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The Last Paperclip

Logan ZoellnerMay 12, 2022, 7:25 PM

63 points

15 comments18 min readLW link

Brass Puppet

abramdemskiMay 26, 2022, 5:42 PM

63 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Against Time in Agent Models

johnswentworthMay 13, 2022, 7:55 PM

62 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Information Loss --> Basin flatness

Vivek HebbarMay 21, 2022, 12:58 PM

62 points

31 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with the recent monkeypox cases?

johnswentworthMay 18, 2022, 10:06 PM

61 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Jobs: Help scale up LM alignment research at NYU

Sam BowmanMay 9, 2022, 2:12 PM

60 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?

Logan ZoellnerMay 1, 2022, 10:59 AM

60 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Crises Don’t Need Your Software

GabrielExistsMay 10, 2022, 9:06 PM

59 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Interpretability’s Alignment-Solving Potential: Analysis of 7 Scenarios

Evan R. MurphyMay 12, 2022, 8:01 PM

58 points

0 comments59 min readLW link

Complex Systems for AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #3]

Dan H and TW123

May 24, 2022, 12:00 AM

58 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

Deconfusing Landauer’s Principle

EuanMcLeanMay 27, 2022, 5:58 PM

58 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

Formula for a Shortage

ZviMay 19, 2022, 7:30 PM

57 points

9 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why I’m Optimistic About Near-Term AI Risk

harsimonyMay 15, 2022, 11:05 PM

57 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

The No Free Lunch theorems and their Razor

Adrià Garriga-alonsoMay 24, 2022, 6:40 AM

56 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Agency As a Natural Abstraction

Thane RuthenisMay 13, 2022, 6:02 PM

55 points

9 comments13 min readLW link

Mandatory Post About Monkeypox

ZviMay 24, 2022, 8:00 PM

54 points

17 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

China Covid #3

ZviMay 16, 2022, 5:40 PM

54 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What Would It Cost to Build a World-Class Dredging Vessel in America?

ZviMay 2, 2022, 5:47 PM

54 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 5/19/22: The Law of Five

ZviMay 19, 2022, 12:20 PM

53 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How curing aging could help progress

jasoncrawfordMay 22, 2022, 10:43 PM

52 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Innovation, Stagnation, and Paratrooper Operations

Davis_KingsleyMay 6, 2022, 8:59 PM

52 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

Perform Tractable Research While Avoiding Capabilities Externalities [Pragmatic AI Safety #4]

Dan H and TW123

May 30, 2022, 8:25 PM

51 points

3 comments25 min readLW link

Reading the ethicists: A review of articles on AI in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics

Charlie SteinerMay 18, 2022, 8:52 PM

50 points

8 comments14 min readLW link

The “Adults in the Room”

David UdellMay 17, 2022, 4:03 AM

50 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Range and Forecasting Accuracy

niplavMay 27, 2022, 6:47 PM

48 points

22 comments41 min readLW link 1 review

Here’s a List of Some of My Ideas for Blog Posts

lsusrMay 26, 2022, 5:35 AM

48 points

7 comments30 min readLW link

Covid 5/26/22: I Guess I Should Respond To This Week’s Long Covid Study

ZviMay 26, 2022, 5:30 PM

46 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 14. Controlled AGI

Steven ByrnesMay 11, 2022, 1:17 PM

45 points

25 comments20 min readLW link

Monkeypox: explaining the jump to Europe

DirectedEvolutionMay 23, 2022, 9:53 AM

44 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

How to get into AI safety research

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 18, 2022, 6:05 PM

44 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

A Quick Note on AI Scaling Asymptotes

alyssavanceMay 25, 2022, 2:55 AM

44 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

What is a Glowfic?

Wes FMay 4, 2022, 4:38 PM

44 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The AI Countdown Clock

River LewisMay 15, 2022, 6:37 PM

43 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

(heytraveler.substack.com)

Predicting for charity

Austin ChenMay 2, 2022, 10:59 PM

43 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Gato’s Generalisation: Predictions and Experiments I’d Like to See

Oliver SourbutMay 18, 2022, 7:15 AM

43 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Divination: Nine Black Doves

aphyerMay 6, 2022, 11:02 PM

42 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Gradations of Agency

Daniel KokotajloMay 23, 2022, 1:10 AM

41 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Updating Utility Functions

JustinShovelain and Joar Skalse

May 9, 2022, 9:44 AM

41 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Understanding Selection Theorems

adamkMay 28, 2022, 1:49 AM

41 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Elementary Infra-Bayesianism

JanMay 8, 2022, 12:23 PM

41 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Are human imitators superhuman models with explicit constraints on capabilities?

Chris van MerwijkMay 22, 2022, 12:46 PM

41 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Problem With The Current State of AGI Definitions

YitzMay 29, 2022, 1:58 PM

40 points

22 comments8 min readLW link

Infra-Bayesianism Distillation: Realizability and Decision Theory

Thomas LarsenMay 26, 2022, 9:57 PM

40 points

9 comments18 min readLW link

Your Utility Function is Your Utility Function

David UdellMay 6, 2022, 7:15 AM

39 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Write posts business-like, not story-like

Shmi5 May 2022 20:13 UTC

39 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Stuff I might do if I had covid

KatjaGrace11 May 2022 0:00 UTC

39 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] What’s The Best Place to Look When You Have A Question About x?

Chloe Thompson25 May 2022 13:51 UTC

39 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 5/5/22: A Lack of Care

Zvi5 May 2022 15:10 UTC

37 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Fighting in various places for a really long time

KatjaGrace11 May 2022 1:50 UTC

36 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

What are the best examples of catastrophic resource shortages?

jasoncrawford4 May 2022 14:37 UTC

36 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)