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$500 + $500 Bounty Problem: Does An (Approximately) Deterministic Maximal Redund Always Exist?

johnswentworth and David Lorell

May 6, 2025, 11:05 PM

73 points

19 votes

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16 comments3 min readLW link

Loss Curves

James CamachoMay 6, 2025, 10:22 PM

16 points

5 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

(github.com)

Negative Results on Group SAEs

Josh EngelsMay 6, 2025, 9:49 PM

70 points

22 votes

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3 comments8 min readLW link

ACX Atlanta May 2025 Meetup

Steve FrenchMay 6, 2025, 9:00 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What kind of policy by an AGI would make people happy?

StanislavKrymMay 6, 2025, 6:05 PM

1 point

1 vote

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2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, April ’25

gasteigerjoMay 6, 2025, 2:22 PM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Zuckerberg’s Dystopian AI Vision

ZviMay 6, 2025, 1:50 PM

62 points

30 votes

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7 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?

Abhishaike MahajanMay 6, 2025, 1:11 PM

31 points

13 votes

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0 comments17 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

Utah Court Case Over State Law Regarding “Personhood” for Nonhuman Intelligences

Stephen MartinMay 6, 2025, 12:54 PM

10 points

7 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Global Risks Weekly Roundup #18/2025: US tariff shortages, military policing, Gaza famine.

NunoSempereMay 6, 2025, 10:39 AM

31 points

8 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

(blog.sentinel-team.org)

OpenAI’s Jig May Be Up

ValeMay 6, 2025, 8:51 AM

3 points

10 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

My Reasons for Using Anki

Parker ConleyMay 6, 2025, 7:01 AM

10 points

5 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

(parconley.com)

It’s ‘Well, actually...’ all the way down

benwrMay 6, 2025, 5:44 AM

40 points

31 votes

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34 comments1 min readLW link

(www.benwr.net)

Five Hinge‑Questions That Decide Whether AGI Is Five Years Away or Twenty

charlieoneillMay 6, 2025, 2:48 AM

126 points

66 votes

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17 comments5 min readLW link

Nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI

ArchimedesMay 5, 2025, 11:41 PM

37 points

15 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Unexpected Conscious Entities

Gunnar_ZarnckeMay 5, 2025, 10:14 PM

34 points

12 votes

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7 comments6 min readLW link

The First Law of Conscious Agency: Linguistic Relativity and the Birth of “I”

Dima (lain)May 5, 2025, 9:20 PM

−17 points

9 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

Newton’s second law explained: it works in many universes

TahpMay 5, 2025, 7:47 PM

19 points

6 votes

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10 comments15 min readLW link

(quark.rodeo)

Replicator->Vehicle Alignment and Human->AI Alignment

derelict5432May 5, 2025, 7:23 PM

0 points

3 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

The Sweet Lesson: AI Safety Should Scale With Compute

Jesse HooglandMay 5, 2025, 7:03 PM

97 points

53 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Blue light, ‘Adrenal ASMR’: strange experiences I can’t find any literature about

vernichtungMay 5, 2025, 6:58 PM

16 points

8 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Tsinghua paper: Does RL Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?

Thomas KwaMay 5, 2025, 6:56 PM

70 points

37 votes

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22 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Intro & Proposal for AGI Model

PickleBrineMay 5, 2025, 6:56 PM

0 points

3 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

AI Superorganisms: An Alternative Pathway to Artificial Superintelligence

Aaron VanzylMay 5, 2025, 6:55 PM

4 points

5 votes

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5 comments15 min readLW link

Karlsruhe ACX: The colours of her coat

wilmMay 5, 2025, 6:35 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Metaculus Cup Series Is Live, $5,000 Prize Pool

ChristianWilliamsMay 5, 2025, 5:14 PM

4 points

1 vote

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Community Feedback Request: AI Safety Intro for General Public

Algon and Vishakha

May 5, 2025, 4:38 PM

6 points

1 vote

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5 comments3 min readLW link

GPT-4o Sycophancy Post Mortem

ZviMay 5, 2025, 4:00 PM

55 points

21 votes

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1 comment16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Legal Supervision of Frontier AI Labs is the answer.

GauraventhMay 5, 2025, 1:36 PM

14 points

5 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

(robertandgaurav.substack.com)

The crucible — how I think about the situation with AI

owencbMay 5, 2025, 1:18 PM

25 points

8 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Lightning Talks: Thought, Trick, Curiosity

marta_kMay 5, 2025, 11:49 AM

2 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Proposal: Liquid Prediction Markets for AI Forecasting

Jesse RichardsonMay 5, 2025, 5:13 AM

23 points

9 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Why “Solving Alignment” Is Likely a Category Mistake

Nate SharpeMay 5, 2025, 4:26 AM

21 points

17 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025: apply to speak by Wednesday!

Alistair StewartMay 5, 2025, 12:56 AM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025

Alistair StewartMay 5, 2025, 12:51 AM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on the Long Tasks METR paper, from a HCAST task contributor

abstractapplicMay 4, 2025, 11:17 PM

111 points

48 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

Why I am not a successionist

Nina PanicksseryMay 4, 2025, 7:08 PM

68 points

57 votes

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54 comments2 min readLW link

(ninapanickssery.substack.com)

Overview: AI Safety Outreach Grassroots Orgs

Severin T. Seehrich and Benjamin Schmidt

May 4, 2025, 5:39 PM

47 points

18 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

The Power Users We Forgot: Why AI Needs Them Now More Than Ever

Anthony FoxMay 4, 2025, 5:23 PM

1 point

5 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

Fake AI lawsuits to drive links

Yair HalberstadtMay 4, 2025, 4:53 PM

22 points

11 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.rationalistjudaism.com)

Scott Aaronson at UT Austin on May 17 | Computational Complexity & Philosophy

ekkoláptoMay 4, 2025, 4:42 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Interpretability Will Not Reliably Find Deceptive AI

Neel NandaMay 4, 2025, 4:32 PM

329 points

159 votes

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68 comments7 min readLW link

80 concepts on my new version of AI: DecisionBots

Wes RMay 4, 2025, 2:04 PM

0 points

3 votes

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2 comments15 min readLW link

Where have all the tokens gone?

bracesMay 4, 2025, 1:52 PM

13 points

11 votes

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7 comments6 min readLW link

The Ukraine War and the Kill Market

Martin SustrikMay 4, 2025, 7:50 AM

98 points

57 votes

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14 comments5 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

PSA: Before May 21 is a good time to sign up for cryonics

AlexMennenMay 4, 2025, 4:10 AM

53 points

21 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

GTFO of the Social Internet Before you Can’t: The Miro & Yindi Story

keltanMay 4, 2025, 1:08 AM

36 points

16 votes

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14 comments11 min readLW link

“Superhuman” Isn’t Well Specified

JustisMillsMay 3, 2025, 11:42 PM

34 points

15 votes

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9 comments3 min readLW link

(justismills.substack.com)

Navigating burnout

gwMay 3, 2025, 10:07 PM

75 points

35 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

(www.georgeyw.com)

What is your favorite podcast?

ChristianKlMay 3, 2025, 9:25 PM

32 points

16 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

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