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 hour of memoryless lucidity, published by Eric Neyman on May 4, 2024 on LessWrong.Yesterday, I had a coronectomy: the top halves of my bottom wisdom teeth were su…

Cross-posted from my website. Podcast version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app. This essay is part of a series that I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thu…

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: Apply to ESPR & PAIR, Rationality and AI Camps for Ages 16-21, published by Anna Gajdova on May 4, 2024 on LessWrong.TLDR - Apply now toESPR andPAIR. ESPR welcomes s…

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 Safety for Fleshy Humans" an AI Safety explainer by Nicky Case, published by habryka on May 3, 2024 on LessWrong.Nicky Case, of "The Evolution of Trust" and "We …

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: Key takeaways from our EA and alignment research surveys, published by Cameron Berg on May 3, 2024 on LessWrong.Many thanks to Spencer Greenberg, Lucius Caviola, Jos…

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 #62: Too Soon to Tell, published by Zvi on May 3, 2024 on LessWrong.What is the mysterious impressive new 'gpt2-chatbot' from the Arena? Is it GPT-4.5? A refineme…

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: Which skincare products are evidence-based?, published by Vanessa Kosoy on May 2, 2024 on LessWrong.The beauty industry offers a large variety of skincare products (…

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: Q&A on Proposed SB 1047, published by Zvi on May 2, 2024 on LessWrong.Previously: On the Proposed California SB 1047.Text of the bill is here. It focuses on safety r…

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: Please stop publishing ideas/insights/research about AI, published by Tamsin Leake on May 2, 2024 on LessWrong.Basically all ideas/insights/research about AI is pote…

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: An explanation of evil in an organized world, published by KatjaGrace on May 2, 2024 on LessWrong.A classic problem with Christianity is the so-called 'problem of ev…

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 Intentional Stance, LLMs Edition, published by Eleni Angelou on May 1, 2024 on LessWrong.In memoriam of Daniel C. Dennett.tl;dr: I sketch out what it means to ap…

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: ACX Covid Origins Post convinced readers, published by ErnestScribbler on May 1, 2024 on LessWrong.ACX recently posted about the Rootclaim Covid origins debate, comi…

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: Shane Legg's necessary properties for every AGI Safety plan, published by jacquesthibs on May 1, 2024 on LessWrong.I've been going through the FAR AI videos from the…

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: LessWrong Community Weekend 2024, open for applications, published by UnplannedCauliflower on May 1, 2024 on LessWrong.Main event pageFriday 13th September- Monday 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: Questions for labs, published by Zach Stein-Perlman on May 1, 2024 on LessWrong.Associated with AI Lab Watch, I sent questions to some labs a week ago (except I fail…

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'm doing PauseAI, published by Joseph Miller on April 30, 2024 on LessWrong.GPT-5 training is probably starting around now. It seems very unlikely that GPT-5 wi…

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: Introducing AI Lab Watch, published by Zach Stein-Perlman on April 30, 2024 on LessWrong.I'm launching AI Lab Watch. I collected actions for frontier AI labs to 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: Towards a formalization of the agent structure problem, published by Alex Altair on April 30, 2024 on LessWrong.In Clarifying the Agent-Like Structure Problem (2022)…

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 Multimodal Interpretability: Learning Sparse Interpretable Features in Vision Transformers, published by hugofry on April 30, 2024 on LessWrong.Two Minute Su…

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: Ironing Out the Squiggles, published by Zack M Davis on April 29, 2024 on LessWrong.Adversarial Examples: A ProblemThe apparent successes of the deep learning revolu…

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: List your AI X-Risk cruxes!, published by Aryeh Englander on April 29, 2024 on LessWrong.[I'm posting this as a very informal community request in lieu of a more det…

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: [Aspiration-based designs] 1. Informal introduction, published by B Jacobs on April 29, 2024 on LessWrong.Sequence Summary. This sequence documents research by Satis…

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 are headed into an extreme compute overhang, published by devrandom on April 28, 2024 on LessWrong.If we achieve AGI-level performance using an LLM-like approach,…

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: So What's Up With PUFAs Chemically?, published by J Bostock on April 27, 2024 on LessWrong.This is exploratory investigation of a new-ish hypothesis, it is not inten…

