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Scale Was All We Needed, At First

Gabe M14 Feb 2024 1:49 UTC

263 points

31 comments8 min readLW link

(aiacumen.substack.com)

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

Tobes16 Feb 2024 18:33 UTC

243 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

(seekingtobejolly.substack.com)

Brute Force Manufactured Consensus is Hiding the Crime of the Century

Roko3 Feb 2024 20:36 UTC

220 points

156 comments9 min readLW link

CFAR Takeaways: Andrew Critch

Raemon14 Feb 2024 1:37 UTC

213 points

62 comments5 min readLW link

Believing In

AnnaSalamon8 Feb 2024 7:06 UTC

212 points

49 comments13 min readLW link

Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

garrison10 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC

198 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Contra Ngo et al. “Every ‘Every Bay Area House Party’ Bay Area House Party”

Ricki Heicklen22 Feb 2024 23:56 UTC

184 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

Every “Every Bay Area House Party” Bay Area House Party

Richard_Ngo16 Feb 2024 18:53 UTC

174 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Timaeus’s First Four Months

Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Stan van Wingerden and Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

28 Feb 2024 17:01 UTC

167 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

2023 Survey Results

Screwtape16 Feb 2024 22:24 UTC

150 points

26 comments44 min readLW link

Raising children on the eve of AI

juliawise15 Feb 2024 21:28 UTC

147 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Masterpiece

Richard_Ngo13 Feb 2024 23:10 UTC

147 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

And All the Shoggoths Merely Players

Zack_M_Davis10 Feb 2024 19:56 UTC

139 points

57 comments12 min readLW link

Updatelessness doesn’t solve most problems

Martín Soto8 Feb 2024 17:30 UTC

124 points

43 comments12 min readLW link

Things I’ve Grieved

Raemon18 Feb 2024 19:32 UTC

121 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Rationality Research Report: Towards 10x OODA Looping?

Raemon24 Feb 2024 21:06 UTC

112 points

21 comments15 min readLW link

The Pareto Best and the Curse of Doom

Screwtape21 Feb 2024 23:10 UTC

108 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

Attitudes about Applied Rationality

Camille Berger 3 Feb 2024 14:42 UTC

108 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

New LessWrong review winner UI (“The LeastWrong” section and full-art post pages)

kave28 Feb 2024 2:42 UTC

105 points

63 comments1 min readLW link

Skills I’d like my collaborators to have

Raemon9 Feb 2024 8:20 UTC

103 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

A Chess-GPT Linear Emergent World Representation

karvonenadam8 Feb 2024 4:25 UTC

102 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

(adamkarvonen.github.io)

Counting arguments provide no evidence for AI doom

Nora Belrose and Quintin Pope

27 Feb 2024 23:03 UTC

99 points

177 comments14 min readLW link

Lsusr’s Rationality Dojo

lsusr13 Feb 2024 5:52 UTC

97 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA)

James Fox, mike_safeAI and Ryan Kidd

2 Feb 2024 23:17 UTC

96 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Ideological Bayesians

Kevin Dorst25 Feb 2024 14:17 UTC

95 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(kevindorst.substack.com)

Open Source Sparse Autoencoders for all Residual Stream Layers of GPT2-Small

Joseph Bloom2 Feb 2024 6:54 UTC

94 points

37 comments15 min readLW link

OpenAI’s Sora is an agent

CBiddulph16 Feb 2024 7:35 UTC

93 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Dreams of AI alignment: The danger of suggestive names

TurnTrout10 Feb 2024 1:22 UTC

91 points

58 comments4 min readLW link

My cover story in Jacobin on AI capitalism and the x-risk debates

garrison12 Feb 2024 23:34 UTC

91 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(jacobin.com)

How to train your own “Sleeper Agents”

evhub7 Feb 2024 0:31 UTC

91 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Everything Wrong with Roko’s Claims about an Engineered Pandemic

EZ9722 Feb 2024 15:59 UTC

90 points

10 comments16 min readLW link

story-based decision-making

bhauth7 Feb 2024 2:35 UTC

88 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

More Hyphenation

Arjun Panickssery7 Feb 2024 19:43 UTC

87 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers

Akbir Khan, John Hughes, Dan Valentine, Sam Bowman and Ethan Perez

7 Feb 2024 21:28 UTC

87 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

How well do truth probes generalise?

mishajw24 Feb 2024 14:12 UTC

87 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

AI #51: Altman’s Ambition

Zvi20 Feb 2024 19:50 UTC

83 points

5 comments38 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Retirement Accounts and Short Timelines

jefftk19 Feb 2024 18:50 UTC

83 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Things You’re Allowed to Do: University Edition

Saul Munn6 Feb 2024 0:36 UTC

82 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

(www.brasstacks.blog)

Addressing Feature Suppression in SAEs

Benjamin Wright and Lee Sharkey

16 Feb 2024 18:32 UTC

80 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

The Gemini Incident

Zvi22 Feb 2024 21:00 UTC

80 points

19 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Attention SAEs Scale to GPT-2 Small

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

3 Feb 2024 6:50 UTC

76 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

My guess at Conjecture’s vision: triggering a narrative bifurcation

Alexandre Variengien6 Feb 2024 19:10 UTC

74 points

12 comments16 min readLW link

The One and a Half Gemini

Zvi22 Feb 2024 13:10 UTC

73 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Analogies between scaling labs and misaligned superintelligent AI

scasper21 Feb 2024 19:29 UTC

72 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Survey for alignment researchers!

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt and AE Studio

2 Feb 2024 20:41 UTC

71 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Do sparse autoencoders find “true features”?

Demian Till22 Feb 2024 18:06 UTC

70 points

33 comments11 min readLW link

Davidad’s Provably Safe AI Architecture—ARIA’s Programme Thesis

simeon_c1 Feb 2024 21:30 UTC

69 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.aria.org.uk)

Most experts believe COVID-19 was probably not a lab leak

DanielFilan2 Feb 2024 19:28 UTC

66 points

89 comments2 min readLW link

(gcrinstitute.org)

On the Debate Between Jezos and Leahy

Zvi6 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC

64 points

6 comments63 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Preventing model exfiltration with upload limits

ryan_greenblatt6 Feb 2024 16:29 UTC

63 points

16 comments14 min readLW link