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So You Want To Make Marginal Progress...

johnswentworth7 Feb 2025 23:22 UTC

298 points

42 comments4 min readLW link

Reasons-based choice and cluelessness

JesseClifton7 Feb 2025 22:21 UTC

34 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

[Translation] In the Age of AI don’t Look for Unicorns

mushroomsoup7 Feb 2025 21:06 UTC

3 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Racing Towards Fusion and AI

Jeffrey Heninger7 Feb 2025 20:40 UTC

49 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

‘High-Level Machine Intelligence’ and ‘Full Automation of Labor’ in the AI Impacts Surveys

Jeffrey Heninger7 Feb 2025 20:40 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Request for Information for a new US AI Action Plan (OSTP RFI)

agucova7 Feb 2025 20:40 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.federalregister.gov)

A Problem to Solve Before Building a Deception Detector

Eleni Angelou and lewis smith

7 Feb 2025 19:35 UTC

76 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

Request for proposals: improving capability evaluations

cb7 Feb 2025 18:51 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

joshc7 Feb 2025 17:10 UTC

432 points

140 comments29 min readLW link

(x.com)

the devil’s ontology

lostinwilliamsburg7 Feb 2025 14:18 UTC

−1 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

On the Meta and DeepMind Safety Frameworks

Zvi7 Feb 2025 13:10 UTC

45 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Illusory Safety: Redteaming DeepSeek R1 and the Strongest Fine-Tunable Models of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google

ChengCheng, Brendan Murphy, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Yashvardhan Sharma, dsbowen, smallsilo, Yawen Duan, ChrisCundy, Hannah Betts, AdamGleave and Kellin Pelrine

7 Feb 2025 3:57 UTC

37 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

When you downvote, explain why

KvmanThinking7 Feb 2025 1:03 UTC

5 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Medical Windfall Prizes

PeterMcCluskey6 Feb 2025 23:33 UTC

5 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Do No Harm? Navigating and Nudging AI Moral Choices

Sinem, pandelis and Adam Newgas

6 Feb 2025 19:18 UTC

11 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Open Philanthropy Technical AI Safety RFP - $40M Available Across 21 Research Areas

jake_mendel, maxnadeau and Peter Favaloro

6 Feb 2025 18:58 UTC

111 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

AISN #47: Reasoning Models

Corin Katzke and Dan H

6 Feb 2025 18:52 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Wild Animal Suffering Is The Worst Thing In The World

Bentham's Bulldog6 Feb 2025 16:15 UTC

26 points

18 comments7 min readLW link

Detecting Strategic Deception Using Linear Probes

Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, bilalchughtai, StefanHex and Marius Hobbhahn

6 Feb 2025 15:46 UTC

104 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

AI #102: Made in America

Zvi6 Feb 2025 14:20 UTC

26 points

18 comments67 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Biology, Ideology and Violence

Zero Contradictions6 Feb 2025 11:26 UTC

−3 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

MATS Applications + Research Directions I’m Currently Excited About

Neel Nanda6 Feb 2025 11:03 UTC

73 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

Don’t go bankrupt, don’t go rogue

Nathan Young6 Feb 2025 10:31 UTC

20 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Voting Results for the 2023 Review

Raemon6 Feb 2025 8:00 UTC

86 points

3 comments69 min readLW link

Chicanery: No

Screwtape6 Feb 2025 5:42 UTC

31 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] hypnosis question

KvmanThinking6 Feb 2025 2:41 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

BIDA Calendar iCal Feed

jefftk6 Feb 2025 1:30 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

C’mon guys, Deliberate Practice is Real

Raemon5 Feb 2025 22:33 UTC

99 points

25 comments9 min readLW link

The Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AI

Zvi5 Feb 2025 22:10 UTC

87 points

20 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Wired on: “DOGE personnel with admin access to Federal Payment System”

Raemon5 Feb 2025 21:32 UTC

88 points

45 comments2 min readLW link

(web.archive.org)

On AI Scaling

harsimony5 Feb 2025 20:24 UTC

6 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(splittinginfinity.substack.com)

The State of Metaculus

ChristianWilliams5 Feb 2025 19:17 UTC

21 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Post-hoc reasoning in chain of thought

Kyle Cox5 Feb 2025 18:58 UTC

19 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

DeepSeek-R1 for Beginners

Anton Razzhigaev5 Feb 2025 18:58 UTC

13 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Making the case for average-case AI Control

Nathaniel Mitrani5 Feb 2025 18:56 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Alignment Paradox and a Request for Harsh Criticism

Bridgett Kay5 Feb 2025 18:17 UTC

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Introducing International AI Governance Alliance (IAIGA)

jamesnorris5 Feb 2025 16:02 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Introducing Collective Action for Existential Safety: 80+ actions individuals, organizations, and nations can take to improve our existential safety

jamesnorris5 Feb 2025 16:02 UTC

−9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition

Subhash Kantamneni5 Feb 2025 13:50 UTC

76 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Deploying the Observer will save humanity from existential threats

Aram Panasenco5 Feb 2025 10:39 UTC

−11 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Domain of Orthogonality

mgfcatherall5 Feb 2025 8:14 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

Reviewing LessWrong: Screwtape’s Basic Answer

Screwtape5 Feb 2025 4:30 UTC

97 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Why isn’t AI containment the primary AI safety strategy?

Oliver Kuperman5 Feb 2025 3:54 UTC

1 point

3 comments3 min readLW link

Nick Land: Orthogonality

lumpenspace4 Feb 2025 21:07 UTC

5 points

37 comments8 min readLW link

What working on AI safety taught me about B2B SaaS sales

purple fire4 Feb 2025 20:50 UTC

7 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Subjective Naturalism in Decision Theory: Savage vs. Jeffrey–Bolker

Daniel Herrmann, Aydin Mohseni and ben_levinstein

4 Feb 2025 20:34 UTC

45 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

Anti-Slop Interventions?

abramdemski4 Feb 2025 19:50 UTC

76 points

33 comments6 min readLW link

Can Persuasion Break AI Safety? Exploring the Interplay Between Fine-Tuning, Attacks, and Guardrails

Devina Jain4 Feb 2025 19:10 UTC

9 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Journalism student looking for sources

pinkerton4 Feb 2025 18:58 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

We’re in Deep Research

Zvi4 Feb 2025 17:20 UTC

45 points

3 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)