Thomas Larsen

Karma: 2,821

I’m broadly interested in AI strategy and want to figure out the most effective interventions to get good AI outcomes.

AI 2027: What Superintelligence Looks Like

Daniel Kokotajlo, Thomas Larsen, elifland, Scott Alexander, Jonas V and romeo

Apr 3, 2025, 4:23 PM

643 points

218 comments41 min readLW link

(ai-2027.com)

Long-Term Future Fund Ask Us Anything (September 2023)

Linch, calebp99, abergal, habryka, Thomas Larsen, LawrenceC and Lauro Langosco

Aug 31, 2023, 12:28 AM

33 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Introducing the Center for AI Policy (& we’re hiring!)

Thomas LarsenAug 28, 2023, 9:17 PM

123 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

(www.aipolicy.us)

Long-Term Future Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

abergal, calebp99, Linch, habryka, Thomas Larsen and Vaniver

Aug 2, 2023, 7:54 AM

81 points

3 comments50 min readLW link

Challenge: construct a Gradient Hacker

Thomas Larsen and Thomas Kwa

Mar 9, 2023, 2:38 AM

39 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Wentworth and Larsen on buying time

Orpheus16, Thomas Larsen and johnswentworth

Jan 9, 2023, 9:31 PM

74 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

Ways to buy time

Orpheus16, OliviaJ and Thomas Larsen

Nov 12, 2022, 7:31 PM

34 points

23 comments12 min readLW link

Thomas Larsen’s Shortform

Thomas LarsenNov 8, 2022, 11:34 PM

6 points

30 comments LW link

Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time

Orpheus16, OliviaJ and Thomas Larsen

Nov 5, 2022, 8:43 PM

100 points

45 comments14 min readLW link

Possible miracles

Orpheus16 and Thomas Larsen

Oct 9, 2022, 6:17 PM

64 points

34 comments8 min readLW link

Neural Tangent Kernel Distillation

Thomas Larsen and Jeremy Gillen

Oct 5, 2022, 6:11 PM

76 points

20 comments8 min readLW link

7 traps that (we think) new alignment researchers often fall into

Orpheus16 and Thomas Larsen

Sep 27, 2022, 11:13 PM

176 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Alignment Org Cheat Sheet

Orpheus16 and Thomas Larsen

Sep 20, 2022, 5:36 PM

70 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Inner Alignment via Superpowers

JamesH, Thomas Larsen and Jeremy Gillen

Aug 30, 2022, 8:01 PM

37 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(My understanding of) What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why

Thomas Larsen and elifland

Aug 29, 2022, 1:23 AM

413 points

90 comments37 min readLW link 1 review

Finding Goals in the World Model

Jeremy Gillen, JamesH and Thomas Larsen

Aug 22, 2022, 6:06 PM

59 points

8 comments13 min readLW link

The Core of the Alignment Problem is...

Thomas Larsen, Jeremy Gillen and JamesH

Aug 17, 2022, 8:07 PM

76 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Project proposal: Testing the IBP definition of agent

Jeremy Gillen, Thomas Larsen and JamesH

Aug 9, 2022, 1:09 AM

21 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Broad Basins and Data Compression

Jeremy Gillen, Stephen Fowler and Thomas Larsen

Aug 8, 2022, 8:33 PM

33 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Intuitive Explanation of AIXI

Thomas LarsenJun 12, 2022, 9:41 PM

22 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

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