A non-mag­i­cal ex­pla­na­tion of Jeffrey Epstein

lc28 Dec 2021 21:15 UTC
322 points
59 comments15 min readLW link1 review

The Plan

johnswentworth10 Dec 2021 23:41 UTC
254 points
78 comments14 min readLW link1 review

Omicron: My Cur­rent Model

Zvi28 Dec 2021 17:10 UTC
253 points
72 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

ARC’s first tech­ni­cal re­port: Elic­it­ing La­tent Knowledge

14 Dec 2021 20:09 UTC
225 points
90 comments1 min readLW link3 reviews
(docs.google.com)

Mo­ral­ity is Scary

Wei Dai2 Dec 2021 6:35 UTC
193 points
116 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Zvi’s Thoughts on the Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing Fund (SFF)

Zvi14 Dec 2021 14:30 UTC
186 points
65 comments64 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Launch: The Eng­ines of Cognition

Ben Pace21 Dec 2021 7:24 UTC
174 points
55 comments5 min readLW link

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC
165 points
28 comments73 min readLW link

Biol­ogy-In­spired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Dec 2021 22:35 UTC
165 points
142 comments65 min readLW link1 review

Worst-case think­ing in AI alignment

Buck23 Dec 2021 1:29 UTC
162 points
18 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Dear Self; We Need To Talk About So­cial Media

Elizabeth7 Dec 2021 0:40 UTC
156 points
19 comments10 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

Omicron Post #7

Zvi16 Dec 2021 17:30 UTC
155 points
41 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #4

Zvi6 Dec 2021 17:00 UTC
153 points
66 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­ply to Eliezer on Biolog­i­cal Anchors

HoldenKarnofsky23 Dec 2021 16:15 UTC
150 points
46 comments15 min readLW link

Trans­former Circuits

evhub22 Dec 2021 21:09 UTC
144 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(transformer-circuits.pub)

My Overview of the AI Align­ment Land­scape: A Bird’s Eye View

Neel Nanda15 Dec 2021 23:44 UTC
127 points
9 comments15 min readLW link

COVID Skep­ti­cism Isn’t About Science

jaspax29 Dec 2021 17:53 UTC
127 points
76 comments7 min readLW link

Moore’s Law, AI, and the pace of progress

Veedrac11 Dec 2021 3:02 UTC
125 points
38 comments24 min readLW link

Law of No Evidence

Zvi20 Dec 2021 13:50 UTC
121 points
19 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Per­pet­ual Dick­en­sian Poverty?

jefftk21 Dec 2021 13:30 UTC
119 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ex­pe­riences rais­ing chil­dren in shared housing

juliawise21 Dec 2021 17:09 UTC
116 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

In Defense of At­tempt­ing Hard Things, and my story of the Lev­er­age ecosystem

Cathleen17 Dec 2021 23:08 UTC
115 points
43 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(cathleensdiscoveries.com)

The 2020 Review

Raemon2 Dec 2021 0:39 UTC
112 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

In­ter­net Liter­acy Atrophy

Elizabeth26 Dec 2021 12:30 UTC
111 points
49 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Con­ver­sa­tion on tech­nol­ogy fore­cast­ing and gradualism

9 Dec 2021 21:23 UTC
108 points
30 comments31 min readLW link

Merry Christmas

lsusr26 Dec 2021 7:03 UTC
107 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Per­ish­able Knowledge

lsusr18 Dec 2021 5:53 UTC
102 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Post #5

Zvi9 Dec 2021 21:10 UTC
102 points
18 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two (very differ­ent) kinds of donors

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien22 Dec 2021 1:43 UTC
101 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing Yud­kowsky on Deep vs Shal­low Knowledge

adamShimi5 Dec 2021 17:32 UTC
100 points
32 comments24 min readLW link

Omicron Post #8

Zvi20 Dec 2021 23:10 UTC
96 points
33 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

More Chris­ti­ano, Co­tra, and Yud­kowsky on AI progress

6 Dec 2021 20:33 UTC
91 points
28 comments40 min readLW link

Shul­man and Yud­kowsky on AI progress

3 Dec 2021 20:05 UTC
90 points
16 comments20 min readLW link

Omicron Post #6

Zvi13 Dec 2021 18:00 UTC
89 points
30 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

There is es­sen­tially one best-val­i­dated the­ory of cog­ni­tion.

abramdemski10 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC
89 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Post #9

Zvi23 Dec 2021 21:50 UTC
89 points
11 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ten Minutes with Sam Altman

lsusr28 Dec 2021 7:32 UTC
88 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Deep­mind’s Go­pher—more pow­er­ful than GPT-3

hath8 Dec 2021 17:06 UTC
86 points
26 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

ML Align­ment The­ory Pro­gram un­der Evan Hubinger

6 Dec 2021 0:03 UTC
82 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

A Sum­mary Of An­thropic’s First Paper

Sam Ringer30 Dec 2021 0:48 UTC
82 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Re­views of “Is power-seek­ing AI an ex­is­ten­tial risk?”

Joe Carlsmith16 Dec 2021 20:48 UTC
79 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Pri­vacy and Manipulation

Raemon5 Dec 2021 0:39 UTC
78 points
41 comments8 min readLW link

Be­hav­ior Clon­ing is Miscalibrated

leogao5 Dec 2021 1:36 UTC
77 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong dis­cussed in New Ideas in Psy­chol­ogy ar­ti­cle

rogersbacon9 Dec 2021 21:01 UTC
76 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Teaser: Hard-cod­ing Trans­former Models

MadHatter12 Dec 2021 22:04 UTC
74 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Lan­guage Model Align­ment Re­search Internships

Ethan Perez13 Dec 2021 19:53 UTC
74 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

COVID and the holidays

Connor_Flexman8 Dec 2021 23:13 UTC
71 points
31 comments9 min readLW link

Some ab­stract, non-tech­ni­cal rea­sons to be non-max­i­mally-pes­simistic about AI alignment

Rob Bensinger12 Dec 2021 2:08 UTC
70 points
35 comments7 min readLW link

Risks from AI persuasion

Beth Barnes24 Dec 2021 1:48 UTC
69 points
15 comments31 min readLW link

Con­sid­er­a­tions on in­ter­ac­tion be­tween AI and ex­pected value of the fu­ture

Beth Barnes7 Dec 2021 2:46 UTC
68 points
28 comments4 min readLW link