FSF blogpost. Full document (just 6 pages; you should read it). Compare to Anthropic's RSP, OpenAI's RSP ("PF"), and METR's Key Components of an RSP. DeepMind's FSF has three steps: Create model evals for warning signs of "Critical Capability Levels" Evals should have a "safety buffer" of at least 6x effective compute so that CCLs will not be reach…

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: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI: Key Information, published by Aryeh Englander on May 19, 2024 on LessWrong.I thought that the recently …

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: Fund me please - I Work so Hard that my Feet start Bleeding and I Need to Infiltrate University, published by Johannes C. Mayer on May 18, 2024 on LessWrong.Bleeding…

Introduction. [Reminder: I am an internet weirdo with no medical credentials] A few months ago, I published some crude estimates of the power of nitric oxide nasal spray to hasten recovery from illness, and speculated about what it could do prophylactically. While working on that piece a nice man on Twitter alerted me to the fact that humming produ…

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: "If we go extinct due to misaligned AI, at least nature will continue, right? ... right?", published by plex on May 18, 2024 on LessWrong.[memetic status: stating di…

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: DeepMind's "Frontier Safety Framework" is weak and unambitious, published by Zach Stein-Perlman on May 18, 2024 on LessWrong.FSF blogpost.Full document (just 6 pages…

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: The Dunning-Kruger of disproving Dunning-Kruger, published by kromem on May 18, 2024 on LessWrong.In an online discussion elsewhere today someone linked this article…

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: Language Models Model Us, published by eggsyntax on May 18, 2024 on LessWrong.Produced as part of the MATS Winter 2023-4 program, under the mentorship of @Jessica Ru…

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: Is There Really a Child Penalty in the Long Run?, published by Maxwell Tabarrok on May 17, 2024 on LessWrong.A couple of weeks ago three European economists publishe…

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: DeepMind: Frontier Safety Framework, published by Zach Stein-Perlman on May 17, 2024 on LessWrong.DeepMind's RSP is here: blogpost, full document. Compare to Anthrop…

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: AISafety.com - Resources for AI Safety, published by Søren Elverlin on May 17, 2024 on LessWrong.There are many resources for those who wish to contribute to AI Safe…

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: Advice for Activists from the History of Environmentalism, published by Jeffrey Heninger on May 16, 2024 on LessWrong.This is the fourth in a sequence of posts taken…

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: Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems, published by Gunnar Zarncke on May 16, 2024 on LessWrong.Authors: David "davidad…

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 you should learn a musical instrument, published by cata on May 16, 2024 on LessWrong.I have liked music very much since I was a teenager. I spent many hours lat…

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: Do you believe in hundred dollar bills lying on the ground? Consider humming, published by Elizabeth on May 16, 2024 on LessWrong.Introduction[Reminder: I am an inte…

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's May 2024 Newsletter, published by Harlan on May 15, 2024 on LessWrong.MIRI updates:MIRI is shutting down the Visible Thoughts Project.We originallyannounced 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: Catastrophic Goodhart in RL with KL penalty, published by Thomas Kwa on May 15, 2024 on LessWrong.TLDR: In the last two posts, we showed that optimizing for a proxy …

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: Teaching CS During Take-Off, published by andrew carle on May 15, 2024 on LessWrong.I stayed up too late collecting way-past-deadline papers and writing report cards…

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: Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike resign from OpenAI, published by Zach Stein-Perlman on May 15, 2024 on LessWrong.Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike have resigned. They led 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: How to do conceptual research: Case study interview with Caspar Oesterheld, published by Chi Nguyen on May 14, 2024 on LessWrong.Caspar Oesterheld came up with two o…

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: How To Do Patching Fast, published by Joseph Miller on May 14, 2024 on LessWrong.This post outlines an efficient implementation of Edge Patching that massively outpe…

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: D&D.Sci Long War: Defender of Data-mocracy Evaluation & Ruleset, published by aphyer on May 14, 2024 on LessWrong.This is a follow-up to last week's D&D.Sci scenario…

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: Against Student Debt Cancellation From All Sides of the Political Compass, published by Maxwell Tabarrok on May 14, 2024 on LessWrong.A stance against student debt c…

