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The Nonlinear Library allows you to easily listen to top EA and rationalist content on your podcast player. We use text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of audio content from the EA Forum, Alignment Forum, LessWrong, and other EA blogs. To find out more, please visit us at nonlinear.org
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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.
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“the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated” by nostalgebraist
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[Meta note: quickly written, unpolished. Also, it's possible that there's some more convincing work on this topic that I'm unaware of – if so, let me know] In research discussions about LLMs, I often pick up a vibe of casual, generalized skepticism about model-generated CoT (chain-of-thought) explanations. CoTs (people say) are not trustworthy in g…
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LW - Glitch Token Catalog - (Almost) a Full Clear by Lao Mein
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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: Glitch Token Catalog - (Almost) a Full Clear, published by Lao Mein on September 22, 2024 on LessWrong. This is a collection of every unidentified GPT2 glitch token …
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I've been wanting to write a nice post for a few months, but should probably just write a one sooner instead. This is a top-level post not because it's a long text, but because it's important text. Anyways. Cryonics is pretty much money-free now—one of the most affordable ways to dispose of your body post-mortem. In the west coast in the USA, from …
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“Stanislav Petrov Quarterly Performance Review” by Ricki Heicklen
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Quarterly Performance Review, Autumn 1983 Colonel Yuri Kuznetsov looked out the window anxiously. The endless gray landscape did little to soothe his nerves. He only had one employee review left to get through, but he’d saved the hardest one for last. He wasn’t upset about having to dismiss Lieutenant Colonel Petrov—he couldn’t wait to be rid of th…
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“Laziness death spirals” by PatrickDFarley
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I’ve claimed that Willpower compounds and that small wins in the present make it easier to get bigger wins in the future. Unfortunately, procrastination and laziness compound, too. You’re stressed out for some reason, so you take the evening off for a YouTube binge. You end up staying awake a little later than usual and sleeping poorly. So the next…
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“‘Slow’ takeoff is a terrible term for ‘maybe even faster takeoff, actually’” by Raemon
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For a long time, when I heard "slow takeoff", I assumed it meant "takeoff that takes longer calendar time than fast takeoff." (i.e. what is now referred to more often as "short timelines" vs "long timelines."). I think Paul Christiano popularized the term, and it so happened he both expected to see longer timelines and smoother/continuous takeoff. …
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“ASIs will not leave just a little sunlight for Earth ” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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A common claim among e/accs is that, since the solar system is big, Earth will be left alone by superintelligences. A simple rejoinder is that just because Bernard Arnault has $170 billion, does not mean that he'll give you $77.18. Earth subtends only 4.54e-10 = 0.0000000454% of the angular area around the Sun, according to GPT-o1.[1] Asking an ASI…
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LW - Investigating an insurance-for-AI startup by L Rudolf L
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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: Investigating an insurance-for-AI startup, published by L Rudolf L on September 21, 2024 on LessWrong. We (Flo & Rudolf) spent a month fleshing out the idea of an in…
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LW - Applications of Chaos: Saying No (with Hastings Greer) by Elizabeth
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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: Applications of Chaos: Saying No (with Hastings Greer), published by Elizabeth on September 21, 2024 on LessWrong. Previously Alex Altair and I published a post on t…
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LW - Work with me on agent foundations: independent fellowship by Alex Altair
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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: Work with me on agent foundations: independent fellowship, published by Alex Altair on September 21, 2024 on LessWrong. Summary: I am an independent researcher in ag…
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“Skills from a year of Purposeful Rationality Practice ” by Raemon
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A year ago, I started trying to deliberate practice skills that would "help people figure out the answers to confusing, important questions." I experimented with Thinking Physics questions, GPQA questions, Puzzle Games , Strategy Games, and a stupid twitchy reflex game I had struggled to beat for 8 years[1]. Then I went back to my day job and tried…
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LW - o1-preview is pretty good at doing ML on an unknown dataset by Håvard Tveit Ihle
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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: o1-preview is pretty good at doing ML on an unknown dataset, published by Håvard Tveit Ihle on September 20, 2024 on LessWrong. Previous post: How good are LLMs at d…
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LW - Interested in Cognitive Bootcamp? by Raemon
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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: Interested in Cognitive Bootcamp?, published by Raemon on September 20, 2024 on LessWrong. I'm running more 4-day "Cognitive Bootcamps" over the next couple months (…
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LW - Laziness death spirals by PatrickDFarley
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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: Laziness death spirals, published by PatrickDFarley on September 19, 2024 on LessWrong. I've claimed that Willpower compounds and that small wins in the present make…
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LW - We Don't Know Our Own Values, but Reward Bridges The Is-Ought Gap by johnswentworth
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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 Don't Know Our Own Values, but Reward Bridges The Is-Ought Gap, published by johnswentworth on September 19, 2024 on LessWrong. Background: "Learning" vs "Learnin…
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LW - AI #82: The Governor Ponders by Zvi
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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 #82: The Governor Ponders, published by Zvi on September 19, 2024 on LessWrong. The big news of the week was of course OpenAI releasing their new model o1. If you…
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LW - Which LessWrong/Alignment topics would you like to be tutored in? [Poll] by Ruby
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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 LessWrong/Alignment topics would you like to be tutored in? [Poll], published by Ruby on September 19, 2024 on LessWrong. Would you like to be tutored in appli…
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“How I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy ” by zhukeepa
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After the release of Ben Pace's extended interview with me about my views on religion, I felt inspired to publish more of my thinking about religion in a format that's more detailed, compact, and organized. This post is the first publication in my series of intended posts about religion. Thanks to Ben Pace, Chris Lakin, Richard Ngo, Renshin Lauren …
