rational
Issue #250
5 February, 2023 // View full list
Anomalous tokens: a mysterious failure mode for GPT // www.lesswrong.com
# Coronavirus
Whatever their arguments, Covid vaccine sceptics will probably never convince me // contrarianbrit, 3 min
Response To Alexandros Contra Me On Ivermectin // Scott Alexander, 49 min
# Instrumental
Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball // So8res, 4 min Favorite
How Likely is Losing a Google Account? // jkaufman, 3 min
Nice Clothes are Good, Actually // gworley, 4 min
Tools for finding information on the internet // r, 1 min
Small Talk is Good, Actually // gworley, 4 min
# Epistemic
Simulacra Levels Summary // Zvi, 8 min
Aiming for Convergence Is Like Discouraging Betting // Zack_M_Davis, 14 min
What fact that you know is true but most people aren't ready to accept it? // lorenzo-rex, 1 min
Saying things because they sound good // adamzerner, 2 min
Takeaways from calibration training // jarviniemi, 4 min
# Ai
What I mean by "alignment is in large part about making cognition aimable at all" // So8res, 2 min
Why I hate the "accident vs. misuse" AI x-risk dichotomy (quick thoughts on "structural risk") // capybaralet, 1 min
You are probably not a good alignment researcher, and other blatant lies // zrkrlc, 6 min
Compendium of problems with RLHF // charbel-raphael-segerie, 12 min
Inner Misalignment in "Simulator" LLMs // adam-scherlis, 5 min
# Longevity
Exercise is Good, Actually // gworley, 3 min
Andrew Huberman on How to Optimize Sleep // leon-lang, 6 min
Can we “cure” cancer? // jasoncrawford, 2 min
Schizophrenia as a deficiency in long-range cortex-to-cortex communication // steve2152, 12 min
How can I help inflammation-based nerve damage be temporary? // Optimization Process, 1 min
# Decision theory
Beware of Fake Alternatives // silentbob, 5 min
The Energy Requirements and Feasibility of Off-World Mining // clans, 9 min
How Planning Helps // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Math and cs
2+2=π√2+n // logan-zoellner, 1 min
# Ea
EA novel published on Amazon // timothy-underwood-1
# Community
I don't think MIRI "gave up" // Raemon, 5 min
2022 Unofficial LessWrong General Census // Screwtape, 2 min
Voting Results for the 2021 Review // Raemon, 5 min
Retrospective on the AI Safety Field Building Hub // Vael Gates
Jordan Peterson: Guru/Villain // Bryan Frances, 11 min
# Fun
Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse // BrienneYudkowsky, 1 min
# Misc
Why Is Everyone So Boring? // Robin Hanson, 2 min
Mostly Skeptical Thoughts On The Chatbot Propaganda Apocalypse // Scott Alexander, 11 min
Religion Can Divert Sacred Energy // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Podcasts
AXRP Episode 19 - Mechanistic Interpretability with Neel Nanda // DanielFilan, 144 min
EP 174 Fred Beuttler and Mark Stahlman on Trivium University // The Jim Rutt Show, 91 min
Currents 081: Layman Pascal Interviews Jim Rutt on Twitter as Collective Intelligence // The Jim Rutt Show, 69 min
c47: Script Draft 1, Beats 32-36 // Constellation, 45 min
c46: Script Draft 1, Beats 27-31 // Constellation, 54 min