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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation Work done at SERI-MATS, over the past two months, by Jessica Rumbelow and Matthew Watkins. TL;DR Anomalous tokens: a mysterious failure mode for GPT (which reliably insulted Matthew) We have found a set of anomalous tokens which result in a previously undocum…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: OpenAI/Microsoft announce "next generation language model" integrated into Bing/Edge, published by LawrenceC on February 7, 2023 on LessWrong.TL;DR: Microsoft and Op…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Monthly Roundup #3, published by Zvi on February 6, 2023 on LessWrong.It’s that time again.Bad NewsGuardian analyzes projects from world’s biggest carbon offset prov…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: SolidGoldMagikarp II: technical details and more recent findings, published by mwatkins on February 6, 2023 on LessWrong.tl;dr: This is a follow-up to our original p…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Here's Why I'm Hesitant To Respond In More Depth, published by DirectedEvolution on February 6, 2023 on LessWrong.Hello and welcome!Thank you in advance for taking t…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Childhoods of exceptional people, published by Henrik Karlsson on February 6, 2023 on LessWrong.Let’s start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they ar…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Research Direction: Be the AGI you want to see in the world, published by scottviteri on February 5, 2023 on LessWrong.Be the AGI you want to see in the world.Episte…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Decision Transformer Interpretability, published by Joseph Bloom on February 6, 2023 on LessWrong.TLDR: We analyse how a small Decision Transformer learns to simulat…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why is Everyone So Boring? By Robin Hanson, published by Trevor1 on February 6, 2023 on LessWrong.This is from the blog Overcoming Bias, which many people have heard…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why Are Bacteria So Simple?, published by aysja on February 6, 2023 on LessWrong.As far as we can tell, bacteria were the first lifeforms on Earth. Which means they’…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Are short timelines actually bad?, published by joshc on February 5, 2023 on LessWrong.Sam Altman recently posted the following:I have seen very little serious discu…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Empathy as a natural consequence of learnt reward models, published by beren on February 4, 2023 on LessWrong.Epistemic Status: Pretty speculative but built on scien…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation), published by Jessica Rumbelow on February 5, 2023 on LessWrong.Work done at SERI-MATS, over the past two months, with Ma…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Evaluations (of new AI Safety researchers) can be noisy, published by LawrenceC on February 5, 2023 on LessWrong.Related work: Hero Licensing, Modest Epistemology, T…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Podcast with Oli Habryka on LessWrong / Lightcone Infrastructure, published by DanielFilan on February 5, 2023 on LessWrong.OK sorry to over-advertise but it seemed …

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Modal Fixpoint Cooperation without Löb's Theorem, published by Andrew Critch on February 5, 2023 on LessWrong.TL;DR: This post introduces a novel logical approach to…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month, published by Simon Berens on February 5, 2023 on LessWrong.Warning: this is not in typical Less…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Small Talk is Good, Actually, published by Gordon Seidoh Worley on February 4, 2023 on LessWrong.You all liked the last two, so I'm going to keep it going so long as…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse, published by LoganStrohl on February 4, 2023 on LessWrong.Don't say false shit omg this one's so basic what are you …

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zp6wG5eQFLGWwcG6j/focus-on-the-places-where-you-feel-shocked-everyone-s Writing down something I’ve found myself repeating in different conversations: If you're looking for ways to help with the whole “the world looks pretty doomed” business, here's my advice: look around for places where we're all being total idiots…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Linkpost] Google invested $300M in Anthropic in late 2022, published by Akash on February 3, 2023 on LessWrong.A few quotes from the article:Google has invested abo…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Andrew Huberman on How to Optimize Sleep, published by Leon Lang on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.IntroductionIn this post, I list all the advice from Andrew Huberma…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Heritability, Behaviorism, and Within-Lifetime RL, published by Steven Byrnes on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.I’m a firm subscriber to both:(A) The theory that peop…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What fact that you know is true but most people aren't ready to accept it?, published by lorepieri on February 3, 2023 on LessWrong.Understanding and updating belief…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: MIRI didn't "give up" (fairly obviously IMO?), published by Raemon on February 3, 2023 on LessWrong.Disclaimer: I haven't run this by Nate or Eliezer, if they think …

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Conditioning Predictive Models: Large language models as predictors, published by evhub on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.This is the first of seven posts in the Cond…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Conditioning Predictive Models: Outer alignment via careful conditioning, published by evhub on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.This is the second of seven posts in th…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: You are probably not a good alignment researcher, and other blatant lies, published by junk heap homotopy on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.When people talk about res…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Research agenda: Formalizing abstractions of computations, published by Erik Jenner on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.Big thanks to Leon Lang, Jérémy Scheurer, Adam G…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Can we “cure” cancer?, published by jasoncrawford on February 1, 2023 on LessWrong.In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes:As…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Exercise is Good, Actually, published by Gordon Seidoh Worley on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.Yesterday I wrote about how dressing nice is a good idea. This post is…

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XPv4sYrKnPzeJASuk/basics-of-rationalist-discourse-1 Introduction This post is meant to be a linkable resource. Its core is a short list of guidelines (you can link directly to the list) that are intended to be fairly straightforward and uncontroversial, for the purpose of nurturing and strengthening a culture of clea…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: You Don't Exist, Duncan, published by Duncan Sabien on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.This is an experimental essay, not in the typical LessWrong or Duncan Sabien sty…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Product safety is a poor model for AI governance, published by Richard Korzekwa on February 1, 2023 on LessWrong.Note: This post is intended to be accessible to read…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: More findings on Memorization and double descent, published by Marius Hobbhahn on February 1, 2023 on LessWrong.Produced as part of the SERI ML Alignment Theory Scho…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Schizophrenia as a deficiency in long-range cortex-to-cortex communication, published by Steven Byrnes on February 1, 2023 on LessWrong.(Written in a hurry. I was al…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball, published by So8res on February 2, 2023 on LessWrong.Writing down something I’ve found mysel…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Aiming for Convergence Is Like Discouraging Betting, published by Zack M Davis on February 1, 2023 on LessWrong.SummaryIn a list of guidelines for rational discourse…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Nice Clothes are Good, Actually, published by Gordon Seidoh Worley on January 31, 2023 on LessWrong.This is just some casual thoughts about how to dress nice. I thin…

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pDzdb4smpzT3Lwbym/my-model-of-ea-burnout (Probably somebody else has said most of this. But I personally haven't read it, and felt like writing it down myself, so here we go.) I think that EA [editor note: "Effective Altruism"] burnout usually results from prolonged dedication to satisfying the values you think you s…

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PCrTQDbciG4oLgmQ5/sapir-whorf-for-rationalists Casus Belli: As I was scanning over my (rather long) list of essays-to-write, I realized that roughly a fifth of them were of the form "here's a useful standalone concept I'd like to reify," à la cup-stacking skills, fabricated options, split and commit, and sazen. Some …

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Inner Misalignment in "Simulator" LLMs, published by Adam Scherlis on January 31, 2023 on LessWrong.Alternate title: "Somewhat Contra Scott On Simulators".Scott Alex…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Beware of Fake Alternatives, published by silentbob on January 31, 2023 on LessWrong.Summary: many of us might occasionally find ourselves in situations where we’re …

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 2022 Unofficial LessWrong General Census, published by Screwtape on January 30, 2023 on LessWrong.The Less Wrong General Census is unofficially back!In days of yore,…

Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why I hate the "accident vs. misuse" AI x-risk dichotomy (quick thoughts on "structural risk"), published by David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet) on January 3…