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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/deoRjjj9QNkAgfmsW/why-should-anyone-boot-you-up | deoRjjj9QNkAgfmsW | Why should anyone boot *you* up? | onur | Imagine the following scenario:
We develop brain-scan technology today which can take a perfect snapshot of anyone's brain, down to the atomic level. You undergo this procedure after you die and your brain scan is kept in some fault-tolerant storage, along the lines of GitHub Arctic Code Vault.
But sufficiently cheap r... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WvpNKpL6hJB89cMNe/secular-interpretations-of-core-perennialist-claims | WvpNKpL6hJB89cMNe | Secular interpretations of core perennialist claims | zhukeepa | After the release of Ben Pace's extended interview with me about my views on religion, I felt inspired to publish more of my thinking about religion in a format that's more detailed, compact, and organized. This post is the second publication in my series of intended posts about religion.
Thanks to Ben Pace, Chris Laki... | 2024-08-25 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3duPFzDDX8myY6q4K/understanding-hidden-computations-in-chain-of-thought | 3duPFzDDX8myY6q4K | Understanding Hidden Computations in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning | rokosbasilisk | Recent work has demonstrated that transformer models can perform complex reasoning tasks using Chain-of-Thought (COT) prompting, even when the COT is replaced with filler characters. This post summarizes our investigation into methods for decoding these hidden computations, focusing on the 3SUM task.
Background
1. **Ch... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LbNx2ohBmBgFazbjq/the-top-30-books-to-expand-the-capabilities-of-ai-a-biased | LbNx2ohBmBgFazbjq | The top 30 books to expand the capabilities of AI: a biased reading list | Unknown | Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are surprisingly good, but they can’t expand human knowledge because they only interpolate existing information already on the internet. To create new knowledge and solve problems that no human has ever solved, AI needs to be adaptively embodied and be able to build causal m... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Waq7SR3mtxdgvjAmC/august-2024-time-tracking | Waq7SR3mtxdgvjAmC | August 2024 Time Tracking | jkaufman | Every so often (
2022,
2017, more
2017,
2015,
2011) Julia and will track how we spend
our time for a week. This is useful for seeing whether how we're
spending our time matches how we think we're spending it (and how we
would like to be spending it) while also avoiding a pattern where one
of us ends up putting in subs... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oo5BkydiLFCgvvsxC/looking-for-intuitions-to-extend-bargaining-notions | oo5BkydiLFCgvvsxC | Looking for intuitions to extend bargaining notions | programcrafter | I've come up with two ideas - variations on bargaining ROSE values:
qROSE ("quantum" version) - instead of taking average over agents' permutations, mean should be weighted and encompass all "trajectories" - sequences of agents' decisions like [A B A A C B]. I'm not sure what the weights should naturally be, as it seem... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PPDuLtqCtpqmGzEzH/owain-evans-on-situational-awareness-and-out-of-context | PPDuLtqCtpqmGzEzH | Owain Evans on Situational Awareness and Out-of-Context Reasoning in LLMs | mtrazzi | Owain Evans is an AI Alignment researcher, research associate at the Center of Human Compatible AI at UC Berkeley, and now leading a new AI safety research group.
In this episode we discuss two of his recent papers, “Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs” (LW) and “Connecting the Dots: LL... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sQxwNBDYAPtStaicr/developing-positive-habits-through-video-games | sQxwNBDYAPtStaicr | Developing Positive Habits through Video Games | Unknown | I wonder if anyone on the forum could share their thoughts on whether it's scientifically possible to develop a video game/app which
Strengthens neural circuits involved in developing/maintaining positive habitsBuild any sort of positive habits that transfer to real life decision making
Like a virtual morality/discipli... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SoWperLCkunB9ijGq/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030-epoch-ai-yes | SoWperLCkunB9ijGq | "Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?", Epoch AI (yes) | gwern | We investigate the scalability of AI training runs. We identify electric power, chip manufacturing, data and latency as constraints. We conclude that 2e29 FLOP training runs will likely be feasible by 2030.
Introduction
In recent years, the capabilities of AI models have significantly improved. Our research suggests th... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D2n5uduYGXuexkv7v/what-s-important-in-ai-for-epistemics-2 | D2n5uduYGXuexkv7v | What's important in "AI for epistemics"? | Lanrian | Summary
This post gives my personal take on “AI for epistemics” and how important it might be to work on.
Some background context:
AI capabilities are advancing rapidly and I think it’s important to think ahead and prepare for the possible development of AI that could automate almost all economically relevant tasks tha... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/532ondB4Y4dGWgwuh/what-is-an-appropriate-sample-size-when-surveying-billions | 532ondB4Y4dGWgwuh | What is an appropriate sample size when surveying billions of data points? | blake-1 | I am surveying Internet web accessibility. We're hoping to draw big conclusions on how accessible the Internet is to people with disabilities. What is the appropriate sample size? We should draw in order to start making our grand conclusions?
I went down Google/Perplexity rabbit hole trying to figure out an appropriate... | 2024-08-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TMAmHh4DdMr4nCSr5/showing-sae-latents-are-not-atomic-using-meta-saes | TMAmHh4DdMr4nCSr5 | Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs | Stuckwork | Bart, Michael and Patrick are joint first authors. Research conducted as part of MATS 6.0 in Lee Sharkey and Neel Nanda’s streams. Thanks to Mckenna Fitzgerald and Robert Krzyzanowski for their feedback!
