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Back to Search“Obligated to Respond” by Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
And, a new take on guess culture vs ask culture
Author's note: These days, my thoughts go onto my substack by default, instead of onto LessWrong. Ev…
10 months, 1 week ago
“Chesterton’s Missing Fence” by jasoncrawford
The inverse of Chesterton's Fence is this:
Sometimes a reformer comes up to a spot where there once was a fence, which has since been torn down. The…
10 months, 1 week ago
“The Eldritch in the 21st century” by PranavG, Gabriel Alfour
Very little makes sense. As we start to understand things and adapt to the rules, they change again.
We live much closer together than we ever did h…
10 months, 1 week ago
“The Rise of Parasitic AI” by Adele Lopez
[Note: if you realize you have an unhealthy relationship with your AI, but still care for your AI's unique persona, you can submit the persona info …
10 months, 1 week ago
“High-level actions don’t screen off intent” by AnnaSalamon
One might think “actions screen off intent”: if Alice donates $1k to bed nets, it doesn’t matter if she does it because she cares about people or be…
10 months, 1 week ago
[Linkpost] “MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech” by Remmelt
This is a link post. Excerpts on AI
Geoffrey Miller was handed the mic and started berating one of the panelists: Shyam Sankar, the chief technology …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
“Your LLM-assisted scientific breakthrough probably isn’t real” by eggsyntax
Summary
An increasing number of people in recent months have believed that they've made an important and novel scientific breakthrough, which they'v…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
“Trust me bro, just one more RL scale up, this one will be the real scale up with the good environments, the actually legit one, trust me bro” by ryan_greenblatt
I've recently written about how I've updated against seeing substantially faster than trend AI progress due to quickly massively scaling up RL on ag…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
“⿻ Plurality & 6pack.care” by Audrey Tang
(Cross-posted from speaker's notes of my talk at Deepmind today.)
Good local time, everyone. I am Audrey Tang, 🇹🇼 Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador and firs…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “The Cats are On To Something” by Hastings
This is a link post. So the situation as it stands is that the fraction of the light cone expected to be filled with satisfied cats is not zero. This…
10 months, 3 weeks ago