27 Nov 2023 11:10 UTC

332 points

69 comments29 min readLW link

Social Dark Matter

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

326 points

116 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

OpenAI: The Battle of the Board

Zvi22 Nov 2023 17:30 UTC

281 points

83 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.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

OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

Zvi20 Nov 2023 15:30 UTC

271 points

165 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You

Screwtape29 Nov 2023 4:56 UTC

253 points

21 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

What are the results of more parental supervision and less outdoor play?

juliawise25 Nov 2023 12:52 UTC

226 points

31 comments5 min readLW link

Ability to solve long-horizon tasks correlates with wanting things in the behaviorist sense

So8res24 Nov 2023 17:37 UTC

195 points

84 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Propaganda or Science: A Look at Open Source AI and Bioterrorism Risk

1a3orn2 Nov 2023 18:20 UTC

193 points

79 comments23 min readLW link

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LawrenceC17 Nov 2023 20:42 UTC

192 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

The other side of the tidal wave

KatjaGrace3 Nov 2023 5:40 UTC

186 points

86 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Thinking By The Clock

Screwtape8 Nov 2023 7:40 UTC

185 points

27 comments8 min readLW link

You can just spontaneously call people you haven’t met in years

lc13 Nov 2023 5:21 UTC

165 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Vote on Interesting Disagreements

Ben Pace7 Nov 2023 21:35 UTC

159 points

129 comments1 min readLW link

My thoughts on the social response to AI risk

Matthew Barnett1 Nov 2023 21:17 UTC

156 points

37 comments10 min readLW link

Moral Reality Check (a short story)

jessicata26 Nov 2023 5:03 UTC

148 points

45 comments21 min readLW link 1 review

(unstableontology.com)

Does davidad’s uploading moonshot work?

jacobjacob, lisathiergart, Anders_Sandberg, davidad and Arenamontanus

3 Nov 2023 2:21 UTC

146 points

35 comments25 min readLW link

Loudly Give Up, Don’t Quietly Fade

Screwtape13 Nov 2023 23:30 UTC

144 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

How to (hopefully ethically) make money off of AGI

habryka, Zvi, Cosmos and NoahK

6 Nov 2023 23:35 UTC

142 points

88 comments32 min readLW link 1 review

EA orgs’ legal structure inhibits risk taking and information sharing on the margin

Elizabeth5 Nov 2023 19:13 UTC

136 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Integrity in AI Governance and Advocacy

habryka and OliviaJ

3 Nov 2023 19:52 UTC

134 points

57 comments23 min readLW link

Apocalypse insurance, and the hardline libertarian take on AI risk

So8res28 Nov 2023 2:09 UTC

133 points

40 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

8 examples informing my pessimism on uploading without reverse engineering

Steven Byrnes3 Nov 2023 20:03 UTC

117 points

12 comments12 min readLW link

How much to update on recent AI governance moves?

habryka and So8res

16 Nov 2023 23:46 UTC

112 points

5 comments29 min readLW link

Experiences and learnings from both sides of the AI safety job market

Marius Hobbhahn15 Nov 2023 15:40 UTC

110 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

Stuxnet, not Skynet: Humanity’s disempowerment by AI

Roko4 Nov 2023 22:23 UTC

107 points

24 comments6 min readLW link

My techno-optimism [By Vitalik Buterin]

habryka27 Nov 2023 23:53 UTC

107 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Picking Mentors For Research Programmes

Raymond D10 Nov 2023 13:01 UTC

106 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

New LessWrong feature: Dialogue Matching

jacobjacob16 Nov 2023 21:27 UTC

106 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

One Day Sooner

Screwtape2 Nov 2023 19:00 UTC

106 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

Deception Chess: Game #1

Zane, aphyer, Alex A and AdamYedidia

3 Nov 2023 21:13 UTC

104 points

21 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

On the Executive Order

Zvi1 Nov 2023 14:20 UTC

100 points

4 comments30 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Learning-theoretic agenda reading list

Vanessa Kosoy9 Nov 2023 17:25 UTC

98 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Soul Key

Richard_Ngo4 Nov 2023 17:51 UTC

97 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Kids or No kids

Kids or no kids14 Nov 2023 18:37 UTC

95 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

Public Call for Interest in Mathematical Alignment

Davidmanheim22 Nov 2023 13:22 UTC

89 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Growth and Form in a Toy Model of Superposition

Liam Carroll and Edmund Lau

8 Nov 2023 11:08 UTC

89 points

7 comments14 min readLW link

Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure.

ReaderM15 Nov 2023 16:36 UTC

89 points

9 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(arxiv.org)

Untrusted smart models and trusted dumb models

Buck4 Nov 2023 3:06 UTC

87 points

17 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Coup probes: Catching catastrophes with probes trained off-policy

Fabien Roger17 Nov 2023 17:58 UTC

85 points

9 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Dario Amodei’s prepared remarks from the UK AI Safety Summit, on Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy

Zac Hatfield-Dodds1 Nov 2023 18:10 UTC

85 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Saying the quiet part out loud: trading off x-risk for personal immortality

disturbance2 Nov 2023 17:43 UTC

83 points

89 comments5 min readLW link

My Criticism of Singular Learning Theory

Joar Skalse19 Nov 2023 15:19 UTC

83 points

56 comments12 min readLW link

Agent Boundaries Aren’t Markov Blankets. [Unless they’re non-causal; see comments.]

abramdemski20 Nov 2023 18:23 UTC

82 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Bostrom Goes Unheard

Zvi13 Nov 2023 14:11 UTC

81 points

9 comments18 min readLW link

New report: “Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?”

Joe Carlsmith15 Nov 2023 17:16 UTC

80 points

26 comments30 min readLW link

Announcing Athena—Women in AI Alignment Research

Claire Short7 Nov 2023 21:46 UTC

80 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Referential Probabilistic Logic Admits the Payor’s Lemma

Yudhister Kumar28 Nov 2023 10:27 UTC

80 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Thomas Kwa’s research journal

Thomas Kwa and Adrià Garriga-alonso

23 Nov 2023 5:11 UTC

79 points

1 comment6 min readLW link