TL;DR:
Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) latents have been shown to typically be monosemantic (i.e. correspond to an interpr... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jeoSoJQLuK4JWqtyy/crafting-polysemantic-transformer-benchmarks-with-known | jeoSoJQLuK4JWqtyy | Crafting Polysemantic Transformer Benchmarks with Known Circuits | evan-anders | Notes:
This research was performed as part of Adrià Garriga-Alonso’s MATS 6.0 stream.If an opinion is stated in this post saying that "we" hold the opinion, assume it's Evan's opinion (Adrià is taking a well-deserved vacation at the time of writing).Evan won’t be able to continue working on this research direction, bec... | 2024-08-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MhmRigfzyqQGnnbec/what-do-you-expect-ai-capabilities-may-look-like-in-2028 | MhmRigfzyqQGnnbec | What do you expect AI capabilities may look like in 2028? | nonzerosum | From the perspective of AI progress, bottlenecks, capabilities, safety - what do you think 2028 might look like? | 2024-08-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mhCCwq7KEMARBuaT5/invitation-to-lead-a-project-at-ai-safety-camp-virtual | mhCCwq7KEMARBuaT5 | Invitation to lead a project at AI Safety Camp (Virtual Edition, 2025) | Linda Linsefors | Do you have AI Safety research ideas that you would like to work on with others? Is there a project you want to do and you want help finding a team? AI Safety Camp could be the solution for you!
Summary
AI Safety Camp Virtual is a 3-month long online research program from January to April 2025, where participants form ... | 2024-08-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G2oyFQFTE5eGEas6m/interpretability-as-compression-reconsidering-sae | G2oyFQFTE5eGEas6m | Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs | kola-ayonrinde | This work was produced as part of the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Summer 24 Cohort, under mentorship from Lee Sharkey and Jan Kulveit.
Note: An updated paper version of this post can be found here.
Abstract
Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a useful tool for interpreting the internal representatio... | 2024-08-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X2og6RReKD47vseK8/how-i-started-believing-religion-might-actually-matter-for | X2og6RReKD47vseK8 | How I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy | zhukeepa | After the release of Ben Pace's extended interview with me about my views on religion, I felt inspired to publish more of my thinking about religion in a format that's more detailed, compact, and organized. This post is the first publication in my series of intended posts about religion.
Thanks to Ben Pace, Chris Lakin... | 2024-08-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kLpFvEBisPagBLTtM/if-we-solve-alignment-do-we-die-anyway-1 | kLpFvEBisPagBLTtM | If we solve alignment, do we die anyway? | Seth Herd | Epistemic status: I'm aware of good arguments that this scenario isn't inevitable, but it still seems frighteningly likely even if we solve technical alignment. Clarifying this scenario seems important.
TL;DR: (edits in parentheses, two days after posting, from discussions in comments )
If we solve alignment, it will p... | 2024-08-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wTF8eSqvh8vgfJLWi/interoperable-high-level-structures-early-thoughts-on | wTF8eSqvh8vgfJLWi | Interoperable High Level Structures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives | johnswentworth | Meta: This post is a relatively rough dump of some recent research thoughts; it’s not one of our more polished posts, in terms of either clarity or rigor. You’ve been warned.
The Interoperable Semantics post and the Solomonoff Inductor Walks Into A Bar post each tackled the question of how different agents in the same ... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MNry3zpeuw2HfyJJP/interest-poll-a-time-waster-blocker-for-desktop-linux | MNry3zpeuw2HfyJJP | Interest poll: A time-waster blocker for desktop Linux programs | nahoj | I started developing a program à la LeechBlock / Cold Turkey / OneSec to:
limit how long I can use a program per day/week/etc.
add a short delay "Take a breath. Do you really want to run Xyz?" before starting a program.
Right now it's unfinished and unstable. I might invest some time into it if there is interest.
Poll ... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DwxbPixw7SsnpBfaa/turning-22-in-the-pre-apocalypse | DwxbPixw7SsnpBfaa | Turning 22 in the Pre-Apocalypse | testingthewaters | Meta comment for LessWrong readers[1]
Something Different This Way Comes - Part 1
In which I attempt to renegotiate rationalism as a personal philosophy, and offer my alternative—Game theory is not a substitute for real life—Heuristics over theories
Introduction
This essay focuses on outlining an alternative to the ide... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AtJdPZkMdsakLc6mB/training-a-sparse-autoencoder-in-less-than-30-minutes-on | AtJdPZkMdsakLc6mB | Training a Sparse Autoencoder in < 30 minutes on 16GB of VRAM using an S3 cache | louka-ewington-pitsos | Summary
300 million GPT2-small activations are cached on s3, we pull these very quickly onto a g4dn.8xlarge ec2 instance in the same region and use them to train a 24,576 dimensional Switch Sparse Autocoder in 26 minutes (excluding generation time). We achieve similar L0/reconstruction loss to Gao et al. and a low dead... | 2024-08-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jig8yRHuwhgxN35ue/a-robust-natural-latent-over-a-mixed-distribution-is-natural | jig8yRHuwhgxN35ue | A Robust Natural Latent Over A Mixed Distribution Is Natural Over The Distributions Which Were Mixed | johnswentworth | This post walks through the math for a theorem. It’s intended to be a reference post, which we’ll link back to as-needed from future posts. The question which first motivated this theorem for us was: “Redness of a marker seems like maybe a natural latent over a bunch of parts of the marker, and redness of a car seems l... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TmtX4tJXvRg5JwPjs/what-becoming-more-secure-did-for-me | TmtX4tJXvRg5JwPjs | what becoming more secure did for me | Chipmonk | After I quit my job two years ago, I was conflict-avoidant to the point of depression. I did ~nothing for five months and moved in with my parents in the middle of nowhere.
Social conflicts used to rip me up. I would be anxious for days, sometimes months.
