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“Superhuman” Isn’t Well Specified

JustisMills3 May 2025 23:42 UTC

34 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

(justismills.substack.com)

Navigating burnout

gw3 May 2025 22:07 UTC

75 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(www.georgeyw.com)

What is your favorite podcast?

ChristianKl3 May 2025 21:25 UTC

32 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does translating a post with an LLM affect its rating?

ReverendBayes3 May 2025 14:45 UTC

9 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

SimpleStories: A Better Synthetic Dataset and Tiny Models for Interpretability

Lennart Finke3 May 2025 14:04 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What’s up with AI’s vision

Joachim Bartosik3 May 2025 13:23 UTC

12 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Sparsity is the enemy of feature extraction (ft. absorption)

7vik, chanind and Adrià Garriga-alonso

3 May 2025 10:13 UTC

32 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Exploring out-of-context reasoning (OOCR) fine-tuning in LLMs to increase test-phase awareness

Sanyu Rajakumar3 May 2025 3:33 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Updates from Comments on “AI 2027 is a Bet Against Amdahl’s Law”

snewman2 May 2025 23:52 UTC

42 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

Attend SPAR’s virtual demo day! (career fair + talks)

agucova2 May 2025 23:45 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(demoday.sparai.org)

Why does METR score o3 as effective for such a long time duration despite overall poor scores?

Cole Wyeth2 May 2025 22:58 UTC

19 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Short story: Who is nancygonzalez8451097

Anders Lindström2 May 2025 21:01 UTC

13 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Interim Research Report: Mechanisms of Awareness

Josh Engels, Neel Nanda and Senthooran Rajamanoharan

2 May 2025 20:29 UTC

43 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Agents, Tools, and Simulators

WillPetillo, Sean Herrington, Adebayo Mubarak, Cancus and Spencer Ames

2 May 2025 20:19 UTC

14 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

Obstacles in ARC’s agenda: Low Probability Estimation

David Matolcsi2 May 2025 19:38 UTC

44 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

What’s going on with AI progress and trends? (As of 5/2025)

ryan_greenblatt2 May 2025 19:00 UTC

75 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

When AI Optimizes for the Wrong Thing

Anthony Fox2 May 2025 18:00 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment Structure Direction—Recursive Adversarial Oversight(RAO)

Jayden Shepard2 May 2025 17:51 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

AI Welfare Risks

Adrià Moret2 May 2025 17:49 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(philpapers.org)

Philosoplasticity: On the Inevitable Drift of Meaning in Recursive Self-Interpreting Systems

Maikol Coin2 May 2025 17:46 UTC

0 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Supermen of the (Not so Far) Future

TerriLeaf2 May 2025 15:55 UTC

9 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Steering Language Models in Multiple Directions Simultaneously

lukemarks, Narmeen and Amirali Abdullah

2 May 2025 15:27 UTC

18 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

AI Incident Monitoring: A Brief Analysis

Spencer Ames2 May 2025 15:06 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

RA x ControlAI video: What if AI just keeps getting smarter?

Writer2 May 2025 14:19 UTC

100 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

OpenAI Preparedness Framework 2.0

Zvi2 May 2025 13:10 UTC

61 points

1 comment23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ex-OpenAI employee amici leave to file denied in Musk v OpenAI case?

TFD2 May 2025 12:27 UTC

4 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.thefloatingdroid.com)

Roads are at maximum efficiency always

Hruss2 May 2025 10:29 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Continuum Fallacy and its Relatives

Zero Contradictions2 May 2025 2:58 UTC

4 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Memory Decoding Journal Club: Motor learning selectively strengthens cortical and striatal synapses of motor engram neurons

Devin Ward1 May 2025 23:52 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

My Research Process: Understanding and Cultivating Research Taste

Neel Nanda1 May 2025 23:08 UTC

27 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

AI Governance to Avoid Extinction: The Strategic Landscape and Actionable Research Questions

peterbarnett and Aaron_Scher

1 May 2025 22:46 UTC

105 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(techgov.intelligence.org)

How to specify an alignment target

Richard Juggins1 May 2025 21:11 UTC

14 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Obstacles in ARC’s agenda: Mechanistic Anomaly Detection

David Matolcsi1 May 2025 20:51 UTC

42 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

AI-Generated GitHub repo backdated with junk then filled with my systems work. Has anyone seen this before?

rgunther1 May 2025 20:14 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

What is Inadequate about Bayesianism for AI Alignment: Motivating Infra-Bayesianism

Brittany Gelb1 May 2025 19:06 UTC

48 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Can LLMs Simulate Internal Evaluation? A Case Study in Self-Generated Recommendations

The Neutral Mind1 May 2025 19:04 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Superhuman Coders in AI 2027 - Not So Fast

dschwarz and FutureSearch

1 May 2025 18:56 UTC

67 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters

Zvi1 May 2025 14:00 UTC

40 points

6 comments63 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Slowdown After 2028: Compute, RLVR Uncertainty, MoE Data Wall

Vladimir_Nesov1 May 2025 13:54 UTC

196 points

25 comments5 min readLW link

Anthropomorphizing AI might be good, actually

Seth Herd1 May 2025 13:50 UTC

35 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Dont focus on updating P doom

Algon1 May 2025 11:10 UTC

7 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Prioritizing Work

jefftk1 May 2025 2:00 UTC

108 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Don’t rely on a “race to the top”

sjadler1 May 2025 0:33 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Meta-Technicalities: Safeguarding Values in Formal Systems

LTM30 Apr 2025 23:43 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(routecause.substack.com)

Obstacles in ARC’s agenda: Finding explanations

David Matolcsi30 Apr 2025 23:03 UTC

123 points

10 comments17 min readLW link

GPT-4o Responds to Negative Feedback

Zvi30 Apr 2025 20:20 UTC

45 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

State of play of AI progress (and related brakes on an intelligence explosion) [Linkpost]

Noosphere8930 Apr 2025 19:58 UTC

7 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.interconnects.ai)

Don’t accuse your interlocutor of being insufficiently truth-seeking

TFD30 Apr 2025 19:38 UTC

30 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(www.thefloatingdroid.com)

How can we solve diffuse threats like research sabotage with AI control?

Vivek Hebbar30 Apr 2025 19:23 UTC

52 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] Can Narrowing One’s Reference Class Undermine the Doomsday Argument?

Iannoose n.30 Apr 2025 18:24 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link