAjY2Neoysveuift/head-in-the-cloud-why-an-upload-of-your-mind-is-not-you | FRAjY2Neoysveuift | Head in the Cloud: Why an Upload of Your Mind is Not You | hallie-xu | Last December, on New Year’s Eve, I got a phone call in the middle of the night. “It’s your grandmother,” my mom said, “she’s in the ICU.” My grandma has been battling Parkinson’s Disease (PD) for more than eight years. Last summer was the first time I had seen her in five years. Throughout our time apart, her powerful... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2ShXvqzA27qJTkYwq/does-life-actually-locally-increase-entropy | 2ShXvqzA27qJTkYwq | Does life actually locally *increase* entropy? | tailcalled | The usual materialist story of life I've heard is that life acts like an entropy pump, creating local reductions of entropy within the organism but increasing the entropy outside of the organism. (I think I've even seen that in The Sequences somewhere? But couldn't find it, feel encouraged to link it.) But I've come to... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cfw7L22oLAm7Zcmff/book-review-xenosystems | cfw7L22oLAm7Zcmff | Book review: Xenosystems | jessica.liu.taylor | I've met a few Landians over the last couple years, and they generally recommend that I start with reading Nick Land's (now defunct) Xenosystems blog, or Xenosystems, a Passage Publishing book that compiles posts from the blog. While I've read some of Fanged Noumena in the past, I would agree with these Landians that X... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HJwxirN8nGaHG2Rr7/miri-s-september-2024-newsletter | HJwxirN8nGaHG2Rr7 | MIRI's September 2024 newsletter | Harlan | MIRI updates
Aaron Scher and Joe Collman have joined the Technical Governance Team at MIRI as researchers. Aaron previously did independent research related to sycophancy in language models and mechanistic interpretability, while Joe previously did independent research related to AI safety via debate and contributed to... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f4vmcJo226LP7ggmr/glitch-token-catalog-almost-a-full-clear | f4vmcJo226LP7ggmr | Glitch Token Catalog - (Almost) a Full Clear | derpherpize | This is a collection of every unidentified GPT2 glitch token listed in the third glitch token archaeology post. I was able to find the source of every single one, except for "?????-" and "?????-?????-"[1]. Please tell me if I missed one, or you've discovered one and don't understand where it came from. This isn't mean... | 2024-09-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K8vtpBvGzEyFEjhxK/generative-ml-in-chemistry-is-bottlenecked-by-synthesis | K8vtpBvGzEyFEjhxK | Generative ML in chemistry is bottlenecked by synthesis | abhishaike-mahajan | Introduction
Every single time I design a protein — using ML or otherwise — I am confident that it is capable of being manufactured. I simply reach out to Twist Biosciences, have them create a plasmid that encodes for the amino acids that make up my proteins, push that plasmid into a cell, and the cell will pump out th... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sFbuoN2EG8yHRkxxB/how-do-you-follow-ai-safety-news | sFbuoN2EG8yHRkxxB | How do you follow AI (safety) news? | PeterH | A lot is happening. How do you keep on top of things?
For example:
What's your process for finding out about important developments?What information sources do you find most useful?What are some problems with your current process?
I'll share my answers in a comment below.
Motivation: I've noticed cases where AI safety... | 2024-09-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zuaaqjsN6BucbGhf5/gpt-o1 | zuaaqjsN6BucbGhf5 | GPT-o1 | Zvi | Terrible name (with a terrible reason, that this ‘resets the counter’ on AI capability to 1, and ‘o’ as in OpenAI when they previously used o for Omni, very confusing). Impressive new capabilities in many ways. Less impressive in many others, at least relative to its hype.
Clearly this is an important capabilities impr... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ziNjGBa9rQkDDfXhe/longevity-and-the-mind | ziNjGBa9rQkDDfXhe | Longevity and the Mind | George3d6 | A framing I quite like is that of germs vs soma, body vs eggs and cum, consciousness vs replicators.
My first foray into age reversal was a (successful) attempt to increase fluid IQ, the loss of which is among less than a handful of ubiquitous symptoms of aging.
At the time, I found it odd that most people working in b... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H229aGt8nMFQsxJMq/what-s-the-deal-with-logical-uncertainty | H229aGt8nMFQsxJMq | What's the Deal with Logical Uncertainty? | Ape in the coat | I notice that reasoning about logical uncertainty does not appear more confusing to me than reasoning about empirical one. Am I missing something?
Consider the classical example from the description of the tag:
Is the googolth digit of pi odd? The probability that it is odd is, intuitively, 0.5. Yet we know that this i... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WiMnhMXu9CM5ytu3t/work-with-me-on-agent-foundations-independent-fellowship | WiMnhMXu9CM5ytu3t | Work with me on agent foundations: independent fellowship | Alex_Altair | Edit: We're now calling this the Dovetail research group.
