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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

678 points

138 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Lies Told To Children

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2022 11:25 UTC

377 points

94 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Accounting For College Costs

johnswentworth1 Apr 2022 17:28 UTC

363 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

MIRI announces new “Death With Dignity” strategy

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Apr 2022 0:43 UTC

344 points

545 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

Optimality is the tiger, and agents are its teeth

Veedrac2 Apr 2022 0:46 UTC

327 points

44 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

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

Jeffrey Ladish6 Apr 2022 7:53 UTC

280 points

60 comments5 min readLW link

New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models

1a3orn1 Apr 2022 20:41 UTC

246 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

A Quick Guide to Confronting Doom

Ruby13 Apr 2022 19:30 UTC

240 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Editing Advice for LessWrong Users

JustisMills11 Apr 2022 16:32 UTC

232 points

14 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

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

Ben Pace and habryka

1 Apr 2022 9:31 UTC

224 points

173 comments4 min readLW link

Moses and the Class Struggle

lsusr1 Apr 2022 11:55 UTC

223 points

26 comments5 min readLW link

Call For Distillers

johnswentworth4 Apr 2022 18:25 UTC

207 points

43 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

A concrete bet offer to those with short AGI timelines

Matthew Barnett and Tamay

9 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

199 points

120 comments5 min readLW link

We Are Conjecture, A New Alignment Research Startup

Connor Leahy8 Apr 2022 11:40 UTC

197 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

dalle2 comments

nostalgebraist26 Apr 2022 5:30 UTC

183 points

14 comments13 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Playing with DALL·E 2

Dave Orr7 Apr 2022 18:49 UTC

166 points

118 comments6 min readLW link

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

johnswentworth15 Apr 2022 19:05 UTC

165 points

128 comments5 min readLW link

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

TurnTrout10 Apr 2022 18:45 UTC

154 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Slack gives you space to notice/reflect on subtle things

Raemon24 Apr 2022 2:30 UTC

152 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Supervise Process, not Outcomes

stuhlmueller and jungofthewon

5 Apr 2022 22:18 UTC

145 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

Refine: An Incubator for Conceptual Alignment Research Bets

adamShimi15 Apr 2022 8:57 UTC

144 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

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

Buck13 Apr 2022 17:38 UTC

139 points

27 comments2 min readLW link 2 reviews

“Pivotal Act” Intentions: Negative Consequences and Fallacious Arguments

Andrew_Critch19 Apr 2022 20:25 UTC

139 points

55 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Only Asking Real Questions

jefftk14 Apr 2022 15:50 UTC

129 points

45 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Explaining the Twitter Postrat Scene

Jacob Falkovich5 Apr 2022 22:23 UTC

124 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

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

sydney3 Apr 2022 0:53 UTC

123 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Greyed Out Options

ozymandias4 Apr 2022 20:43 UTC

122 points

12 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Moloch and the sandpile catastrophe

Eric Raymond2 Apr 2022 15:35 UTC

120 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Convincing All Capability Researchers

Logan Riggs8 Apr 2022 17:40 UTC

120 points

70 comments3 min readLW link

A broad basin of attraction around human values?

Wei Dai12 Apr 2022 5:15 UTC

114 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

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

tailcalled21 Apr 2022 19:25 UTC

114 points

43 comments3 min readLW link

Preregistration: Air Conditioner Test

johnswentworth21 Apr 2022 19:48 UTC

112 points

59 comments9 min readLW link

Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)

HoldenKarnofsky5 Apr 2022 18:30 UTC

110 points

63 comments14 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

What Would A Fight Between Humanity And AGI Look Like?

johnswentworth5 Apr 2022 20:03 UTC

109 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

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

Not Relevant8 Apr 2022 16:07 UTC

109 points

163 comments4 min readLW link

Book review: Very Important People

Richard_Ngo2 Apr 2022 19:00 UTC

108 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Google’s new 540 billion parameter language model

Matthew Barnett4 Apr 2022 17:49 UTC

108 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

(storage.googleapis.com)

Intuitions about solving hard problems

Richard_Ngo25 Apr 2022 15:29 UTC

105 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

Testing PaLM prompts on GPT3

Yitz6 Apr 2022 5:21 UTC

103 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

Anti-Corruption Market

lsusr1 Apr 2022 12:57 UTC

101 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers

adamShimi7 Apr 2022 16:41 UTC

100 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

DeepMind: The Podcast—Excerpts on AGI

WilliamKiely7 Apr 2022 22:09 UTC

99 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Giving calibrated time estimates can have social costs

Alex_Altair3 Apr 2022 21:23 UTC

99 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Clem’s Memo

abstractapplic16 Apr 2022 11:59 UTC

98 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Good Heart Week: Extending the Experiment

Ben Pace2 Apr 2022 7:13 UTC

97 points

92 comments3 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #9: Again

Zvi5 Apr 2022 19:40 UTC

97 points

37 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Rafael Harth5 Apr 2022 17:52 UTC

93 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

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

Yitz10 Apr 2022 21:02 UTC

92 points

141 comments2 min readLW link

Working Out in VR Really Works

Yonatan Cale3 Apr 2022 18:42 UTC

92 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

Code Generation as an AI risk setting

Not Relevant17 Apr 2022 22:27 UTC

91 points

16 comments2 min readLW link