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SolidGoldMag­ikarp (plus, prompt gen­er­a­tion)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins
5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC
677 points
208 comments12 min readLW link1 review

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

Cleo Nardo3 Mar 2023 3:22 UTC
648 points
188 comments16 min readLW link

The Talk: a brief ex­pla­na­tion of sex­ual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC
553 points
79 comments16 min readLW link3 reviews

How much do you be­lieve your re­sults?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC
524 points
18 comments15 min readLW link4 reviews
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC
505 points
45 comments5 min readLW link4 reviews
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

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

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC
502 points
65 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

Sig­nifi­cantly En­hanc­ing Adult In­tel­li­gence With Gene Edit­ing May Be Possible

GeneSmith and kman
12 Dec 2023 18:14 UTC
474 points
212 comments33 min readLW link2 reviews

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

jenn1 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC
451 points
37 comments8 min readLW link1 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 link1 review

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

gwern3 Jul 2023 0:48 UTC
431 points
54 comments7 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

GPTs are Pre­dic­tors, not Imitators

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2023 19:59 UTC
429 points
100 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Please don’t throw your mind away

TsviBT15 Feb 2023 21:41 UTC
419 points
50 comments18 min readLW link1 review

Bing Chat is blatantly, ag­gres­sively misaligned

evhub15 Feb 2023 5:29 UTC
408 points
181 comments2 min readLW link1 review

So­cial Dark Matter

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)16 Nov 2023 20:00 UTC
388 points
131 comments34 min readLW link2 reviews

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

Dan H30 May 2023 9:05 UTC
383 points
78 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(www.safe.ai)

Not­ing an er­ror in Inad­e­quate Equilibria

Matthew Barnett8 Feb 2023 1:33 UTC
379 points
60 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

How it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI

blaked12 Jan 2023 0:33 UTC
374 points
222 comments17 min readLW link

How to have Poly­geni­cally Screened Children

GeneSmith7 May 2023 16:01 UTC
372 points
128 comments27 min readLW link1 review

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

Quintin Pope21 Mar 2023 0:06 UTC
365 points
233 comments39 min readLW link1 review

Fuck­ing God­damn Ba­sics of Ra­tion­al­ist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC
364 points
104 comments1 min readLW link3 reviews

Child­hoods of ex­cep­tional people

Henrik Karlsson6 Feb 2023 17:27 UTC
353 points
62 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Shal­low re­view of live agen­das in al­ign­ment & safety

technicalities and Stag
27 Nov 2023 11:10 UTC
351 points
73 comments29 min readLW link1 review

Guide to ra­tio­nal­ist in­te­rior decorating

mingyuan19 Jun 2023 6:47 UTC
344 points
53 comments12 min readLW link4 reviews

Shut­ting Down the Light­cone Offices

habryka and Ben Pace
14 Mar 2023 22:47 UTC
339 points
103 comments17 min readLW link2 reviews

In­side Views, Im­pos­tor Syn­drome, and the Great LARP

johnswentworth25 Sep 2023 16:08 UTC
339 points
54 comments5 min readLW link

Cyborgism

Niki Dupuis and janus
10 Feb 2023 14:47 UTC
339 points
47 comments35 min readLW link2 reviews

Against Al­most Every The­ory of Im­pact of Interpretability

Charbel-Raphaël17 Aug 2023 18:44 UTC
336 points
93 comments26 min readLW link2 reviews

Un­der­stand­ing and con­trol­ling a maze-solv­ing policy network

TurnTrout, peligrietzer, Ulisse Mini, Monte M and David Udell
11 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC
335 points
28 comments23 min readLW link

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

Elizabeth28 Sep 2023 23:30 UTC
334 points
250 comments22 min readLW link2 reviews
(acesounderglass.com)

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
331 points
30 comments18 min readLW link1 review

Book Re­view: How Minds Change

bc4026bd4aaa5b7fe25 May 2023 17:55 UTC
329 points
53 comments15 min readLW link

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

titotal28 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC
327 points
107 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews
(titotal.substack.com)

Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC
323 points
324 comments34 min readLW link

The Parable of the King and the Ran­dom Process

moridinamael1 Mar 2023 22:18 UTC
317 points
26 comments6 min readLW link3 reviews

Speak­ing to Con­gres­sional staffers about AI risk

Orpheus16 and hath
4 Dec 2023 23:08 UTC
314 points
25 comments15 min readLW link1 review

Align­ment Grant­mak­ing is Fund­ing-Limited Right Now

johnswentworth19 Jul 2023 16:49 UTC
312 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

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
307 points
185 comments3 min readLW link

AI Timelines

habryka, Daniel Kokotajlo, Ajeya Cotra and Ege Erdil
10 Nov 2023 5:28 UTC
302 points
143 comments51 min readLW link2 reviews

Pre­dictable up­dat­ing about AI risk

Joe Carlsmith8 May 2023 21:53 UTC
297 points
25 comments36 min readLW link1 review

The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You

Screwtape29 Nov 2023 4:56 UTC
296 points
23 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Notes on Teach­ing in Prison

jsd19 Apr 2023 1:53 UTC
295 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
291 points
19 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(www.jefftk.com)

Hooray for step­ping out of the limelight

So8res1 Apr 2023 2:45 UTC
289 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Towards Monose­man­tic­ity: De­com­pos­ing Lan­guage Models With Dic­tionary Learning

Zac Hatfield-Dodds5 Oct 2023 21:01 UTC
289 points
22 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(transformer-circuits.pub)

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

scasper4 Nov 2023 20:08 UTC
289 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Ba­sics of Ra­tion­al­ist Discourse

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)27 Jan 2023 2:40 UTC
287 points
193 comments31 min readLW link4 reviews

My Model Of EA Burnout

LoganStrohl25 Jan 2023 17:52 UTC
282 points
50 comments5 min readLW link1 review

We don’t trade with ants

KatjaGrace10 Jan 2023 23:50 UTC
281 points
110 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)