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: Recommendation: reports on the search for missing hiker Bill Ewasko, published by eukaryote on August 1, 2024 on LessWrong.Content warning: About an IRL death.Today's post isn't so much an e…

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: Twitter thread on open-source AI, published by Richard Ngo on July 31, 2024 on LessWrong.Some thoughts on open-source AI (copied over from a recent twitter thread):1. We should have a strong…

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: Survey on Barriers and Facilitators for Effective Giving and Pledging, published by MIK on July 31, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.As a Psychology and Behavioural Sciences MSc student,…

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 are your cruxes for imprecise probabilities / decision rules?, published by Anthony DiGiovanni on July 31, 2024 on LessWrong.An alternative to always having a precise distribution over …

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: Twitter thread on AI takeover scenarios, published by Richard Ngo on July 31, 2024 on LessWrong.This is a slightly-edited version of a twitter thread I posted a few months ago about "interna…

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: Twitter thread on politics of AI safety, published by Richard Ngo on July 31, 2024 on LessWrong.Some thoughts about the politics of AI safety, copied over (with slight modifications) from my…

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: Video AMA and transcript: Beast Philanthropy's Darren Margolias, published by Toby Tremlett on July 31, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is a video and transcript of an AMA with Dar…

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 You Can Climb Up, You Can Climb Down, published by jefftk on July 31, 2024 on LessWrong.A few weeks ago Julia wrote about how we approach kids climbing:The basics:1. Spot the child if the…

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: AMA: Rethink Priorities' Worldview Investigation Team, published by Bob Fischer on July 31, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Rethink Priorities' Worldview Investigation Team (WIT) will r…

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: Open Source Automated Interpretability for Sparse Autoencoder Features, published by kh4dien on July 31, 2024 on LessWrong.BackgroundSparse autoencoders recover a diversity of interpretable,…

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: Twitter thread on AI safety evals, published by Richard Ngo on July 31, 2024 on LessWrong.Epistemic status: raising concerns, rather than stating confident conclusions.I'm worried that a lot…

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: RTFB: California's AB 3211, published by Zvi on July 30, 2024 on LessWrong.Some in the tech industry decided now was the time to raise alarm about AB 3211.As Dean Ball points out, there's a …

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 I wish I knew when I started out in animal advocacy, published by SofiaBalderson on July 30, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Tl;dr:I identified 15 pieces of advice that I wish knew…

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: Self-Other Overlap: A Neglected Approach to AI Alignment, published by Marc Carauleanu on July 30, 2024 on LessWrong.Many thanks to Bogdan Ionut-Cirstea, Steve Byrnes, Gunnar Zarnacke, Jack …

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: In the last 2 years, what surprising ideas has EA championed or how has the movement changed its mind?, published by Nathan Young on July 30, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.In the last…

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 Generalized Adversarial Testing Enable More Rigorous LLM Safety Evals?, published by Stephen Casper on July 30, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Thanks to Zora Che, Michael Chen, Andi Peng…

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: Understanding Positional Features in Layer 0 SAEs, published by bilalchughtai on July 30, 2024 on LessWrong.This is an informal research note. It is the result of a few-day exploration into …

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: Corporate AI Labs' Odd Role in Their Own Governance, published by Corporate AI Labs' Odd Role in Their Own Governance on July 29, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Executive SummaryPlenty…

Prepared by James Fodor and Miles Tidmarsh EAGxAustralia 2023 Committee Abstract EAGx conferences are an important component of the effective altruism community, and have proven a popular method for engaging EAs and spreading EA ideas around the world. However, to date relatively little publicly available empirical evidence has been collected regar…

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 already your second chance, published by Malmesbury on July 28, 2024 on LessWrong.Cross-posted from Substack.I.And the sky opened, and from the celestial firmament descended a cube o…

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: Utilitarianism and the replaceability of desires and attachments, published by MichaelStJules on July 28, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Summary1. Consider a pill that would cause a ha…

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: AXRP Episode 34 - AI Evaluations with Beth Barnes, published by DanielFilan on July 28, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.YouTube linkHow can we figure out if AIs are capable enough to pose a t…

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: Unlocking Solutions, published by James Stephen Brown on July 28, 2024 on LessWrong.Understanding Coordination ProblemsThe following is a post introducing coordination problems, using the ex…

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: Re: Anthropic's suggested SB-1047 amendments, published by RobertM on July 27, 2024 on LessWrong.If you're familiar with SB 1047, I recommend reading the letter in full; it's only 7 pages.I'…

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: Safety consultations for AI lab employees, published by Zach Stein-Perlman on July 27, 2024 on LessWrong.Edit: I may substantially edit this post soon; don't share it yet.Many people who are…

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: Case-control survey of EAGx attendees finds no behavioural or attitudinal changes after six months, published by Fods12 on July 27, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Prepared by James Fod…

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: Inspired by: Failures in Kindness, published by X4vier on July 27, 2024 on LessWrong.silentbob's post "Failures in Kindness" is excellent. I love the idea that sometimes, when we exaimine a …

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: End Single Family Zoning by Overturning Euclid V Ambler, published by Maxwell Tabarrok on July 27, 2024 on LessWrong.On 75 percent or more of the residential land in most major American citi…