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My hour of memoryless lucidity

Eric Neyman4 May 2024 1:40 UTC

335 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Notifications Received in 30 Minutes of Class

tanagrabeast26 May 2024 17:02 UTC

265 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike resign from OpenAI [updated]

Zach Stein-Perlman15 May 2024 0:45 UTC

246 points

95 comments3 min readLW link

AI companies aren’t really using external evaluators

Zach Stein-Perlman24 May 2024 16:01 UTC

239 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

MIRI 2024 Communications Strategy

Gretta Duleba29 May 2024 19:33 UTC

217 points

84 comments7 min readLW link

Jaan Tallinn’s 2023 Philanthropy Overview

jaan20 May 2024 12:11 UTC

194 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(jaan.info)

Maybe Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust is powerless

Zach Stein-Perlman27 May 2024 13:00 UTC

189 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?

ozziegooen21 May 2024 2:22 UTC

187 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI: Fallout

Zvi28 May 2024 13:20 UTC

185 points

19 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Truthseeking is the ground in which other principles grow

Elizabeth27 May 2024 1:09 UTC

168 points

9 comments16 min readLW link

DeepMind’s “Frontier Safety Framework” is weak and unambitious

Zach Stein-Perlman18 May 2024 3:00 UTC

157 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Dyslucksia

Shoshannah Tekofsky9 May 2024 19:21 UTC

150 points

43 comments6 min readLW link

Deep Honesty

Aletheophile7 May 2024 20:31 UTC

148 points

25 comments9 min readLW link

Language Models Model Us

eggsyntax17 May 2024 21:00 UTC

143 points

43 comments7 min readLW link

OpenAI: Exodus

Zvi20 May 2024 13:10 UTC

141 points

26 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Do you believe in hundred dollar bills lying on the ground? Consider humming

Elizabeth16 May 2024 0:00 UTC

129 points

21 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

EIS XIII: Reflections on Anthropic’s SAE Research Circa May 2024

scasper21 May 2024 20:15 UTC

127 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

introduction to cancer vaccines

bhauth5 May 2024 1:06 UTC

112 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

[Question] Which skincare products are evidence-based?

Vanessa Kosoy2 May 2024 15:22 UTC

109 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

Talent Needs of Technical AI Safety Teams

yams, Carson Jones, McKennaFitzgerald and Ryan Kidd

24 May 2024 0:36 UTC

104 points

62 comments14 min readLW link

The Local Interaction Basis: Identifying Computationally-Relevant and Sparsely Interacting Features in Neural Networks

Lucius Bushnaq, jake_mendel, Dan Braun, StefanHex, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, Kaarel, Avery, Joern Stoehler, debrevitatevitae, Magdalena Wache and Marius Hobbhahn

20 May 2024 17:53 UTC

101 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Advice for Activists from the History of Environmentalism

Jeffrey Heninger16 May 2024 18:40 UTC

98 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Explaining a Math Magic Trick

Robert_AIZI5 May 2024 19:41 UTC

95 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Key takeaways from our EA and alignment research surveys

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, florin_pop and AE Studio

3 May 2024 18:10 UTC

94 points

10 comments21 min readLW link

I am the Golden Gate Bridge

Zvi27 May 2024 14:40 UTC

91 points

6 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Uncovering Deceptive Tendencies in Language Models: A Simulated Company AI Assistant

Olli Järviniemi and evhub

6 May 2024 7:07 UTC

88 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Review: Conor Moreton’s “Civilization & Cooperation”

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien26 May 2024 19:32 UTC

87 points

8 comments38 min readLW link

Teaching CS During Take-Off

andrew carle14 May 2024 22:45 UTC

86 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Apollo Research 1-year update

Marius Hobbhahn, Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, StefanHex, jake_mendel, AlexMeinke and rusheb

29 May 2024 17:44 UTC

85 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Environmentalism in the United States Is Unusually Partisan

Jeffrey Heninger13 May 2024 21:23 UTC

84 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Value Claims (In Particular) Are Usually Bullshit

johnswentworth30 May 2024 6:26 UTC

83 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

“AI Safety for Fleshy Humans” an AI Safety explainer by Nicky Case

habryka3 May 2024 18:10 UTC

83 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

(aisafety.dance)

The Pearly Gates

lsusr30 May 2024 4:01 UTC

82 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

We might be missing some key feature of AI takeoff; it’ll probably seem like “we could’ve seen this coming”

Lukas_Gloor9 May 2024 15:43 UTC

82 points

36 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How to get nerds fascinated about mysterious chronic illness research?

riceissa27 May 2024 22:58 UTC

80 points

37 comments2 min readLW link

AISafety.com – Resources for AI Safety

Søren Elverlin, plex, Bryce Robertson and Melissa Samworth

17 May 2024 15:57 UTC

79 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s May 2024 Newsletter

Harlan15 May 2024 0:13 UTC

79 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

MATS Winter 2023-24 Retrospective

Rocket, LauraVaughan, McKennaFitzgerald, Christian Smith, Juan Gil, Henry Sleight, Matthew Wearden and Ryan Kidd

11 May 2024 0:09 UTC

78 points

28 comments49 min readLW link

My thesis (Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology) explained in more depth

Eric Neyman9 May 2024 19:43 UTC

78 points

4 comments27 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

ACX Covid Origins Post convinced readers

ErnestScribbler1 May 2024 13:06 UTC

77 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Non-Disparagement Canaries for OpenAI

aysja and Adam Scholl

30 May 2024 19:20 UTC

77 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

New voluntary commitments (AI Seoul Summit)

Zach Stein-Perlman21 May 2024 11:00 UTC

75 points

17 comments7 min readLW link

(www.gov.uk)

Q&A on Proposed SB 1047

Zvi2 May 2024 15:10 UTC

74 points

6 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On Dwarkesh’s Podcast with OpenAI’s John Schulman

Zvi21 May 2024 17:30 UTC

73 points

4 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AXRP Episode 31 - Singular Learning Theory with Daniel Murfet

DanielFilan7 May 2024 3:50 UTC

73 points

4 comments71 min readLW link

Hardshipification

Jonathan Moregård28 May 2024 20:02 UTC

73 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

LessWrong Community Weekend 2024, open for applications

UnplannedCauliflower and jt

1 May 2024 10:18 UTC

68 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Response to nostalgebraist: proudly waving my moral-antirealist battle flag

Steven Byrnes29 May 2024 16:48 UTC

67 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson

Zvi22 May 2024 15:10 UTC

65 points

7 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Introducing AI-Powered Audiobooks of Rational Fiction Classics

Askwho4 May 2024 17:32 UTC

65 points

13 comments1 min readLW link