All 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 20222023

AllJan Feb Mar

SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins

5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC

646 points

194 comments12 min readLW link

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

Cleo Nardo3 Mar 2023 3:22 UTC

568 points

164 comments16 min readLW link

Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned

evhub15 Feb 2023 5:29 UTC

390 points

163 comments2 min readLW link

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

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC

364 points

55 comments4 min readLW link

How it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI

blaked12 Jan 2023 0:33 UTC

337 points

214 comments17 min readLW link

Noting an error in Inadequate Equilibria

Matthew Barnett8 Feb 2023 1:33 UTC

317 points

51 comments2 min readLW link

Shutting Down the Lightcone Offices

habryka and Ben Pace

14 Mar 2023 22:47 UTC

315 points

85 comments17 min readLW link

Please don’t throw your mind away

TsviBT15 Feb 2023 21:41 UTC

307 points

41 comments18 min readLW link

Childhoods of exceptional people

Henrik Karlsson6 Feb 2023 17:27 UTC

296 points

56 comments15 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Cyborgism

NicholasKees and janus

10 Feb 2023 14:47 UTC

294 points

41 comments35 min readLW link

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

Quintin Pope21 Mar 2023 0:06 UTC

287 points

167 comments33 min readLW link

Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network

TurnTrout, peligrietzer, Ulisse Mini, montemac and David Udell

11 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC

284 points

13 comments22 min readLW link

Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC

263 points

95 comments1 min readLW link

On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas

Natália Coelho Mendonça28 Jan 2023 20:18 UTC

259 points

50 comments30 min readLW link

We don’t trade with ants

KatjaGrace10 Jan 2023 23:50 UTC

253 points

108 comments7 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Parable of the King and the Random Process

moridinamael1 Mar 2023 22:18 UTC

243 points

20 comments6 min readLW link

I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

Simon Berens5 Feb 2023 1:19 UTC

239 points

81 comments10 min readLW link

(www.simonberens.com)

Basics of Rationalist Discourse

Duncan_Sabien27 Jan 2023 2:40 UTC

228 points

178 comments36 min readLW link

Thoughts on the impact of RLHF research

paulfchristiano25 Jan 2023 17:23 UTC

227 points

101 comments9 min readLW link

My Model Of EA Burnout

LoganStrohl25 Jan 2023 17:52 UTC

223 points

48 comments5 min readLW link

You Don’t Exist, Duncan

Duncan_Sabien2 Feb 2023 8:37 UTC

211 points

95 comments9 min readLW link

AGI in sight: our look at the game board

Andrea_Miotti and Gabriel Alfour

18 Feb 2023 22:17 UTC

209 points

131 comments6 min readLW link

(andreamiotti.substack.com)

“Carefully Bootstrapped Alignment” is organizationally hard

Raemon17 Mar 2023 18:00 UTC

208 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

Recursive Middle Manager Hell

Raemon1 Jan 2023 4:33 UTC

207 points

39 comments11 min readLW link

Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty

HoldenKarnofsky13 Mar 2023 21:20 UTC

203 points

25 comments22 min readLW link

More information about the dangerous capability evaluations we did with GPT-4 and Claude.

Beth Barnes19 Mar 2023 0:25 UTC

202 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

(evals.alignment.org)

Enemies vs Malefactors

So8res28 Feb 2023 23:38 UTC

194 points

58 comments1 min readLW link

An AI risk argument that resonates with NYTimes readers

Julian Bradshaw12 Mar 2023 23:09 UTC

192 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Cognitive Emulation: A Naive AI Safety Proposal

Connor Leahy and Gabriel Alfour

25 Feb 2023 19:35 UTC

181 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

Deep Deceptiveness

So8res21 Mar 2023 2:51 UTC

181 points

27 comments14 min readLW link

Elements of Rationalist Discourse

Rob Bensinger12 Feb 2023 7:58 UTC

179 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

Anthropic’s Core Views on AI Safety

Zac Hatfield-Dodds9 Mar 2023 16:55 UTC

178 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

ChatGPT (and now GPT4) is very easily distracted from its rules

dmcs15 Mar 2023 17:55 UTC

174 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

AI alignment researchers don’t (seem to) stack

So8res21 Feb 2023 0:48 UTC

173 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

AI #1: Sydney and Bing

Zvi21 Feb 2023 14:00 UTC

169 points

44 comments61 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Alexander and Yudkowsky on AGI goals

Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky

24 Jan 2023 21:09 UTC

166 points

52 comments26 min readLW link

EigenKarma: trust at scale

Henrik Karlsson8 Feb 2023 18:52 UTC

161 points

45 comments5 min readLW link

My understanding of Anthropic strategy

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 15 Feb 2023 1:56 UTC

161 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Natural Abstractions: Key claims, Theorems, and Critiques

LawrenceC, Leon Lang and Erik Jenner

16 Mar 2023 16:37 UTC

161 points

13 comments45 min readLW link

[Link] A community alert about Ziz

DanielFilan24 Feb 2023 0:06 UTC

158 points

120 comments2 min readLW link

(medium.com)

$20 Million in NSF Grants for Safety Research

Dan H28 Feb 2023 4:44 UTC

153 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Big Mac Subsidy?

jefftk23 Feb 2023 4:00 UTC

151 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

GPT-4

nz14 Mar 2023 17:02 UTC

151 points

140 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

What a compute-centric framework says about AI takeoff speeds—draft report

Tom Davidson23 Jan 2023 4:02 UTC

149 points

24 comments16 min readLW link

Why Are Bacteria So Simple?

aysja6 Feb 2023 3:00 UTC

146 points

28 comments10 min readLW link

Gradient hacking is extremely difficult

beren24 Jan 2023 15:45 UTC

145 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Sapir-Whorf for Rationalists

Duncan_Sabien25 Jan 2023 7:58 UTC

145 points

47 comments19 min readLW link

Comments on OpenAI’s “Planning for AGI and beyond”

So8res3 Mar 2023 23:01 UTC

145 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

Parametrically retargetable decision-makers tend to seek power

TurnTrout18 Feb 2023 18:41 UTC

143 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Acausal normalcy

Andrew_Critch3 Mar 2023 23:34 UTC

143 points

28 comments8 min readLW link