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: From Deep Learning to Constructability: Plainly-coded AGIs may be feasible in the near future, published by Épiphanie Gédéon on April 27, 2024 on LessWrong.Charbel-R…

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, published by aphyer on April 27, 2024 on LessWrong.This is an entry in the 'Dungeons & Data Science' series, a set of puz…

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: On Not Pulling The Ladder Up Behind You, published by Screwtape on April 27, 2024 on LessWrong.Epistemic Status: Musing and speculation, but I think there's a real 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: Duct Tape security, published by Isaac King on April 26, 2024 on LessWrong.This is a linkpost for On Duct Tape and Fence Posts.Eliezer writes about fence post securi…

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: Scaling of AI training runs will slow down after GPT-5, published by Maxime Riché on April 26, 2024 on LessWrong.My credence: 33% confidence in the claim that the gr…

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: Spatial attention as a "tell" for empathetic simulation?, published by Steven Byrnes on April 26, 2024 on LessWrong.(Half-baked work-in-progress. There might be a "v…

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: Losing Faith In Contrarianism, published by omnizoid on April 26, 2024 on LessWrong.Crosspost from my blog.If you spend a lot of time in the blogosphere, you'll find…

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: LLMs seem (relatively) safe, published by JustisMills on April 26, 2024 on LessWrong.Post for a somewhat more general audience than the modal LessWrong reader, but 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: WSJ: Inside Amazon's Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals, published by trevor on April 25, 2024 on LessWrong.The operation, called Big River Services Internat…

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 Write" by George Orwell (1946), published by Arjun Panickssery on April 25, 2024 on LessWrong.People have been posting great essays so that they're "fed throu…

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 first future and the best future, published by KatjaGrace on April 25, 2024 on LessWrong.It seems to me worth trying to slow down AI development to steer success…

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 Inner Ring by C. S. Lewis, published by Saul Munn on April 25, 2024 on LessWrong.Note: In @Nathan Young's words "It seems like great essays should go here and be…

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: This is Water by David Foster Wallace, published by Nathan Young on April 25, 2024 on LessWrong.Note: It seems like great essays should go here and be fed through 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: Changes in College Admissions, published by Zvi on April 24, 2024 on LessWrong.This post brings together various questions about the college application process, 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: Is there software to practice reading expressions?, published by lsusr on April 24, 2024 on LessWrong.I took the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test test today. I got …

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: On what research policymakers actually need, published by MondSemmel on April 24, 2024 on LessWrong.I saw this guest post on the Slow Boring substack, by a former se…

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: Let's Design A School, Part 1, published by Sable on April 24, 2024 on LessWrong.The American school system, grades K-12, leaves much to be desired.While its flaws a…

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: Examples of Highly Counterfactual Discoveries?, published by johnswentworth on April 23, 2024 on LessWrong.The history of science has tons of examples of the same 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: Rejecting Television, published by Declan Molony on April 23, 2024 on LessWrong.I didn't use to be, but now I'm part of the2% ofU.S. households without a television.…

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: Forget Everything (Statistical Mechanics Part 1), published by J Bostock on April 23, 2024 on LessWrong.EDIT: I somehow missed that John Wentworth and David Lorell a…

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: Take the wheel, Shoggoth! (Lesswrong is trying out changes to the frontpage algorithm), published by Ruby on April 23, 2024 on LessWrong.For the last month, @RobertM…

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: Funny Anecdote of Eliezer From His Sister, published by Daniel Birnbaum on April 22, 2024 on LessWrong.This comes from a podcast called 18Forty, of which the main 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: AI Regulation is Unsafe, published by Maxwell Tabarrok on April 22, 2024 on LessWrong.Concerns over AI safety and calls for government control over the technology 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: On Llama-3 and Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast with Zuckerberg, published by Zvi on April 22, 2024 on LessWrong.It was all quiet. Then it wasn't.Note the timestamps on both…

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: Transfer Learning in Humans, published by niplav on April 22, 2024 on LessWrong.I examine the literature on transfer learning in humans. Far transfer is difficult 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: A couple productivity tips for overthinkers, published by Steven Byrnes on April 20, 2024 on LessWrong.1. If you find that you're reluctant to permanently give up on…