Summary: I am an independent researcher in agent foundations, and I've recently received an LTFF grant to fund someone to do research with me. This is a rolling application; I'll close it whenever I'm no longer interested in taking another person. Edit: this app... | 2024-09-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WvoexzXwnneXrRyea/food-prison-and-exotic-animals-sparse-autoencoders-detect-6 | WvoexzXwnneXrRyea | Food, Prison & Exotic Animals: Sparse Autoencoders Detect 6.5x Performing Youtube Thumbnails | louka-ewington-pitsos | TL;DR
A Sparse Autoencoder trained on CLIP activations detects features in youtube thumbnails associated with high view counts across a dataset of 524,288 thumbnails from youtube-8m. Most of these features are interpretable and monosemantic. The most strongly associated feature has a median view count > 6.5x the datase... | 2024-09-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y79tkWhvHi8GgLN2q/reinforcement-learning-from-information-bazaar-feedback-and | Y79tkWhvHi8GgLN2q | Reinforcement Learning from Information Bazaar Feedback, and other uses of information markets | abhimanyu-pallavi-sudhir | Markets for information are inefficient, in large part due to the Buyer’s Inspection Paradox: you can’t “inspect” information like you would any other good before buying — the moment you inspect the information, you have obtained it and cannot return it. More generally, the problem is an inability to reliably commit to... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DY8PKdPsCoWonA7nQ/hyperpolation | DY8PKdPsCoWonA7nQ | Hyperpolation | Gunnar_Zarncke | Interpolation, Extrapolation, Hyperpolation: Generalising into new dimensions
by Toby Ord
Abstract:
This paper introduces the concept of hyperpolation: a way of generalising from a limited set of data points that is a peer to the more familiar concepts of interpolation and extrapolation. Hyperpolation is the task of es... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bX7q9NcoGpb5KdZzQ/if-i-wanted-to-spend-way-more-on-ai-what-would-i-spend-it-on | bX7q9NcoGpb5KdZzQ | If I wanted to spend WAY more on AI, what would I spend it on? | logan-zoellner | Supposedly intelligence is some kind of superpower. And they're now selling intelligence for pennies/million tokens. Logically, it seems like I should be spending way more of my income than I currently am on intelligence. But what should I spend it on?
For context, I currently spend ~$50/month on AI:
ChatGPT $20/mon... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QyfescBSt7nLfkGBs/can-subjunctive-dependence-emerge-from-a-simplicity-prior | QyfescBSt7nLfkGBs | Can subjunctive dependence emerge from a simplicity prior? | harper-owen | Suppose that an embedded agent models its environment using an approximate simplicity prior, would it acquire a physicalist agent ontology or an algorithmic/logical agent ontology?
One argument for the logical agent ontology is that it allows the agent to compress different parts of its observations that are subjunctiv... | 2024-09-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KKGbzDZdbTCLHZjTN/superintelligence-can-t-solve-the-problem-of-deciding-what | KKGbzDZdbTCLHZjTN | Superintelligence Can't Solve the Problem of Deciding What You'll Do | Vladimir_Nesov | Superintelligence can solve all problems, even as it won't necessarily do so. But not quite. In the modern world, you exist within physics, and all you do obeys its laws. Yet it's still you who decides what you do. If there is a simulation of your behavior, that doesn't change the attribution of the reason for it. When... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YqGHv27dbdwvuDoXX/for-limited-superintelligences-epistemic-exclusion-is-harder | YqGHv27dbdwvuDoXX | For Limited Superintelligences, Epistemic Exclusion is Harder than Robustness to Logical Exploitation | Lorec | AIs that are not sufficiently carefully designed will by default be exploited by distant superintelligences. This will de-align them with us.
To prevent this from happening to the very first limited ASIs we must build to nonlethally practice our alignment techniques - ASIs that do one limited task on the order of Eliez... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Yjiw5rnu4mJsYN8Xc/why-i-funded-pibbss-1 | Yjiw5rnu4mJsYN8Xc | Why I funded PIBBSS | ryankidd44 | I just left a comment on PIBBSS' Manifund grant request (which I funded $25k) that people might find interesting. PIBBSS needs more funding!
Main points in favor of this grant
My inside view is that PIBBSS mainly supports “blue sky” or “basic” research, some of which has a low chance of paying off, but might be critica... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xyd7PFincXmdjyzdt/thirty-random-thoughts-about-ai-alignment | xyd7PFincXmdjyzdt | Thirty random thoughts about AI alignment | Lysandre Terrisse | Why does this post exist?
