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There’s more low-hanging fruit in interdisciplinary work thanks to LLMs
ChristianKl
May 7, 2025, 7:48 PM
26
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
OpenAI Claims Nonprofit Will Retain Nominal Control
Zvi
May 7, 2025, 7:40 PM
65
points
4
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Social status games might have “compute weight class” in the future
Raemon
May 7, 2025, 6:56 PM
31
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Events of Low Probability: Buridan’s Principle
Nikita Gladkov
May 7, 2025, 6:46 PM
12
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Which journalists would you give quotes to? [one journalist per comment, agree vote for trustworthy]
Nathan Young
May 7, 2025, 6:39 PM
12
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Progress = Fewer Bad Moments
Chipmonk
May 7, 2025, 5:33 PM
24
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(chrislakin.blog)
Please Donate to CAIP (Post 1 of 6 on AI Governance)
Mass_Driver
May 7, 2025, 5:13 PM
113
points
20
comments
33
min read
LW
link
UK AISI’s Alignment Team: Research Agenda
Benjamin Hilton
,
Jacob Pfau
,
Marie_DB
and
Geoffrey Irving
May 7, 2025, 4:33 PM
111
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Four Predictions About OpenAI’s Plans To Retain Nonprofit Control
garrison
May 7, 2025, 3:48 PM
12
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.obsolete.pub)
A Disciplined Way to Avoid Wireheading
amitlevy49
May 7, 2025, 3:20 PM
18
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(ivy0.substack.com)
Reflections on Compatibilism, Ontological Translations, and the Artificial Divine
Mahdi Complex
May 7, 2025, 12:16 PM
2
points
1
comment
22
min read
LW
link
The Historical Parallels: Preliminary Reflection
EQ
May 7, 2025, 8:06 AM
3
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(eqmind.substack.com)
European Links (07.05.25)
Martin Sustrik
May 7, 2025, 4:20 AM
10
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.substack.com)
[Question]
Chess—“Elo” of random play?
Shankar Sivarajan
May 7, 2025, 2:18 AM
10
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
$500 + $500 Bounty Problem: Does An (Approximately) Deterministic Maximal Redund Always Exist?
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
May 6, 2025, 11:05 PM
72
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Theory Behind Loss Curves
James Camacho
May 6, 2025, 10:22 PM
16
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(github.com)
Negative Results on Group SAEs
Josh Engels
May 6, 2025, 9:49 PM
70
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
ACX Atlanta May 2025 Meetup
Steve French
May 6, 2025, 9:00 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What kind of policy by an AGI would make people happy?
StanislavKrym
May 6, 2025, 6:05 PM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Paper Highlights, April ’25
gasteigerjo
May 6, 2025, 2:22 PM
4
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)
Zuckerberg’s Dystopian AI Vision
Zvi
May 6, 2025, 1:50 PM
61
points
7
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?
Abhishaike Mahajan
May 6, 2025, 1:11 PM
30
points
0
comments
17
min read
LW
link
(www.owlposting.com)
Utah Court Case Over State Law Regarding “Personhood” for Nonhuman Intelligences
Stephen Martin
May 6, 2025, 12:54 PM
10
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Global Risks Weekly Roundup #18/2025: US tariff shortages, military policing, Gaza famine.
NunoSempere
May 6, 2025, 10:39 AM
31
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(blog.sentinel-team.org)
OpenAI’s Jig May Be Up
Vale
May 6, 2025, 8:51 AM
3
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
My Reasons for Using Anki
Parker Conley
May 6, 2025, 7:01 AM
10
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(parconley.com)
It’s ‘Well, actually...’ all the way down
benwr
May 6, 2025, 5:44 AM
40
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.benwr.net)
Five Hinge‑Questions That Decide Whether AGI Is Five Years Away or Twenty
charlieoneill
May 6, 2025, 2:48 AM
125
points
17
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI
Archimedes
May 5, 2025, 11:41 PM
37
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
Unexpected Conscious Entities
Gunnar_Zarncke
May 5, 2025, 10:14 PM
34
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The First Law of Conscious Agency: Linguistic Relativity and the Birth of “I”
Dima (lain)
May 5, 2025, 9:20 PM
−17
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Newton’s second law explained: it works in many universes
Tahp
May 5, 2025, 7:47 PM
19
points
10
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(quark.rodeo)
Replicator->Vehicle Alignment and Human->AI Alignment
derelict5432
May 5, 2025, 7:23 PM
0
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Sweet Lesson: AI Safety Should Scale With Compute
Jesse Hoogland
May 5, 2025, 7:03 PM
95
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Blue light, ‘Adrenal ASMR’: strange experiences I can’t find any literature about
vernichtung
May 5, 2025, 6:58 PM
16
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tsinghua paper: Does RL Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
Thomas Kwa
May 5, 2025, 6:56 PM
68
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Intro & Proposal for AGI Model
PickleBrine
May 5, 2025, 6:56 PM
0
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
AI Superorganisms: An Alternative Pathway to Artificial Superintelligence
Aaron Vanzyl
May 5, 2025, 6:55 PM
4
points
5
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Karlsruhe ACX: The colours of her coat
wilm
May 5, 2025, 6:35 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Metaculus Cup Series Is Live, $5,000 Prize Pool
ChristianWilliams
May 5, 2025, 5:14 PM
4
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.metaculus.com)
Community Feedback Request: AI Safety Intro for General Public
Algon
and
Vishakha
May 5, 2025, 4:38 PM
6
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
GPT-4o Sycophancy Post Mortem
Zvi
May 5, 2025, 4:00 PM
55
points
1
comment
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Legal Supervision of Frontier AI Labs is the answer.
Gauraventh
May 5, 2025, 1:36 PM
14
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(robertandgaurav.substack.com)
The crucible — how I think about the situation with AI
owencb
May 5, 2025, 1:18 PM
25
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
(strangecities.substack.com)
Lightning Talks: Thought, Trick, Curiosity
marta_k
May 5, 2025, 11:49 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are standardized tests effective?
Hruss
May 5, 2025, 10:02 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Proposal: Liquid Prediction Markets for AI Forecasting
Jesse Richardson
5 May 2025 5:13 UTC
23
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why “Solving Alignment” Is Likely a Category Mistake
Nate Sharpe
5 May 2025 4:26 UTC
22
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025: apply to speak by Wednesday!
Alistair Stewart
5 May 2025 0:56 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025
Alistair Stewart
5 May 2025 0:51 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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