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 Georgism Lost Its Popularity, published by Zero Contradictions on July 21, 2024 on LessWrong.Henry George's 1879 book Progress & Poverty was the second best-sell…

Eliezer Yudkowsky periodically complains about people coming up with questionable plans with questionable assumptions to deal with AI, and then either: Saying "well, if this assumption doesn't hold, we're doomed, so we might as well assume it's true." Worse: coming up with cope-y reasons to assume that the assumption isn't even questionable at all.…

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: Coalitional agency, published by Richard Ngo on July 22, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.The coalitional frameEarlier in this sequence I laid out an argument that the goals of increasingly in…

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 simple model of math skill, published by Alex Altair on July 21, 2024 on LessWrong.I've noticed that when trying to understand a math paper, there are a few different ways my skill level 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: aimless ace analyzes active amateur: a micro-aaaaalignment proposal, published by Luke H Miles on July 21, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This idea is so simple that…

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: aimless ace analyzes active amateur: a micro-aaaaalignment proposal, published by Luke H Miles on July 21, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This idea is so simple that I'm sure it's been had b…

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: animal welfare outside of EA - numbers and thoughts on UFAW 2024, published by ARM on July 21, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Last week I attended the UFAW International Animal Welfare…

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 80k problem profile: Nuclear weapons, published by Benjamin Hilton on July 21, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Note: this post is a (minorly) edited version of a new 80,000 Hours pr…

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 Georgism Lost Its Popularity, published by Zero Contradictions on July 21, 2024 on LessWrong.Henry George's 1879 book Progress & Poverty was the second best-selling book in the entire wo…

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: (Approximately) Deterministic Natural Latents, published by johnswentworth on July 21, 2024 on LessWrong.Background: Natural Latents: The Math, Natural Latents: 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: (Approximately) Deterministic Natural Latents, published by johnswentworth on July 21, 2024 on LessWrong.Background: Natural Latents: The Math, Natural Latents: The Concepts, Why Care About …

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 more systematic case for inner misalignment, published by Richard Ngo on July 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post builds on my previous post making the case that squiggle-maximize…

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 more systematic case for inner misalignment, published by Richard Ngo on July 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post builds on my previous post making the ca…

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: BatchTopK: A Simple Improvement for TopK-SAEs, published by Bart Bussmann on July 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Work done in Neel Nanda's stream of MATS 6.0.Epi…

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: BatchTopK: A Simple Improvement for TopK-SAEs, published by Bart Bussmann on July 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Work done in Neel Nanda's stream of MATS 6.0.Epistemic status: Tried this…

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 Book: "Minimalist Axiologies: Alternatives to 'Good Minus Bad' Views of Value", published by Teo Ajantaival on July 20, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I have just published a book …

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: Feature Targeted LLC Estimation Distinguishes SAE Features from Random Directions, published by Lidor Banuel Dabbah on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.Tl;dr: In this post…

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: Feature Targeted LLC Estimation Distinguishes SAE Features from Random Directions, published by Lidor Banuel Dabbah on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.Tl;dr: In this post we present the explorato…

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: Feature Targeted LLC Estimation Distinguishes SAE Features from Random Directions, published by Lidor Banuel Dabbah on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Tl;dr:…

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: Feature Targeted LLC Estimation Distinguishes SAE Features from Random Directions, published by Lidor Banuel Dabbah on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Tl;dr: In this post we present …

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: Truth is Universal: Robust Detection of Lies in LLMs, published by Lennart Buerger on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.A short summary of the paper is presented below.TL;DR: We develo…

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: Truth is Universal: Robust Detection of Lies in LLMs, published by Lennart Buerger on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.A short summary of the paper is present…

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: JumpReLU SAEs + Early Access to Gemma 2 SAEs, published by Neel Nanda on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.New paper from the Google DeepMind mechanistic inter…

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: JumpReLU SAEs + Early Access to Gemma 2 SAEs, published by Neel Nanda on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.New paper from the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team, led by …

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: CEEALAR: 2024 Update, published by CEEALAR on July 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TL;DR:Last November we had only 4 months of runway remaining-today we have ~1.5 years.I'm reminded…

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: Taking Uncertainty Seriously (or, Why Tools Matter), published by Bob Fischer on July 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Executive SummaryWe should take uncertainty seriously. Rethink …

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 companies are not on track to secure model weights, published by Jeffrey Ladish on July 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post is a write-up of my talk from EA Global: Bay 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: How do we know that "good research" is good? (aka "direct evaluation" vs "eigen-evaluation"), published by Ruby on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.AI Alignment is my motivating context but this 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: How do we know that "good research" is good? (aka "direct evaluation" vs "eigen-evaluation"), published by Ruby on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.AI Alignment is my moti…

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: Linkpost: Surely you can be serious, published by kave on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.Adam Mastroianni writes about "actually caring about stuff, and for the right reasons", rather than just …

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: Linkpost: Surely you can be serious, published by kave on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.Adam Mastroianni writes about "actually caring about stuff, and for the right re…