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: Funding for work that builds capacity to address risks from transformative AI, published by GCR Capacity Building team (Open Phil) on August 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Post aut…

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 using mediocre AI art in your posts, published by Raemon on August 25, 2024 on LessWrong.Epistemic Status: Old Man Blogs at CloudLately there's been a wa…

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 using mediocre AI art in your posts, published by Raemon on August 25, 2024 on LessWrong.Epistemic Status: Old Man Blogs at CloudLately there's been a wave of people on LessWrong…

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: Perplexity wins my AI race, published by Elizabeth on August 24, 2024 on LessWrong.Perplexity is the first generalized AI chatbot I've found useful enough to integra…

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: Perplexity wins my AI race, published by Elizabeth on August 24, 2024 on LessWrong.Perplexity is the first generalized AI chatbot I've found useful enough to integrate into any part of my da…

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 Aether - Independent LLM Agent Safety Research Group, published by RohanS on August 24, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The basic ideaAether will be a small group of talented 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: What's important in "AI for epistemics"?, published by Lukas Finnveden on August 24, 2024 on LessWrong.SummaryThis post gives my personal take on "AI for epistemics" and how important it mig…

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: What's important in "AI for epistemics"?, published by Lukas Finnveden on August 24, 2024 on LessWrong.SummaryThis post gives my personal take on "AI for epistemics"…

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: Owain Evans on Situational Awareness and Out-of-Context Reasoning in LLMs, published by Michaël Trazzi on August 24, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Owain Evans is an AI Alignment researcher,…

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 AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?", Epoch AI (yes), published by gwern on August 24, 2024 on LessWrong.We investigate the scalability of AI training runs. We identify electric power, ch…

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: "Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?", Epoch AI (yes), published by gwern on August 24, 2024 on LessWrong.We investigate the scalability of AI training runs. We id…

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: Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs, published by Bart Bussmann on August 24, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Bart, Michael and Patrick are joint first authors. Research conduc…

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 I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy, published by zhukeepa on August 23, 2024 on LessWrong.After the release of Ben Pace's extended in…

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 I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy, published by zhukeepa on August 23, 2024 on LessWrong.After the release …

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: Turning 22 in the Pre-Apocalypse, published by testingthewaters on August 23, 2024 on LessWrong.Meta comment for LessWrong readers[1]Something Different This Way Com…

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: Turning 22 in the Pre-Apocalypse, published by testingthewaters on August 23, 2024 on LessWrong.Meta comment for LessWrong readers[1]Something Different This Way Comes - Part 1In which I att…

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 we solve alignment, do we die anyway?, published by Seth Herd on August 23, 2024 on LessWrong.I'm aware of good arguments that this scenario isn't inevitable, but it still seems frighteni…

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: If we solve alignment, do we die anyway?, published by Seth Herd on August 23, 2024 on LessWrong.I'm aware of good arguments that this scenario isn't inevitable, but…

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: Invitation to lead a project at AI Safety Camp (Virtual Edition, 2025), published by Linda Linsefors on August 23, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Do you have AI Safety research ideas that yo…

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: Invitation to lead a project at AI Safety Camp (Virtual Edition, 2025), published by Linda Linsefors on August 23, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Do you have AI Safe…

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: Small simple way to promote effective giving while making people feel good, published by DMMF on August 23, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I'm a big fan of small, underrated acts 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: How do you deal with the "meat eater" problem, published by sammyboiz on August 23, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The meat eater problemI've heard people argue that it's possible glob…

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 #78: Some Welcome Calm, published by Zvi on August 23, 2024 on LessWrong.SB 1047 has been amended once more, with both strict improvements and big compromises. 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: AI #78: Some Welcome Calm, published by Zvi on August 23, 2024 on LessWrong.SB 1047 has been amended once more, with both strict improvements and big compromises. I cover the changes, and an…

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: Interoperable High Level Structures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives, published by johnswentworth on August 22, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Meta: This post is a rela…

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: Interoperable High Level Structures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives, published by johnswentworth on August 22, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Meta: This post is a relatively rough dump of some…

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 primer on the current state of longevity research, published by Abhishaike Mahajan on August 22, 2024 on LessWrong.Note: This post is co-authored withStacy Li, a P…

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 primer on the current state of longevity research, published by Abhishaike Mahajan on August 22, 2024 on LessWrong.Note: This post is co-authored withStacy Li, a PhD student at Berkeley st…

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 economics of space tethers, published by harsimony on August 22, 2024 on LessWrong.Some code for this post can be found here.Space tethers take the old, defunct space elevator concept an…

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 economics of space tethers, published by harsimony on August 22, 2024 on LessWrong.Some code for this post can be found here.Space tethers take the old, defunct …

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 Robust Natural Latent Over A Mixed Distribution Is Natural Over The Distributions Which Were Mixed, published by johnswentworth on August 22, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post walks…

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 Robust Natural Latent Over A Mixed Distribution Is Natural Over The Distributions Which Were Mixed, published by johnswentworth on August 22, 2024 on The AI Alignm…