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The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_NgoJun 4, 2023, 10:00 PM

464 points

43 comments5 min readLW link 4 reviews

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

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

jennJun 1, 2023, 8:48 PM

430 points

35 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

(jenn.site)

Guide to rationalist interior decorating

mingyuanJun 19, 2023, 6:47 AM

322 points

52 comments12 min readLW link 4 reviews

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

titotalJun 28, 2023, 1:33 PM

309 points

106 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

(titotal.substack.com)

The Base Rate Times, news through prediction markets

vandemonianJun 6, 2023, 5:42 PM

268 points

41 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

UFO Betting: Put Up or Shut Up

RatsWrongAboutUAPJun 13, 2023, 4:05 AM

260 points

216 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Lessons On How To Get Things Right On The First Try

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jun 19, 2023, 11:58 PM

246 points

57 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

Munk AI debate: confusions and possible cruxes

Steven ByrnesJun 27, 2023, 2:18 PM

244 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

Updates and Reflections on Optimal Exercise after Nearly a Decade

romeostevensitJun 8, 2023, 11:02 PM

213 points

57 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Launching Lightspeed Grants (Apply by July 6th)

habrykaJun 7, 2023, 2:53 AM

211 points

41 comments5 min readLW link

Lightcone Infrastructure/LessWrong is looking for funding

habrykaJun 14, 2023, 4:45 AM

205 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

My tentative best guess on how EAs and Rationalists sometimes turn crazy

habrykaJun 21, 2023, 4:11 AM

198 points

110 comments8 min readLW link

Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model

likennethJun 11, 2023, 5:38 AM

195 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Another medical miracle

DentinJun 25, 2023, 8:43 PM

186 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

What will GPT-2030 look like?

jsteinhardtJun 7, 2023, 11:40 PM

185 points

43 comments23 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

I still think it’s very unlikely we’re observing alien aircraft

dynomightJun 15, 2023, 1:01 PM

180 points

70 comments5 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

LLMs Sometimes Generate Purely Negatively-Reinforced Text

Fabien RogerJun 16, 2023, 4:31 PM

177 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?

eukaryoteJun 25, 2023, 4:31 AM

170 points

33 comments13 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

The Dial of Progress

ZviJun 13, 2023, 1:40 PM

161 points

119 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes

ElizabethJun 1, 2023, 5:10 PM

160 points

85 comments19 min readLW link 2 reviews

(acesounderglass.com)

Algorithmic Improvement Is Probably Faster Than Scaling Now

johnswentworthJun 6, 2023, 2:57 AM

146 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

My side of an argument with Jacob Cannell about chip interconnect losses

Steven ByrnesJun 21, 2023, 1:33 PM

144 points

11 comments11 min readLW link

Yudkowsky vs Hanson on FOOM: Whose Predictions Were Better?

1a3ornJun 1, 2023, 7:36 PM

137 points

76 comments24 min readLW link 2 reviews

Think carefully before calling RL policies “agents”

TurnTroutJun 2, 2023, 3:46 AM

133 points

38 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Why Not Subagents?

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jun 22, 2023, 10:16 PM

130 points

52 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

ARC is hiring theoretical researchers

paulfchristiano, Jacob_Hilton and Mark Xu

Jun 12, 2023, 6:50 PM

126 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

The Hubinger lectures on AGI safety: an introductory lecture series

evhubJun 22, 2023, 12:59 AM

126 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

A Disneyland Without Children

L Rudolf LJun 4, 2023, 1:06 PM

123 points

11 comments LW link 4 reviews

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

AI #14: A Very Good Sentence

ZviJun 1, 2023, 9:30 PM

118 points

30 comments65 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Model, Care, Execution

Ricki Heicklen and AvitalM

Jun 26, 2023, 4:05 AM

111 points

10 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

My guess for why I was wrong about US housing

romeostevensitJun 14, 2023, 12:37 AM

109 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Did Bengio and Tegmark lose a debate about AI x-risk against LeCun and Mitchell?

Karl von WendtJun 25, 2023, 4:59 PM

106 points

53 comments7 min readLW link

Short Remark on the (subjective) mathematical ‘naturalness’ of the Nanda—Lieberum addition modulo 113 algorithm

carboniferous_umbraculum Jun 1, 2023, 11:31 AM

104 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Work dumber not smarter

lemonhopeJun 1, 2023, 12:40 PM

101 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Public Transit is not Infinitely Safe

jefftkJun 20, 2023, 6:40 PM

97 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AI #17: The Litany

ZviJun 22, 2023, 2:30 PM

95 points

34 comments56 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Takeaways from the Mechanistic Interpretability Challenges

scasperJun 8, 2023, 6:56 PM

94 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

60+ Possible Futures

Bart BussmannJun 26, 2023, 9:16 AM

93 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

A Playbook for AI Risk Reduction (focused on misaligned AI)

HoldenKarnofskyJun 6, 2023, 6:05 PM

90 points

42 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Outreach success: Intro to AI risk that has been successful

Michael TontchevJun 1, 2023, 11:12 PM

83 points

8 comments74 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Ethodynamics of Omelas

dr_sJun 10, 2023, 4:24 PM

83 points

18 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

When is correlation transitive?

Ege ErdilJun 23, 2023, 4:09 PM

83 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Automatic Rate Limiting on LessWrong

RaemonJun 23, 2023, 8:19 PM

83 points

34 comments8 min readLW link

DSLT 0. Distilling Singular Learning Theory

Liam CarrollJun 16, 2023, 9:50 AM

80 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Carl Shulman on The Lunar Society (7 hour, two-part podcast)

ESRogsJun 28, 2023, 1:23 AM

79 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

A mind needn’t be curious to reap the benefits of curiosity

So8resJun 2, 2023, 6:00 PM

78 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Cultivate an obsession with the object level

Richard_NgoJun 7, 2023, 1:39 AM

77 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

My research agenda in agent foundations

Alex_AltairJun 28, 2023, 6:00 PM

75 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

Rational Animations is looking for an AI Safety scriptwriter, a lead community manager, and other roles.

WriterJun 16, 2023, 9:41 AM

74 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

AI #15: The Principle of Charity

ZviJun 8, 2023, 12:10 PM

73 points

16 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)