The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC

423 points

69 comments16 min readLW link

UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever

Wei Dai13 Sep 2023 12:26 UTC

185 points

48 comments1 min readLW link

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

LawrenceC5 Sep 2023 19:19 UTC

209 points

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A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX

jacobjacob1 Sep 2023 4:03 UTC

174 points

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Report on Frontier Model Training

YafahEdelman30 Aug 2023 20:02 UTC

119 points

18 comments21 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition

Elizabeth27 Aug 2023 23:10 UTC

237 points

18 comments8 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research

evhub, Nicholas Schiefer, Carson Denison and Ethan Perez

8 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC

256 points

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Feedbackloop-first Rationality

Raemon7 Aug 2023 17:58 UTC

165 points

64 comments8 min readLW link

My current LK99 questions

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Aug 2023 22:48 UTC

205 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

Thoughts on sharing information about language model capabilities

paulfchristiano31 Jul 2023 16:04 UTC

186 points

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Self-driving car bets

paulfchristiano29 Jul 2023 18:10 UTC

227 points

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(sideways-view.com)

When can we trust model evaluations?

evhub28 Jul 2023 19:42 UTC

119 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

Henrik Karlsson27 Jul 2023 9:16 UTC

197 points

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(www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)

Accidentally Load Bearing

jefftk13 Jul 2023 16:10 UTC

261 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Consciousness as a conflationary alliance term

Andrew_Critch10 Jul 2023 8:09 UTC

188 points

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Grant applications and grand narratives

Elizabeth2 Jul 2023 0:16 UTC

188 points

20 comments6 min readLW link

When do “brains beat brawn” in Chess? An experiment

titotal28 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC

279 points

78 comments7 min readLW link

(titotal.substack.com)

Lessons On How To Get Things Right On The First Try

johnswentworth and David Lorell

19 Jun 2023 23:58 UTC

225 points

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Updates and Reflections on Optimal Exercise after Nearly a Decade

romeostevensit8 Jun 2023 23:02 UTC

179 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

What will GPT-2030 look like?

jsteinhardt7 Jun 2023 23:40 UTC

175 points

41 comments23 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)