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GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2023 19:59 UTC

403 points

91 comments3 min readLW link

LW Team is adjusting moderation policy

Raemon4 Apr 2023 20:41 UTC

304 points

185 comments3 min readLW link

Hooray for stepping out of the limelight

So8res1 Apr 2023 2:45 UTC

282 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Teaching in Prison

jsd19 Apr 2023 1:53 UTC

274 points

13 comments12 min readLW link

[SEE NEW EDITS] No, You Need to Write Clearer

Nicholas / Heather Kross29 Apr 2023 5:04 UTC

261 points

65 comments5 min readLW link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2023 0:36 UTC

253 points

40 comments12 min readLW link

My Assessment of the Chinese AI Safety Community

Lao Mein25 Apr 2023 4:21 UTC

248 points

94 comments3 min readLW link

On AutoGPT

Zvi13 Apr 2023 12:30 UTC

248 points

47 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

My views on “doom”

paulfchristiano27 Apr 2023 17:50 UTC

245 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Policy discussions follow strong contextualizing norms

Richard_Ngo1 Apr 2023 23:51 UTC

230 points

61 comments3 min readLW link

Catching the Eye of Sauron

Casey B.7 Apr 2023 0:40 UTC

221 points

68 comments4 min readLW link

Orthogonal: A new agent foundations alignment organization

Tamsin Leake19 Apr 2023 20:17 UTC

216 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(orxl.org)

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Letter in Time Magazine

Zvi5 Apr 2023 18:00 UTC

212 points

86 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Evolution provides no evidence for the sharp left turn

Quintin Pope11 Apr 2023 18:43 UTC

205 points

62 comments15 min readLW link

If interpretability research goes well, it may get dangerous

So8res3 Apr 2023 21:48 UTC

200 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Giant (In)scrutable Matrices: (Maybe) the Best of All Possible Worlds

1a3orn4 Apr 2023 17:39 UTC

196 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

The ‘ petertodd’ phenomenon

mwatkins15 Apr 2023 0:59 UTC

192 points

49 comments38 min readLW link

Transcript and Brief Response to Twitter Conversation between Yann LeCunn and Eliezer Yudkowsky

Zvi26 Apr 2023 13:10 UTC

190 points

51 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The basic reasons I expect AGI ruin

Rob Bensinger18 Apr 2023 3:37 UTC

188 points

73 comments14 min readLW link

Talking publicly about AI risk

Jan_Kulveit21 Apr 2023 11:28 UTC

180 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Killing Socrates

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)11 Apr 2023 10:28 UTC

178 points

144 comments8 min readLW link

A report about LessWrong karma volatility from a different universe

Ben Pace1 Apr 2023 21:48 UTC

176 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[April Fools’] Definitive confirmation of shard theory

TurnTrout1 Apr 2023 7:27 UTC

168 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

The Brain is Not Close to Thermodynamic Limits on Computation

DaemonicSigil24 Apr 2023 8:21 UTC

167 points

58 comments5 min readLW link

Davidad’s Bold Plan for Alignment: An In-Depth Explanation

Charbel-Raphaël and Gabin

19 Apr 2023 16:09 UTC

159 points

34 comments21 min readLW link

grey goo is unlikely

bhauth17 Apr 2023 1:59 UTC

159 points

117 comments9 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

Agentized LLMs will change the alignment landscape

Seth Herd9 Apr 2023 2:29 UTC

157 points

97 comments3 min readLW link

AI doom from an LLM-plateau-ist perspective

Steven Byrnes27 Apr 2023 13:58 UTC

157 points

24 comments6 min readLW link

A freshman year during the AI midgame: my approach to the next year

Buck14 Apr 2023 0:38 UTC

152 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

AI x-risk, approximately ordered by embarrassment

Alex Lawsen 12 Apr 2023 23:01 UTC

151 points

7 comments19 min readLW link

Shutting down AI is not enough. We need to destroy all technology.

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2023 21:03 UTC

148 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

Could a superintelligence deduce general relativity from a falling apple? An investigation

titotal23 Apr 2023 12:49 UTC

147 points

39 comments9 min readLW link

The self-unalignment problem

Jan_Kulveit and rosehadshar

14 Apr 2023 12:10 UTC

146 points

24 comments10 min readLW link

Consider The Hand Axe

ymeskhout8 Apr 2023 1:31 UTC

142 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

Request to AGI organizations: Share your views on pausing AI progress

Akash and simeon_c

11 Apr 2023 17:30 UTC

141 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Four mindset disagreements behind existential risk disagreements in ML

Rob Bensinger11 Apr 2023 4:53 UTC

136 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

The Learning-Theoretic Agenda: Status 2023

Vanessa Kosoy19 Apr 2023 5:21 UTC

135 points

13 comments55 min readLW link

Tuning your Cognitive Strategies

Raemon27 Apr 2023 20:32 UTC

132 points

57 comments9 min readLW link

(bewelltuned.com)

AI Summer Harvest

Cleo Nardo4 Apr 2023 3:35 UTC

130 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

But why would the AI kill us?

So8res17 Apr 2023 18:42 UTC

129 points

95 comments2 min readLW link

Misgeneralization as a misnomer

So8res6 Apr 2023 20:43 UTC

129 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

$250 prize for checking Jake Cannell’s Brain Efficiency

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel26 Apr 2023 16:21 UTC

123 points

170 comments2 min readLW link

[New LW Feature] “Debates”

Ruby, RobertM, GPT-4 and Claude+

1 Apr 2023 7:00 UTC

121 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

Goodhart’s Law inside the human mind

Kaj_Sotala17 Apr 2023 13:48 UTC

117 points

13 comments16 min readLW link

Deep learning models might be secretly (almost) linear

beren24 Apr 2023 18:43 UTC

117 points

29 comments4 min readLW link

Financial Times: We must slow down the race to God-like AI

trevor13 Apr 2023 19:55 UTC

112 points

17 comments16 min readLW link

(www.ft.com)

How could you possibly choose what an AI wants?

So8res19 Apr 2023 17:08 UTC

105 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Should we publish mechanistic interpretability research?

Marius Hobbhahn and LawrenceC

21 Apr 2023 16:19 UTC

105 points

40 comments13 min readLW link

Shapley Value Attribution in Chain of Thought

leogao14 Apr 2023 5:56 UTC

103 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

10 reasons why lists of 10 reasons might be a winning strategy

trevor6 Apr 2023 21:24 UTC

101 points

7 comments1 min readLW link