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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC

921 points

704 comments30 min readLW link 3 reviews

Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC

897 points

223 comments18 min readLW link 2 reviews

It’s Probably Not Lithium

Natália28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC

442 points

187 comments28 min readLW link 1 review

Security Mindset: Lessons from 20+ years of Software Security Failures Relevant to AGI Alignment

elspood21 Jun 2022 23:55 UTC

362 points

42 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

What Are You Tracking In Your Head?

johnswentworth28 Jun 2022 19:30 UTC

285 points

83 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

A central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization, and the sharp left turn

So8res15 Jun 2022 13:10 UTC

271 points

54 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

Humans are very reliable agents

alyssavance16 Jun 2022 22:02 UTC

269 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

Comment reply: my low-quality thoughts on why CFAR didn’t get farther with a “real/efficacious art of rationality”

AnnaSalamon9 Jun 2022 2:12 UTC

260 points

63 comments17 min readLW link 1 review

Slow motion videos as AI risk intuition pumps

Andrew_Critch14 Jun 2022 19:31 UTC

238 points

41 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Contra Hofstadter on GPT-3 Nonsense

rictic15 Jun 2022 21:53 UTC

236 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

AGI Safety FAQ / all-dumb-questions-allowed thread

Aryeh Englander7 Jun 2022 5:47 UTC

227 points

526 comments4 min readLW link

The prototypical catastrophic AI action is getting root access to its datacenter

Buck2 Jun 2022 23:46 UTC

180 points

13 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

The inordinately slow spread of good AGI conversations in ML

Rob Bensinger21 Jun 2022 16:09 UTC

173 points

62 comments8 min readLW link

Announcing the Inverse Scaling Prize ($250k Prize Pool)

Ethan Perez, Ian McKenzie and Sam Bowman

27 Jun 2022 15:58 UTC

171 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined

HoldenKarnofsky9 Jun 2022 15:50 UTC

170 points

42 comments17 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

On A List of Lethalities

Zvi13 Jun 2022 12:30 UTC

165 points

50 comments54 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A transparency and interpretability tech tree

evhub16 Jun 2022 23:44 UTC

163 points

11 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

Why all the fuss about recursive self-improvement?

So8res12 Jun 2022 20:53 UTC

158 points

62 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Godzilla Strategies

johnswentworth11 Jun 2022 15:44 UTC

158 points

71 comments3 min readLW link

Deep Learning Systems Are Not Less Interpretable Than Logic/Probability/Etc

johnswentworth4 Jun 2022 5:41 UTC

157 points

55 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Nonprofit Boards are Weird

HoldenKarnofsky23 Jun 2022 14:40 UTC

156 points

26 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

(www.cold-takes.com)

Limits to Legibility

Jan_Kulveit29 Jun 2022 17:42 UTC

155 points

11 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

LessWrong Has Agree/Disagree Voting On All New Comment Threads

Ben Pace24 Jun 2022 0:43 UTC

154 points

217 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)8 Jun 2022 8:32 UTC

152 points

28 comments21 min readLW link

Public beliefs vs. Private beliefs

Eli Tyre1 Jun 2022 21:33 UTC

144 points

30 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] why assume AGIs will optimize for fixed goals?

nostalgebraist10 Jun 2022 1:28 UTC

144 points

57 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

Steam

abramdemski20 Jun 2022 17:38 UTC

142 points

13 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

A descriptive, not prescriptive, overview of current AI Alignment Research

Jan, Logan Riggs, jacquesthibs and janus

6 Jun 2022 21:59 UTC

139 points

21 comments7 min readLW link

Announcing the LessWrong Curated Podcast

Ben Pace and Solenoid_Entity

22 Jun 2022 22:16 UTC

137 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

AI-Written Critiques Help Humans Notice Flaws

paulfchristiano25 Jun 2022 17:22 UTC

137 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Contra EY: Can AGI destroy us without trial & error?

Nikita Sokolsky13 Jun 2022 18:26 UTC

136 points

72 comments15 min readLW link

Will Capabilities Generalise More?

Ramana Kumar29 Jun 2022 17:12 UTC

133 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

Intergenerational trauma impeding cooperative existential safety efforts

Andrew_Critch3 Jun 2022 8:13 UTC

129 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

Confused why a “capabilities research is good for alignment progress” position isn’t discussed more

Kaj_Sotala2 Jun 2022 21:41 UTC

129 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

“Pivotal Acts” means something specific

Raemon7 Jun 2022 21:56 UTC

127 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Let’s See You Write That Corrigibility Tag

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Jun 2022 21:11 UTC

123 points

70 comments1 min readLW link

Scott Aaronson is joining OpenAI to work on AI safety

peterbarnett18 Jun 2022 4:06 UTC

117 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

(scottaaronson.blog)

Leaving Google, Joining the Nucleic Acid Observatory

jefftk10 Jun 2022 17:00 UTC

114 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

CFAR Handbook: Introduction

CFAR!Duncan28 Jun 2022 16:53 UTC

114 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Conversation with Eliezer: What do you want the system to do?

Akash25 Jun 2022 17:36 UTC

113 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

Who models the models that model models? An exploration of GPT-3′s in-context model fitting ability

Lovre7 Jun 2022 19:37 UTC

112 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

Relationship Advice Repository

Ruby20 Jun 2022 14:39 UTC

108 points

36 comments38 min readLW link

Yes, AI research will be substantially curtailed if a lab causes a major disaster

lc14 Jun 2022 22:17 UTC

103 points

31 comments2 min readLW link

wrapper-minds are the enemy

nostalgebraist17 Jun 2022 1:58 UTC

102 points

43 comments8 min readLW link

The Mountain Troll

lsusr11 Jun 2022 9:14 UTC

101 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

Units of Exchange

CFAR!Duncan28 Jun 2022 16:53 UTC

99 points

28 comments11 min readLW link

Pivotal outcomes and pivotal processes

Andrew_Critch17 Jun 2022 23:43 UTC

97 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

Announcing Epoch: A research organization investigating the road to Transformative AI

Jsevillamol, Pablo Villalobos, Tamay, lennart, Marius Hobbhahn and anson.ho

27 Jun 2022 13:55 UTC

97 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

Contest: An Alien Message

DaemonicSigil27 Jun 2022 5:54 UTC

95 points

100 comments1 min readLW link

My current take on Internal Family Systems “parts”

Kaj_Sotala26 Jun 2022 17:40 UTC

95 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)