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OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman and OpenAI blog)

habrykaNov 16, 2024, 6:38 AM

531 points

80 comments51 min readLW link

Survival without dignity

L Rudolf LNov 4, 2024, 2:29 AM

363 points

29 comments15 min readLW link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

ZviNov 11, 2024, 2:30 PM

284 points

59 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You are not too “irrational” to know your preferences.

DaystarEldNov 26, 2024, 3:01 PM

231 points

50 comments13 min readLW link

Ayn Rand’s model of “living money”; and an upside of burnout

AnnaSalamonNov 16, 2024, 2:59 AM

221 points

58 comments5 min readLW link

Making a conservative case for alignment

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins and AE Studio

Nov 15, 2024, 6:55 PM

208 points

67 comments7 min readLW link

o1 is a bad idea

abramdemskiNov 11, 2024, 9:20 PM

161 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

The Median Researcher Problem

johnswentworthNov 2, 2024, 8:16 PM

161 points

70 comments1 min readLW link

Neutrality

sarahconstantinNov 13, 2024, 11:10 PM

159 points

27 comments11 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Current safety training techniques do not fully transfer to the agent setting

Simon Lermen and Govind Pimpale

Nov 3, 2024, 7:24 PM

158 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

“It’s a 10% chance which I did 10 times, so it should be 100%”

egor.timatkovNov 18, 2024, 1:14 AM

154 points

59 comments2 min readLW link

Repeal the Jones Act of 1920

ZviNov 27, 2024, 3:00 PM

146 points

24 comments39 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Don’t We Just… Shoggoth+Face+Paraphraser?

Daniel Kokotajlo and abramdemski

Nov 19, 2024, 8:53 PM

144 points

58 comments14 min readLW link

China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race

garrisonNov 20, 2024, 6:17 PM

144 points

44 comments LW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Passages I Highlighted in The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien

Ivan VendrovNov 25, 2024, 1:47 AM

139 points

38 comments31 min readLW link

[Question] Which things were you surprised to learn are not metaphors?

Eric NeymanNov 21, 2024, 6:56 PM

135 points

88 comments1 min readLW link

“The Solomonoff Prior is Malign” is a special case of a simpler argument

David MatolcsiNov 17, 2024, 9:32 PM

130 points

44 comments12 min readLW link

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

LucaRighettiNov 21, 2024, 5:28 PM

124 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

The Big Nonprofits Post

ZviNov 29, 2024, 4:10 PM

120 points

10 comments45 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Scissors Statements for President?

AnnaSalamonNov 6, 2024, 10:38 AM

118 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Should CA, TX, OK, and LA merge into a giant swing state, just for elections?

Thomas KwaNov 6, 2024, 11:01 PM

115 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

You should consider applying to PhDs (soon!)

bilalchughtaiNov 29, 2024, 8:33 PM

114 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

DeepSeek beats o1-preview on math, ties on coding; will release weights

Zach Stein-PerlmanNov 20, 2024, 11:50 PM

113 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

Hierarchical Agency: A Missing Piece in AI Alignment

Jan_KulveitNov 27, 2024, 5:49 AM

112 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

Announcing turntrout.com, my new digital home

TurnTroutNov 17, 2024, 5:42 PM

108 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)

Science advances one funeral at a time

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, Diogo de Lucena and AE Studio

Nov 1, 2024, 11:06 PM

100 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Bigger Livers?

sarahconstantinNov 8, 2024, 9:50 PM

98 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day

Eric NeymanNov 14, 2024, 6:39 PM

97 points

33 comments13 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Anthropic: Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components

Zach Stein-PerlmanNov 6, 2024, 4:00 PM

95 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

LLMs Look Increasingly Like General Reasoners

eggsyntaxNov 8, 2024, 11:47 PM

94 points

45 comments3 min readLW link

Zvi’s Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF

ZviNov 20, 2024, 1:40 PM

91 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Anvil Shortage

ScrewtapeNov 13, 2024, 10:57 PM

90 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

A very strange probability paradox

Terence CoelhoNov 22, 2024, 2:01 PM

90 points

27 comments9 min readLW link

(Salt) Water Gargling as an Antiviral

ElizabethNov 22, 2024, 6:00 PM

88 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Dentistry, Oral Surgeons, and the Inefficiency of Small Markets

GeneSmithNov 1, 2024, 5:26 PM

86 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Gwern Branwen interview on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast: “How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI’s Trajectory”

Said AchmizNov 14, 2024, 11:53 PM

86 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Is Deep Learning Actually Hitting a Wall? Evaluating Ilya Sutskever’s Recent Claims

garrisonNov 13, 2024, 5:00 PM

84 points

14 comments LW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

JargonBot Beta Test

RaemonNov 1, 2024, 1:05 AM

84 points

55 comments6 min readLW link

Graceful Degradation

Screwtape5 Nov 2024 23:57 UTC

83 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are the good rationality films?

Ben Pace20 Nov 2024 6:04 UTC

82 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

AI #92: Behind the Curve

Zvi28 Nov 2024 14:40 UTC

82 points

7 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Packaging and the Payload

Screwtape12 Nov 2024 3:07 UTC

76 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

LLM chatbots have ~half of the kinds of “consciousness” that humans believe in. Humans should avoid going crazy about that.

Andrew_Critch22 Nov 2024 3:26 UTC

76 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

Secular Solstice Round Up 2024

dspeyer21 Nov 2024 10:49 UTC

76 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Counting AGIs

cash and Will Taylor

26 Nov 2024 0:06 UTC

75 points

19 comments32 min readLW link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe Rogero20 Nov 2024 21:32 UTC

75 points

13 comments LW link

(subatomicarticles.com)

The King and the Golem—The Animation

Writer8 Nov 2024 18:23 UTC

70 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Intuitive self-models] 8. Rooting Out Free Will Intuitions

Steven Byrnes4 Nov 2024 18:16 UTC

70 points

16 comments24 min readLW link

Neuroscience of human social instincts: a sketch

Steven Byrnes22 Nov 2024 16:16 UTC

69 points

0 comments31 min readLW link

“Map of AI Futures”—An interactive flowchart

swante27 Nov 2024 21:31 UTC

69 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(swantescholz.github.io)