A non-mag­i­cal ex­pla­na­tion of Jeffrey Epstein

lcDec 28, 2021, 9:15 PM
329 points
59 comments15 min readLW link1 review

The Plan

johnswentworthDec 10, 2021, 11:41 PM
260 points
78 comments14 min readLW link1 review

Omicron: My Cur­rent Model

ZviDec 28, 2021, 5:10 PM
253 points
72 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mo­ral­ity is Scary

Wei DaiDec 2, 2021, 6:35 AM
230 points
116 comments4 min readLW link1 review

ARC’s first tech­ni­cal re­port: Elic­it­ing La­tent Knowledge

Dec 14, 2021, 8:09 PM
228 points
90 comments1 min readLW link3 reviews
(docs.google.com)

Zvi’s Thoughts on the Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing Fund (SFF)

ZviDec 14, 2021, 2:30 PM
193 points
65 comments64 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Launch: The Eng­ines of Cognition

Ben PaceDec 21, 2021, 7:24 AM
174 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 23, 2021, 2:06 PM
168 points
28 comments73 min readLW link

Worst-case think­ing in AI alignment

BuckDec 23, 2021, 1:29 AM
167 points
18 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Biol­ogy-In­spired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 1, 2021, 10:35 PM
158 points
142 comments65 min readLW link1 review

Dear Self; We Need To Talk About So­cial Media

ElizabethDec 7, 2021, 12:40 AM
157 points
19 comments10 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

Omicron Post #7

ZviDec 16, 2021, 5:30 PM
155 points
41 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #4

ZviDec 6, 2021, 5:00 PM
153 points
66 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­ply to Eliezer on Biolog­i­cal Anchors

HoldenKarnofskyDec 23, 2021, 4:15 PM
149 points
46 comments15 min readLW link

Trans­former Circuits

evhubDec 22, 2021, 9:09 PM
144 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(transformer-circuits.pub)

Moore’s Law, AI, and the pace of progress

VeedracDec 11, 2021, 3:02 AM
128 points
38 comments24 min readLW link

My Overview of the AI Align­ment Land­scape: A Bird’s Eye View

Neel NandaDec 15, 2021, 11:44 PM
127 points
9 comments15 min readLW link

COVID Skep­ti­cism Isn’t About Science

jaspaxDec 29, 2021, 5:53 PM
127 points
76 comments7 min readLW link

Law of No Evidence

ZviDec 20, 2021, 1:50 PM
122 points
20 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Per­pet­ual Dick­en­sian Poverty?

jefftkDec 21, 2021, 1:30 PM
120 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ex­pe­riences rais­ing chil­dren in shared housing

juliawiseDec 21, 2021, 5:09 PM
117 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

In Defense of At­tempt­ing Hard Things, and my story of the Lev­er­age ecosystem

CathleenDec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM
115 points
43 commentsLW link2 reviews
(cathleensdiscoveries.com)

The 2020 Review

RaemonDec 2, 2021, 12:39 AM
112 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

In­ter­net Liter­acy Atrophy

ElizabethDec 26, 2021, 12:30 PM
111 points
49 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Con­ver­sa­tion on tech­nol­ogy fore­cast­ing and gradualism

Dec 9, 2021, 9:23 PM
108 points
30 comments31 min readLW link

Merry Christmas

lsusrDec 26, 2021, 7:03 AM
107 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Per­ish­able Knowledge

lsusrDec 18, 2021, 5:53 AM
104 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Post #5

ZviDec 9, 2021, 9:10 PM
102 points
18 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two (very differ­ent) kinds of donors

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Dec 22, 2021, 1:43 AM
101 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing Yud­kowsky on Deep vs Shal­low Knowledge

adamShimiDec 5, 2021, 5:32 PM
100 points
32 comments24 min readLW link

Omicron Post #8

ZviDec 20, 2021, 11:10 PM
96 points
33 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ten Minutes with Sam Altman

lsusrDec 28, 2021, 7:32 AM
91 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

More Chris­ti­ano, Co­tra, and Yud­kowsky on AI progress

Dec 6, 2021, 8:33 PM
91 points
28 comments40 min readLW link

Shul­man and Yud­kowsky on AI progress

Dec 3, 2021, 8:05 PM
90 points
16 comments20 min readLW link

Omicron Post #9

ZviDec 23, 2021, 9:50 PM
89 points
11 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #6

ZviDec 13, 2021, 6:00 PM
89 points
30 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

There is es­sen­tially one best-val­i­dated the­ory of cog­ni­tion.

abramdemskiDec 10, 2021, 3:51 PM
89 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Deep­mind’s Go­pher—more pow­er­ful than GPT-3

hathDec 8, 2021, 5:06 PM
86 points
26 commentsLW link
(deepmind.com)

A Sum­mary Of An­thropic’s First Paper

Sam RingerDec 30, 2021, 12:48 AM
85 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

ML Align­ment The­ory Pro­gram un­der Evan Hubinger

Dec 6, 2021, 12:03 AM
82 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Pri­vacy and Manipulation

RaemonDec 5, 2021, 12:39 AM
80 points
41 comments8 min readLW link

Re­views of “Is power-seek­ing AI an ex­is­ten­tial risk?”

Joe CarlsmithDec 16, 2021, 8:48 PM
80 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Be­hav­ior Clon­ing is Miscalibrated

leogaoDec 5, 2021, 1:36 AM
78 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong dis­cussed in New Ideas in Psy­chol­ogy ar­ti­cle

rogersbaconDec 9, 2021, 9:01 PM
76 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Risks from AI persuasion

Beth BarnesDec 24, 2021, 1:48 AM
76 points
15 comments31 min readLW link

Lan­guage Model Align­ment Re­search Internships

Ethan PerezDec 13, 2021, 7:53 PM
74 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Teaser: Hard-cod­ing Trans­former Models

MadHatterDec 12, 2021, 10:04 PM
74 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where can one learn deep in­tu­itions about in­for­ma­tion the­ory?

ValentineDec 16, 2021, 3:47 PM
72 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

COVID and the holidays

Connor_FlexmanDec 8, 2021, 11:13 PM
71 points
31 comments9 min readLW link

Some ab­stract, non-tech­ni­cal rea­sons to be non-max­i­mally-pes­simistic about AI alignment

Rob BensingerDec 12, 2021, 2:08 AM
70 points
35 comments7 min readLW link