The longest train­ing run

Aug 17, 2022, 5:18 PM
71 points
12 comments9 min readLW link
(epochai.org)

Paper read­ing as a Cargo Cult

jem-mosigAug 7, 2022, 7:50 AM
70 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Build­ing a Bugs List prompts

CFAR!DuncanAug 13, 2022, 8:00 AM
69 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Jack Clark on the re­al­ities of AI policy

Kaj_SotalaAug 7, 2022, 8:44 AM
68 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(threadreaderapp.com)

The Ex­pand­ing Mo­ral Cine­matic Universe

RaemonAug 28, 2022, 6:42 PM
67 points
9 comments14 min readLW link

AI art isn’t “about to shake things up”. It’s already here.

Davis_KingsleyAug 22, 2022, 11:17 AM
65 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

In Defense Of Mak­ing Money

George3d6Aug 18, 2022, 2:10 PM
65 points
13 comments7 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

Vingean Agency

abramdemskiAug 24, 2022, 8:08 PM
63 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

ACX Mee­tups Every­where List

Scott AlexanderAug 26, 2022, 6:12 PM
63 points
1 comment41 min readLW link

En­cul­tured AI Pre-plan­ning, Part 1: En­abling New Benchmarks

Aug 8, 2022, 10:44 PM
63 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Oops It’s Time To Over­throw the Or­ga­nizer Day!

ScrewtapeAug 18, 2022, 4:40 PM
62 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Steganog­ra­phy in Chain of Thought Reasoning

A RayAug 8, 2022, 3:47 AM
62 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Seek­ing PCK (Ped­a­gog­i­cal Con­tent Knowl­edge)

CFAR!DuncanAug 12, 2022, 4:15 AM
62 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

Seek­ing In­terns/​RAs for Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity Projects

Neel NandaAug 15, 2022, 7:11 AM
61 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Au­ton­omy as tak­ing re­spon­si­bil­ity for refer­ence maintenance

Ramana KumarAug 17, 2022, 12:50 PM
61 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Cur­rent The­o­ries of Consciousness

hohenheimAug 28, 2022, 5:55 PM
60 points
43 comments49 min readLW link

OpenAI’s Align­ment Plans

dkirmaniAug 24, 2022, 7:39 PM
60 points
17 comments5 min readLW link
(openai.com)

Anti-squat­ted AI x-risk do­mains index

plexAug 12, 2022, 12:01 PM
59 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Find­ing Goals in the World Model

Aug 22, 2022, 6:06 PM
59 points
8 comments13 min readLW link

The Prag­mas­cope Idea

johnswentworthAug 4, 2022, 9:52 PM
59 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

My thoughts on di­rect work (and join­ing LessWrong)

RobertMAug 16, 2022, 6:53 PM
58 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

How to plan for a rad­i­cally un­cer­tain fu­ture?

KerryAug 30, 2022, 2:14 AM
57 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (21 Aug − 27 Aug 22′)

Zoe WilliamsAug 30, 2022, 1:42 AM
57 points
4 comments12 min readLW link

How and why to turn ev­ery­thing into audio

Aug 11, 2022, 8:55 AM
55 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Refine’s First Blog Post Day

adamShimiAug 13, 2022, 10:23 AM
55 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Brain-like AGI pro­ject “ain­telope”

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 14, 2022, 4:33 PM
54 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to bet against civ­i­liza­tional ad­e­quacy?

Wei DaiAug 12, 2022, 11:33 PM
54 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

All the posts I will never write

Alexander Gietelink OldenzielAug 14, 2022, 6:29 PM
54 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

I missed the crux of the al­ign­ment prob­lem the whole time

zeshenAug 13, 2022, 10:11 AM
53 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Trans­former lan­guage mod­els are do­ing some­thing more general

NumendilAug 3, 2022, 9:13 PM
53 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Us­ing GPT-3 to aug­ment hu­man intelligence

Henrik KarlssonAug 10, 2022, 3:54 PM
52 points
8 comments18 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Turbocharging

CFAR!DuncanAug 2, 2022, 12:01 AM
52 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Vari­a­tional Bayesian methods

Ege ErdilAug 25, 2022, 8:49 PM
52 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

A Data limited future

Donald HobsonAug 6, 2022, 2:56 PM
52 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Squig­gle: Early Access

ozziegooenAug 3, 2022, 7:48 PM
51 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Gen­eral al­ign­ment properties

TurnTroutAug 8, 2022, 11:40 PM
51 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Po­laris, Five-Se­cond Ver­sions, and Thought Lengths

CFAR!DuncanAug 1, 2022, 7:14 AM
50 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

Againstness

CFAR!DuncanAug 2, 2022, 7:29 PM
50 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

On Car Seats as Contraception

ZviAug 22, 2022, 2:10 PM
49 points
15 comments35 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AGI Timelines Are Mostly Not Strate­gi­cally Rele­vant To Alignment

johnswentworthAug 23, 2022, 8:15 PM
48 points
34 comments1 min readLW link

Six weeks doesn’t make a habit

lynettebyeAug 6, 2022, 8:54 AM
48 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

The Shard The­ory Align­ment Scheme

David UdellAug 25, 2022, 4:52 AM
47 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Gra­di­ent de­scent doesn’t se­lect for in­ner search

Ivan VendrovAug 13, 2022, 4:15 AM
47 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

Pro­posal: Con­sider not us­ing dis­tance-di­rec­tion-di­men­sion words in ab­stract discussions

moridinamaelAug 9, 2022, 8:44 PM
46 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

The Fal­ling Drill

ScrewtapeAug 5, 2022, 12:08 AM
46 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 8/​18/​22: CDC Ad­mits Mistakes

ZviAug 18, 2022, 2:30 PM
46 points
9 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vol­un­teer to host a meetup!

mingyuanAug 21, 2022, 10:43 PM
44 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re­view: Amus­ing Our­selves to Death

L Rudolf LAug 20, 2022, 9:13 PM
44 points
7 comments16 min readLW link1 review
(www.strataoftheworld.com)

The Dumbest Pos­si­ble Gets There First

ArtaxerxesAug 13, 2022, 10:20 AM
44 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The Solomonoff prior is ma­lign. It’s not a big deal.

Charlie SteinerAug 25, 2022, 8:25 AM
43 points
9 comments7 min readLW link