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My hour of memoryless lucidity

Eric NeymanMay 4, 2024, 1:40 AM

369 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Notifications Received in 30 Minutes of Class

tanagrabeastMay 26, 2024, 5:02 PM

356 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

MIRI 2024 Communications Strategy

Gretta DulebaMay 29, 2024, 7:33 PM

325 points

216 comments7 min readLW link

Non-Disparagement Canaries for OpenAI

aysja and Adam Scholl

May 30, 2024, 7:20 PM

288 points

51 comments2 min readLW link

Truthseeking is the ground in which other principles grow

ElizabethMay 27, 2024, 1:09 AM

248 points

16 comments16 min readLW link

Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike resign from OpenAI [updated]

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 15, 2024, 12:45 AM

246 points

95 comments2 min readLW link

AI companies aren’t really using external evaluators

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 24, 2024, 4:01 PM

242 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI: Fallout

ZviMay 28, 2024, 1:20 PM

204 points

25 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Jaan Tallinn’s 2023 Philanthropy Overview

jaanMay 20, 2024, 12:11 PM

203 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(jaan.info)

Maybe Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust is powerless

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 27, 2024, 1:00 PM

202 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?

ozziegooenMay 21, 2024, 2:22 AM

191 points

13 comments LW link

DeepMind’s “Frontier Safety Framework” is weak and unambitious

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 18, 2024, 3:00 AM

159 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Deep Honesty

AletheophileMay 7, 2024, 8:31 PM

159 points

25 comments9 min readLW link

Language Models Model Us

eggsyntaxMay 17, 2024, 9:00 PM

158 points

55 comments7 min readLW link

EIS XIII: Reflections on Anthropic’s SAE Research Circa May 2024

scasperMay 21, 2024, 8:15 PM

157 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Dyslucksia

Shoshannah TekofskyMay 9, 2024, 7:21 PM

154 points

45 comments6 min readLW link

OpenAI: Exodus

ZviMay 20, 2024, 1:10 PM

153 points

26 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Value Claims (In Particular) Are Usually Bullshit

johnswentworthMay 30, 2024, 6:26 AM

144 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

The Pearly Gates

lsusrMay 30, 2024, 4:01 AM

127 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Awakening

lsusrMay 30, 2024, 7:03 AM

123 points

79 comments9 min readLW link

Do you believe in hundred dollar bills lying on the ground? Consider humming

ElizabethMay 16, 2024, 12:00 AM

122 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Which skincare products are evidence-based?

Vanessa KosoyMay 2, 2024, 3:22 PM

120 points

48 comments1 min readLW link

Talent Needs of Technical AI Safety Teams

yams, Carson Jones, McKennaFitzgerald and Ryan Kidd

May 24, 2024, 12:36 AM

117 points

65 comments14 min readLW link

introduction to cancer vaccines

bhauthMay 5, 2024, 1:06 AM

113 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Key takeaways from our EA and alignment research surveys

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, florin_pop and AE Studio

May 3, 2024, 6:10 PM

111 points

10 comments21 min readLW link

Clarifying METR’s Auditing Role

Beth BarnesMay 30, 2024, 6:41 PM

108 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

The Local Interaction Basis: Identifying Computationally-Relevant and Sparsely Interacting Features in Neural Networks

Lucius Bushnaq, jake_mendel, Dan Braun, StefanHex, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, Kaarel, Avery, Joern Stoehler, debrevitatevitae, Magdalena Wache and Marius Hobbhahn

May 20, 2024, 5:53 PM

105 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Response to nostalgebraist: proudly waving my moral-antirealist battle flag

Steven ByrnesMay 29, 2024, 4:48 PM

103 points

29 comments11 min readLW link

Advice for Activists from the History of Environmentalism

Jeffrey HeningerMay 16, 2024, 6:40 PM

100 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

We might be missing some key feature of AI takeoff; it’ll probably seem like “we could’ve seen this coming”

Lukas_GloorMay 9, 2024, 3:43 PM

98 points

36 comments5 min readLW link

Explaining a Math Magic Trick

Robert_AIZIMay 5, 2024, 7:41 PM

97 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Uncovering Deceptive Tendencies in Language Models: A Simulated Company AI Assistant

Olli Järviniemi and evhub

May 6, 2024, 7:07 AM

95 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

I am the Golden Gate Bridge

ZviMay 27, 2024, 2:40 PM

95 points

6 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How to get nerds fascinated about mysterious chronic illness research?

riceissaMay 27, 2024, 10:58 PM

95 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

Apollo Research 1-year update

Marius Hobbhahn, Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, StefanHex, jake_mendel, AlexMeinke and rusheb

May 29, 2024, 5:44 PM

93 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

“AI Safety for Fleshy Humans” an AI Safety explainer by Nicky Case

habrykaMay 3, 2024, 6:10 PM

90 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(aisafety.dance)

Teaching CS During Take-Off

andrew carleMay 14, 2024, 10:45 PM

89 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Hardshipification

Jonathan MoregårdMay 28, 2024, 8:02 PM

88 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

Review: Conor Moreton’s “Civilization & Cooperation”

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)May 26, 2024, 7:32 PM

88 points

8 comments38 min readLW link

MATS Winter 2023-24 Retrospective

utilistrutil, LauraVaughan, McKennaFitzgerald, Christian Smith, Juan Gil, Henry Sleight, Matthew Wearden and Ryan Kidd

May 11, 2024, 12:09 AM

86 points

28 comments49 min readLW link

OpenAI: Helen Toner Speaks

ZviMay 30, 2024, 9:10 PM

86 points

8 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Environmentalism in the United States Is Unusually Partisan

Jeffrey HeningerMay 13, 2024, 9:23 PM

85 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

AISafety.com – Resources for AI Safety

Søren Elverlin, plex, Bryce Robertson and Melissa Samworth

May 17, 2024, 3:57 PM

82 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

My thesis (Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology) explained in more depth

Eric NeymanMay 9, 2024, 7:43 PM

82 points

4 comments27 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

New voluntary commitments (AI Seoul Summit)

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 21, 2024, 11:00 AM

81 points

17 comments7 min readLW link

(www.gov.uk)

Reward hacking behavior can generalize across tasks

Kei, Isaac Dunn, Henry Sleight, Miles Turpin, evhub, Carson Denison and Ethan Perez

May 28, 2024, 4:33 PM

79 points

5 comments21 min readLW link

LessWrong Community Weekend 2024, open for applications

UnplannedCauliflower and jt

1 May 2024 10:18 UTC

79 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Instruction-following AGI is easier and more likely than value aligned AGI

Seth Herd15 May 2024 19:38 UTC

79 points

28 comments12 min readLW link

MIRI’s May 2024 Newsletter

Harlan15 May 2024 0:13 UTC

79 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

ACX Covid Origins Post convinced readers

ErnestScribbler1 May 2024 13:06 UTC

77 points

7 comments2 min readLW link