I was so avoidant of feelings I didn’t know they manifested in t... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dWAmkSqLE4YMQRuhj/a-primer-on-the-current-state-of-longevity-research | dWAmkSqLE4YMQRuhj | A primer on the current state of longevity research | abhishaike-mahajan | Note: This post is co-authored with Stacy Li, a PhD student at Berkeley studying aging biology! Highly appreciate all her help in writing, editing, and fact-checking my understanding!
Introduction
The last time I read about aging research deeply was around 2021. The general impression I was getting was that aging resea... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fjEM8GhC6KkH2nmSh/some-reasons-to-start-a-project-to-stop-harmful-ai | fjEM8GhC6KkH2nmSh | Some reasons to start a project to stop harmful AI | remmelt-ellen | Hey, I’m a coordinator of AI Safety Camp. Our program has supported many projects in the past for finding technical solutions, and my two colleagues still do!
Below is my view on safety, and what made me want to support pause/stop AI projects.
With safety, I mean constraining a system’s potential for harm.
To prevent h... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G4DjvBPmnHiKe6sBC/dima-s-shortform | G4DjvBPmnHiKe6sBC | Dima's Shortform | dmitrii-krasheninnikov | null | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qGh9suEsb82hzBtSN/ai-78-some-welcome-calm | qGh9suEsb82hzBtSN | AI #78: Some Welcome Calm | Zvi | SB 1047 has been amended once more, with both strict improvements and big compromises. I cover the changes, and answer objections to the bill, in my extensive Guide to SB 1047. I follow that up here with reactions to the changes and some thoughts on where the debate goes from here. Ultimately, it is going to come down ... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FhZzGvyXk6Zo54L5h/how-do-we-know-dreams-aren-t-real | FhZzGvyXk6Zo54L5h | How do we know dreams aren't real? | logan-zoellner | Suppose you believe the following:
the universe is infinite in the sense that every possible combination of atoms is repeated an infinite number of times (either because the negative curvature of the universe implies the universe is unbounded or because of MWI)Consciousness is an atomic phenomena[1]. That is to say, th... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/imXMvaNZv5HkBphFa/deception-and-jailbreak-sequence-1-iterative-refinement | imXMvaNZv5HkBphFa | Deception and Jailbreak Sequence: 1. Iterative Refinement Stages of Deception in LLMs | winnie-yang | Executive Overview
As models grow increasingly sophisticated, they will surpass human expertise. It is a fundamentally difficult challenge to make sure that those models are robustly aligned (Bowman et al., 2022). For example, we might hope to reliably know whether a model is being deceptive in order to achieve an inst... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Z6qwECn7aJ2tbeeCP/what-s-going-on-with-per-component-weight-updates | Z6qwECn7aJ2tbeeCP | What's going on with Per-Component Weight Updates? | 4gate | Hi all, this is my first post on LW. It's a small one, but I want improve my writing, get into the habit of sharing my work, and maybe exchange some ideas in case anyone has already gotten further along some projection of my trajectory.
TLDR: I looked at the L2 norm of weight updates/changes to see if it correlates wit... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2gpsa9yZka95pCsTn/just-because-an-llm-said-it-doesn-t-mean-it-s-true-an | 2gpsa9yZka95pCsTn | Just because an LLM said it doesn't mean it's true: an illustrative example | abandon | This was originally posted in the comments of You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad.; I've broken it out into a post because I think it might be a useful corrective more generally for people inclined to cite LLM remarks as fact.
I asked Claude, as an illustrative example, whether ready-ma... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a4hmwsHFsi3L6iAQk/how-do-you-finish-your-tasks-faster | a4hmwsHFsi3L6iAQk | How do you finish your tasks faster? | Cipolla | I have the following problem: start with a goal that I know how to reach. Everything is there in my mind. But between the start and the finish I stray away from achieving it. It happens like this: I focus on a sub-task. Then, I focus on sub-(sub-task)s. Till I loose my focus.
I would like my process to be: finish the g... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q3QZaNHwCxxkheoTM/ai-safety-newsletter-40-california-ai-legislation-plus | q3QZaNHwCxxkheoTM | AI Safety Newsletter #40: California AI Legislation
Plus, NVIDIA Delays Chip Production, and Do AI Safety Benchmarks Actually Measure Safety? | 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.
SB 1047, the Most-Discussed California AI Legislation
California's Senate Bill 1047 has sparked discus... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9oSySAkTkpKCa8zLn/should-lw-suggest-standard-metaprompts | 9oSySAkTkpKCa8zLn | Should LW suggest standard metaprompts? | Dagon | Based on low-quality articles that seem to be coming up with more regularity, and as mentioned in a few recent posts, AI-generated posts are likely to be a permanent feature of LW (and most online forums, I expect). I wonder if we should focus on harm reduction (or actual value creation, in some cases) rather than try... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZFJGfvfjrN3M7Cdda/eternal-existence-and-eternal-boredom-the-case-for-ai-and | ZFJGfvfjrN3M7Cdda | Eternal Existence and Eternal Boredom: The Case for AI and Immortal Humans | tuan-tu-nguyen | Abstract
The idea of immortality understood through artificial intelligence or human existence raises deep questions regarding existential experience and fulfillment. Eternal life might sound very interesting at first, but it presents the possibility of eternal boredom. This paper looks into how an infinite existence c... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eZa37pZtxsQirE84d/please-do-not-use-ai-to-write-for-you | eZa37pZtxsQirE84d | Please do not use AI to write for you | Richard_Kennaway | I've recently seen several articles here that were clearly generated or heavily assisted by AI. They are all dreadful. They are verbose, they are full of "on the one hand" and "on the other", they never make any assertion without also making room for the opposite, and end with "conclusions" that say nothing. Please do ... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WsDsGRTKBCrujwbKd/apply-to-aether-independent-llm-agent-safety-research-group | WsDsGRTKBCrujwbKd | Apply to Aether - Independent LLM Agent Safety Research Group | RohanS | The basic idea
Aether will be a small group of talented early-career AI safety researchers with a shared research vision who work full-time with mentorship on their best effort at making AI go well. That research vision will broadly revolve around the alignment, control, and evaluation of LLM agents. There is a lot of ... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nZcb9TTyneFbxiDav/the-giga-press-was-a-mistake | nZcb9TTyneFbxiDav | the Giga Press was a mistake | bhauth | the giga press
Tesla decided to use large aluminum castings ("gigacastings") for the frame of many of its vehicles, including the Model Y and Cybertruck. This approach and the "Giga Press" used for it have been praised by many articles and youtube videos, repeatedly called revolutionary and a key advantage.
