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Can Reasoning Models Avoid the Most Forbidden Technique?

Brendan LongMay 17, 2025, 11:26 PM

9 points

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What OpenAI Told California’s Attorney General

garrisonMay 17, 2025, 11:14 PM

108 points

33 votes

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3 comments8 min readLW link

(www.obsolete.pub)

Multipolar AI is Underrated

Allison DuettmannMay 17, 2025, 10:03 PM

19 points

12 votes

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1 comment16 min readLW link

[Question] Will we survive if AI solves engineering before deception?

Knight LeeMay 17, 2025, 7:22 PM

21 points

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Seven ways to Improve the Internal Model Principle

Alfred HarwoodMay 17, 2025, 4:38 PM

15 points

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0 comments13 min readLW link

D&D.Sci: The Choosing Ones

abstractapplicMay 17, 2025, 3:26 PM

48 points

18 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

The absent-minded variations

dr_sMay 17, 2025, 6:57 AM

24 points

10 votes

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13 comments9 min readLW link

Book Review: The Art of Happiness

ScrewtapeMay 17, 2025, 4:56 AM

37 points

13 votes

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23 comments11 min readLW link

Management is the Near Future

jefftkMay 17, 2025, 2:50 AM

53 points

23 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

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Proof Section to an Introduction to Reinforcement Learning for Understanding Infra-Bayesianism

Brittany GelbMay 17, 2025, 2:36 AM

3 points

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0 comments9 min readLW link

An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning for Understanding Infra-Bayesianism

Brittany GelbMay 17, 2025, 2:34 AM

21 points

6 votes

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0 comments20 min readLW link

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

Devin WardMay 16, 2025, 11:55 PM

3 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Social Anxiety Isn’t About Being Liked

Chris LakinMay 16, 2025, 10:26 PM

145 points

98 votes

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21 comments2 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Events: Debate & Fiction Project

abramdemskiMay 16, 2025, 9:51 PM

39 points

14 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

How Fast Can Algorithms Advance Capabilities? | Epoch Gradient Update

henryjMay 16, 2025, 9:38 PM

39 points

22 votes

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10 comments6 min readLW link

(epoch.ai)

P-Values Know When You’re Cheating

EggsMay 16, 2025, 8:34 PM

21 points

10 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Minds are magic

k64May 16, 2025, 7:10 PM

0 points

5 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

US-China trade talks should pave way for AI safety treaty [SCMP crosspost]

otto.bartenMay 16, 2025, 4:55 PM

10 points

7 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Direct Realism is probably false

TerriLeafMay 16, 2025, 4:36 PM

−3 points

9 votes

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19 comments3 min readLW link

Regarding South Africa

ZviMay 16, 2025, 4:10 PM

71 points

32 votes

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5 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Notes on Consciousness

CSDDMay 16, 2025, 2:17 PM

3 points

2 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

reflecting on criticism

Vadim GolubMay 16, 2025, 11:59 AM

4 points

4 votes

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5 comments10 min readLW link

Generating the Funniest Joke with RL (according to GPT-4.1)

aggMay 16, 2025, 5:09 AM

103 points

65 votes

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22 comments4 min readLW link

Interpretable Fine Tuning Research Update and Working Prototype

Matthew KhoriatyMay 16, 2025, 3:44 AM

10 points

7 votes

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It Is Untenable That Near-Future AI Scenario Models Like “AI 2027” Don’t Include Open Source AI

Andrew DicksonMay 16, 2025, 2:20 AM

37 points

17 votes

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Apply to Visiting Fellows at Constellation, due June 13

Ella MarkianosMay 16, 2025, 2:20 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Paranoid Debating

DresdenHeartMay 16, 2025, 2:20 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Area Summer Solstice

VivaLaPanda and Andrew Keenan Richardson

May 16, 2025, 12:20 AM

20 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Staying in a Capsule Hotel

jefftkMay 16, 2025, 12:20 AM

25 points

9 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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Researching Synthetic Consciousness: sound appealing?

Brad DunnMay 15, 2025, 10:29 PM

10 points

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

Brad DunnMay 15, 2025, 9:34 PM

11 points

7 votes

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1 comment20 min readLW link

Tax-Optimized Risk in Portfolio Allocation

Brendan LongMay 15, 2025, 6:53 PM

6 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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AI Safety Thursdays: Understanding The Self-Other Overlap Approach

Juliana EberschlagMay 15, 2025, 6:41 PM

2 points

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Some skepticism about skepticism about efficacy of pausing AI

extinction-bountiesMay 15, 2025, 6:15 PM

5 points

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time is event based

thiccythotMay 15, 2025, 6:07 PM

65 points

37 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

Consider Others’ Cost Tolerances

nomagicpillMay 15, 2025, 5:43 PM

24 points

9 votes

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Problems with instruction-following as an alignment target

Seth HerdMay 15, 2025, 3:41 PM

51 points

18 votes

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

ZviMay 15, 2025, 3:10 PM

47 points

23 votes

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5 comments42 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Counter-considerations on AI arms races

Mateusz Bagiński and JustinShovelain

May 15, 2025, 2:54 PM

23 points

8 votes

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0 comments18 min readLW link

AlphaEvolve

mannatvjainMay 15, 2025, 2:14 PM

29 points

15 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

From Comments on Accountability Sinks

Martin SustrikMay 15, 2025, 10:20 AM

15 points

5 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

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

Arjun PanicksseryMay 15, 2025, 9:49 AM

68 points

33 votes

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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

What if Agent-4 breaks out?

Alvin ÅnestrandMay 15, 2025, 9:15 AM

12 points

4 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

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

Devin WardMay 15, 2025, 4:14 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

becausecuriousMay 15, 2025, 2:50 AM

28 points

11 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Elastomeric Fitting Session

jefftkMay 15, 2025, 1:50 AM

14 points

5 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

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Re SMTM: negative feedback on negative feedback

Steven ByrnesMay 14, 2025, 7:50 PM

56 points

23 votes

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Curate your space

Logan KiellerMay 14, 2025, 7:35 PM

23 points

9 votes

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(agenticconjectures.substack.com)

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

So8resMay 14, 2025, 7:00 PM

650 points

232 votes

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Notes on Life

CSDDMay 14, 2025, 6:46 PM

−1 points

2 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

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