Somewhat Contra Ted Chiang on AI Consciousness
Ted Chiang recently published a piece in The Atlantic titled " No, Artificial Intelligence is Not Conscious. " As a big fan of Chiang's fiction and someone with a deep interest in…
The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point [Linkpost]
The reason I wanted to make this linkpost now rather than some other time is because discussions over AGI and whether or not LLMs are or aren't AGI, and the point of the linkpost…
SFT Drives Gemini’s Safety Properties
This is the third in a series of informal research updates from the Google DeepMind Language Model Interpretability team, in interpretability and adjacent areas. The second post…
Why not take the AI fight to the ground?
You may have heard that many of us are working very hard to elect Alex Bores to Congress in the NY-12 Democratic primary. Voting begins today. See ny12.org to learn how to vote,…
AML for AI as a verification mechanism
The idea is to build a system that tracks key nodes in AI infrastructure in order to detect preparation for, or execution of, large training runs, and to monitor the overall…
China Lures Foreign Patients With Cutting-Edge, Cheap Medical Care
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While traditional hotspots in the region such as Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia focus on services such as cosmetic surgery,…
Pulling hedonic utilitarianism out of ethical emotivism
Ethical emotivism is a non-realist moral theory [1] which says that there is nothing more to moral statements than exclamations of emotion. For instance, saying “murder is bad” is…
Tequila Sunset at the Hog's Head (A Scene)
Warning: contains heavy spoilers for late HPMOR. Do not read if you have not completed HPMOR. The Hogwarts wards had said that the Defense Professor had killed her. This didn't…
Trump Justifies War by Citing Nuclear Promise Iran Already Made Before It Began
“Iran will under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon,” Iran's foreign minister said before the war began.
Exploration of a DNA Sequencing Basecaller using Activation Patching
This write-up for an undergraduate project is my first LW post, made with the objective of a) gathering feedback on the project and post, if more experienced authors are willing,…
US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether…
Sandy Blvd as an example of complexity
This is the intersection of SE Ankeny and Sandy in Portland, OR. Actually no — it's the intersection of Ankeny, Sandy, and SE 11th. Ankeny and 11th are part of the normal street…
Fox News’ Bret Baier highlights opposition from Republicans and right-wing commentators over Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran
Poland To Jail Online Streamers of Violent Crime For Up To 5 Years
Polish lawmakers have voted to criminalize "trash streaming," with up to five years in prison for online broadcasts of serious crimes such as rape or murder, animal cruelty,…
US-Iran Peace Agreement Prompts Stock Rally, Leaves Some Investors Skeptical and Questions on Speed of Resuming Oil Production
"Asian stocks rallied Monday while oil prices tumbled," reports CNBC, "after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending nearly four months of conflict..." The…
Obama Casts Doubts on Any Trump-Negotiated “Deal” to End Iran War
Obama also criticized Trump's foreign policy strategy of trying to “bully our way” to solutions.