Most cars t... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rarYpmvzkoEn4GnoD/exploring-the-boundaries-of-cognitohazards-and-the-nature-of | rarYpmvzkoEn4GnoD | Exploring the Boundaries of Cognitohazards and the Nature of Reality | ZT5 | Note: Written by GPT-4, as I shouldn't trusted with language right now.
Signed by me. I have accepted this as my words.
Dear LessWrong Community,
I've been reflecting deeply on the fascinating relationship between language, cognition, and the nature of reality. One of the intriguing aspects of our discussions here is t... | 2024-08-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HECnuCFCHTJkNM3zC/what-is-the-point-of-2v2-debates | HECnuCFCHTJkNM3zC | What is the point of 2v2 debates? | axelahlqvist1995@gmail.com | For instance, I am thinking about the munk debates which in 2023 tackled AI x-risk. I don't see how adding more people to a 1v1 debate makes it better in any way. One of the major frustrations with debates is that it is difficult to get the participants to respond to each other. The goal would be to have the participan... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Bbq6Gogm5cHuLjZRG/where-should-i-look-for-information-on-gut-health | Bbq6Gogm5cHuLjZRG | Where should I look for information on gut health? | FinalFormal2 | I've been on a gut health kick, reading Brain Maker, adding more kale for the insoluble fiber, and cutting seed oils and sugar.
The author recommends probiotic enemas and fecal transplant, but I've seen mixed information on effectiveness of such treatments, and I also read a concerning article by a professor that seeme... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HET8YqdYcEjqALGqu/hyderabad-rationality-acx-meetup | HET8YqdYcEjqALGqu | Hyderabad Rationality/ACX Meetup | vmehra | ACX Meetups Everywhere - Fall Edition | 2024-08-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DvGe4debuZvDKBsEm/the-economics-of-space-tethers | DvGe4debuZvDKBsEm | The economics of space tethers | harsimony | Some code for this post can be found here.
Space tethers take the old, defunct space elevator concept and shorten it. Rockets can fly up to a dangling hook in the sky and then climb to a higher orbit. If the tether rotates, it can act like a catapult, providing a significant boost in a location where providing thrust i... | 2024-08-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tXRwp42jjABrgRXzo/would-you-benefit-from-or-object-to-a-page-with-lw-users | tXRwp42jjABrgRXzo | Would you benefit from, or object to, a page with LW users' reacts? | Raemon | There is currently an admin-only page that shows a list of all comments that have been reacted to (in chronological order). Periodically I think "it might just be nice to show this to everyone, and to let them filter by individual reacts, or individual users."
The reason individual reacts might be nice is to filter for... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MEa2wtvt559kxGAB7/trying-to-be-rational-for-the-wrong-reasons | MEa2wtvt559kxGAB7 | Trying to be rational for the wrong reasons | Viliam | Rationalists are people who have an irrational preference for rationality.
This may sound silly, but when you think about it, it couldn't be any other way. I am not saying that all reasons in favor of rationality are irrational -- in fact, there are many rational reasons to be rational! It's just that "rational reasons... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/79BPxvSsjzBkiSyTq/agi-safety-and-alignment-at-google-deepmind-a-summary-of | 79BPxvSsjzBkiSyTq | AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind:
A Summary of Recent Work | rohinmshah | We wanted to share a recap of our recent outputs with the AF community. Below, we fill in some details about what we have been working on, what motivated us to do it, and how we thought about its importance. We hope that this will help people build off things we have done and see how their work fits with ours.
Who are ... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eXa34sb2TavMTYiQ9/how-great-is-the-utility-of-saving-endangered-languages | eXa34sb2TavMTYiQ9 | How great is the utility of "saving" endangered languages? | SpectrumDT | It happens regularly that a natural language goes extinct because the native speakers die off and their descendants no longer speak the language. Some people consider this a great tragedy and argue that we should preserve these endangered languages.
It seems to me that the utility of this is very low. Sure, it is sad t... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Z7pTfn4qqnKBoMi42/guide-to-sb-1047 | Z7pTfn4qqnKBoMi42 | Guide to SB 1047 | Zvi | We now likely know the final form of California’s SB 1047.
There have been many changes to the bill as it worked its way to this point.
Many changes, including some that were just announced, I see as strict improvements.
Anthropic was behind many of the last set of amendments at the Appropriations Committee. In keeping... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TSyCk3tyfewfox5nP/finding-deception-in-language-models-1 | TSyCk3tyfewfox5nP | Finding Deception in Language Models | esben-kran | This June, Apart Research and Apollo Research joined forces to host the Deception Detection Hackathon. Bringing together students, researchers, and engineers from around the world to tackle a pressing challenge in AI safety; preventing AI from deceiving humans and overseers.