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: Building intuition with spaced repetition systems, published by Jacob G-W on May 14, 2024 on LessWrong.Do you ever go to a lecture, follow it thinking it makes total…

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 #18: May 2024, published by Zvi on May 14, 2024 on LessWrong.As I note in the third section, I will be attending LessOnline at month's end at Lightha…

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: Environmentalism in the United States Is Unusually Partisan, published by Jeffrey Heninger on May 13, 2024 on LessWrong.This is the first in a sequence of four posts…

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 unfinished bridges, published by Adam Zerner on May 12, 2024 on LessWrong.This guy don't wanna battle, he's shook'Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks…

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: Questions are usually too cheap, published by Nathan Young on May 12, 2024 on LessWrong.It is easier to ask than to answer.That's my whole point.It is much cheaper t…

Most people avoid saying literally false things, especially if those could be audited, like making up facts or credentials. The reasons for this are both moral and pragmatic — being caught out looks really bad, and sustaining lies is quite hard, especially over time. Let's call the habit of not saying things you know to be false ‘shallow honesty’[1…

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: New intro textbook on AIXI, published by Alex Altair on May 12, 2024 on LessWrong.Marcus Hutter and his PhD students David Quarel and Elliot Catt have just published…

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 build a better Public Doublecrux?, published by Raemon on May 12, 2024 on LessWrong.Something I'd like to try at LessOnline is to somehow iterate on the "Publ…

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: Creating unrestricted AI Agents with a refusal-vector ablated Llama 3 70B, published by Simon Lermen on May 11, 2024 on LessWrong.TLDR; I demonstrate the use of refu…

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: MATS Winter 2023-24 Retrospective, published by Rocket on May 11, 2024 on LessWrong.Co-Authors: @Rocket, @Ryan Kidd, @LauraVaughan, @McKennaFitzgerald, @Christian Sm…

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: shortest goddamn bayes guide ever, published by lukehmiles on May 10, 2024 on LessWrong.The thing to remember is that yeps and nopes never cross. The colon is a thic…

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: How to be an amateur polyglot, published by arisAlexis on May 10, 2024 on LessWrong.Setting the stageBeing a polyglot is a problem of definition first. Who can be de…

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: My thesis (Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology) explained in more depth, published by Eric Neyman on May 10, 2024 on LessWrong.In March I posted a very short descripti…

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: We might be missing some key feature of AI takeoff; it'll probably seem like "we could've seen this coming", published by Lukas Gloor on May 10, 2024 on LessWrong.Pr…

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: AI #63: Introducing Alpha Fold 3, published by Zvi on May 10, 2024 on LessWrong.It was a remarkably quiet announcement. We now have Alpha Fold 3, it does a much impr…

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 Care About Natural Latents?, published by johnswentworth on May 10, 2024 on LessWrong.Suppose Alice and Bob are two Bayesian agents in the same environment. 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: Dyslucksia, published by Shoshannah Tekofsky on May 9, 2024 on LessWrong.The curious tale of how I mistook my dyslexia for stupidity - and talked, sang, and drew my …

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: some thoughts on LessOnline, published by Raemon on May 9, 2024 on LessWrong.I mostly wrote this for facebook, but it ended up being a whole-ass post so I figured I'…

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: Dating Roundup #3: Third Time's the Charm, published by Zvi on May 9, 2024 on LessWrong.The first speculated on why you're still single. We failed to settle the issu…

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: Designing for a single purpose, published by Itay Dreyfus on May 8, 2024 on LessWrong.If you've ever been to Amsterdam, you've probably visited, or at least heard ab…

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: Observations on Teaching for Four Weeks, published by ClareChiaraVincent on May 7, 2024 on LessWrong.I just finished a program where I taught two classes of high sch…

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: How do open AI models affect incentive to race?, published by jessicata on May 7, 2024 on LessWrong.I see it said sometimes that open models contribute to AI race dy…

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: Rapid capability gain around supergenius level seems probable even without intelligence needing to improve intelligence, published by Towards Keeperhood on May 6, 20…

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: Explaining a Math Magic Trick, published by Robert AIZI on May 5, 2024 on LessWrong.IntroductionA recent popular tweet did a "math magic trick", and I want to explai…