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How much do you believe your results?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC

515 points

18 comments15 min readLW link 4 reviews

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector

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

13 May 2023 18:42 UTC

439 points

98 comments50 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)

How to have Polygenically Screened Children

GeneSmith7 May 2023 16:01 UTC

368 points

128 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

Book Review: How Minds Change

bc4026bd4aaa5b7fe25 May 2023 17:55 UTC

327 points

53 comments15 min readLW link

Predictable updating about AI risk

Joe Carlsmith8 May 2023 21:53 UTC

295 points

25 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

My May 2023 priorities for AI x-safety: more empathy, more unification of concerns, and less vilification of OpenAI

Andrew_Critch24 May 2023 0:02 UTC

268 points

39 comments8 min readLW link

Mental Health and the Alignment Problem: A Compilation of Resources (updated April 2023)

Chris Scammell and DivineMango

10 May 2023 19:04 UTC

266 points

54 comments21 min readLW link

Announcing Apollo Research

Marius Hobbhahn, beren, Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Mikita Balesni and Jérémy Scheurer

30 May 2023 16:17 UTC

217 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Twiblings, four-parent babies and other reproductive technology

GeneSmith20 May 2023 17:11 UTC

192 points

33 comments6 min readLW link

When is Goodhart catastrophic?

Drake Thomas and Thomas Kwa

9 May 2023 3:59 UTC

180 points

30 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Decision Theory with the Magic Parts Highlighted

moridinamael16 May 2023 17:39 UTC

175 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

Prizes for matrix completion problems

paulfchristiano3 May 2023 23:30 UTC

164 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Conjecture internal survey: AGI timelines and probability of human extinction from advanced AI

Maris Sala22 May 2023 14:31 UTC

155 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(www.conjecture.dev)

Request: stop advancing AI capabilities

So8res26 May 2023 17:42 UTC

154 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Advice for newly busy people

Severin T. Seehrich11 May 2023 16:46 UTC

149 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

New User’s Guide to LessWrong

Ruby17 May 2023 0:55 UTC

149 points

59 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Dark Forest Theories

Raemon12 May 2023 20:21 UTC

148 points

54 comments2 min readLW link 2 reviews

A brief collection of Hinton’s recent comments on AGI risk

Kaj_Sotala4 May 2023 23:31 UTC

148 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

Sentience matters

So8res29 May 2023 21:25 UTC

144 points

96 comments2 min readLW link

Clarifying and predicting AGI

Richard_Ngo4 May 2023 15:55 UTC

142 points

45 comments4 min readLW link

LeCun’s “A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence” has an unsolved technical alignment problem

Steven Byrnes8 May 2023 19:35 UTC

140 points

37 comments15 min readLW link

Trust develops gradually via making bids and setting boundaries

Richard_Ngo19 May 2023 22:16 UTC

135 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

From fear to excitement

Richard_Ngo15 May 2023 6:23 UTC

134 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

AGI safety career advice

Richard_Ngo2 May 2023 7:36 UTC

132 points

24 comments13 min readLW link

Some background for reasoning about dual-use alignment research

Charlie Steiner18 May 2023 14:50 UTC

126 points

22 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC

122 points

29 comments13 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Solving the Mechanistic Interpretability challenges: EIS VII Challenge 1

StefanHex and Marius Hobbhahn

9 May 2023 19:41 UTC

119 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Investigating Fabrication

LoganStrohl18 May 2023 17:46 UTC

113 points

14 comments16 min readLW link

Retrospective: Lessons from the Failed Alignment Startup AISafety.com

Søren Elverlin12 May 2023 18:07 UTC

105 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

AI Safety in China: Part 2

Lao Mein22 May 2023 14:50 UTC

103 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

Bayesian Networks Aren’t Necessarily Causal

Zack_M_Davis14 May 2023 1:42 UTC

103 points

38 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Open Thread With Experimental Feature: Reactions

jimrandomh24 May 2023 16:46 UTC

101 points

189 comments3 min readLW link

A Case for the Least Forgiving Take On Alignment

Thane Ruthenis2 May 2023 21:34 UTC

100 points

85 comments22 min readLW link

Geoff Hinton Quits Google

Adam Shai1 May 2023 21:03 UTC

98 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Judgments often smuggle in implicit standards

Richard_Ngo15 May 2023 18:50 UTC

97 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Shah (DeepMind) and Leahy (Conjecture) Discuss Alignment Cruxes

Olive Branch, Rohin Shah, Connor Leahy and Andrea_Miotti

1 May 2023 16:47 UTC

96 points

10 comments30 min readLW link

Most people should probably feel safe most of the time

Kaj_Sotala9 May 2023 9:35 UTC

95 points

28 comments10 min readLW link

What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?

jasoncrawford17 May 2023 19:41 UTC

94 points

10 comments19 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

DeepMind: Model evaluation for extreme risks

Zach Stein-Perlman25 May 2023 3:00 UTC

94 points

12 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(arxiv.org)

Why are we so complacent about AI hell?

Dawn Drescher11 May 2023 9:19 UTC

94 points

101 comments1 min readLW link

Input Swap Graphs: Discovering the role of neural network components at scale

Alexandre Variengien12 May 2023 9:41 UTC

92 points

0 comments33 min readLW link

An Analogy for Understanding Transformers

CallumMcDougall13 May 2023 12:20 UTC

92 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

 Yoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs may Arise

harfe23 May 2023 18:28 UTC

92 points

12 comments18 min readLW link

(yoshuabengio.org)

An artificially structured argument for expecting AGI ruin

Rob Bensinger7 May 2023 21:52 UTC

91 points

26 comments19 min readLW link

Coercion is an adaptation to scarcity; trust is an adaptation to abundance

Richard_Ngo23 May 2023 18:14 UTC

90 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

The bullseye framework: My case against AI doom

titotal30 May 2023 11:52 UTC

89 points

35 comments17 min readLW link

How I apply (so-called) Non-Violent Communication

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2023 9:56 UTC

89 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong Community Weekend 2023 [Applications now closed]

Henry Prowbell1 May 2023 9:08 UTC

89 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Reacts now enabled on 100% of posts, though still just experimenting

Ruby28 May 2023 5:36 UTC

88 points

73 comments2 min readLW link