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The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC

416 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

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

jenn1 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC

387 points

34 comments8 min readLW link

(jenn.site)

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

titotal28 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC

293 points

79 comments7 min readLW link

(titotal.substack.com)

Guide to rationalist interior decorating

mingyuan19 Jun 2023 6:47 UTC

268 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

The Base Rate Times, news through prediction markets

vandemonian6 Jun 2023 17:42 UTC

267 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

Munk AI debate: confusions and possible cruxes

Steven Byrnes27 Jun 2023 14:18 UTC

244 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

UFO Betting: Put Up or Shut Up

RatsWrongAboutUAP13 Jun 2023 4:05 UTC

231 points

207 comments2 min readLW link

Lessons On How To Get Things Right On The First Try

johnswentworth and David Lorell

19 Jun 2023 23:58 UTC

228 points

56 comments10 min readLW link

Launching Lightspeed Grants (Apply by July 6th)

habryka7 Jun 2023 2:53 UTC

211 points

41 comments5 min readLW link

Lightcone Infrastructure/LessWrong is looking for funding

habryka14 Jun 2023 4:45 UTC

202 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model

likenneth11 Jun 2023 5:38 UTC

195 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Updates and Reflections on Optimal Exercise after Nearly a Decade

romeostevensit8 Jun 2023 23:02 UTC

187 points

55 comments2 min readLW link

What will GPT-2030 look like?

jsteinhardt7 Jun 2023 23:40 UTC

182 points

42 comments23 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

My tentative best guess on how EAs and Rationalists sometimes turn crazy

habryka21 Jun 2023 4:11 UTC

180 points

106 comments8 min readLW link

Another medical miracle

Dentin25 Jun 2023 20:43 UTC

177 points

45 comments3 min readLW link

I still think it’s very unlikely we’re observing alien aircraft

dynomight15 Jun 2023 13:01 UTC

176 points

68 comments5 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

LLMs Sometimes Generate Purely Negatively-Reinforced Text

Fabien Roger16 Jun 2023 16:31 UTC

175 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

The Dial of Progress

Zvi13 Jun 2023 13:40 UTC

159 points

117 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?

eukaryote25 Jun 2023 4:31 UTC

158 points

28 comments13 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes

Elizabeth1 Jun 2023 17:10 UTC

147 points

82 comments19 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

My side of an argument with Jacob Cannell about chip interconnect losses

Steven Byrnes21 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC

144 points

11 comments11 min readLW link

Algorithmic Improvement Is Probably Faster Than Scaling Now

johnswentworth6 Jun 2023 2:57 UTC

136 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Yudkowsky vs Hanson on FOOM: Whose Predictions Were Better?

1a3orn1 Jun 2023 19:36 UTC

132 points

73 comments24 min readLW link

Why Not Subagents?

johnswentworth and David Lorell

22 Jun 2023 22:16 UTC

130 points

36 comments14 min readLW link

The Hubinger lectures on AGI safety: an introductory lecture series

evhub22 Jun 2023 0:59 UTC

126 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

ARC is hiring theoretical researchers

paulfchristiano, Jacob_Hilton and Mark Xu

12 Jun 2023 18:50 UTC

126 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Think carefully before calling RL policies “agents”

TurnTrout2 Jun 2023 3:46 UTC

124 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

AI #14: A Very Good Sentence

Zvi1 Jun 2023 21:30 UTC

118 points

30 comments65 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Did Bengio and Tegmark lose a debate about AI x-risk against LeCun and Mitchell?

Karl von Wendt25 Jun 2023 16:59 UTC

107 points

52 comments7 min readLW link

Model, Care, Execution

Ricki Heicklen and AvitalM

26 Jun 2023 4:05 UTC

104 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

Short Remark on the (subjective) mathematical ‘naturalness’ of the Nanda—Lieberum addition modulo 113 algorithm

Spencer Becker-Kahn1 Jun 2023 11:31 UTC

104 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Work dumber not smarter

lukehmiles1 Jun 2023 12:40 UTC

95 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

AI #17: The Litany

Zvi22 Jun 2023 14:30 UTC

95 points

31 comments56 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Takeaways from the Mechanistic Interpretability Challenges

scasper8 Jun 2023 18:56 UTC

93 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

60+ Possible Futures

Bart Bussmann26 Jun 2023 9:16 UTC

92 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

A Playbook for AI Risk Reduction (focused on misaligned AI)

HoldenKarnofsky6 Jun 2023 18:05 UTC

90 points

41 comments14 min readLW link

Outreach success: Intro to AI risk that has been successful

Michael Tontchev1 Jun 2023 23:12 UTC

83 points

8 comments74 min readLW link

(medium.com)

When is correlation transitive?

Ege Erdil23 Jun 2023 16:09 UTC

83 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Public Transit is not Infinitely Safe

jefftk20 Jun 2023 18:40 UTC

83 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

My guess for why I was wrong about US housing

romeostevensit14 Jun 2023 0:37 UTC

81 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Carl Shulman on The Lunar Society (7 hour, two-part podcast)

ESRogs28 Jun 2023 1:23 UTC

79 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Ethodynamics of Omelas

dr_s10 Jun 2023 16:24 UTC

78 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

A mind needn’t be curious to reap the benefits of curiosity

So8res2 Jun 2023 18:00 UTC

78 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Automatic Rate Limiting on LessWrong

Raemon23 Jun 2023 20:19 UTC

78 points

33 comments7 min readLW link

DSLT 0. Distilling Singular Learning Theory

Liam Carroll16 Jun 2023 9:50 UTC

76 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Rational Animations is looking for an AI Safety scriptwriter, a lead community manager, and other roles.

Writer16 Jun 2023 9:41 UTC

74 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

AI #15: The Principle of Charity

Zvi8 Jun 2023 12:10 UTC

73 points

16 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A comparison of causal scrubbing, causal abstractions, and related methods

Erik Jenner, Adrià Garriga-alonso and Egor Zverev

8 Jun 2023 23:40 UTC

72 points

3 comments22 min readLW link

A plea for solutionism on AI safety

jasoncrawford9 Jun 2023 16:29 UTC

72 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Cultivate an obsession with the object level

Richard_Ngo7 Jun 2023 1:39 UTC

70 points

4 comments3 min readLW link