The hackathon took place both online and in ... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sXdpjZy6BhmmJLqZq/next-automated-reasoning-grand-challenge-compcert | sXdpjZy6BhmmJLqZq | Next automated reasoning grand challenge: CompCert | sanxiyn | Recently automated reasoning system was developed to solve IMO problems. It is a very impressive and exciting advance, but it must be noted IMO problems are to be solved in two days.
Recently it was also proposed to make use of this advance to greatly automate formal verification of practical systems, including advance... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2tKbDKGLXtEHGtGLn/ai-77-a-few-upgrades | 2tKbDKGLXtEHGtGLn | AI #77: A Few Upgrades | Zvi | [Apologies for forgetting to cross-post this and the Monthly Roundup earlier.]
Let’s see. We’ve got a new version of GPT-4o, a vastly improved Grok 2 with a rather good and unrestricted deepfake and other image generator now baked into Twitter, the announcement of the AI powered Google Pixel 9 coming very soon and also... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2ne9taAPiGqoTLXJJ/monthly-roundup-21-august-2024 | 2ne9taAPiGqoTLXJJ | Monthly Roundup #21: August 2024 | Zvi | Strictly speaking I do not have that much ‘good news’ to report, but it’s all mostly fun stuff one way or another. Let’s go.
Bad News
Is this you?
Patrick McKenzie: This sounds like a trivial observation and it isn’t:
No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.
There are many other questions you... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KK9fgv4QyvikX7Ytb/linkpost-automated-design-of-agentic-systems | KK9fgv4QyvikX7Ytb | [Linkpost] Automated Design of Agentic Systems | bogdan-ionut-cirstea | Authors: Shengran Hu, Cong Lu, Jeff Clune.
Brief summary: proof of concept of automated LM scaffolding design, with state-of-the-art performance on several tasks.
Website: https://www.shengranhu.com/ADAS/.
X/twitter summary thread: https://x.com/jeffclune/status/1825551351746867502.
Abstract:
Researchers are investing ... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ff6R5bbEA8CaEpsdL/the-conscious-river-conscious-turing-machines-negate | Ff6R5bbEA8CaEpsdL | The Conscious River: Conscious Turing machines negate materialism | blallo | Many computer scientists and mathematically inclined people subscribe to the idea that consciousness is a phenomenon that emerges from matter. They also believe that any Turing machine can generate consciousness if provided with the correct program. This seems obvious due to the universality of Turing machines. If a Tu... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Paxpr2EkNzBEJTDoF/llm-applications-i-want-to-see | Paxpr2EkNzBEJTDoF | LLM Applications I Want To See | sarahconstantin | Midjourney, “artificial intelligence large language model neural network”
I’m convinced that people who are interested in large language models (LLMs) are overwhelmingly focused on general-purpose “performance” at the expense of exploring useful (or fun) applications.
As I’m working on a personal project, I’ve been lea... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/67fNBeHrjdrZZNDDK/defining-alignment-research | 67fNBeHrjdrZZNDDK | Defining alignment research | ricraz | I think that the concept of "alignment research" (and the distinction between that and "capabilities research") is currently a fairly confused one. In this post I’ll describe some of the problems with how people typically think about these terms, and offer replacement definitions.
“Alignment” and “capabilities” are pri... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/B2bg677TaS4cmDPzL/limitations-on-formal-verification-for-ai-safety | B2bg677TaS4cmDPzL | Limitations on Formal Verification for AI Safety | Andrew Dickson | In the past two years there has been increased interest in formal verification-based approaches to AI safety. Formal verification is a sub-field of computer science that studies how guarantees may be derived by deduction on fully-specified rule-sets and symbol systems. By contrast, the real world is a messy place that ... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tpQLBodYjDJaBs6RT/artificial-intelligence-and-eternal-torture-and-suffering | tpQLBodYjDJaBs6RT | Artificial Intelligence and Eternal Torture and Suffering | tuan-tu-nguyen | Abstract
The development of artificial intelligence brings with it extremely important ethical questions, one of the most alarming being the possibility of eternal torture and suffering inflicted by AI on humans. This paper considers theoretical implications and ethical consequences of the development of highly advance... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XheoJNKBRiuiPpovF/vilnius-acx-meetups-everywhere-fall-2024 | XheoJNKBRiuiPpovF | Vilnius – ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2024 | NoUsernameSelected | Hey folks,
We're organizing an ACX meetup in Vilnius this September. We're meeting on Sunday the 22nd, at 3pm in Lukiškių Aikštė.
We are few, yet we are mighty. RSVPs are optional. Join us here: https://discord.gg/MrBxnNBKbA | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nfjf3sc6pMtMfSqvC/apartment-price-map-discontinuity | nfjf3sc6pMtMfSqvC | Apartment Price Map Discontinuity | jkaufman | I maintain a
Boston
apartment price map, scraping
Padmapper's listings to make a
heatmap. Each month I run a script to update it, but last month it
failed due to an API change. It had been impressively stable: I'd
been running the same code unmodified for
three
years, with only minor modifications since a big rewrite ... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jYo667KgYTezoq7h4/will-we-ever-run-out-of-new-jobs | jYo667KgYTezoq7h4 | Will we ever run out of new jobs? | KevinKohler | A lot of the debate on long-term, structural technological unemployment can be summarized in three short statements:
Concerns about the speed or scope of labor substitution have often been premature or exaggerated in the past.Labor substitution has been very positive for humanity so far. As many old tasks have been aut... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MxbwaNvRRj22ZzjFB/what-are-the-best-resources-for-building-gears-level-models | MxbwaNvRRj22ZzjFB | What are the best resources for building gears-level models of how governments actually work? | adamShimi | One big hole in my set of frames and models of the world is that I don't understand how government works. I don't understand how the government of my native country (France) works, I don't understand how the government of the country I live in (UK) works, I don't understand how the governments of countries that matter ... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4kGWZPzH62x65oN9X/cross-post-book-review-bureaucracy-by-james-q-wilson | 4kGWZPzH62x65oN9X | [Cross-post] Book Review: Bureaucracy, by James Q Wilson | davekasten | [Cross-posted from my substack, davekasten.substack.com. {I never said that I was creative at naming things}]
Hi,
So here are some things I’ve been thinking about while traveling on policy consulting business over the past few months.