In order to learn more about my own opinion about AI safety, I tried to write a thought every day before going to bed. Of course, I failed doing this every day, and this is the reason why I have only thirty arguments since January. However, as I am still happy of the result, I am sharing them.... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3P8WBwLyfPBEkbG3c/proveably-safe-self-driving-cars-modulo-assumptions | 3P8WBwLyfPBEkbG3c | Proveably Safe Self Driving Cars [Modulo Assumptions] | Davidmanheim | I’ve seen a fair amount of skepticism about the “Provably Safe AI” paradigm, but I think detractors give it too little credit. I suspect this is largely because of idea inoculation - people have heard an undeveloped or weak man version of the idea, for example, that we can use formal methods to state our goals and prov... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DBmoM6AHiWi6WzE3E/scp-foundation-anti-memetic-division-hub | DBmoM6AHiWi6WzE3E | SCP Foundation - Anti memetic Division Hub | landscape_kiwi | The fictional book/stories by qntm such as Introductory Antimemetics are an example where the only thing you can trust/rely on is the rationality of yourself and people around you. | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fNqEGTmkCy9sqZYm7/did-christopher-hitchens-change-his-mind-about-waterboarding | fNqEGTmkCy9sqZYm7 | Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding? | KingSupernova | There's a popular story that goes like this: Christopher Hitchens used to be in favor of the US waterboarding terrorists because he thought it wasn't bad enough to be considered torture. Then he had it tried on himself, and changed his mind, coming to believe it is torture and should not be performed.
(Context for thos... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G3nh24cHJTT9z6gjC/not-every-accommodation-is-a-curb-cut-effect-the-handicapped | G3nh24cHJTT9z6gjC | Not every accommodation is a Curb Cut Effect: The Handicapped Parking Effect, the Clapper Effect, and more | michael-cohn | In the fields of user experience and accessibility, everyone talks about the curb cut effect: Features that are added as accommodations for people with disabilities sometimes become widely useful and beloved. But not every accommodation becomes a "curb cut," and I've been thinking about other patterns that come up when... | 2024-09-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q8qwjXmv4Hd2Dw6Bi/alignedcut-visual-concepts-discovery-on-brain-guided | Q8qwjXmv4Hd2Dw6Bi | AlignedCut: Visual Concepts Discovery on Brain-Guided Universal Feature Space | bogdan-ionut-cirstea | Authors: Huzheng Yang, James Gee, Jianbo Shi.
Abstract:
We study the intriguing connection between visual data, deep networks, and the brain. Our method creates a universal channel alignment by using brain voxel fMRI response prediction as the training objective. We discover that deep networks, trained with different o... | 2024-09-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hn65dPGiSGMuggYi4/calibration-training-for-percentile-rankings | hn65dPGiSGMuggYi4 | Calibration training for 'percentile rankings'? | david-reinstein | Does this tool/site exist? What's the best/easiest way to build it?
I'm looking to find or build a tool for calibration training for 'percentile rankings'.
E.g., give me a list of dog photos to rate out of a common pool, and ask me to give percentile rankings for each ('as a percentage, where does this dog fall in the ... | 2024-09-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8BqovAoFbGjwwDpji/how-you-can-help-pass-important-ai-legislation-with-10 | 8BqovAoFbGjwwDpji | How you can help pass important AI legislation with 10 minutes of effort | ThomasW | Posting something about a current issue that I think many people here would be interested in. See also the related EA Forum post.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has until September 30 to decide the fate of SB 1047 - one of the most hotly debated AI bills in the world. The Center for AI Safety Action Fund, where I wor... | 2024-09-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rpc9ACd6zCy3FssTj/openai-o1-llama-4-and-alphazero-of-llms | Rpc9ACd6zCy3FssTj | OpenAI o1, Llama 4, and AlphaZero of LLMs | Vladimir_Nesov | GPT-4 level open weights models like Llama-3-405B don't seem capable of dangerous cognition. OpenAI o1 demonstrates that a GPT-4 level model can be post-trained into producing useful long horizon reasoning traces. AlphaZero shows how capabilities can be obtained from compute alone, with no additional data. If there is ... | 2024-09-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r8mksWjhpdxMDMHQv/forever-leaders | r8mksWjhpdxMDMHQv | Forever Leaders | justice-howard | “dictators die… and so long as men die liberty will never perish…”
This is an abbreviated quote from Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” which stuck with me ever since the clip was played for me in middle school. Political but prescient, these words describe a natural limiter on any man’s ambitions. A check and bala... | 2024-09-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NXDofSmd5pxhrHhFB/compression-moves-for-prediction | NXDofSmd5pxhrHhFB | Compression Moves for Prediction | adamShimi | Imagine that you want to predict the behavior of some system -- the weather, a computer program, a real-world language... However you go about it, I bet you will do some compression: you'll find simple and minimal and concrete ways to think about the vast complexity of your system that helps you predict what you want t... | 2024-09-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a69T4d5L8Mbzna7WY/emergent-authorship-creativity-a-la-communing | a69T4d5L8Mbzna7WY | Emergent Authorship: Creativity à la Communing | gswonk | I’m an agnostic, on my most curmudgeonly days an atheist, but there’s something spiritual about writing. And I like writing. I can only describe being a writer as someone who expresses the landscape of their inner world while making contact with the landscape of the outer world. Mystical, freaky, and semi-creepy—right?... | 2024-09-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bxFGP9ChhJh6Lfco3/pay-on-results-personal-growth-first-success | bxFGP9ChhJh6Lfco3 | Pay-on-results personal growth: first success | Chipmonk | New, part II: Began a pay-on-results coaching experiment, made $40,300 since July
Thanks to Kaj Sotala, Stag Lynn, and Ulisse Mini for reviewing. Thanks to Kaj Sotala, Brian Toomey, Alex Zhu, Damon Sasi, Anna Salamon, and CFAR for mentorship and financial support
Update: Bob has recorded a 6-month follow-up here.
