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What 2025 looks like

Ruby1 May 2023 22:53 UTC

75 points

17 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] Natural Selection vs Gradient Descent

CuriousApe111 May 2023 22:16 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

A[I] Zombie Apocalypse Is Already Upon Us

NickHarris1 May 2023 22:02 UTC

−6 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Geoff Hinton Quits Google

Adam Shai1 May 2023 21:03 UTC

98 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

The Apprentice Thread 2

hath1 May 2023 20:09 UTC

50 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Budapest, Hungary – ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring 2023

Richard Horvath, Timothy Underwood and marta_k

1 May 2023 17:36 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

In favor of steelmanning

jp1 May 2023 17:12 UTC

36 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

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

OliviaJ, Rohin Shah, Connor Leahy and Andrea_Miotti

1 May 2023 16:47 UTC

94 points

10 comments30 min readLW link

Distinguishing misuse is difficult and uncomfortable

lukehmiles1 May 2023 16:23 UTC

17 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does agency necessarily imply self-preservation instinct?

Mislav Jurić1 May 2023 16:06 UTC

5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

What Boston Can Teach Us About What a Woman Is

ymeskhout1 May 2023 15:34 UTC

18 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

The Rocket Alignment Problem, Part 2

Zvi1 May 2023 14:30 UTC

40 points

20 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Socialist Democratic-Republic GAME: 12 Amendments to the Constitutions of the Free World

monkymind1 May 2023 13:13 UTC

−34 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where is all this evidence of UFOs?

Logan Zoellner1 May 2023 12:13 UTC

29 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong Community Weekend 2023 [Applications now closed]

Henry Prowbell1 May 2023 9:31 UTC

43 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

LessWrong Community Weekend 2023 [Applications now closed]

Henry Prowbell1 May 2023 9:08 UTC

89 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] In AI Risk what is the base model of the AI?

jmh1 May 2023 3:25 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Hell is Game Theory Folk Theorems

jessicata1 May 2023 3:16 UTC

81 points

101 comments5 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Safety standards: a framework for AI regulation

joshc1 May 2023 0:56 UTC

19 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

neuron spike computational capacity

bhauth1 May 2023 0:28 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Cult of Error

bayesyatina30 Apr 2023 23:33 UTC

5 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

How can one rationally have very high or very low probabilities of extinction in a pre-paradigmatic field?

shminux30 Apr 2023 21:53 UTC

39 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

A small update to the Sparse Coding interim research report

Lee Sharkey, Dan Braun and beren

30 Apr 2023 19:54 UTC

61 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Discussion about AI Safety funding (FB transcript)

Akash30 Apr 2023 19:05 UTC

75 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Support me in a Week-Long Picketing Campaign Near OpenAI’s HQ: Seeking Support and Ideas from the LessWrong Community

Percy30 Apr 2023 17:48 UTC

−26 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

money ≠ value

stonefly30 Apr 2023 17:47 UTC

2 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Vaccine Policies Need Updating

jefftk30 Apr 2023 17:20 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Fundamental Uncertainty: Chapter 7 - Why is truth useful?

Gordon Seidoh Worley30 Apr 2023 16:48 UTC

10 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Simulators Increase the Likelihood of Alignment by Default

Wuschel Schulz30 Apr 2023 16:32 UTC

13 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Connectomics seems great from an AI x-risk perspective

Steven Byrnes30 Apr 2023 14:38 UTC

92 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

The voyage of novelty

TsviBT30 Apr 2023 12:52 UTC

11 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Rationality Meetup Munich

Erich30 Apr 2023 8:28 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Call for submissions: Choice of Futures survey questions

c.trout30 Apr 2023 6:59 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(airtable.com)

The Unification of Physics and Metaphysics: 22 Axioms for All Existences

monkymind and GPT-4

30 Apr 2023 4:16 UTC

−42 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Forum Proposal: Karma Transfers

DirectedEvolution30 Apr 2023 0:34 UTC

20 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Accuracy of arguments that are seen as ridiculous and intuitively false but don’t have good counter-arguments

Christopher King29 Apr 2023 23:58 UTC

30 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief Introduction to ACI, 3.5: How ACI improves Active Inference

Akira Pyinya29 Apr 2023 23:51 UTC

−7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

A Guide to Forecasting AI Science Capabilities

Eleni Angelou29 Apr 2023 23:24 UTC

6 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(A Failed Approach) From Precedent to Utility Function

Akira Pyinya29 Apr 2023 21:55 UTC

0 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Biological DOOM: a brief overview of biological computation

Metacelsus29 Apr 2023 20:02 UTC

50 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

Horizontal vs vertical generality

tailcalled29 Apr 2023 19:14 UTC

10 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Which technologies are stuck on initial adoption?

Vanessa Kosoy29 Apr 2023 17:37 UTC

59 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

Will GPT-5 be able to self-improve?

Nathan Helm-Burger29 Apr 2023 17:34 UTC

18 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

Research agenda: Supervising AIs improving AIs

Quintin Pope, Owen D, Roman Engeler and jacquesthibs

29 Apr 2023 17:09 UTC

76 points

5 comments19 min readLW link

The Many Stories of Science

amayhew29 Apr 2023 16:49 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com)

One bit of observation can unlock many of optimization—but at what cost?

dr_s29 Apr 2023 10:53 UTC

42 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

[SEE NEW EDITS] No, You Need to Write Clearer

NicholasKross29 Apr 2023 5:04 UTC

254 points

64 comments5 min readLW link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Programming an IFS for alternate uses

SilverFlame29 Apr 2023 0:25 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Utopia for artificial minds

Ocracoke28 Apr 2023 22:52 UTC

6 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Locating Fulcrum Experiences

LoganStrohl28 Apr 2023 20:14 UTC

73 points

31 comments17 min readLW link