TLDR: what is the grant round?grantmaking.ai is launching a $1M grant round, distributing $5k to $50k per successful application to people and projects working to reduce…
An argument goes: If we don't build aligned artificial superintelligence, we risk driving ourselves extinct for some other reason. We should rush to build ASI quickly,…
Beam is a character-level language model that computes count tables mapping character contexts to next-character frequencies.At prediction time, each order mjx-container[jax="CHTML"] { line-height: 0; } mjx-container…
Hello LW, as I've mentioned I'm starting a blog, here's the intro post! Intro 0.0.1 Hello, welcome to (the main sequence of) my website. 0.0.2 Its…
Hello LW. As I've mentioned I'm starting a blog about philosophy and physics. Here's the first post proper, about "meta-philosophy", i.e. what even is philosophy, and…
“Fake it till you make it” is good advice. It may sound epistemically fraught, but it frequently works. Sometimes all it really takes to get good…
Crosspost. 1 The analytic philosophers vs the rationalistsA lot of analytic philosophers are sympathetic to Rationalism (the social movement, not the alternative to empiricism). I don’t…
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects. I…
Look, I'm as much of a Rationalist with a special interest in AI x-risk as anyone. But oh my god do I hate talking about "P(doom)".…
tl;dr: As recursive self-improvement accelerates, we need a top-level agenda to research how to effectively keep humans in the loop. We need to study how humans…