Bureaucracy, by James Q. Wilson
As we’ve discussed previously, a decent description ... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/piaeNZBDxXtSjaZ7G/if-ai-is-in-a-bubble-and-the-bubble-bursts-what-would-you-do | piaeNZBDxXtSjaZ7G | If AI is in a bubble and the bubble bursts, what would you do? | remmelt-ellen | "The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point", says Sequoia Capital.
AI companies paid billions of dollars for top engineers, data centers, etc. Meanwhile, companies are running out of 'free' data to scrape online and facing lawsuits for the data they did scrape. Finally, the novelty of chatbots and image generators is w... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wXyXtQTCZ8upjgBvZ/beware-the-science-fiction-bias-in-predictions-of-the-future | wXyXtQTCZ8upjgBvZ | Beware the science fiction bias in predictions of the future | nikita-sokolsky | We want to know the future, so we like reading predictions. These predictions can significantly vary in how long their time horizon is:
Seconds to Minutes: poker players, high-frequency tradersMinutes to Hours: day traders, in-game sports bettingDays to Weeks: weather forecasts, outcomes of sports tournamentsMonths to ... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xbpig7TcsEktyykNF/thiel-on-ai-and-racing-with-china | xbpig7TcsEktyykNF | Thiel on AI & Racing with China | Benito | This post is a transcript of part of a podcast with Peter Thiel, touching on topics of AI, China, extinction, Effective Altruists, and apocalyptic narratives, published on August 16th 2024.
If you're interested in reading the quotes, just skip straight to them, the introduction is not required reading.
Introduction
Pet... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rKEgi2cBvBwbN2tfX/interdictor-ship | rKEgi2cBvBwbN2tfX | Interdictor Ship | lsusr | The standard operating procedure against a primitive forest-dwelling enemy is to retreat to orbit and then bombard the planet until there isn't a forest anymore. However, the only reason the Galactic Empire was in the Alpha Centauri A system in the first place was because of the fragile mineral resources underneath tha... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qqh4Kg7qyn96BgbNj/why-you-should-be-using-a-retinoid | qqh4Kg7qyn96BgbNj | Why you should be using a retinoid | GeneSmith | If you want the 60 second version of this post that just tells you what to do, click here to skip to the summary.
There is a cheap, widely available, extremely effective treatment for skin aging that has been around for decades and almost no one outside of dermatologists and beauty bloggers seems to know about it.
It's... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vQF4Jspzi7ZjpnJbv/liability-regimes-for-ai | vQF4Jspzi7ZjpnJbv | Liability regimes for AI | ege-erdil | For many products, we face a choice of who to hold liable for harms that would not have occurred if not for the existence of the product. For instance, if a person uses a gun in a school shooting that kills a dozen people, there are many legal persons who in principle could be held liable for the harm:
The shooter them... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XikKvAMHSENMpqYeb/reflecting-on-the-transhumanist-rebuttal-to-ai-existential | XikKvAMHSENMpqYeb | Reflecting on the transhumanist rebuttal to AI existential risk and critique of our debate methodologies and misuse of statistics | catgirlsruletheworld | This morning, I read an article that counter-argues many of our arguments about AI existential risk, and I'm curious what other people's thoughts are on the arguments, linked here: https://darkempressofthevoid.substack.com/p/fck-decels-accelerate. I outlined my thoughts below, which include both some criticism, though... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TsHPJ7fixmGdKZNZq/a-primer-on-why-computational-predictive-toxicology-is-hard | TsHPJ7fixmGdKZNZq | A primer on why computational predictive toxicology is hard | abhishaike-mahajan | Introduction
There are now (claimed) foundation models for protein sequences, DNA sequences, RNA sequences, molecules, scRNA-seq, chromatin accessibility, pathology slides, medical images, electronic health records, and clinical free-text. It’s a dizzying rate of progress.
But there’s a few problems in biology that, in... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PcgKjAJDuKqn8FRsG/scaling-laws-and-likely-limits-to-ai | PcgKjAJDuKqn8FRsG | Scaling Laws and Likely Limits to AI | Davidmanheim | null | 2024-08-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/csGLMjCEKJ4WrKtgH/introduction-and-exploration-of-ai-ethics-through-a-global | csGLMjCEKJ4WrKtgH | Introduction and Exploration of AI Ethics Through a Global Lens | thepathyouwillchoose-thepathyouwillchoose | Hello LessWrong Community,
My name is Fred, and I am deeply engaged in exploring the ethical issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its societal impacts on a global scale. Recently, I have been working on a novel that delves into these themes, examining how emerging technologies intersect with cultural di... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4KawdpAfFZzhFccMi/what-is-true-love | 4KawdpAfFZzhFccMi | What is "True Love"? | johnswentworth | Meta: I recently entered the dating market, so naturally I have lots of random thoughts on the subject which you all get to suffer through for a while. Your usual diet of dry math and agency theory will resume shortly.
