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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC

840 points

670 comments30 min readLW link

Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC

839 points

212 comments20 min readLW link

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

611 points

134 comments6 min readLW link

Simulators

janus2 Sep 2022 12:45 UTC

602 points

114 comments41 min readLW link

(generative.ink)

Let’s think about slowing down AI

KatjaGrace22 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC

509 points

179 comments38 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle

Elizabeth16 Oct 2022 17:40 UTC

448 points

111 comments12 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

It’s Probably Not Lithium

Natália Coelho Mendonça28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC

440 points

181 comments28 min readLW link

The Redaction Machine

Ben20 Sep 2022 22:03 UTC

436 points

41 comments27 min readLW link

Counter-theses on Sleep

Natália Coelho Mendonça21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC

420 points

129 comments15 min readLW link

Losing the root for the tree

Adam Zerner20 Sep 2022 4:53 UTC

409 points

27 comments9 min readLW link

chinchilla’s wild implications

nostalgebraist31 Jul 2022 1:18 UTC

401 points

124 comments11 min readLW link

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

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC

395 points

119 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

(My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why

Thomas Larsen and elifland

29 Aug 2022 1:23 UTC

388 points

87 comments38 min readLW link

DeepMind alignment team opinions on AGI ruin arguments

Vika12 Aug 2022 21:06 UTC

375 points

36 comments14 min readLW link

Reflections on six months of fatherhood

jasoncrawford31 Jan 2022 5:28 UTC

363 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(jasoncrawford.org)

Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case

KatjaGrace14 Oct 2022 13:00 UTC

359 points

122 comments34 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking

Neel Nanda and Tom Lieberum

15 Aug 2022 2:41 UTC

357 points

45 comments36 min readLW link

(colab.research.google.com)

What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 1 May 2022 23:51 UTC

352 points

303 comments9 min readLW link

Accounting For College Costs

johnswentworth1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

350 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Lies Told To Children

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2022 11:25 UTC

348 points

89 comments7 min readLW link

Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover

Ajeya Cotra18 Jul 2022 19:06 UTC

343 points

92 comments84 min readLW link

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

elspood21 Jun 2022 23:55 UTC

342 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

MIRI announces new “Death With Dignity” strategy

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Apr 2022 0:43 UTC

331 points

532 comments18 min readLW link

You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring

johnswentworth20 Sep 2022 20:04 UTC

328 points

38 comments8 min readLW link

What should you change in response to an “emergency”? And AI risk

AnnaSalamon18 Jul 2022 1:11 UTC

324 points

59 comments6 min readLW link

Why I think strong general AI is coming soon

porby28 Sep 2022 5:40 UTC

312 points

138 comments34 min readLW link

Looking back on my alignment PhD

TurnTrout1 Jul 2022 3:19 UTC

308 points

63 comments11 min readLW link

A challenge for AGI organizations, and a challenge for readers

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

1 Dec 2022 23:11 UTC

295 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Reward is not the optimization target

TurnTrout25 Jul 2022 0:03 UTC

291 points

109 comments10 min readLW link

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth9 Feb 2022 18:10 UTC

288 points

28 comments20 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Two-year update on my personal AI timelines

Ajeya Cotra2 Aug 2022 23:07 UTC

287 points

60 comments16 min readLW link

Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy in AGI Projects

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 May 2022 17:00 UTC

286 points

64 comments13 min readLW link

Beware boasting about non-existent forecasting track records

Jotto99920 May 2022 19:20 UTC

286 points

111 comments5 min readLW link

On how various plans miss the hard bits of the alignment challenge

So8res12 Jul 2022 2:49 UTC

281 points

78 comments29 min readLW link

Is AI Progress Impossible To Predict?

alyssavance15 May 2022 18:30 UTC

277 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

Why Agent Foundations? An Overly Abstract Explanation

johnswentworth25 Mar 2022 23:17 UTC

277 points

54 comments8 min readLW link

Models Don’t “Get Reward”

Sam Ringer30 Dec 2022 10:37 UTC

277 points

58 comments5 min readLW link

Optimality is the tiger, and agents are its teeth

Veedrac2 Apr 2022 0:46 UTC

276 points

36 comments16 min readLW link

Staring into the abyss as a core life skill

benkuhn22 Dec 2022 15:30 UTC

273 points

15 comments12 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

We Choose To Align AI

johnswentworth1 Jan 2022 20:06 UTC

273 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Mysteries of mode collapse

janus8 Nov 2022 10:37 UTC

271 points

50 comments14 min readLW link

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

So8res15 Jun 2022 13:10 UTC

271 points

49 comments10 min readLW link

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

Jeffrey Ladish6 Apr 2022 7:53 UTC

266 points

59 comments5 min readLW link

Humans are very reliable agents

alyssavance16 Jun 2022 22:02 UTC

258 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

AI alignment is distinct from its near-term applications

paulfchristiano13 Dec 2022 7:10 UTC

253 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Changing the world through slack & hobbies

Steven Byrnes21 Jul 2022 18:11 UTC

251 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

So, geez there’s a lot of AI content these days

Raemon6 Oct 2022 21:32 UTC

250 points

140 comments6 min readLW link

What Are You Tracking In Your Head?

johnswentworth28 Jun 2022 19:30 UTC

249 points

76 comments4 min readLW link

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

Ben Pace19 Feb 2022 23:39 UTC

248 points

39 comments9 min readLW link

New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models

1a3orn1 Apr 2022 20:41 UTC

242 points

21 comments5 min readLW link