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: Pollsters Should Publish Question Translations, published by jefftk on September 9, 2024 on LessWrong.Pew recently commissioned Gallup to run a poll in Israel on attitudes to social media ce…

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 Fables and Nuanced Charts, published by Niko McCarty on September 9, 2024 on LessWrong.Written by Spencer Greenberg & Amber Dawn Ace for Asimov Press.In 1994, the U.S. Congress passed 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: My Number 1 Epistemology Book Recommendation: Inventing Temperature, published by adamShimi on September 8, 2024 on LessWrong.Inmy last post, I wrote that no resource out there exactly captu…

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: That Alien Message - The Animation, published by Writer on September 7, 2024 on LessWrong.Our new video is an adaptation of That Alien Message, by @Eliezer Yudkowsky. This time, the text has…

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: Brief advertisements for EA infrastructure projects, Sept 2024, published by Arepo on September 7, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is the latest of a theoretically-three-monthly se…

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: Excerpts from "A Reader's Manifesto", published by Arjun Panickssery on September 7, 2024 on LessWrong."A Reader's Manifesto" is a July 2001 Atlantic piece by B.R. Myers that I've returned 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: Pay Risk Evaluators in Cash, Not Equity, published by Adam Scholl on September 7, 2024 on LessWrong.Personally, I suspect the alignment problem is hard. But even if it turns out to be easy, …

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: Adam Optimizer Causes Privileged Basis in Transformer Language Models, published by Diego Caples on September 6, 2024 on LessWrong.Diego Caples (diego@activated-ai.com)Rob Neuhaus (rob@activ…

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: Contact people for the EA community, published by Julia Wise on September 6, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post is an update of an older post originally from 2018. If you're fami…

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: Backdoors as an analogy for deceptive alignment, published by Jacob Hilton on September 6, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.ARC has released a paper on Backdoor defense, learnability and obfus…

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: Positive trends on alternative proteins, published by LewisBollard on September 6, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Despite the setbacks, I'm hopeful about the technology's futureIt wasn…

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: One Month Left to Win $5,000 Career Grants from 80k, published by Mjreard on September 6, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TL;DR: generate a referral link to our advising application for…

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: instruction tuning and autoregressive distribution shift, published by nostalgebraist on September 5, 2024 on LessWrong.[Note: this began life as a "Quick Takes" comment, but it got pretty l…

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: Conflating value alignment and intent alignment is causing confusion, published by Seth Herd on September 5, 2024 on LessWrong.Submitted to the Alignment Forum. Contains more technical jargo…

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 Fragility of Life Hypothesis and the Evolution of Cooperation, published by KristianRonn on September 5, 2024 on LessWrong.This part 2 in a 3-part sequence summarizes my book (see part 1…

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 is SB 1047 *for*?, published by Raemon on September 5, 2024 on LessWrong.Emmett Shear asked on twitter:I think SB 1047 has gotten much better from where it started. It no longer appears…

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: Conflating value alignment and intent alignment is causing confusion, published by Seth Herd on September 5, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Submitted to the Alignment Forum. Contains more te…

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 Protester, Priest and Politician: Effective Altruists before their time, published by NickLaing on September 5, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Epistemic status: Motivated and biase…

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: Executable philosophy as a failed totalizing meta-worldview, published by jessicata on September 5, 2024 on LessWrong.(this is an expanded, edited version of an x.com post)It is easy to inte…

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: Michael Dickens' Caffeine Tolerance Research, published by niplav on September 5, 2024 on LessWrong.Michael Dickens has read the research and performed two self-experiments on whether consum…

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 happens if you present 500 people with an argument that AI is risky?, published by KatjaGrace on September 4, 2024 on LessWrong.Recently, Nathan Young and I wrote about arguments for AI…

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 and the Technological Richter Scale, published by Zvi on September 4, 2024 on LessWrong.The Technological Richter scale is introduced about 80% of the way through Nate Silver's new book 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: Fungal diseases: Health burden, neglectedness, and potential interventions, published by Rethink Priorities on September 4, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Editorial noteThis report is …

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 any rigorous work on using anthropic uncertainty to prevent situational awareness / deception?, published by David Scott Krueger on September 4, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.AI sy…

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 the UBI Paper, published by Zvi on September 4, 2024 on LessWrong.Would a universal basic income (UBI) work? What would it do?Many people agree July's RCT on giving people a guaranteed in…