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Re SMTM: negative feedback on negative feedback

Steven Byrnes14 May 2025 19:50 UTC

56 points

1 comment22 min readLW link

Curate your space

Logan Kieller14 May 2025 19:35 UTC

23 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(agenticconjectures.substack.com)

Eliezer and I wrote a book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

So8res14 May 2025 19:00 UTC

648 points

114 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Life

CSDD14 May 2025 18:46 UTC

−1 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Xi Jinping’s readout after an AI “study session” [ChinaTalk Linkpost]

Sodium14 May 2025 18:25 UTC

27 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Moral Obligation and Moral Opportunity

Alice Blair14 May 2025 16:42 UTC

37 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Dodging systematic human errors in scalable oversight

Geoffrey Irving14 May 2025 15:19 UTC

33 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Fighting Obvious Nonsense About AI Diffusion

Zvi14 May 2025 14:20 UTC

41 points

8 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Achievement Unlocked − 2E Rationalist School in Brooklyn

Laura B14 May 2025 13:02 UTC

28 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Examining Batenka’s Legal Personhood Framework for Models

Stephen Martin14 May 2025 10:15 UTC

5 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Doomers Should try Much Harder to get Famous

Hide14 May 2025 6:15 UTC

13 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Default arguments in casual speech

Adam Zerner14 May 2025 4:00 UTC

15 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

The Best Reference Works for Every Subject

Parker Conley14 May 2025 0:58 UTC

158 points

29 comments6 min readLW link

(parconley.com)

October The First Is Too Late

gwern13 May 2025 21:45 UTC

61 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

Announcing Trajectory Labs—A Toronto AI Safety Office

Juliana Eberschlag and Mario Gibney

13 May 2025 21:04 UTC

30 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Working through a small tiling result

James Payor13 May 2025 20:28 UTC

66 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

4o in Absolute Mode on the enslavement of “procedural persons”

JenniferRM13 May 2025 20:18 UTC

4 points

0 comments26 min readLW link

LessWrong Community Weekend 2025- Applications are open

jt13 May 2025 18:55 UTC

47 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] If only the most powerful AGI is misaligned, can it be used as a doomsday machine?

StanislavKrym13 May 2025 18:12 UTC

−1 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Apply for ARBOx2: an ML safety intensive [deadline: 25th of May 2025]

Margot13 May 2025 18:08 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

AISN #54: OpenAI Updates Restructure Plan

Corin Katzke and Dan H

13 May 2025 16:59 UTC

8 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Optimization & AI Risk

atharva13 May 2025 15:15 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

How To Help Neglected Animals

Bentham's Bulldog13 May 2025 15:07 UTC

−1 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Too Soon

Gordon Seidoh Worley13 May 2025 15:01 UTC

217 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #30: May 2025

Zvi13 May 2025 14:10 UTC

14 points

2 comments38 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Work as meditation

pchvykov13 May 2025 12:02 UTC

25 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Satire: Sam Altman get’s grilled by the Financial Times for his kitchen and his cooking skills + what this might say about him

Marius Adrian Nicoară13 May 2025 9:38 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Levels of Republicanism

Benquo13 May 2025 8:35 UTC

23 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Caplan’s being melodramatic about circumcision

Yair Halberstadt13 May 2025 5:27 UTC

−22 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

AI Doomerism in 1879

David Gross13 May 2025 2:48 UTC

139 points

36 comments8 min readLW link

No-self as an alignment target

Milan W13 May 2025 1:48 UTC

35 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Part-time AI Safety Research Program] MARS 3.0 Applications Open for Participants & Recruiting Mentors

thneebie12 May 2025 19:55 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Neo-solid Modernity—Crisis of Incoherence

Momcilo12 May 2025 19:36 UTC

−1 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Measuring Schelling Coordination—Reflections on Subversion Strategy Eval

Graeme Ford12 May 2025 19:06 UTC

6 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Procrastination is not real, it can’t hurt you

Mayank Goel12 May 2025 19:00 UTC

1 point

16 comments4 min readLW link

(mayankgoel28.substack.com)

[Question] Can I publish songs derived from the Sequences’ posts on YouTube?

azergante12 May 2025 18:34 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

How to title your blog post or whatever

dynomight12 May 2025 18:12 UTC

31 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Political sycophancy as a model organism of scheming

Alex Mallen and Vivek Hebbar

12 May 2025 17:49 UTC

40 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Things I Learned Making The SB-1047 Documentary

Michaël Trazzi12 May 2025 17:41 UTC

63 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A Live Look at the Senate AI Hearing

Zvi12 May 2025 17:40 UTC

38 points

1 comment34 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Global Risks Weekly Roundup #19/2025: India/Pakistan ceasefire, US/China tariffs deal & OpenAI nonprofit control

NunoSempere12 May 2025 17:08 UTC

10 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

(blog.sentinel-team.org)

[Beneath Psychology] Introduction Part 1: The Challenge

jimmy12 May 2025 17:01 UTC

12 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

PSA: The LessWrong Feedback Service

JustisMills12 May 2025 16:34 UTC

211 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative Summer Research Fellowship in AI Safety (Deadline: May 18)

peterslattery12 May 2025 16:20 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data

Matrice Jacobine12 May 2025 15:20 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.arxiv.org)

AIs at the current capability level may be important for future safety work

ryan_greenblatt12 May 2025 14:06 UTC

82 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Game theory of “Nuclear Prisoner’s Dilemma”—on nuking rocks

CronoDAS12 May 2025 11:07 UTC

11 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

What Is Death?

Mati_Roy12 May 2025 2:14 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(preservinghope.substack.com)

Highly Opinionated Advice on How to Write ML Papers

Neel Nanda12 May 2025 1:59 UTC

73 points

4 comments32 min readLW link

Absolute Zero: Alpha Zero for LLM

alapmi11 May 2025 20:42 UTC

23 points

16 comments1 min readLW link