A few... | 2024-09-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pieSxdmjqrKwqa2tR/avoiding-the-bog-of-moral-hazard-for-ai | pieSxdmjqrKwqa2tR | Avoiding the Bog of Moral Hazard for AI | nathan-helm-burger | Imagine if you will, a map of a landscape. On this map, I will draw some vague regions. Their boundaries are uncertain, for it is a new and under-explored land. This map is drawn as a graph, but I want to emphasize that the regions are vague guesses, and the true borders could be very convoluted.
So here's the problem.... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xj5nzResmDZDqLuLo/estimating-tail-risk-in-neural-networks | xj5nzResmDZDqLuLo | Estimating Tail Risk in Neural Networks | mark-xu | Machine learning systems are typically trained to maximize average-case performance. However, this method of training can fail to meaningfully control the probability of tail events that might cause significant harm. For instance, while an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant may be generally safe, it would be catast... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sMtS9Eof6QC6sPouB/if-then-commitments-for-ai-risk-reduction-by-holden | sMtS9Eof6QC6sPouB | If-Then Commitments for AI Risk Reduction [by Holden Karnofsky] | habryka4 | Holden just published this paper on the Carnegie Endowment website. I thought it was a decent reference, so I figured I would crosspost it (included in full for convenience, but if either Carnegie Endowment or Holden has a preference for just having an excerpt or a pure link post, happy to change that)
If-then commitme... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zuiNwGpXJbLrCCqsy/if-i-ask-an-llm-to-think-step-by-step-how-big-are-the-steps | zuiNwGpXJbLrCCqsy | If I ask an LLM to think step by step, how big are the steps? | ryan_b | I mean big in terms of number of tokens, and I am thinking about this question specifically in the context of training windows vs context windows. This question is inspired by an Andrew Mayne tweet covered in AI #80: Never Have I Ever:
Most AI systems are trained on less than 2,000 words per sample. They can generalize... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Mf7wcRDoMAzbECfCw/can-startups-be-impactful-in-ai-safety | Mf7wcRDoMAzbECfCw | Can startups be impactful in AI safety? | esben-kran | With Lakera's strides in securing LLM APIs, Goodfire AI's path to scaling interpretability, and 20+ model evaluations startups among much else, there's a rising number of technical startups attempting to secure the model ecosystem.
Of course, they have varying levels of impact on superintelligence containment and secur... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cEq2ZMSJ88gyTryio/keeping-it-less-than-real-against-possible-people-or-worlds | cEq2ZMSJ88gyTryio | Keeping it (less than) real: Against
ℶ₂ possible people or worlds | quiet_NaN | Epistemic status and trigger warnings: Not rigorous in either math or physics. Not proof-read by any third party yet. May contain original research. Lengthy. Some sections are tongue-in-cheek. Anthrophics. Cosmology. Theism.
TL;DR: There are good reasons why both the number of possible distinct human-like conscious exp... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7L8ZwMJkhLXjSa7tD/the-great-data-integration-schlep | 7L8ZwMJkhLXjSa7tD | The Great Data Integration Schlep | sarahconstantin | Midjourney, “Fourth Industrial Revolution Digital Transformation”
This is a little rant I like to give, because it’s something I learned on the job that I’ve never seen written up explicitly.
There are a bunch of buzzwords floating around regarding computer technology in an industrial or manufacturing context: “digital... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9phLpZgofsLhqhcHs/i-just-can-t-agree-with-ai-safety-why-am-i-wrong | 9phLpZgofsLhqhcHs | I just can't agree with AI safety. Why am I wrong? | yurii-burak-1 | Take, for example, AISafety.info, that tries to explain.
