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

habryka16 Nov 2024 6:38 UTC

540 points

82 comments51 min readLW link

Survival without dignity

L Rudolf L4 Nov 2024 2:29 UTC

397 points

30 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

Zvi11 Nov 2024 14:30 UTC

290 points

61 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ayn Rand’s model of “living money”; and an upside of burnout

AnnaSalamon16 Nov 2024 2:59 UTC

244 points

64 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

You are not too “irrational” to know your preferences.

DaystarEld26 Nov 2024 15:01 UTC

240 points

63 comments13 min readLW link

Making a conservative case for alignment

Cameron Berg, Kvee, phgubbins and Trent Hodgeson

15 Nov 2024 18:55 UTC

208 points

67 comments7 min readLW link

“It’s a 10% chance which I did 10 times, so it should be 100%”

egor.timatkov18 Nov 2024 1:14 UTC

170 points

61 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

The Median Researcher Problem

johnswentworth2 Nov 2024 20:16 UTC

167 points

73 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

Why Don’t We Just… Shoggoth+Face+Paraphraser?

Daniel Kokotajlo and abramdemski

19 Nov 2024 20:53 UTC

164 points

59 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

o1 is a bad idea

abramdemski11 Nov 2024 21:20 UTC

163 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

Current safety training techniques do not fully transfer to the agent setting

Simon Lermen and fidgetsinner

3 Nov 2024 19:24 UTC

162 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

Neutrality

sarahconstantin13 Nov 2024 23:10 UTC

162 points

29 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Repeal the Jones Act of 1920

Zvi27 Nov 2024 15:00 UTC

156 points

28 comments39 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race

garrison20 Nov 2024 18:17 UTC

145 points

44 comments5 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Passages I Highlighted in The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien

Ivan Vendrov25 Nov 2024 1:47 UTC

144 points

39 comments31 min readLW link

[Question] Which things were you surprised to learn are not metaphors?

Eric Neyman21 Nov 2024 18:56 UTC

140 points

91 comments1 min readLW link

“The Solomonoff Prior is Malign” is a special case of a simpler argument

David Matolcsi17 Nov 2024 21:32 UTC

131 points

46 comments12 min readLW link

Anvil Shortage

Screwtape13 Nov 2024 22:57 UTC

126 points

19 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

LucaRighetti21 Nov 2024 17:28 UTC

124 points

7 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

Scissors Statements for President?

AnnaSalamon6 Nov 2024 10:38 UTC

122 points

34 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

The Big Nonprofits Post

Zvi29 Nov 2024 16:10 UTC

120 points

10 comments45 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Hierarchical Agency: A Missing Piece in AI Alignment

Jan_Kulveit27 Nov 2024 5:49 UTC

117 points

23 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Should CA, TX, OK, and LA merge into a giant swing state, just for elections?

Thomas Kwa6 Nov 2024 23:01 UTC

116 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

You should consider applying to PhDs (soon!)

bilalchughtai29 Nov 2024 20:33 UTC

115 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

DeepSeek beats o1-preview on math, ties on coding; will release weights

Zach Stein-Perlman20 Nov 2024 23:50 UTC

113 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing turntrout.com, my new digital home

TurnTrout17 Nov 2024 17:42 UTC

108 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)

Science advances one funeral at a time

Cameron Berg, Kvee, Diogo de Lucena and Trent Hodgeson

1 Nov 2024 23:06 UTC

100 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Bigger Livers?

sarahconstantin8 Nov 2024 21:50 UTC

99 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day

Eric Neyman14 Nov 2024 18:39 UTC

99 points

33 comments13 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Anthropic: Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components

Zach Stein-Perlman6 Nov 2024 16:00 UTC

96 points

35 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(alignment.anthropic.com)

LLMs Look Increasingly Like General Reasoners

eggsyntax8 Nov 2024 23:47 UTC

94 points

45 comments3 min readLW link

Zvi’s Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF

Zvi20 Nov 2024 13:40 UTC

92 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Dentistry, Oral Surgeons, and the Inefficiency of Small Markets

GeneSmith1 Nov 2024 17:26 UTC

90 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

A very strange probability paradox

Terence Coelho22 Nov 2024 14:01 UTC

90 points

28 comments9 min readLW link

(Salt) Water Gargling as an Antiviral

Elizabeth22 Nov 2024 18:00 UTC

88 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Gwern Branwen interview on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast: “How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI’s Trajectory”

Said Achmiz14 Nov 2024 23:53 UTC

87 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

LLM chatbots have ~half of the kinds of “consciousness” that humans believe in. Humans should avoid going crazy about that.

Andrew_Critch22 Nov 2024 3:26 UTC

86 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

Neuroscience of human social instincts: a sketch

Steven Byrnes22 Nov 2024 16:16 UTC

86 points

10 comments31 min readLW link 1 review

A Straightforward Explanation of the Good Regulator Theorem

Alfred Harwood18 Nov 2024 12:45 UTC

86 points

29 comments14 min readLW link

JargonBot Beta Test

Raemon1 Nov 2024 1:05 UTC

84 points

55 comments6 min readLW link

Graceful Degradation

Screwtape5 Nov 2024 23:57 UTC

84 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Is Deep Learning Actually Hitting a Wall? Evaluating Ilya Sutskever’s Recent Claims

garrison13 Nov 2024 17:00 UTC

84 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

[Question] What are the good rationality films?

Ben Pace20 Nov 2024 6:04 UTC

83 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

The Third Fundamental Question

Screwtape15 Nov 2024 4:01 UTC

83 points

16 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

AI #92: Behind the Curve

Zvi28 Nov 2024 14:40 UTC

82 points

7 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Intuitive self-models] 8. Rooting Out Free Will Intuitions

Steven Byrnes4 Nov 2024 18:16 UTC

78 points

20 comments24 min readLW link

“Map of AI Futures”—An interactive flowchart

swante27 Nov 2024 21:31 UTC

78 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(swantescholz.github.io)

The Packaging and the Payload

Screwtape12 Nov 2024 3:07 UTC

77 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Secular Solstice Round Up 2024

dspeyer21 Nov 2024 10:49 UTC

77 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe Rogero20 Nov 2024 21:32 UTC

77 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(subatomicarticles.com)