All 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 20232024

All Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OctNovDec

All1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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

habryka16 Nov 2024 6:38 UTC

518 points

80 comments51 min readLW link

Survival without dignity

L Rudolf L4 Nov 2024 2:29 UTC

345 points

28 comments15 min readLW link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

Zvi11 Nov 2024 14:30 UTC

245 points

28 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

DaystarEld26 Nov 2024 15:01 UTC

217 points

50 comments13 min readLW link

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

AnnaSalamon16 Nov 2024 2:59 UTC

214 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Making a conservative case for alignment

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins and AE Studio

15 Nov 2024 18:55 UTC

201 points

68 comments7 min readLW link

The Median Researcher Problem

johnswentworth2 Nov 2024 20:16 UTC

164 points

69 comments1 min readLW link

o1 is a bad idea

abramdemski11 Nov 2024 21:20 UTC

160 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

Neutrality

sarahconstantin13 Nov 2024 23:10 UTC

158 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

3 Nov 2024 19:24 UTC

156 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

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

egor.timatkov18 Nov 2024 1:14 UTC

149 points

57 comments2 min readLW link

Repeal the Jones Act of 1920

Zvi27 Nov 2024 15:00 UTC

146 points

23 comments39 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race

garrison20 Nov 2024 18:17 UTC

135 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

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

Eric Neyman21 Nov 2024 18:56 UTC

128 points

79 comments1 min readLW link

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

David Matolcsi17 Nov 2024 21:32 UTC

124 points

44 comments12 min readLW link

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

LucaRighetti21 Nov 2024 17:28 UTC

124 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

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

Daniel Kokotajlo and abramdemski

19 Nov 2024 20:53 UTC

121 points

51 comments14 min readLW link

Scissors Statements for President?

AnnaSalamon6 Nov 2024 10:38 UTC

116 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

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

Ivan Vendrov25 Nov 2024 1:47 UTC

116 points

10 comments31 min readLW link

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

Thomas Kwa6 Nov 2024 23:01 UTC

115 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

You should consider applying to PhDs (soon!)

bilalchughtai29 Nov 2024 20:33 UTC

112 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

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

Zach Stein-Perlman20 Nov 2024 23:50 UTC

111 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

The Big Nonprofits Post

Zvi29 Nov 2024 16:10 UTC

108 points

10 comments45 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Announcing turntrout.com, my new digital home

TurnTrout17 Nov 2024 17:42 UTC

107 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)

Hierarchical Agency: A Missing Piece in AI Alignment

Jan_Kulveit27 Nov 2024 5:49 UTC

104 points

20 comments11 min readLW link

Bigger Livers?

sarahconstantin8 Nov 2024 21:50 UTC

98 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day

Eric Neyman14 Nov 2024 18:39 UTC

97 points

33 comments13 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

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

Zach Stein-Perlman6 Nov 2024 16:00 UTC

95 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

Science advances one funeral at a time

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

1 Nov 2024 23:06 UTC

92 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

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

Zvi20 Nov 2024 13:40 UTC

91 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

LLMs Look Increasingly Like General Reasoners

eggsyntax8 Nov 2024 23:47 UTC

91 points

45 comments3 min readLW link

A very strange probability paradox

notfnofn22 Nov 2024 14:01 UTC

90 points

26 comments9 min readLW link

Anvil Problems

Screwtape13 Nov 2024 22:57 UTC

89 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(Salt) Water Gargling as an Antiviral

Elizabeth22 Nov 2024 18:00 UTC

88 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

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

garrison13 Nov 2024 17:00 UTC

84 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

JargonBot Beta Test

Raemon1 Nov 2024 1:05 UTC

84 points

55 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What are the good rationality films?

Ben Pace20 Nov 2024 6:04 UTC

82 points

53 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)

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

Said Achmiz14 Nov 2024 23:53 UTC

80 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Graceful Degradation

Screwtape5 Nov 2024 23:57 UTC

79 points

8 comments4 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

77 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

The Packaging and the Payload

Screwtape12 Nov 2024 3:07 UTC

76 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Dentistry, Oral Surgeons, and the Inefficiency of Small Markets

GeneSmith1 Nov 2024 17:26 UTC

76 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Counting AGIs

cash and Will Taylor

26 Nov 2024 0:06 UTC

75 points

19 comments32 min readLW link

Secular Solstice Round Up 2024

dspeyer21 Nov 2024 10:49 UTC

74 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe Rogero20 Nov 2024 21:32 UTC

74 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(subatomicarticles.com)

The King and the Golem—The Animation

Writer8 Nov 2024 18:23 UTC

70 points

0 comments1 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)

New o1-like model (QwQ) beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet with only 32B parameters

Jesse Hoogland27 Nov 2024 22:06 UTC

68 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(qwenlm.github.io)

Personal AI Planning

jefftk10 Nov 2024 14:00 UTC

68 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)