"In recent years, AI has exceeded people’s expectations in a wide variety of domains — including playing Go, composing human-like text, writing code, and modeling protein folding"
Not a single current "AI" can do all of it simultaneously. All of them are neuros, ... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLDczS6Xi59GNKd3H/ai-centralization-and-the-one-ring | dLDczS6Xi59GNKd3H | AI, centralization, and the One Ring | owencb | People thinking about the future of AI sometimes talk about a single project ‘getting there first’ — achieving AGI, and leveraging this into a decisive strategic advantage over the rest of the world.
I claim we should be worried about this scenario. That doesn’t necessarily mean we should try to stop it. Maybe it’s ine... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kcCNMk26zCvkD8yuf/my-career-exploration-tools-for-building-confidence | kcCNMk26zCvkD8yuf | My career exploration: Tools for building confidence | lynettebye | Crossposting from my blog
I did a major career review during 2023. I’m sharing it now because:
I think it’s a good case study for iterated depth decision-making in general and reevaluating your career in particular, and I want to let you know about my exciting plans! I’m doing the Tarbell Fellowship for early-career jo... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bhY5aE4MtwpGf3LCo/openai-o1 | bhY5aE4MtwpGf3LCo | OpenAI o1 | Zach Stein-Perlman | It's more capable and better at using lots of inference-time compute via long (hidden) chain-of-thought.
OpenAI pages: Learning to Reason with LLMs, o1 System Card, o1 Hub
Tweets: Sam Altman, Noam Brown, OpenAI
Discussion: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-o1-alignment-faking
"METR could not confidently upper-b... | 2024-09-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QsHqKhsC636jycx5c/on-the-destruction-of-america-s-best-high-school | QsHqKhsC636jycx5c | On the destruction of America’s best high school | Chris_Leong | This is a rare case when I think it's actually worth sharing an article that directly comments on the culture wars on Less Wrong:
I’d like you to feel about the impending destruction of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, the same way you might’ve felt when the Taliban threatened to blow... | 2024-09-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hNz7ryj8DPnKG4phd/optimising-under-arbitrarily-many-constraint-equations | hNz7ryj8DPnKG4phd | Optimising under arbitrarily many constraint equations | dkl9 | Say we have a multivariate function to optimise, like f=x2+y2+z2, under some constraints, like g1=x2+y2−z and g2=y+z−1, both to equal zero.
The common method is that of Lagrange multipliers.
Add a variable λ for each constraint function — here, we'll use λ1 and λ2.Declare the set of equations ∇f=λ1∇g1+λ2∇g2.Bring in th... | 2024-09-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YMaTA2hX6tSBJWnPr/ai-81-alpha-proteo | YMaTA2hX6tSBJWnPr | AI #81: Alpha Proteo | Zvi | Following up on Alpha Fold, DeepMind has moved on to Alpha Proteo. We also got a rather simple prompt that can create a remarkably not-bad superforecaster for at least some classes of medium term events.
We did not get a new best open model, because that turned out to be a scam. And we don’t have Apple Intelligence, be... | 2024-09-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gz3SEm77Yvqs2RbKK/context-dependent-consequentialism | gz3SEm77Yvqs2RbKK | Context-dependent consequentialism | jeremy-gillen | This dialogue is still in progress, but due to other commitments we don't have much time to continue it. We think the content is interesting, so we decided to publish it unfinished. We will maybe very slowly continue adding to it in the future, but can't commit to doing so.
Jeremy Gillen
Context: I wrote a shortform ab... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uGkRcHqatmPkvpGLq/contra-papers-claiming-superhuman-ai-forecasting | uGkRcHqatmPkvpGLq | Contra papers claiming superhuman AI forecasting | followtheargument | [Conflict of interest disclaimer: We are FutureSearch, a company working on AI-powered forecasting and other types of quantitative reasoning. If thin LLM wrappers could achieve superhuman forecasting performance, this would obsolete a lot of our work.]
Widespread, misleading claims about AI forecasting
Recently we have... | 2024-09-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tgQftJRqSdCekBcvG/when-can-i-be-numerate | tgQftJRqSdCekBcvG | When can I be numerate? | FinalFormal2 | I recently started working in a setting making physical products, where I discovered that I had a whole nother section of my brain purposed for physical interactions between things and when things might fall on other things or melt or fall apart or shatter or scar or any number of other things. Unfortunately, because o... | 2024-09-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AuWSjTzaNjfWotFue/a-nonconstructive-existence-proof-of-aligned | AuWSjTzaNjfWotFue | A Nonconstructive Existence Proof of Aligned Superintelligence | Roko | Over time I have seen many people assert that “Aligned Superintelligence” may not even be possible in principle. I think that is incorrect and I will give a proof - without explicit construction - that it is possible. | 2024-09-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wpvTfJnQzZThxovWf/increasing-the-span-of-the-set-of-ideas | wpvTfJnQzZThxovWf | Increasing the Span of the Set of Ideas | jeffrey-heninger | Epistemic Status: I wrote this back in January, and have been uncertain about whether to publish it. I expect that most people who read this here will be unconvinced. But I still want to express my intuition.