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LW - [Intuitive self-models] 1. Preliminaries by Steven Byrnes
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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: [Intuitive self-models] 1. Preliminaries, published by Steven Byrnes on September 19, 2024 on LessWrong. 1.1 Summary & Table of Contents This is the first of a serie…
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LW - The case for a negative alignment tax by Cameron Berg
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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 case for a negative alignment tax, published by Cameron Berg on September 18, 2024 on LessWrong. TL;DR: Alignment researchers have historically predicted that bu…
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LW - Monthly Roundup #22: September 2024 by Zvi
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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 #22: September 2024, published by Zvi on September 18, 2024 on LessWrong. It's that time again for all the sufficiently interesting news that isn't o…
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LW - Generative ML in chemistry is bottlenecked by synthesis by Abhishaike Mahajan
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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: Generative ML in chemistry is bottlenecked by synthesis, published by Abhishaike Mahajan on September 18, 2024 on LessWrong. Introduction Every single time I design …
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LW - Skills from a year of Purposeful Rationality Practice by Raemon
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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: Skills from a year of Purposeful Rationality Practice, published by Raemon on September 18, 2024 on LessWrong. A year ago, I started trying to deliberate practice sk…
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“Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding? ” by Isaac King
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There's a popular story that goes like this: Christopher Hitchens used to be in favor of the US waterboarding terrorists because he though it's wasn't bad enough to be torture.. Then he had it tried on himself, and changed his mind, coming to believe it isn't torture. (Context for those unfamiliar: in the decade following 9/11, the US engaged in a …
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LW - I finally got ChatGPT to sound like me by lsusr
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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 finally got ChatGPT to sound like me, published by lsusr on September 17, 2024 on LessWrong. I publish lots of words on the Internet. These words are fed into LLMs…
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LW - Book review: Xenosystems by jessicata
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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: Book review: Xenosystems, published by jessicata on September 17, 2024 on LessWrong. I've met a few Landians over the last couple years, and they generally recommend…
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LW - MIRI's September 2024 newsletter by Harlan
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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 September 2024 newsletter, published by Harlan on September 17, 2024 on LessWrong. MIRI updates Aaron Scher and Joe Collman have joined the Technical Governan…
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LW - Secret Collusion: Will We Know When to Unplug AI? by schroederdewitt
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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: Secret Collusion: Will We Know When to Unplug AI?, published by schroederdewitt on September 16, 2024 on LessWrong. TL;DR: We introduce the first comprehensive theor…
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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: GPT-4o1, published by Zvi on September 16, 2024 on LessWrong. Terrible name (with a terrible reason, that this 'resets the counter' on AI capability to 1, and 'o' as…
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LW - How you can help pass important AI legislation with 10 minutes of effort by ThomasW
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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 you can help pass important AI legislation with 10 minutes of effort, published by ThomasW on September 16, 2024 on LessWrong. Posting something about a current …
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LW - My disagreements with "AGI ruin: A List of Lethalities" by Noosphere89
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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 disagreements with "AGI ruin: A List of Lethalities", published by Noosphere89 on September 16, 2024 on LessWrong. This is going to probably be a long post, so do…
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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 funded PIBBSS, published by Ryan Kidd on September 15, 2024 on LessWrong. I just left a comment on PIBBSS' Manfund grant request (which I funded $25k) that peo…
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LW - Proveably Safe Self Driving Cars by Davidmanheim
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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: Proveably Safe Self Driving Cars, published by Davidmanheim on September 15, 2024 on LessWrong. I've seen a fair amount of skepticism about the "Provably Safe AI" pa…
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LW - Not every accommodation is a Curb Cut Effect: The Handicapped Parking Effect, the Clapper Effect, and more by Michael Cohn
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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: Not every accommodation is a Curb Cut Effect: The Handicapped Parking Effect, the Clapper Effect, and more, published by Michael Cohn on September 15, 2024 on LessWr…
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LW - Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding? by Isaac King
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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: Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding?, published by Isaac King on September 15, 2024 on LessWrong. There's a popular story that goes like thi…
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LW - Pay-on-results personal growth: first success by Chipmonk
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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: Pay-on-results personal growth: first success, published by Chipmonk on September 15, 2024 on LessWrong. Thanks to Kaj Sotala, Stag Lynn, and Ulisse Mini for reviewi…
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“The Great Data Integration Schlep ” by sarahconstantin
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Midjourney, “Fourth Industrial Revolution Digital Transformation”This is a little rant I like to give, because it's something I learned on the job that I’ve never seen written up explicitly. There are a bunch of buzzwords floating around regarding computer technology in an industrial or manufacturing context: “digital transformation”, “the Fourth I…
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LW - OpenAI o1, Llama 4, and AlphaZero of LLMs by Vladimir Nesov
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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 o1, Llama 4, and AlphaZero of LLMs, published by Vladimir Nesov on September 14, 2024 on LessWrong. GPT-4 level open weights models like Llama-3-405B don't se…
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“Contra papers claiming superhuman AI forecasting ” by nikos, Peter Mühlbacher, Lawrence Phillips, dschwarz
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[Conflict of interest disclaimer: We are FutureSearch, a company working on AI-powered forecasting and other types of quantitative reasoning. If thin LLM wrappers could achieve superhuman forecasting performance, this would obsolete a lot of our work.] Widespread, misleading claims about AI forecasting Recently we have seen a number of papers – (Sc…
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