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Simulators

janus2 Sep 2022 12:45 UTC

615 points

168 comments41 min readLW link 8 reviews

(generative.ink)

The Redaction Machine

Ben20 Sep 2022 22:03 UTC

502 points

48 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

Losing the root for the tree

Adam Zerner20 Sep 2022 4:53 UTC

475 points

31 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring

johnswentworth20 Sep 2022 20:04 UTC

401 points

44 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Why I think strong general AI is coming soon

porby28 Sep 2022 5:40 UTC

336 points

141 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

The shard theory of human values

Quintin Pope and TurnTrout

4 Sep 2022 4:28 UTC

254 points

67 comments24 min readLW link 2 reviews

Announcing Balsa Research

Zvi25 Sep 2022 22:50 UTC

235 points

64 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How I buy things when Lightcone wants them fast

jacobjacob26 Sep 2022 5:02 UTC

223 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

How my team at Lightcone sometimes gets stuff done

jacobjacob19 Sep 2022 5:47 UTC

192 points

43 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

7 traps that (we think) new alignment researchers often fall into

Akash and Thomas Larsen

27 Sep 2022 23:13 UTC

176 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Do bamboos set themselves on fire?

Malmesbury19 Sep 2022 15:34 UTC

170 points

14 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Most People Start With The Same Few Bad Ideas

johnswentworth9 Sep 2022 0:29 UTC

165 points

30 comments3 min readLW link

The Onion Test for Personal and Institutional Honesty

chanamessinger and Andrew_Critch

27 Sep 2022 15:26 UTC

162 points

31 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Threat-Resistant Bargaining Megapost: Introducing the ROSE Value

Diffractor28 Sep 2022 1:20 UTC

162 points

19 comments53 min readLW link 2 reviews

Public-facing Censorship Is Safety Theater, Causing Reputational Damage

Yitz23 Sep 2022 5:08 UTC

149 points

42 comments6 min readLW link

AI coordination needs clear wins

evhub1 Sep 2022 23:41 UTC

147 points

16 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Interpreting Neural Networks through the Polytope Lens

Sid Black, Lee Sharkey, Connor Leahy, beren, CRG, merizian, Eric Winsor and Dan Braun

23 Sep 2022 17:58 UTC

144 points

29 comments33 min readLW link

Takeaways from our robust injury classifier project [Redwood Research]

dmz17 Sep 2022 3:55 UTC

143 points

12 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Understanding Infra-Bayesianism: A Beginner-Friendly Video Series

Jack Parker and Connall Garrod

22 Sep 2022 13:25 UTC

140 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Monitoring for deceptive alignment

evhub8 Sep 2022 23:07 UTC

135 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

Orexin and the quest for more waking hours

ChristianKl24 Sep 2022 19:54 UTC

131 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

Gene drives: why the wait?

Metacelsus19 Sep 2022 23:37 UTC

125 points

50 comments3 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

An Update on Academia vs. Industry (one year into my faculty job)

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)3 Sep 2022 20:43 UTC

122 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

LW Petrov Day 2022 (Monday, 9/26)

Ruby22 Sep 2022 2:56 UTC

121 points

111 comments5 min readLW link

Quintin’s alignment papers roundup—week 1

Quintin Pope10 Sep 2022 6:39 UTC

120 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Announcing $5,000 bounty for (responsibly) ending malaria

lc24 Sep 2022 4:28 UTC

116 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

Rejected Early Drafts of Newcomb’s Problem

zahmahkibo6 Sep 2022 19:04 UTC

112 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day Retrospective: 2022

Ruby28 Sep 2022 22:16 UTC

107 points

41 comments4 min readLW link

Understanding Conjecture: Notes from Connor Leahy interview

Akash15 Sep 2022 18:37 UTC

107 points

23 comments15 min readLW link

Funding is All You Need: Getting into Grad School by Hacking the NSF GRFP Fellowship

hapanin22 Sep 2022 21:39 UTC

106 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

My emotional reaction to the current funding situation

Sam F. Brown9 Sep 2022 22:02 UTC

105 points

36 comments5 min readLW link

(sambrown.eu)

Ukraine Post #12

Zvi22 Sep 2022 14:40 UTC

104 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Evaluations project @ ARC is hiring a researcher and a webdev/engineer

Beth Barnes9 Sep 2022 22:46 UTC

99 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

[Linkpost] A survey on over 300 works about interpretability in deep networks

scasper12 Sep 2022 19:07 UTC

97 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Inverse Scaling Prize: Round 1 Winners

Ethan Perez and Ian McKenzie

26 Sep 2022 19:57 UTC

93 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(irmckenzie.co.uk)

The ethics of reclining airplane seats

braces4 Sep 2022 17:59 UTC

93 points

70 comments1 min readLW link

Linkpost: Github Copilot productivity experiment

Daniel Kokotajlo8 Sep 2022 4:41 UTC

88 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(github.blog)

Why we’re not founding a human-data-for-alignment org

L Rudolf L and Matt Putz

27 Sep 2022 20:14 UTC

88 points

5 comments29 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Let’s Terraform West Texas

blackstampede4 Sep 2022 16:24 UTC

87 points

33 comments5 min readLW link

Nearcast-based “deployment problem” analysis

HoldenKarnofsky21 Sep 2022 18:52 UTC

85 points

2 comments26 min readLW link

Towards deconfusing wireheading and reward maximization

leogao21 Sep 2022 0:36 UTC

81 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Dath Ilan’s Views on Stopgap Corrigibility

David Udell22 Sep 2022 16:16 UTC

78 points

19 comments13 min readLW link

(www.glowfic.com)

AI Safety and Neighboring Communities: A Quick-Start Guide, as of Summer 2022

Sam Bowman1 Sep 2022 19:15 UTC

76 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Bugs or Features?

qbolec3 Sep 2022 7:04 UTC

73 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Builder/Breaker for Deconfusion

abramdemski29 Sep 2022 17:36 UTC

72 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Alignment Org Cheat Sheet

Akash and Thomas Larsen

20 Sep 2022 17:36 UTC

70 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Toy Models of Superposition

evhub21 Sep 2022 23:48 UTC

69 points

4 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(transformer-circuits.pub)

Solar Blackout Resistance

jefftk8 Sep 2022 13:30 UTC

69 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Ambiguity in Prediction Market Resolution is Harmful

aphyer26 Sep 2022 16:22 UTC

69 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Path dependence in ML inductive biases

Vivek Hebbar and evhub

10 Sep 2022 1:38 UTC

68 points

13 comments10 min readLW link