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(The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven’s big fundraiser

habryka30 Nov 2024 2:55 UTC

610 points

270 comments42 min readLW link

LessWrong’s (first) album: I Have Been A Good Bing

habryka and kave

1 Apr 2024 7:33 UTC

571 points

181 comments11 min readLW link

OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman and OpenAI blog)

habryka16 Nov 2024 6:38 UTC

531 points

80 comments51 min readLW link

Alignment Faking in Large Language Models

ryan_greenblatt, evhub, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright, Fabien Roger, Monte M, Sam Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Sam Bowman and Buck

18 Dec 2024 17:19 UTC

485 points

75 comments10 min readLW link

I would have shit in that alley, too

Declan Molony18 Jun 2024 4:41 UTC

462 points

134 comments4 min readLW link

The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject

Parker Conley31 Mar 2024 17:14 UTC

435 points

159 comments16 min readLW link

Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream

Adam Shai16 Apr 2024 21:16 UTC

425 points

100 comments12 min readLW link

Failures in Kindness

silentbob26 Mar 2024 21:30 UTC

421 points

60 comments9 min readLW link

How I got 4.2M YouTube views without making a single video

Closed Limelike Curves3 Sep 2024 3:52 UTC

396 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard

TracingWoodgrains10 Jul 2024 19:50 UTC

391 points

54 comments43 min readLW link

The hostile telepaths problem

Valentine27 Oct 2024 15:26 UTC

383 points

89 comments15 min readLW link

There is way too much serendipity

Malmesbury19 Jan 2024 19:37 UTC

378 points

57 comments7 min readLW link

My hour of memoryless lucidity

Eric Neyman4 May 2024 1:40 UTC

373 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Survival without dignity

L Rudolf L4 Nov 2024 2:29 UTC

370 points

29 comments15 min readLW link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

Review: Planecrash

L Rudolf L27 Dec 2024 14:18 UTC

360 points

45 comments22 min readLW link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

Notifications Received in 30 Minutes of Class

tanagrabeast26 May 2024 17:02 UTC

358 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

Safety isn’t safety without a social model (or: dispelling the myth of per se technical safety)

Andrew_Critch14 Jun 2024 0:16 UTC

357 points

38 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on seed oil

dynomight20 Apr 2024 12:29 UTC

357 points

130 comments17 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

[April Fools’ Day] Introducing Open Asteroid Impact

Linch1 Apr 2024 8:14 UTC

338 points

29 comments LW link

(openasteroidimpact.org)

Biological risk from the mirror world

jasoncrawford12 Dec 2024 19:07 UTC

334 points

38 comments7 min readLW link

(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

What Goes Without Saying

sarahconstantin20 Dec 2024 18:00 UTC

334 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

You don’t know how bad most things are nor precisely how they’re bad.

Solenoid_Entity4 Aug 2024 14:12 UTC

330 points

49 comments5 min readLW link

Universal Basic Income and Poverty

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jul 2024 7:23 UTC

328 points

141 comments9 min readLW link

MIRI 2024 Communications Strategy

Gretta Duleba29 May 2024 19:33 UTC

325 points

216 comments7 min readLW link

I got dysentery so you don’t have to

eukaryote22 Oct 2024 4:55 UTC

321 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Would catching your AIs trying to escape convince AI developers to slow down or undeploy?

Buck26 Aug 2024 16:46 UTC

316 points

77 comments4 min readLW link

Gentleness and the artificial Other

Joe Carlsmith2 Jan 2024 18:21 UTC

313 points

33 comments11 min readLW link

Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

evhub, Carson Denison, Meg, Monte M, David Duvenaud, Nicholas Schiefer and Ethan Perez

12 Jan 2024 19:51 UTC

305 points

95 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The Field of AI Alignment: A Postmortem, and What To Do About It

johnswentworth26 Dec 2024 18:48 UTC

302 points

160 comments8 min readLW link

Scale Was All We Needed, At First

Gabe M14 Feb 2024 1:49 UTC

295 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

(aiacumen.substack.com)

By default, capital will matter more than ever after AGI

L Rudolf L28 Dec 2024 17:52 UTC

290 points

101 comments16 min readLW link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

My AI Model Delta Compared To Yudkowsky

johnswentworth10 Jun 2024 16:12 UTC

289 points

103 comments4 min readLW link

Non-Disparagement Canaries for OpenAI

aysja and Adam Scholl

30 May 2024 19:20 UTC

288 points

51 comments2 min readLW link

The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

Zvi11 Nov 2024 14:30 UTC

286 points

59 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Orienting to 3 year AGI timelines

Nikola Jurkovic22 Dec 2024 1:15 UTC

281 points

51 comments8 min readLW link

Overview of strong human intelligence amplification methods

TsviBT8 Oct 2024 8:37 UTC

280 points

146 comments10 min readLW link

Raising children on the eve of AI

juliawise15 Feb 2024 21:28 UTC

277 points

47 comments5 min readLW link

The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled

ryan_greenblatt and Buck

24 Jan 2024 16:11 UTC

276 points

73 comments28 min readLW link

Laziness death spirals

PatrickDFarley19 Sep 2024 15:58 UTC

276 points

40 comments8 min readLW link

The Great Data Integration Schlep

sarahconstantin13 Sep 2024 15:40 UTC

275 points

19 comments9 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

Raemon3 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC

274 points

71 comments LW link

“No-one in my org puts money in their pension”

Tobes16 Feb 2024 18:33 UTC

272 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

(seekingtobejolly.substack.com)

On green

Joe Carlsmith21 Mar 2024 17:38 UTC

269 points

35 comments31 min readLW link

Express interest in an “FHI of the West”

habryka18 Apr 2024 3:32 UTC

268 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

Leaving MIRI, Seeking Funding

abramdemski8 Aug 2024 18:32 UTC

264 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o

ryan_greenblatt17 Jun 2024 18:44 UTC

263 points

50 comments13 min readLW link

the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated

nostalgebraist29 Sep 2024 22:07 UTC

263 points

43 comments11 min readLW link

My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology

Eric Neyman16 Mar 2024 22:56 UTC

262 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Paul Christiano named as US AI Safety Institute Head of AI Safety

Joel Burget16 Apr 2024 16:22 UTC

256 points

58 comments1 min readLW link

(www.commerce.gov)

The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay

J Bostock10 Sep 2024 17:34 UTC

255 points

15 comments5 min readLW link