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We have some good ideas about how mammalian brains get "aligned". How can we train/scaffold LLMs in a way that we can apply the same approach?

Google recently published the SWE Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492082791

Note that that story is apocryphal: https://www.gwern.net/Tanks

The poster is right -- don't write on a whiteboard. Instead, bring your laptop, make the font bigger on your favorite editor, and write in that. I've gone through many interviews l…

The guy who wrote this post used to be president of Alcor ( http://alcor.org ), one of the two cryonics organizations in the US. Cryonics is in fact certainly a procedure where peo…

The official rules say that one of the requirements is that the recipients "Forgo other employment or educational enrollment during the two year Fellowship except as approved by th…

I'm fairly interested in cognitive science in general, but this was the first time I'd heard of any sort of scientific study of venting your anger. When I get angry at my computer …

This is the kind of 80-20 knowledge compression that I love seeing on HN and in general. Even if it's not completely new information, it quickly informs me on at least one good vie…

If you want to hear what English sounds like to foreigners, take a look at http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreig...

My best first hand impression of the story's professionalism was when I saw http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/3332/brilliantpe1.png "Microsoft (GOOG, Fortune 500)"

About those pesky shortcuts: My suggestion would be to make windows shortcuts available by default: Win+D = minimize/unminimize all windows Win+R = Terminal I also added Win+G = Ge…

And if you don't like Adobe, for Windows there's Foxit Reader, and for Linux there's Evince. I can't vouch for Foxit, but viewing PDFs through Evince is also far more efficient in …

I can't imagine why nobody even mentioned Greg Egan so far. Reading Permutation City left me in a dazzled state for days because of the sheer number of reality-altering concepts it…

This reminded me so much of a useful rationality anecdote, I almost thought it was going to be a link to it. Alas, it wasn't. http://www.spaceandgames.com/?p=27 Now how certain are…

I think it would be a good idea to have a preference in the user profile to disable the iPaper integration. Personally, I don't mind getting PDFs or other documents, and I love the…

Basically anything by Greg Egan, particularly Permutation City. Also nanotechnology, the singularity, and friendly AI, in order of learning about them.