The Nonlinear Fund Podcasts

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: Would it make sense for EA funding to be not so much focused on top talent?, published by Franziska Fischer on June 7, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Across loads of EA project, career…

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: Updates and Reflections on Optimal Exercise after Nearly a Decade, published by romeostevensit on June 8, 2023 on LessWrong.Previously:Firstly, do the basic epistemics hold up? As far as I k…

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: Takeaways from the Mechanistic Interpretability Challenges, published by scasper on June 8, 2023 on LessWrong....plus more challenges on the wayStephen Casper, scasper@mit.eduSpoilers aheadW…

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: Takeaways from the Mechanistic Interpretability Challenges, published by scasper on June 8, 2023 on LessWrong....plus more challenges on the wayStephen Casper, scasp…

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: Takeaways from the Mechanistic Interpretability Challenges, published by Stephen Casper on June 8, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum....plus more challenges on the wayS…

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: Takeaways from the Mechanistic Interpretability Challenges, published by Stephen Casper on June 8, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum....plus more challenges on the wayStephen Casper, scasper@mi…

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: Notes on how I want to handle criticism, published by Lizka on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Tl;dr/epistemic status: quick post mostly comprised of bullet points.I have a pret…

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: Notes on how I want to handle criticism, published by Lizka on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Tl;dr/epistemic status: quick post mostly comprised of bullet points.I have a pret…

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 moral backlash against AI will probably slow down AGI development, published by geoffreymiller on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong.Note 1 : This was posted to EA Forum on May 31 here, as a submis…

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 moral backlash against AI will probably slow down AGI development, published by geoffreymiller on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong.Note 1 : This was posted to EA Forum on…

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: UK government to host first global summit on AI Safety, published by DavidNash on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.An exciting development in this space, it may be worth people 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: UK government to host first global summit on AI Safety, published by DavidNash on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.An exciting development in this space, it may be worth people 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: AI #15: The Principle of Charity, published by Zvi on June 8, 2023 on LessWrong.The sky is not blue. Not today, not in New York City. At least it’s now mostly white, yesterday it was orange.…

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 #15: The Principle of Charity, published by Zvi on June 8, 2023 on LessWrong.The sky is not blue. Not today, not in New York City. At least it’s now mostly white,…

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: Seeking important GH or IDEV working papers to evaluate, published by ryancbriggs on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I am a Global Health and Development editor at The Unjournal…

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: Seeking important GH or IDEV working papers to evaluate, published by ryancbriggs on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I am a Global Health and Development editor at The Unjournal…

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 current alignment plan, and how we might improve it | EAG Bay Area 23, published by Buck on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I gave a talk at EAG SF where I tried to describe…

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 current alignment plan, and how we might improve it | EAG Bay Area 23, published by Buck on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I gave a talk at EAG SF where I tried to describe…

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: An Exercise to Build Intuitions on AGI Risk, published by Lauro Langosco on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong.Epistemic status: confident that the underlying idea is useful; less confident about the…

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: An Exercise to Build Intuitions on AGI Risk, published by Lauro Langosco on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong.Epistemic status: confident that the underlying idea is useful;…

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: LEAst-squares Concept Erasure (LEACE), published by tricky labyrinth on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong."Ever wanted to mindwipe an LLM?Our method, LEAst-squares Concept 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: LEAst-squares Concept Erasure (LEACE), published by tricky labyrinth on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong."Ever wanted to mindwipe an LLM?Our method, LEAst-squares Concept Erasure (LEACE), provably …

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: EA Strategy Fortnight (June 12-24), published by Ben West on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Tl;dr: I’m kicking off a push for public discussions about EA strategy that will be …

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: EA Strategy Fortnight (June 12-24), published by Ben West on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Tl;dr: Iâ��m kicking off a push for public discussions about EA strategy that will 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: What will GPT-2030 look like?, published by jsteinhardt on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong.GPT-4 surprised many people with its abilities at coding, creative brainstorming, letter-writing, and oth…

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 will GPT-2030 look like?, published by jsteinhardt on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong.GPT-4 surprised many people with its abilities at coding, creative brainstorming…

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: Would it make sense for EA funding to be not so much focused on top talent?, published by Franziska Fischer on June 7, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Across loads of EA project, career…

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: Elon talked with senior Chinese leadership about AI X-risk, published by ChristianKl on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong.As part of his Twitter Spaces with RJK jr. Elon sai…

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: Elon talked with senior Chinese leadership about AI X-risk, published by ChristianKl on June 7, 2023 on LessWrong.As part of his Twitter Spaces with RJK jr. Elon said (Youtube-based transcri…

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: An Exercise to Build Intuitions on AGI Risk, published by Lauro Langosco on June 7, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum.Epistemic status: confident that the underlying idea is useful; less confid…

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: An Exercise to Build Intuitions on AGI Risk, published by Lauro Langosco on June 7, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum.Epistemic status: confident that the underlying 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: Why I am not a longtermist (May 2022), published by boazbarak on June 6, 2023 on LessWrong.[Posting verbatim my blog post from a year ago since it might be relevant to this audience, and I h…

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 am not a longtermist (May 2022), published by boazbarak on June 6, 2023 on LessWrong.[Posting verbatim my blog post from a year ago since it might be relevant …

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 note of caution about recent AI risk coverage, published by Sean o h on June 7, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Epistemic status: some thoughts I wanted to get out quicklyA lot of fan…

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 note of caution about recent AI risk coverage, published by Sean o h on June 7, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Epistemic status: some thoughts I wanted to get out quicklyA lot of fan…

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: Large epistemological concerns I should maybe have about EA a priori, published by Luise on June 7, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.NoteI originally wrote this as a private doc, but I 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: Large epistemological concerns I should maybe have about EA a priori, published by Luise on June 7, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.NoteI originally wrote this as a private doc, but I 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: Unveiling the Challenges and Potential of Research in Nigeria: Nurturing Talent in Resource-Limited Settings, published by emmannaemeka on June 7, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Summar…