In the last month, these ideas have come up in conversation again. Then, Toby Ord published a paper on arxiv a ... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QBLA7fDpia8Ac4yDg/checking-public-figures-on-whether-they-answered-the | QBLA7fDpia8Ac4yDg | Checking public figures on whether they "answered the question" quick analysis from Harris/Trump debate, and a proposal | david-reinstein | Public figures often avoid answering a question; going off in a different direction without recognizing that they didn't answer it. (Sometimes they even say 'I answered your question' even though they didn't.
I wish they still said 'no comment'.
Non-answers without acknowledgement seems bad for public epistemics as wel... | 2024-09-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7DKoYFTdAoDQhKss2/collapsing-the-belief-knowledge-distinction | 7DKoYFTdAoDQhKss2 | Collapsing the Belief/Knowledge Distinction | jeremias-sur | There is no distinction between belief and knowledge.
Why?
Because whatever we think is knowledge is only, and can ever be, what we believe to be true. If we do not believe in it, we do not think it is true.
How do we get to truth? By virtue of our previously held beliefs. As such, beliefs imply one another.
Lets take ... | 2024-09-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L4ZG6Tce75sDNxWiq/ai-safety-newsletter-41-the-next-generation-of-compute-scale | L4ZG6Tce75sDNxWiq | AI Safety Newsletter #41: The Next Generation of Compute Scale Plus, Ranking Models by Susceptibility to Jailbreaking, and Machine Ethics | corin-katzke | Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
The Next Generation of Compute Scale
AI development is on the cusp of a dramatic expansion in compute ... | 2024-09-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PG4D4CSBHhijYDvSz/refactoring-cryonics-as-structural-brain-preservation | PG4D4CSBHhijYDvSz | Refactoring cryonics as structural brain preservation | Andy_McKenzie | I first learned about cryonics when I read Eliezer and Robin's posts about it on Overcoming Bias years ago. I got cryopilled. Somewhat amazingly to me, I'm now a researcher in this field. So I thought this community might be interested to know that I was one of several co-authors on a paper just published in Frontiers ... | 2024-09-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wz42Ae2dQPdpYus98/how-difficult-is-ai-alignment | Wz42Ae2dQPdpYus98 | How difficult is AI Alignment? | SDM | This article revisits and expands upon the AI alignment difficulty scale, a framework for understanding the increasing challenges of aligning artificial intelligence systems with human values.
We explore how alignment difficulties evolve from simple goal misalignment to complex scenarios involving deceptive alignment a... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Dxco4XDttx5cNWjfj/how-to-discover-the-nature-of-sentience-and-ethics | Dxco4XDttx5cNWjfj | How to discover the nature of sentience, and ethics | gustavo-ramires | Note: This is a very rough draft of a theory. Any comments or corrections are welcome. I will try to give credit to useful observations.
To discover the nature of sentience and ethics, we can actually use scientific principles even though they are sometimes considered metaphysical.
The great insight though is that cons... | 2024-09-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/67jgcEwrxh8B3gg2n/seeking-mechanism-designer-for-research-into-internalizing | 67jgcEwrxh8B3gg2n | Seeking Mechanism Designer for Research into Internalizing Catastrophic Externalities | ctrout | TL;DR
I need help finding/developing a mech that can reliably elicit honest and effortful risk-estimates from frontier AI labs regarding their models, risk-estimates to be used in risk-priced premiums that labs then pay the government (i.e. a "Pigouvian tax for x-risk"). Current best guess: Bayesian Truth Serum.
Stretc... | 2024-09-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QYakhaB34eyYsisZX/could-things-be-very-different-how-historical-inertia-might | QYakhaB34eyYsisZX | Could Things Be Very Different?—How Historical Inertia Might Blind Us To Optimal Solutions | james-brown | Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if you hadn’t been born? Would an entirely different person have taken your place? How about if humans had never emerged? Could another species have evolved higher levels of intelligence instead of us? What if life, as we know it, didn’t emerge-could some life-form, b... | 2024-09-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HiG479grQtkut7svb/programming-refusal-with-conditional-activation-steering | HiG479grQtkut7svb | Programming Refusal with
Conditional Activation Steering | bruce-lee | For full content, refer to the arXiv preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05907. This post is a lighter, 15-minute version.