Obviously the phrase “true love” has been so thoroughly overdone in so much fiction as to lose all su... | 2024-08-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b65s2pLqnyP89jEmj/quick-look-applications-of-chaos-theory | b65s2pLqnyP89jEmj | Quick look: applications of chaos theory | pktechgirl | Introduction
Recently we (Elizabeth Van Nostrand and Alex Altair) started a project investigating chaos theory as an example of field formation.[1] The number one question you get when you tell people you are studying the history of chaos theory is “does that matter in any way?”.[2] Books and articles will list applica... | 2024-08-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Pdo7WpFQmtdAxTmTz/restructuring-pop-songs-for-contra | Pdo7WpFQmtdAxTmTz | Restructuring Pop Songs for Contra | jkaufman | One of the things I like about playing for contra dances is that you
have a
lot of freedom about what to
play. As long as you meet the minimum requirements for danceable
music (108-122bpm,
contra
phrasing) you can do almost anything. And then if you're a
bottom
left corner band you might want to play some pop covers.... | 2024-08-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uA6jWodfoT35jSJNe/the-case-against-moral-realism | uA6jWodfoT35jSJNe | The Case Against Moral Realism | Zero Contradictions | The PDF version can be read here.
Moral realism is an explicit version of the ordinary view of morality. It has the following assumptions:
Good and evil are objectively real.We have the ability to recognize good and evil.We have an objective moral obligation to do good and not do evil. Likewise, we have an objective mo... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7o7jPegxcnPnxXkvd/decision-theory-in-space | 7o7jPegxcnPnxXkvd | Decision Theory in Space | lsusr | "Since you are reluctant to provide us with the location of the Rebel base," said Grand Moff Tarkin, "I have chosen to test this station's destructive power on your home planet of Alderaan."
"No. Alderaan is peaceful. We have no weapons there. It is a loyal planet under Imperial control. Striking Alderaan would destroy... | 2024-08-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xcJj2zjyDDjgtZy2y/you-re-a-space-wizard-luke | xcJj2zjyDDjgtZy2y | You're a Space Wizard, Luke | lsusr | "My father didn't fight in the wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter," said Luke.
"That's what your uncle told you. Basic security protocol. You don't tell a young child sensitive information about your participation in an ongoing civil war. Which reminds me. I have here something for you. Your father wanted yo... | 2024-08-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JxtKnxap2KCymPSA5/green-and-golden-a-meditation | JxtKnxap2KCymPSA5 | Green and golden: a meditation | ricraz | My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
-William Wordsworth
I am exquisitely attuned to humans. Your voi... | 2024-08-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MT4HNPhnZxRqhExs2/lifelogging-for-alignment-and-immortality | MT4HNPhnZxRqhExs2 | Lifelogging for Alignment & Immortality | ethan.roland | Summary: The collection of a massive first-person video dataset for use in large model pretraining is technologically & economically feasible with modest resources. Such a dataset might enable high-fidelity imitation of human behavior, with positive implications for the capabilities and safety of trained models. Such m... | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QAPMZap2STyrDAQTp/does-ultimate-neartermism-via-eternal-inflation-dominate | QAPMZap2STyrDAQTp | Does “Ultimate Neartermism” via Eternal Inflation dominate Longtermism in expectation? | Jordan Arel | Epistemic status:
While I believe this idea’s consequences could be profound if correct, and it should be taken slightly more seriously than April Fool’s post “Ultra-Near-Termism”, I consider it mostly a quirky novelty, I’ve spent relatively little time thinking about it and suspect it may have major flaws. At the ver... | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fzBHrKfZyociTBB3k/playing-minecraft-with-a-superintelligence | fzBHrKfZyociTBB3k | Playing Minecraft with a Superintelligence | johannes-c-mayer | TLDR: Through concrete scenic descriptions illustrate how I expect naive goal specifications to fail, for getting diamonds in Minecraft.
Not much beyond the concrete examples is original. Also checkout the excellent Specification Gaming video by Rational Animations.
The Setup
I am playing Minecraft. I'd like to have an... | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BcrPdMipzqecg4JdQ/the-causal-backbone-conjecture | BcrPdMipzqecg4JdQ | The causal backbone conjecture | tailcalled | Followup to: Rationalists are missing a core piece for agent-like structure (energy vs information overload). Related to: Linear Diffusion of Sparse Lognormals (I don't consider that sequence done yet BTW, I just took a break because I ran out of pre-written posts, so I need to write some more). Response to: Fixing The... | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xfo2HjiHdbeJinjo3/i-didn-t-have-to-avoid-you-i-was-just-insecure | Xfo2HjiHdbeJinjo3 | I didn't have to avoid you; I was just insecure | Chipmonk | I don't usually post stories on LessWrong so I'm curious to see how this is received.
The first time we spoke, you asked me some questions that felt really invasive. I didn’t want that to happen again, so I avoided you the entire following year.
So when you said “Hi” at a party and suggested catching up, I hesitated. B... | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rCK6qu2w8pCYquhgg/please-support-this-blog-with-money | rCK6qu2w8pCYquhgg | Please support this blog (with money) | pktechgirl | Short version
It has always felt like a gift that people read things I write, and I enjoyed reciprocating that by sharing my writing for free. Until recently I had enough income to pull that off and still cover material needs. That is no longer true, and while it is not an urgent problem, I would like to solve it whil... | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/p3MX4rDmvceQqt3B8/climate-change-and-global-warming | p3MX4rDmvceQqt3B8 | Climate Change And Global Warming | Zero Contradictions | 1. Understanding Climate Change
See: Wikipedia: Climate Change.
