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A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein

lc28 Dec 2021 21:15 UTC

328 points

59 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

The Plan

johnswentworth10 Dec 2021 23:41 UTC

260 points

78 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Omicron: My Current Model

Zvi28 Dec 2021 17:10 UTC

253 points

72 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

ARC’s first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge

paulfchristiano, Mark Xu and Ajeya Cotra

14 Dec 2021 20:09 UTC

228 points

90 comments1 min readLW link 3 reviews

(docs.google.com)

Morality is Scary

Wei Dai2 Dec 2021 6:35 UTC

219 points

116 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

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

Zvi14 Dec 2021 14:30 UTC

193 points

65 comments64 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Launch: The Engines of Cognition

Ben Pace21 Dec 2021 7:24 UTC

174 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC

168 points

28 comments73 min readLW link

Worst-case thinking in AI alignment

Buck23 Dec 2021 1:29 UTC

166 points

18 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Biology-Inspired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Dec 2021 22:35 UTC

157 points

142 comments65 min readLW link 1 review

Dear Self; We Need To Talk About Social Media

Elizabeth7 Dec 2021 0:40 UTC

156 points

19 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Omicron Post #7

Zvi16 Dec 2021 17:30 UTC

155 points

41 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #4

Zvi6 Dec 2021 17:00 UTC

153 points

66 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Reply to Eliezer on Biological Anchors

HoldenKarnofsky23 Dec 2021 16:15 UTC

149 points

46 comments15 min readLW link

Transformer Circuits

evhub22 Dec 2021 21:09 UTC

144 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(transformer-circuits.pub)

COVID Skepticism Isn’t About Science

jaspax29 Dec 2021 17:53 UTC

128 points

76 comments7 min readLW link

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

Veedrac11 Dec 2021 3:02 UTC

128 points

38 comments24 min readLW link

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

Neel Nanda15 Dec 2021 23:44 UTC

127 points

9 comments15 min readLW link

Law of No Evidence

Zvi20 Dec 2021 13:50 UTC

122 points

20 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Perpetual Dickensian Poverty?

jefftk21 Dec 2021 13:30 UTC

119 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Experiences raising children in shared housing

juliawise21 Dec 2021 17:09 UTC

117 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

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

Cathleen17 Dec 2021 23:08 UTC

115 points

43 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(cathleensdiscoveries.com)

The 2020 Review

Raemon2 Dec 2021 0:39 UTC

112 points

39 comments6 min readLW link

Internet Literacy Atrophy

Elizabeth26 Dec 2021 12:30 UTC

111 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Conversation on technology forecasting and gradualism

Richard_Ngo, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rohin Shah and Rob Bensinger

9 Dec 2021 21:23 UTC

108 points

30 comments31 min readLW link

Merry Christmas

lsusr26 Dec 2021 7:03 UTC

107 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Perishable Knowledge

lsusr18 Dec 2021 5:53 UTC

103 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Post #5

Zvi9 Dec 2021 21:10 UTC

102 points

18 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two (very different) kinds of donors

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)22 Dec 2021 1:43 UTC

101 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Interpreting Yudkowsky on Deep vs Shallow Knowledge

adamShimi5 Dec 2021 17:32 UTC

100 points

32 comments24 min readLW link

Omicron Post #8

Zvi20 Dec 2021 23:10 UTC

96 points

33 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

More Christiano, Cotra, and Yudkowsky on AI progress

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Ajeya Cotra

6 Dec 2021 20:33 UTC

91 points

28 comments40 min readLW link

Ten Minutes with Sam Altman

lsusr28 Dec 2021 7:32 UTC

91 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Shulman and Yudkowsky on AI progress

Eliezer Yudkowsky and CarlShulman

3 Dec 2021 20:05 UTC

90 points

16 comments20 min readLW link

Omicron Post #6

Zvi13 Dec 2021 18:00 UTC

89 points

30 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.

abramdemski10 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC

89 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Post #9

Zvi23 Dec 2021 21:50 UTC

89 points

11 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Deepmind’s Gopher—more powerful than GPT-3

hath8 Dec 2021 17:06 UTC

86 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

A Summary Of Anthropic’s First Paper

Sam Ringer30 Dec 2021 0:48 UTC

85 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

ML Alignment Theory Program under Evan Hubinger

ozhang, evhub and Victor W

6 Dec 2021 0:03 UTC

82 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

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

Joe Carlsmith16 Dec 2021 20:48 UTC

80 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Privacy and Manipulation

Raemon5 Dec 2021 0:39 UTC

79 points

41 comments8 min readLW link

Behavior Cloning is Miscalibrated

leogao5 Dec 2021 1:36 UTC

77 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong discussed in New Ideas in Psychology article

rogersbacon9 Dec 2021 21:01 UTC

76 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Risks from AI persuasion

Beth Barnes24 Dec 2021 1:48 UTC

76 points

15 comments31 min readLW link

Language Model Alignment Research Internships

Ethan Perez13 Dec 2021 19:53 UTC

74 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Teaser: Hard-coding Transformer Models

MadHatter12 Dec 2021 22:04 UTC

74 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

COVID and the holidays

Connor_Flexman8 Dec 2021 23:13 UTC

71 points

31 comments9 min readLW link

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

Valentine16 Dec 2021 15:47 UTC

70 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

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

Rob Bensinger12 Dec 2021 2:08 UTC

70 points

35 comments7 min readLW link