On differ­ent dis­cus­sion traditions

Eugene ShcherbininApr 7, 2025, 11:00 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mis­in­for­ma­tion is the de­fault, and in­for­ma­tion is the gov­ern­ment tel­ling you your tap wa­ter is safe to drink

d_el_ezApr 7, 2025, 10:28 PM
10 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Log-lin­ear Scal­ing is Worth the Cost due to Gains in Long-Hori­zon Tasks

shash42Apr 7, 2025, 9:50 PM
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety at the Fron­tier: Paper High­lights, March ’25

gasteigerjoApr 7, 2025, 8:17 PM
9 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Fac­tory farm­ing in­tel­li­gent minds

Odd anonApr 7, 2025, 8:05 PM
3 points
5 comments20 min readLW link

What al­ign­ment-rele­vant abil­ities might Ter­ence Tao lack?

Towards_KeeperhoodApr 7, 2025, 7:44 PM
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any (semi-)de­tailed fu­ture sce­nar­ios where we win?

Jan BetleyApr 7, 2025, 7:13 PM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Austin Chen on Win­ning, Risk-Tak­ing, and FTX

ElizabethApr 7, 2025, 7:00 PM
35 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

An Un­bi­ased Eval­u­a­tion of My De­bate with Thane Ruthe­nis—Run It Yourself

funnyfrancoApr 7, 2025, 6:56 PM
−24 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Amer­i­can Col­lege Ad­mis­sions Doesn’t Need to Be So Com­pet­i­tive

Arjun PanicksseryApr 7, 2025, 5:35 PM
48 points
20 comments6 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Cou­pling for Decouplers

Jacob FalkovichApr 7, 2025, 3:40 PM
15 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Moon­light Reflected

Jacob FalkovichApr 7, 2025, 3:35 PM
11 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Nav­i­ga­tion by Moonlight

Jacob FalkovichApr 7, 2025, 3:32 PM
24 points
39 comments8 min readLW link

You Are Not a Thought Experiment

Jacob FalkovichApr 7, 2025, 3:27 PM
5 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Love is Love, Science is Fake

Jacob FalkovichApr 7, 2025, 3:19 PM
17 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Cou­pling for De­cou­plers — Intro

Jacob FalkovichApr 7, 2025, 3:12 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The world ac­cord­ing to ChatGPT

Richard_KennawayApr 7, 2025, 1:44 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

AI 2027: Dwarkesh’s Pod­cast with Daniel Koko­ta­jlo and Scott Alexander

ZviApr 7, 2025, 1:40 PM
67 points
2 comments26 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ar­gu­ing all sides with ChatGPT 4.5

Richard_KennawayApr 7, 2025, 1:10 PM
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

The Same Heaven

Lukas PeterssonApr 7, 2025, 12:57 PM
3 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(lukaspetersson.com)

Break­ing down the MEAT of Alignment

JasonBrownApr 7, 2025, 8:47 AM
7 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

Well-found­ed­ness as an or­ga­niz­ing prin­ci­ple of healthy minds and societies

Richard_NgoApr 7, 2025, 12:31 AM
35 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Arusha Per­pet­ual Chicken—an un­likely iter­ated game

James Stephen BrownApr 6, 2025, 10:56 PM
15 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

How Gay is the Vat­i­can?

rbaApr 6, 2025, 9:27 PM
58 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

RFC: a tool to cre­ate a ranked list of pro­jects in ex­plain­able AI

eamagApr 6, 2025, 9:18 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(eamag.me)

Aus­tralia’s AI Cross­roads: Elec­tion 2025 Town Hall

Peter HorniakApr 6, 2025, 9:17 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Lizard­man and the Black Hat Bobcat

ScrewtapeApr 6, 2025, 7:02 PM
108 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

Would this solve the (outer) al­ign­ment prob­lem, or at least help?

Wes RApr 6, 2025, 6:49 PM
−2 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

[Question] What are the fun­da­men­tal differ­ences be­tween teach­ing the AIs and hu­mans?

StanislavKrymApr 6, 2025, 6:17 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An “Op­ti­mistic” 2027 Timeline

YitzApr 6, 2025, 4:39 PM
13 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

Thoughts on Creat­ing a Good Language

Towards_KeeperhoodApr 6, 2025, 3:57 PM
1 point
2 comments7 min readLW link

The REPHRASE Cir­cuit: How Fine-Tun­ing En­hances LLMs to REPHRASE Text

Karthik ViswanathanApr 6, 2025, 3:02 PM
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Re­search sprint] Sin­gle-model cross­coder fea­ture ab­la­tion and steering

Thomas ReadApr 6, 2025, 2:42 PM
8 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Fer­rer, Pilar, and Me

AskwhoApr 6, 2025, 11:22 AM
21 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

FlexChunk: En­abling 100M×100M Out-of-Core SpMV (~1.8 min, ~1.7 GB RAM) with Near-Lin­ear Scaling

Daniil StrizhovApr 6, 2025, 5:27 AM
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link

A col­lec­tion of ap­proaches to con­fronting doom, and my thoughts on them

RubyApr 6, 2025, 2:11 AM
48 points
18 comments12 min readLW link

A Slow Guide to Con­fronting Doom

RubyApr 6, 2025, 2:10 AM
84 points
20 comments14 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Vi­sual roadmap to strong hu­man germline engineering

TsviBTApr 5, 2025, 10:22 PM
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Google Deep­Mind: An Ap­proach to Tech­ni­cal AGI Safety and Security

Rohin ShahApr 5, 2025, 10:00 PM
73 points
12 comments18 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

In­tro­duc­tion to Rep­re­sent­ing Sen­tences as Log­i­cal Statements

Towards_KeeperhoodApr 5, 2025, 8:35 PM
22 points
9 comments16 min readLW link

Me­mory De­cod­ing Jour­nal Club: A col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Car­bon­copies Foun­da­tion and BPF Aspira­tional Neuroscience

Devin WardApr 5, 2025, 8:27 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meta re­leases Llama-4 herd of models

winstonBosanApr 5, 2025, 7:51 PM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Against podcasts

Adam ZernerApr 5, 2025, 7:20 PM
33 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

What are Re­spon­si­ble Scal­ing Poli­cies (RSPs)?

Apr 5, 2025, 4:01 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(aisafety.info)

What does Yann LeCun think about AGI? A sum­mary of his talk, “Math­e­mat­i­cal Ob­sta­cles on the Way to Hu­man-Level AI”

Adam JonesApr 5, 2025, 12:21 PM
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

I Have No Mouth but I Must Speak

JackApr 5, 2025, 7:42 AM
7 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets Are Mediocre

Ape in the coatApr 5, 2025, 6:54 AM
3 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Among Us: A Sand­box for Agen­tic Deception

Apr 5, 2025, 6:24 AM
110 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Ai Cone of Prob­a­bilties—what aren’t we talk­ing about?

MarzipanApr 5, 2025, 5:51 AM
−10 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Quar­ter Inch Cables are Devious

jefftkApr 5, 2025, 2:40 AM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)