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A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein

lcDec 28, 2021, 9:15 PM

329 points

59 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

The Plan

johnswentworthDec 10, 2021, 11:41 PM

260 points

78 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Omicron: My Current Model

ZviDec 28, 2021, 5:10 PM

253 points

72 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Morality is Scary

Wei DaiDec 2, 2021, 6:35 AM

230 points

116 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

ARC’s first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge

paulfchristiano, Mark Xu and Ajeya Cotra

Dec 14, 2021, 8:09 PM

228 points

90 comments1 min readLW link 3 reviews

(docs.google.com)

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

ZviDec 14, 2021, 2:30 PM

193 points

65 comments64 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Launch: The Engines of Cognition

Ben PaceDec 21, 2021, 7:24 AM

174 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

LarksDec 23, 2021, 2:06 PM

168 points

28 comments73 min readLW link

Worst-case thinking in AI alignment

BuckDec 23, 2021, 1:29 AM

167 points

18 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Biology-Inspired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 1, 2021, 10:35 PM

158 points

142 comments65 min readLW link 1 review

Dear Self; We Need To Talk About Social Media

ElizabethDec 7, 2021, 12:40 AM

157 points

19 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Omicron Post #7

ZviDec 16, 2021, 5:30 PM

155 points

41 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #4

ZviDec 6, 2021, 5:00 PM

153 points

66 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Reply to Eliezer on Biological Anchors

HoldenKarnofskyDec 23, 2021, 4:15 PM

149 points

46 comments15 min readLW link

Transformer Circuits

evhubDec 22, 2021, 9:09 PM

144 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(transformer-circuits.pub)

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

VeedracDec 11, 2021, 3:02 AM

128 points

38 comments24 min readLW link

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

Neel NandaDec 15, 2021, 11:44 PM

127 points

9 comments15 min readLW link

COVID Skepticism Isn’t About Science

jaspaxDec 29, 2021, 5:53 PM

127 points

76 comments7 min readLW link

Law of No Evidence

ZviDec 20, 2021, 1:50 PM

122 points

20 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Perpetual Dickensian Poverty?

jefftkDec 21, 2021, 1:30 PM

120 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Experiences raising children in shared housing

juliawiseDec 21, 2021, 5:09 PM

117 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

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

CathleenDec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM

115 points

43 comments LW link 2 reviews

(cathleensdiscoveries.com)

The 2020 Review

RaemonDec 2, 2021, 12:39 AM

112 points

39 comments6 min readLW link

Internet Literacy Atrophy

ElizabethDec 26, 2021, 12:30 PM

111 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Conversation on technology forecasting and gradualism

Richard_Ngo, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rohin Shah and Rob Bensinger

Dec 9, 2021, 9:23 PM

108 points

30 comments31 min readLW link

Merry Christmas

lsusrDec 26, 2021, 7:03 AM

107 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Perishable Knowledge

lsusrDec 18, 2021, 5:53 AM

104 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Post #5

ZviDec 9, 2021, 9:10 PM

102 points

18 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two (very different) kinds of donors

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Dec 22, 2021, 1:43 AM

101 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Interpreting Yudkowsky on Deep vs Shallow Knowledge

adamShimiDec 5, 2021, 5:32 PM

100 points

32 comments24 min readLW link

Omicron Post #8

ZviDec 20, 2021, 11:10 PM

96 points

33 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ten Minutes with Sam Altman

lsusrDec 28, 2021, 7:32 AM

91 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

More Christiano, Cotra, and Yudkowsky on AI progress

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Ajeya Cotra

Dec 6, 2021, 8:33 PM

91 points

28 comments40 min readLW link

Shulman and Yudkowsky on AI progress

Eliezer Yudkowsky and CarlShulman

Dec 3, 2021, 8:05 PM

90 points

16 comments20 min readLW link

Omicron Post #9

ZviDec 23, 2021, 9:50 PM

89 points

11 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #6

ZviDec 13, 2021, 6:00 PM

89 points

30 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.

abramdemskiDec 10, 2021, 3:51 PM

89 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

Deepmind’s Gopher—more powerful than GPT-3

hathDec 8, 2021, 5:06 PM

86 points

26 comments LW link

(deepmind.com)

A Summary Of Anthropic’s First Paper

Sam RingerDec 30, 2021, 12:48 AM

85 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

ML Alignment Theory Program under Evan Hubinger

ozhang, evhub and Victor W

Dec 6, 2021, 12:03 AM

82 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Privacy and Manipulation

RaemonDec 5, 2021, 12:39 AM

80 points

41 comments8 min readLW link

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

Joe CarlsmithDec 16, 2021, 8:48 PM

80 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Behavior Cloning is Miscalibrated

leogao5 Dec 2021 1:36 UTC

78 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

Risks from AI persuasion

Beth Barnes24 Dec 2021 1:48 UTC

76 points

15 comments31 min readLW link

Language Model Alignment Research Internships

Ethan Perez13 Dec 2021 19:53 UTC

74 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Teaser: Hard-coding Transformer Models

MadHatter12 Dec 2021 22:04 UTC

74 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where can one learn deep intuitions about information theory?

Valentine16 Dec 2021 15:47 UTC

72 points

27 comments2 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