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Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC

684 points

191 comments20 min readLW link

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC

666 points

629 comments30 min readLW link

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

510 points

133 comments6 min readLW link

Counter-theses on Sleep

Natália Coelho Mendonça21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC

401 points

131 comments15 min readLW link

It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC

376 points

124 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

It’s Probably Not Lithium

Natália Coelho Mendonça28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC

347 points

112 comments27 min readLW link

What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do

Swimmer9631 May 2022 23:51 UTC

336 points

297 comments9 min readLW link

MIRI announces new “Death With Dignity” strategy

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Apr 2022 0:43 UTC

324 points

518 comments18 min readLW link

Reflections on six months of fatherhood

jasoncrawford31 Jan 2022 5:28 UTC

321 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(jasoncrawford.org)

Accounting For College Costs

johnswentworth1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

318 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

Lies Told To Children

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2022 11:25 UTC

306 points

94 comments7 min readLW link

Security Mindset: Lessons from 20+ years of Software Security Failures Relevant to AGI Alignment

elspood21 Jun 2022 23:55 UTC

294 points

34 comments7 min readLW link

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth9 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC

280 points

28 comments20 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Is AI Progress Impossible To Predict?

alyssavance15 May 2022 18:30 UTC

263 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy in AGI Projects

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 May 2022 17:00 UTC

255 points

65 comments13 min readLW link

We Choose To Align AI

johnswentworth1 Jan 2022 20:06 UTC

247 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature’s laws

Ben Pace19 Feb 2022 23:39 UTC

245 points

40 comments9 min readLW link

Beware boasting about non-existent forecasting track records

Jotto99920 May 2022 19:20 UTC

241 points

109 comments5 min readLW link

Don’t die with dignity; instead play to your outs

Jeffrey Ladish6 Apr 2022 7:53 UTC

235 points

58 comments5 min readLW link

Why Agent Foundations? An Overly Abstract Explanation

johnswentworth25 Mar 2022 23:17 UTC

231 points

51 comments8 min readLW link

(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jan 2022 6:20 UTC

230 points

78 comments3 min readLW link

A Quick Guide to Confronting Doom

Ruby13 Apr 2022 19:30 UTC

222 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Contra Hofstadter on GPT-3 Nonsense

rictic15 Jun 2022 21:53 UTC

222 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

An Observation of Vavilov Day

Elizabeth3 Jan 2022 21:10 UTC

219 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Editing Advice for LessWrong Users

JustisMills11 Apr 2022 16:32 UTC

215 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

AGI Safety FAQ / all-dumb-questions-allowed thread

Aryeh Englander7 Jun 2022 5:47 UTC

215 points

488 comments4 min readLW link

Comment reply: my low-quality thoughts on why CFAR didn’t get farther with a “real/efficacious art of rationality”

AnnaSalamon9 Jun 2022 2:12 UTC

215 points

59 comments17 min readLW link

Replacing Karma with Good Heart Tokens (Worth $1!)

Ben Pace and habryka

1 Apr 2022 9:31 UTC

211 points

191 comments4 min readLW link

Humans are very reliable agents

alyssavance16 Jun 2022 22:02 UTC

206 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models

1a3orn1 Apr 2022 20:41 UTC

205 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

A central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization, and the sharp left turn

So8res15 Jun 2022 13:10 UTC

200 points

36 comments10 min readLW link

Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes

alyssavance25 May 2022 1:40 UTC

193 points

40 comments2 min readLW link

Slow motion videos as AI risk intuition pumps

Andrew_Critch14 Jun 2022 19:31 UTC

193 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

On saving one’s world

Rob Bensinger17 May 2022 19:53 UTC

189 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Moses and the Class Struggle

lsusr1 Apr 2022 11:55 UTC

188 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

Call For Distillers

johnswentworth4 Apr 2022 18:25 UTC

186 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

ProjectLawful.com: Eliezer’s latest story, past 1M words

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 May 2022 6:18 UTC

185 points

93 comments1 min readLW link

A concrete bet offer to those with short AI timelines

Matthew Barnett and Tamay

9 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

184 points

93 comments4 min readLW link

Benign Boundary Violations

Duncan_Sabien26 May 2022 6:48 UTC

184 points

83 comments18 min readLW link

dalle2 comments

nostalgebraist26 Apr 2022 5:30 UTC

183 points

13 comments13 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Postmortem on DIY Recombinant Covid Vaccine

caffemacchiavelli22 Jan 2022 14:12 UTC

177 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage

TurnTrout27 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC

173 points

53 comments13 min readLW link

Optimality is the tiger, and agents are its teeth

Veedrac2 Apr 2022 0:46 UTC

172 points

28 comments16 min readLW link

Have You Tried Hiring People?

rank-biserial2 Mar 2022 2:06 UTC

172 points

120 comments8 min readLW link

We Are Conjecture, A New Alignment Research Startup

Connor Leahy8 Apr 2022 11:40 UTC

171 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Looking back on my alignment PhD

TurnTrout1 Jul 2022 3:19 UTC

171 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

Russia has Invaded Ukraine

lsusr24 Feb 2022 7:52 UTC

165 points

270 comments3 min readLW link

What’s Up With Confusingly Pervasive Consequentialism?

Raemon20 Jan 2022 19:22 UTC

164 points

88 comments4 min readLW link

Playing with DALL·E 2

Dave Orr7 Apr 2022 18:49 UTC

164 points

116 comments6 min readLW link

AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined

HoldenKarnofsky9 Jun 2022 15:50 UTC

163 points

28 comments17 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)