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SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins

5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC

677 points

205 comments12 min readLW link

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

Cleo Nardo3 Mar 2023 3:22 UTC

630 points

187 comments16 min readLW link

The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC

501 points

73 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

How much do you believe your results?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC

476 points

17 comments15 min readLW link 3 reviews

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC

440 points

38 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone’s dropping the ball

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC

438 points

63 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector

TurnTrout, Monte M, David Udell, lisathiergart and Ulisse Mini

13 May 2023 18:42 UTC

437 points

97 comments50 min readLW link

Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible

GeneSmith and kman

12 Dec 2023 18:14 UTC

436 points

189 comments33 min readLW link

Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk (June 2023)?

gwern3 Jul 2023 0:48 UTC

425 points

54 comments7 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities

jenn1 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC

414 points

35 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

(jenn.site)

GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2023 19:59 UTC

409 points

99 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned

evhub15 Feb 2023 5:29 UTC

400 points

181 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Statement on AI Extinction—Signed by AGI Labs, Top Academics, and Many Other Notable Figures

Dan H30 May 2023 9:05 UTC

372 points

77 comments1 min readLW link

(www.safe.ai)

Noting an error in Inadequate Equilibria

Matthew Barnett8 Feb 2023 1:33 UTC

364 points

60 comments2 min readLW link 2 reviews

How it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI

blaked12 Jan 2023 0:33 UTC

362 points

222 comments17 min readLW link

My Objections to “We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky”

Quintin Pope21 Mar 2023 0:06 UTC

357 points

230 comments39 min readLW link

Please don’t throw your mind away

TsviBT15 Feb 2023 21:41 UTC

356 points

47 comments18 min readLW link

How to have Polygenically Screened Children

GeneSmith7 May 2023 16:01 UTC

354 points

127 comments27 min readLW link

Shutting Down the Lightcone Offices

habryka and Ben Pace

14 Mar 2023 22:47 UTC

338 points

95 comments17 min readLW link

Cyborgism

NicholasKees and janus

10 Feb 2023 14:47 UTC

337 points

46 comments35 min readLW link

Childhoods of exceptional people

Henrik Karlsson6 Feb 2023 17:27 UTC

333 points

62 comments15 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety

technicalities and Stag

27 Nov 2023 11:10 UTC

332 points

69 comments29 min readLW link

Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP

johnswentworth25 Sep 2023 16:08 UTC

331 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network

TurnTrout, peligrietzer, Ulisse Mini, Monte M and David Udell

11 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC

328 points

27 comments23 min readLW link

Social Dark Matter

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)16 Nov 2023 20:00 UTC

326 points

116 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

Against Almost Every Theory of Impact of Interpretability

Charbel-Raphaël17 Aug 2023 18:44 UTC

325 points

87 comments26 min readLW link

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

322 points

323 comments34 min readLW link

Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC

321 points

103 comments1 min readLW link 3 reviews

EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem

Elizabeth28 Sep 2023 23:30 UTC

320 points

249 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research

evhub, Nicholas Schiefer, Carson Denison and Ethan Perez

8 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC

312 points

29 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

Alignment Grantmaking is Funding-Limited Right Now

johnswentworth19 Jul 2023 16:49 UTC

312 points

68 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: How Minds Change

bc4026bd4aaa5b7fe25 May 2023 17:55 UTC

310 points

52 comments15 min readLW link

When do “brains beat brawn” in Chess? An experiment

titotal28 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC

309 points

96 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(titotal.substack.com)

The Parable of the King and the Random Process

moridinamael1 Mar 2023 22:18 UTC

307 points

25 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

LW Team is adjusting moderation policy

Raemon4 Apr 2023 20:41 UTC

304 points

185 comments3 min readLW link

On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas

Natália28 Jan 2023 20:18 UTC

304 points

68 comments30 min readLW link

Guide to rationalist interior decorating

mingyuan19 Jun 2023 6:47 UTC

300 points

48 comments12 min readLW link 3 reviews

Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk

Akash and hath

4 Dec 2023 23:08 UTC

298 points

23 comments15 min readLW link

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky

jacquesthibs29 Mar 2023 23:16 UTC

298 points

297 comments3 min readLW link

(time.com)

Predictable updating about AI risk

Joe Carlsmith8 May 2023 21:53 UTC

289 points

25 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning

Zac Hatfield-Dodds5 Oct 2023 21:01 UTC

288 points

22 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(transformer-circuits.pub)

Hooray for stepping out of the limelight

So8res1 Apr 2023 2:45 UTC

283 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI: The Battle of the Board

Zvi22 Nov 2023 17:30 UTC

281 points

83 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Accidentally Load Bearing

jefftk13 Jul 2023 16:10 UTC

280 points

17 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jefftk.com)

AI Timelines

habryka, Daniel Kokotajlo, Ajeya Cotra and Ege Erdil

10 Nov 2023 5:28 UTC

279 points

97 comments51 min readLW link 1 review

The 6D effect: When companies take risks, one email can be very powerful.

scasper4 Nov 2023 20:08 UTC

275 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

Notes on Teaching in Prison

jsd19 Apr 2023 1:53 UTC

274 points

13 comments12 min readLW link

OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

Zvi20 Nov 2023 15:30 UTC

271 points

165 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We don’t trade with ants

KatjaGrace10 Jan 2023 23:50 UTC

269 points

109 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Base Rate Times, news through prediction markets

vandemonian6 Jun 2023 17:42 UTC

268 points

40 comments4 min readLW link