I support the scientific consensus that climate change and global warming are ongoing, human-caused, and likely to have strong negative consequences for humans, the Earth, and the world’s ecosystems. The evidence is clear that the CO2 levels the Earth’s at... | 2024-09-25 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/giH33xzgujApQiZdG/new-blog-expedition-to-the-far-lands | giH33xzgujApQiZdG | New blog: Expedition to the Far Lands | NPCollapse | I have started a new personal blog!
I intend to use it to write about more esoteric/lower confidence/epistemologically-sticky topics than elsewhere.
You can already read the first post: "Mysticism 101, or: In defence of Natural Language DSLs" | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YZvyQn2dAw4tL2xQY/rationalists-are-missing-a-core-piece-for-agent-like | YZvyQn2dAw4tL2xQY | Rationalists are missing a core piece for agent-like structure (energy vs information overload) | tailcalled | The agent-like structure problem is a question about how agents in the world are structured. I think rationalists generally have an intuition that the answer looks something like the following:
We assume the world follows some evolution law, e.g. maybe deterministically like xn+1=f(xn), or maybe something stochastic. T... | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ShgAxjgN55gmq47ou/trustworthy-and-untrustworthy-models-1 | ShgAxjgN55gmq47ou | Trustworthy and untrustworthy models | jarviniemi | In this post, I’ll talk about trustworthiness, a concept similar to scheming and deceptive alignment. I prefer this concept, as I find it A) is directly important in practice, B) more readily distinguishes between capability for scheming and in fact scheming, and C) is clearer how to evaluate for. I’ll also distinguish... | 2024-08-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RCJF76MrSKsYC4EGL/how-unusual-is-the-fact-that-there-is-no-ai-monopoly | RCJF76MrSKsYC4EGL | How unusual is the fact that there is no AI monopoly? | Viliam | I may be completely confused about this, but my model of technological breakthroughs in history was basically this: A few guys independently connect the dots leading to a new invention, for example the telephone, approximately at the same time. One of them runs to the patent office a little faster than the others, and ... | 2024-08-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q9kjq9ciQnFBjcPgE/the-tech-industry-is-the-biggest-blocker-to-meaningful-ai | q9kjq9ciQnFBjcPgE | The Tech Industry is the Biggest Blocker to Meaningful AI Safety Regulations | garrison | null | 2024-08-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X4S2mMG2bpWwPYGgu/principled-satisficing-to-avoid-goodhart | X4S2mMG2bpWwPYGgu | Principled Satisficing To Avoid Goodhart | JenniferRM | There's an admirable LW post with (currently) zero net upvotes titled Goodhart's Law and Emotions where a relatively new user re-invents concepts related to super-stimuli. In the comments, noggin-scratcher explains in more detail:
The technical meaning is a stimulus that produces a stronger response than the stimulus f... | 2024-08-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WsPyunwpXYCM2iN6t/calendar-feature-geometry-in-gpt-2-layer-8-residual-stream | WsPyunwpXYCM2iN6t | Calendar feature geometry in GPT-2 layer 8 residual stream SAEs | patrickleask | TL;DR: We demonstrate that the decoder directions of GPT-2 SAEs are highly structured by finding a historical date direction onto which projecting non-date related features lets us read off their historical time period by comparison to year features.
Calendar years are linear: there are as many years between 2000 and 2... | 2024-08-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZjjLGn2JCGwd4dDuq/the-bar-for-contributing-to-ai-safety-is-lower-than-you | ZjjLGn2JCGwd4dDuq | The Bar for Contributing to AI Safety is Lower than You Think | Chris_Leong | Many people still have a model of AI safety where they assume that the bar for contributing must be really high.
I'm here to tell you that this isn't the case.
The Value of Good Community Members
Even without conducting groundbreaking research, "good community members" play a crucial role in expanding and enriching the... | 2024-08-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/avSArL7CuA2fEKfFD/investigating-the-chart-of-the-century-why-is-food-so | avSArL7CuA2fEKfFD | Investigating the Chart of the Century: Why is food so expensive? | maxwell-tabarrok | You’ve probably seen this chart from Mark Perry at the American Enterprise Institute.
I’ve seen this chart dozens of times and have always enjoyed how many different and important stories it can tell.
There is a story of the incredible abundance offered by technological growth and globalization. Compared to average hou... | 2024-08-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7fk73b2Ck9yMZZxYT/freedom-of-speech | 7fk73b2Ck9yMZZxYT | Freedom of Speech | Zero Contradictions | The PDF version can be read here.
The audio version can be listened to here:
What is freedom of speech?
People often confuse the principle of free speech with a specific law intended to protect free speech, such as the first amendment of the US constitution. Freedom of speech is not a specific law or set of laws. Freed... | 2024-08-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tfe4sZohKHqcZiT3J/music-in-the-ai-world | tfe4sZohKHqcZiT3J | Music in the AI World | sustrik | The worries that AI will push artists out of business are widespread. If, after all, AI can generate a song in seconds — a task that would require from a human musician years of training, expensive instruments, co-players, and studio time — then why not? My son, aged eleven, has recently used AI to produce a very heart... | 2024-08-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eGhLDdsA8b4pcAnpg/money-pump-arguments-assume-memoryless-agents-isn-t-this | eGhLDdsA8b4pcAnpg | Money Pump Arguments assume Memoryless Agents. Isn't this Unrealistic? | Darcy | I have been reading about money pump arguments for justifying the VNM axioms, and I'm already stuck at the part where Gustafsson justifies acyclicity. Namely, he seems to assume that agents have no memory. Why does this make sense?[1] To elaborate:
The standard money pump argument looks like this.
Let's assume (1) A>B>... | 2024-08-16 |
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