Abstract
Existing activation steering methods alter LLM behavior indiscriminately, limiting their practical applicability in settings where selective responses are essential, such as content mod... | 2024-09-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GJbejYAWutHFbPdpT/a-necessary-membrane-formalism-feature | GJbejYAWutHFbPdpT | A necessary Membrane formalism feature | ThomasCederborg | Summary
Consider a Membrane that is supposed to protect Steve. An AI wants to hurt Steve but does not want to pierce Steve's Membrane. The Membrane ensures that there is zero effect on predictions of things inside the membrane. The AI will never take any action that has any effect on what Steve does or experience. The ... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cd4SwAGLav4WAuxeN/formalizing-the-informal-event-invite | cd4SwAGLav4WAuxeN | Formalizing the Informal (event invite) | abramdemski | Formalizing the Informal
One way to view MIRI's Agent Foundations research is that it saw the biggest problem in AI safety as "human preferences are informal, but we need to somehow get formal guarantees about them" -- and so, in response, it set out to make a formal-informal bridge.
Recently, I’ve been thinking about ... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x77vDAzosxtwJoJ7e/ai-80-never-have-i-ever | x77vDAzosxtwJoJ7e | AI #80: Never Have I Ever | Zvi | (This was supposed to be on Thursday but I forgot to cross-post)
Will AI ever make art? Fully do your coding? Take all the jobs? Kill all the humans?
Most of the time, the question comes down to a general disagreement about AI capabilities. How high on a ‘technological richter scale’ will AI go? If you feel the AGI and... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cc9fXQLzAc52kMBHx/economics-roundup-3 | cc9fXQLzAc52kMBHx | Economics Roundup #3 | Zvi | I am posting this now largely because it is the right place to get in discussion of unrealized capital gains taxes and other campaign proposals, but also there is always plenty of other stuff going on. As always, remember that there are plenty of really stupid proposals always coming from all sides. I’m not spending as... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CZQYP7BBY4r9bdxtY/the-best-lay-argument-is-not-a-simple-english-yud-essay | CZQYP7BBY4r9bdxtY | The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay | Jemist | Epistemic status: these are my own opinions on AI risk communication, based primarily on my own instincts on the subject and discussions with people less involved with rationality than myself. Communication is highly subjective and I have not rigorously A/B tested messaging. I am even less confident in the quality of m... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BTjDoZNREdZRiuyeQ/amplify-is-hiring-work-with-us-to-support-field-building | BTjDoZNREdZRiuyeQ | Amplify is hiring! Work with us to support field-building initiatives through digital marketing | gergo-gaspar | See the accompanying launch post here to read more about the project's background.
TLDR:
Amplify is an early-stage project supporting local Effective Altruist and AI Safety local groups as well as other field-building organisations. We have recently received a grant from The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund to tu... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/C2rGMYookxPo6ezT9/what-bootstraps-intelligence | C2rGMYookxPo6ezT9 | What bootstraps intelligence? | invertedpassion | Cross post from: https://invertedpassion.com/what-bootstraps-intelligence/
A musing on how intelligence comes to be.
The bedrock of intelligence is abstractions – the thing we do when we throw away a lot of information and just emphasise on a subset of it (e.g. calling that thing an apple instead of describing all its ... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rZxGTFdnXqX282NZs/physical-therapy-sucks-but-have-you-tried-hiding-it-in-some | rZxGTFdnXqX282NZs | Physical Therapy Sucks (but have you tried hiding it in some peanut butter?) | declan-molony | The worst part about physical therapy is not knowing if it’s working. The timescale for improvement is dreadfully long and the day-to-day changes are imperceptible.
65% of people who start physical therapy fail to adhere to their prescribed regimen. One of the primary factors for non-compliance is the lack of positive ... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/guxhjoiDgEFRtqAb2/simon-dedeo-on-explore-vs-exploit-in-science | guxhjoiDgEFRtqAb2 | Simon DeDeo on Explore vs Exploit in Science | pktechgirl | Good news everyone: I’m getting into podcasting!
As part of my investigation into how scientific paradigms are created, I hosted a talk by Simon DeDeo, Professor Of Many Topics at Carnegie Mellon and the Santa Fe Institute, recorded at the recent ILIAD conference in Berkeley. He discusses the idea of explore vs exploit... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HD69SvrjtKYmBhApJ/virtue-is-a-vector | HD69SvrjtKYmBhApJ | Virtue is a Vector | robotelvis | People like to categorize things as being good or bad. Motherhood and apple pie are good. Ebola is bad. Kittens are good. Hitler was bad.
