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What We Talk About When We Talk About Objective Functions

Waddington18 May 2025 22:48 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Letter to The Honourable Evan Solomon

Annapurna18 May 2025 16:34 UTC

−9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Gödel, Escher, Bach in the age of LLMs

Tahp18 May 2025 16:22 UTC

26 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

(passwordpaper.com)

Limits to Control Workshop

Orpheus, Remmelt Ellen and T-bo🔸

18 May 2025 16:05 UTC

12 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Modeling versus Implementation

Cole Wyeth18 May 2025 13:38 UTC

27 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

azergante18 May 2025 9:38 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(home.cern)

European Links (18.05.25)

Martin Sustrik18 May 2025 4:20 UTC

16 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Google Logo Ligature Bug

jefftk18 May 2025 2:40 UTC

49 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Who wants a free AI Safety Domain?

Zohar Jackson18 May 2025 0:37 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Can Reasoning Models Avoid the Most Forbidden Technique?

Brendan Long17 May 2025 23:26 UTC

9 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

What OpenAI Told California’s Attorney General

garrison17 May 2025 23:14 UTC

108 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(www.obsolete.pub)

Multipolar AI is Underrated

Allison Duettmann17 May 2025 22:03 UTC

20 points

1 comment16 min readLW link

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

Knight Lee17 May 2025 19:22 UTC

21 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Seven ways to Improve the Internal Model Principle

Alfred Harwood17 May 2025 16:38 UTC

15 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

D&D.Sci: The Choosing Ones

abstractapplic17 May 2025 15:26 UTC

48 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

The absent-minded variations

dr_s17 May 2025 6:57 UTC

24 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

Book Review: The Art of Happiness

Screwtape17 May 2025 4:56 UTC

37 points

23 comments11 min readLW link

Management is the Near Future

jefftk17 May 2025 2:50 UTC

61 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Brittany Gelb17 May 2025 2:36 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning for Understanding Infra-Bayesianism

Brittany Gelb17 May 2025 2:34 UTC

22 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

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

Devin Ward16 May 2025 23:55 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Social Anxiety Isn’t About Being Liked

Chris Lakin16 May 2025 22:26 UTC

148 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Events: Debate & Fiction Project

abramdemski16 May 2025 21:51 UTC

39 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

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

henryj16 May 2025 21:38 UTC

42 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

(epoch.ai)

P-Values Know When You’re Cheating

Eggs16 May 2025 20:34 UTC

21 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Minds are magic

k6416 May 2025 19:10 UTC

2 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

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

otto.barten16 May 2025 16:55 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Direct Realism is probably false

TerriLeaf16 May 2025 16:36 UTC

−3 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Regarding South Africa

Zvi16 May 2025 16:10 UTC

71 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Notes on Consciousness

CSDD16 May 2025 14:17 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

reflecting on criticism

Vadim Golub16 May 2025 11:59 UTC

4 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

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

agg16 May 2025 5:09 UTC

103 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Interpretable Fine Tuning Research Update and Working Prototype

Matthew Khoriaty16 May 2025 3:44 UTC

14 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

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

Andrew Dickson16 May 2025 2:20 UTC

37 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Apply to Visiting Fellows at Constellation, due June 13

Ella Markianos16 May 2025 2:20 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Paranoid Debating

DresdenHeart16 May 2025 2:20 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Area Summer Solstice

VivaLaPanda and Andrew Keenan Richardson

16 May 2025 0:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Staying in a Capsule Hotel

jefftk16 May 2025 0:20 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

56 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)