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Researching Synthetic Consciousness: sound appealing?

Brad Dunn15 May 2025 22:29 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Starting Over: What to tell Sarah, at the edge of professional oblivion.

Brad Dunn15 May 2025 21:34 UTC

11 points

1 comment20 min readLW link

Tax-Optimized Risk in Portfolio Allocation

Brendan Long15 May 2025 18:53 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

AI Safety Thursdays: Understanding The Self-Other Overlap Approach

Juliana Eberschlag15 May 2025 18:41 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Some skepticism about skepticism about efficacy of pausing AI

extinction-bounties15 May 2025 18:15 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

time is event based

thiccythot15 May 2025 18:07 UTC

65 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Consider Others’ Cost Tolerances

nomagicpill15 May 2025 17:43 UTC

24 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(nomagicpill.github.io)

Problems with instruction-following as an alignment target

Seth Herd15 May 2025 15:41 UTC

51 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

AI #116: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Zvi15 May 2025 15:10 UTC

47 points

5 comments42 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Counter-considerations on AI arms races

Mateusz Bagiński and JustinShovelain

15 May 2025 14:54 UTC

24 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

AlphaEvolve

mannatvjain15 May 2025 14:14 UTC

29 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

From Comments on Accountability Sinks

Martin Sustrik15 May 2025 10:20 UTC

15 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

What Does It Mean to “Write Like You Talk”?

Arjun Panickssery15 May 2025 9:49 UTC

68 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

What if Agent-4 breaks out?

Alvin Ånestrand15 May 2025 9:15 UTC

12 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus

Devin Ward15 May 2025 4:14 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why OpenAI projects only $174B of revenue by 2030?

becausecurious15 May 2025 2:50 UTC

28 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Elastomeric Fitting Session

jefftk15 May 2025 1:50 UTC

15 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

650 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

31 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

218 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

−14 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