Sometimes this is a reasonable model, but a lot of the time this “good/bad” framework breaks down. Because pretty much everything we think of as “good” also does some form of harm, a... | 2024-09-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YW249knFccwATGxki/real-agi | YW249knFccwATGxki | "Real AGI" | Seth Herd | I see "AGI" used for everything from existing LLMs to superintelligence, and massive resulting confusion and illusory disagreements. I finally thought of a term I like for what I mean by AGI. It's an acronym that's also somewhat intuitive without reading the definition:
Reasoning, Reflective Entities with Autonomy and ... | 2024-09-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TXbFFYpNWDmEmHevp/how-to-give-in-to-threats-without-incentivizing-them | TXbFFYpNWDmEmHevp | How to Give in to Threats (without incentivizing them) | mikhail-samin | TL;DR: using a simple mixed strategy, LDT can give in to threats, ultimatums, and commitments - while incentivizing cooperation and fair[1] splits instead.
This strategy made it much more intuitive to many people I've talked to that smart agents probably won't do weird everyone's-utility-eating things like threatening ... | 2024-09-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G5E5jbNL24J76Q3B2/mit-futuretech-are-hiring-for-a-technical-associate-role | G5E5jbNL24J76Q3B2 | MIT FutureTech are hiring for a Technical Associate role | peterslattery | MIT FutureTech are hiring for a Technical Associate role.
Please apply or share as relevant.
Why apply or share?
Our work to understand progress in computing and artificial intelligence, and its implications, is highly relevant to understanding and mitigating the risks of AI. This write-up provides a good overview of s... | 2024-09-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4kuXNhPf9FBwok7tK/ai-forecasting-bots-incoming | 4kuXNhPf9FBwok7tK | AI forecasting bots incoming | dan-hendrycks | In a recent appearance on Conversations with Tyler, famed political forecaster Nate Silver expressed skepticism about AIs replacing human forecasters in the near future. When asked how long it might take for AIs to reach superhuman forecasting abilities, Silver replied: “15 or 20 [years].”
In light of this, we are exci... | 2024-09-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kBg5eoXvLxQYyxD6R/my-takes-on-sb-1047 | kBg5eoXvLxQYyxD6R | My takes on SB-1047 | leogao | I recently decided to sign a letter of support for SB 1047. Before deciding whether to do so, I felt it was important for me to develop an independent opinion on whether the bill was good, as opposed to deferring to the opinions of those around me, so I read through the full text of SB 1047. After forming my opinion, I... | 2024-09-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u5ZsKovMFGpLjPAKb/building-an-inexpensive-aesthetic-private-forum | u5ZsKovMFGpLjPAKb | Building an Inexpensive, Aesthetic, Private Forum | aaron-graifman | Reason for Writing: I want to gather information for a friend who is a professional in the behavioral sciences.
Epistemic Status: Less than 2 hours googling how to build a forum, and a couple youtube videos
Requirements:
AestheticInexpensivePrivateEasily Setup
The goal is to create a small, private forum for discussion... | 2024-09-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LeQNBJWfPiKTFrr5A/linkpost-interpretable-analysis-of-features-found-in-open | LeQNBJWfPiKTFrr5A | [Linkpost] Interpretable Analysis of Features Found in Open-source Sparse Autoencoder (partial replication) | fernando-avalos | This was an up-skilling project I worked on throughout the past months. Even though I don't think it is anything fancy or highly relevant to the research around SAEs, I find it valuable since I learned a lot and refined my understanding of how mechinterp fits in the holistic, bigger picture of AI Safety.
In the mid-ter... | 2024-09-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CQjxKzyezt2autG9N/has-anyone-here-consciously-changed-their-passions | CQjxKzyezt2autG9N | Has Anyone Here Consciously Changed Their Passions? | Spade | I'm sorry if this question is a bit fuzzy, maybe my understanding of a "passion" isn't the most coherent. But, I'd like to know if anyone has made a successful effort to get themselves to be passionate about doing X where they were not passionate about X before. I suppose you could call that "creating drive."
For conte... | 2024-09-09 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/28eyDuZ6FKrHpQ2FK/pollsters-should-publish-question-translations | 28eyDuZ6FKrHpQ2FK | Pollsters Should Publish Question Translations | jkaufman | Pew
recently commissioned Gallup to run a poll in Israel on attitudes
to social media censorship. They found high support for banning
various kinds of speech:
The fourth question, especially, is disturbing: 59% want to ban
publicly expressing sympathy for civilians in Gaza? Since the
polling was conducted in Hebrew a... | 2024-09-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dwvusp6wr9GfZYkrK/on-fables-and-nuanced-charts | dwvusp6wr9GfZYkrK | On Fables and Nuanced Charts | niko-2 | Written by Spencer Greenberg & Amber Dawn Ace for Asimov Press.
In 1994, the U.S. Congress passed the largest crime bill in U.S. history, called the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. The bill allocated billions of dollars to build more prisons and hire 100,000 new police officers, among other things. In th... | 2024-09-08 |
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