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SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins

5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC

674 points

208 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

Cleo Nardo3 Mar 2023 3:22 UTC

647 points

188 comments16 min readLW link

The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC

533 points

77 comments16 min readLW link 3 reviews

How much do you believe your results?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC

516 points

18 comments15 min readLW link 4 reviews

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC

484 points

44 comments5 min readLW link 4 reviews

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone’s dropping the ball

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC

473 points

64 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible

GeneSmith and kman

12 Dec 2023 18:14 UTC

463 points

206 comments33 min readLW link 2 reviews

Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities

jenn1 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC

448 points

35 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

(jenn.site)

Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector

TurnTrout, Monte M, David Udell, lisathiergart and Ulisse Mini

13 May 2023 18:42 UTC

441 points

98 comments50 min readLW link 1 review

Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk (June 2023)?

gwern3 Jul 2023 0:48 UTC

428 points

54 comments7 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2023 19:59 UTC

422 points

100 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned

evhub15 Feb 2023 5:29 UTC

406 points

181 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Please don’t throw your mind away

TsviBT15 Feb 2023 21:41 UTC

385 points

49 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

Statement on AI Extinction—Signed by AGI Labs, Top Academics, and Many Other Notable Figures

Dan H30 May 2023 9:05 UTC

382 points

78 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.safe.ai)

Social Dark Matter

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)16 Nov 2023 20:00 UTC

375 points

129 comments34 min readLW link 2 reviews

How it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI

blaked12 Jan 2023 0:33 UTC

372 points

222 comments17 min readLW link

Noting an error in Inadequate Equilibria

Matthew Barnett8 Feb 2023 1:33 UTC

371 points

60 comments2 min readLW link 2 reviews

How to have Polygenically Screened Children

GeneSmith7 May 2023 16:01 UTC

370 points

128 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

My Objections to “We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky”

Quintin Pope21 Mar 2023 0:06 UTC

363 points

233 comments39 min readLW link 1 review

Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC

354 points

104 comments1 min readLW link 3 reviews

Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety

technicalities and Stag

27 Nov 2023 11:10 UTC

349 points

73 comments29 min readLW link 1 review

Childhoods of exceptional people

Henrik Karlsson6 Feb 2023 17:27 UTC

349 points

62 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Shutting Down the Lightcone Offices

habryka and Ben Pace

14 Mar 2023 22:47 UTC

338 points

103 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP

johnswentworth25 Sep 2023 16:08 UTC

338 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

Guide to rationalist interior decorating

mingyuan19 Jun 2023 6:47 UTC

337 points

53 comments12 min readLW link 4 reviews

Cyborgism

NicholasKees and janus

10 Feb 2023 14:47 UTC

335 points

47 comments35 min readLW link 2 reviews

Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network

TurnTrout, peligrietzer, Ulisse Mini, Monte M and David Udell

11 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC

334 points

28 comments23 min readLW link

Against Almost Every Theory of Impact of Interpretability

Charbel-Raphaël17 Aug 2023 18:44 UTC

331 points

92 comments26 min readLW link 2 reviews

Book Review: How Minds Change

bc4026bd4aaa5b7fe25 May 2023 17:55 UTC

327 points

53 comments15 min readLW link

EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem

Elizabeth28 Sep 2023 23:30 UTC

326 points

250 comments22 min readLW link 2 reviews

(acesounderglass.com)

When do “brains beat brawn” in Chess? An experiment

titotal28 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC

325 points

106 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

(titotal.substack.com)

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

323 points

323 comments34 min readLW link

Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research

evhub, Nicholas Schiefer, Carson Denison and Ethan Perez

8 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC

322 points

30 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

The Parable of the King and the Random Process

moridinamael1 Mar 2023 22:18 UTC

315 points

26 comments6 min readLW link 3 reviews

Alignment Grantmaking is Funding-Limited Right Now

johnswentworth19 Jul 2023 16:49 UTC

312 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk

Orpheus16 and hath

4 Dec 2023 23:08 UTC

312 points

25 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas

Natália28 Jan 2023 20:18 UTC

310 points

69 comments30 min readLW link

LW Team is adjusting moderation policy

Raemon4 Apr 2023 20:41 UTC

305 points

185 comments3 min readLW link

AI Timelines

habryka, Daniel Kokotajlo, Ajeya Cotra and Ege Erdil

10 Nov 2023 5:28 UTC

302 points

136 comments51 min readLW link 2 reviews

Predictable updating about AI risk

Joe Carlsmith8 May 2023 21:53 UTC

295 points

25 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

Notes on Teaching in Prison

jsd19 Apr 2023 1:53 UTC

294 points

13 comments12 min readLW link

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky

jacquesthibs29 Mar 2023 23:16 UTC

294 points

297 comments3 min readLW link

(time.com)

Accidentally Load Bearing

jefftk13 Jul 2023 16:10 UTC

290 points

18 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jefftk.com)

Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning

Zac Hatfield-Dodds5 Oct 2023 21:01 UTC

289 points

22 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(transformer-circuits.pub)

The 6D effect: When companies take risks, one email can be very powerful.

scasper4 Nov 2023 20:08 UTC

287 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You

Screwtape29 Nov 2023 4:56 UTC

285 points

23 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Hooray for stepping out of the limelight

So8res1 Apr 2023 2:45 UTC

284 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Basics of Rationalist Discourse

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)27 Jan 2023 2:40 UTC

283 points

193 comments31 min readLW link 4 reviews

We don’t trade with ants

KatjaGrace10 Jan 2023 23:50 UTC

282 points

109 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

OpenAI: The Battle of the Board

Zvi22 Nov 2023 17:30 UTC

281 points

83 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)