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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lcApr 5, 2022, 12:19 AM

679 points

138 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Lies Told To Children

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 14, 2022, 11:25 AM

381 points

94 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Accounting For College Costs

johnswentworthApr 1, 2022, 5:28 PM

366 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

MIRI announces new “Death With Dignity” strategy

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 2, 2022, 12:43 AM

360 points

546 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

Optimality is the tiger, and agents are its teeth

VeedracApr 2, 2022, 12:46 AM

331 points

44 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Don’t die with dignity; instead play to your outs

Jeffrey LadishApr 6, 2022, 7:53 AM

281 points

60 comments5 min readLW link

New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models

1a3ornApr 1, 2022, 8:41 PM

246 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

A Quick Guide to Confronting Doom

RubyApr 13, 2022, 7:30 PM

243 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Editing Advice for LessWrong Users

JustisMillsApr 11, 2022, 4:32 PM

233 points

14 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Moses and the Class Struggle

lsusrApr 1, 2022, 11:55 AM

225 points

26 comments5 min readLW link

Replacing Karma with Good Heart Tokens (Worth $1!)

Ben Pace and habryka

Apr 1, 2022, 9:31 AM

225 points

173 comments4 min readLW link

Call For Distillers

johnswentworthApr 4, 2022, 6:25 PM

207 points

43 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

A concrete bet offer to those with short AGI timelines

Matthew Barnett and Tamay

Apr 9, 2022, 9:41 PM

199 points

120 comments5 min readLW link

We Are Conjecture, A New Alignment Research Startup

Connor LeahyApr 8, 2022, 11:40 AM

197 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

dalle2 comments

nostalgebraistApr 26, 2022, 5:30 AM

183 points

14 comments13 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Playing with DALL·E 2

Dave OrrApr 7, 2022, 6:49 PM

166 points

118 comments6 min readLW link

Everything I Need To Know About Takeoff Speeds I Learned From Air Conditioner Ratings On Amazon

johnswentworthApr 15, 2022, 7:05 PM

165 points

128 comments5 min readLW link

Slack gives you space to notice/reflect on subtle things

RaemonApr 24, 2022, 2:30 AM

158 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Emotionally Confronting a Probably-Doomed World: Against Motivation Via Dignity Points

TurnTroutApr 10, 2022, 6:45 PM

154 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Supervise Process, not Outcomes

stuhlmueller and jungofthewon

Apr 5, 2022, 10:18 PM

145 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

Refine: An Incubator for Conceptual Alignment Research Bets

adamShimiApr 15, 2022, 8:57 AM

144 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

“Pivotal Act” Intentions: Negative Consequences and Fallacious Arguments

Andrew_CritchApr 19, 2022, 8:25 PM

139 points

55 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Takeoff speeds have a huge effect on what it means to work on AI x-risk

BuckApr 13, 2022, 5:38 PM

139 points

27 comments2 min readLW link 2 reviews

Only Asking Real Questions

jefftkApr 14, 2022, 3:50 PM

130 points

45 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Explaining the Twitter Postrat Scene

Jacob FalkovichApr 5, 2022, 10:23 PM

128 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

High schoolers can apply to the Atlas Fellowship: $50k scholarship + summer program

sydneyApr 3, 2022, 12:53 AM

123 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Greyed Out Options

ozymandiasApr 4, 2022, 8:43 PM

122 points

12 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Moloch and the sandpile catastrophe

Eric RaymondApr 2, 2022, 3:35 PM

120 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Convincing All Capability Researchers

Logan RiggsApr 8, 2022, 5:40 PM

120 points

70 comments3 min readLW link

[RETRACTED] It’s time for EA leadership to pull the short-timelines fire alarm.

Not RelevantApr 8, 2022, 4:07 PM

115 points

166 comments4 min readLW link

Are smart people’s personal experiences biased against general intelligence?

tailcalledApr 21, 2022, 7:25 PM

115 points

43 comments3 min readLW link

A broad basin of attraction around human values?

Wei DaiApr 12, 2022, 5:15 AM

114 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Preregistration: Air Conditioner Test

johnswentworthApr 21, 2022, 7:48 PM

112 points

59 comments9 min readLW link

What Would A Fight Between Humanity And AGI Look Like?

johnswentworthApr 5, 2022, 8:03 PM

111 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)

HoldenKarnofskyApr 5, 2022, 6:30 PM

110 points

63 comments14 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Book review: Very Important People

Richard_NgoApr 2, 2022, 7:00 PM

108 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Google’s new 540 billion parameter language model

Matthew BarnettApr 4, 2022, 5:49 PM

108 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

(storage.googleapis.com)

Intuitions about solving hard problems

Richard_NgoApr 25, 2022, 3:29 PM

106 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

Testing PaLM prompts on GPT3

YitzApr 6, 2022, 5:21 AM

103 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

Anti-Corruption Market

lsusrApr 1, 2022, 12:57 PM

103 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers

adamShimiApr 7, 2022, 4:41 PM

100 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

DeepMind: The Podcast—Excerpts on AGI

WilliamKielyApr 7, 2022, 10:09 PM

99 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Giving calibrated time estimates can have social costs

Alex_AltairApr 3, 2022, 9:23 PM

99 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Clem’s Memo

abstractapplicApr 16, 2022, 11:59 AM

98 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #9: Again

ZviApr 5, 2022, 7:40 PM

97 points

37 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Good Heart Week: Extending the Experiment

Ben PaceApr 2, 2022, 7:13 AM

97 points

92 comments3 min readLW link

The case for Doing Something Else (if Alignment is doomed)

Rafael HarthApr 5, 2022, 5:52 PM

94 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Convince me that humanity is as doomed by AGI as Yudkowsky et al., seems to believe

YitzApr 10, 2022, 9:02 PM

92 points

141 comments2 min readLW link

Working Out in VR Really Works

Yonatan CaleApr 3, 2022, 6:42 PM

92 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

Code Generation as an AI risk setting

Not RelevantApr 17, 2022, 10:27 PM

91 points

16 comments2 min readLW link