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Back to Search“LLM-generated text is not testimony” by TsviBT
Crosspost from my blog.
Synopsis
When we share words with each other, we don't only care about the words themselves. We care also—even primarily—ab…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
“Post title: Why I Transitioned: A Case Study” by Fiora Sunshine
An Overture
Famously, trans people tend not to have great introspective clarity into their own motivations for transition. Intuitively, they tend to…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
“The Memetics of AI Successionism” by Jan_Kulveit
TL;DR: AI progress and the recognition of associated risks are painful to think about. This cognitive dissonance acts as fertile ground in the memet…
4 months ago
“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord
This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling.
You can find the others on my site.
Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surprisingly poorl…
4 months ago
“An Opinionated Guide to Privacy Despite Authoritarianism” by TurnTrout
I've created a highly specific and actionable privacy guide, sorted by importance and venturing several layers deep into the privacy iceberg. I star…
4 months ago
“Cancer has a surprising amount of detail” by Abhishaike Mahajan
There is a very famous essay titled ‘Reality has a surprising amount of detail’. The thesis of the article is that reality is filled, just filled, w…
4 months ago
“AIs should also refuse to work on capabilities research” by Davidmanheim
There's a strong argument that humans should stop trying to build more capable AI systems, or at least slow down progress. The risks are plausibly l…
4 months ago
“On Fleshling Safety: A Debate by Klurl and Trapaucius.” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
(23K words; best considered as nonfiction with a fictional-dialogue frame, not a proper short story.)
Prologue:
Klurl and Trapaucius were members of…
4 months ago
“EU explained in 10 minutes” by Martin Sustrik
If you want to understand a country, you should pick a similar country that you are already familiar with, research the differences between the two …
4 months ago
“Cheap Labour Everywhere” by Morpheus
I recently visited my girlfriend's parents in India. Here is what that experience taught me:
Yudkowsky has this facebook post where he makes some in…
4 months ago