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How I got 4.2M YouTube views without making a single video

Closed Limelike Curves3 Sep 2024 3:52 UTC

362 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

The Great Data Integration Schlep

sarahconstantin13 Sep 2024 15:40 UTC

258 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay

J Bostock10 Sep 2024 17:34 UTC

247 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Laziness death spirals

PatrickDFarley19 Sep 2024 15:58 UTC

242 points

34 comments8 min readLW link

the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated

nostalgebraist29 Sep 2024 22:07 UTC

242 points

40 comments11 min readLW link

Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails

Shoshannah Tekofsky28 Sep 2024 21:38 UTC

225 points

13 comments11 min readLW link

(shoshanigans.substack.com)

“Slow” takeoff is a terrible term for “maybe even faster takeoff, actually”

Raemon28 Sep 2024 23:38 UTC

214 points

69 comments1 min readLW link

The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Sep 2024 3:39 UTC

203 points

141 comments13 min readLW link

Pay Risk Evaluators in Cash, Not Equity

Adam Scholl7 Sep 2024 2:37 UTC

200 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

A basic systems architecture for AI agents that do autonomous research

Buck23 Sep 2024 13:58 UTC

187 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

Cryonics is free

Mati_Roy29 Sep 2024 17:58 UTC

184 points

37 comments2 min readLW link

Contra papers claiming superhuman AI forecasting

nikos, Peter Mühlbacher, Lawrence Phillips and dschwarz

12 Sep 2024 18:10 UTC

180 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Skills from a year of Purposeful Rationality Practice

Raemon18 Sep 2024 2:05 UTC

178 points

18 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Why is o1 so deceptive?

abramdemski27 Sep 2024 17:27 UTC

177 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

Struggling like a Shadowmoth

Raemon24 Sep 2024 0:47 UTC

175 points

38 comments7 min readLW link

Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding?

Isaac King15 Sep 2024 8:28 UTC

171 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

My takes on SB-1047

leogao9 Sep 2024 18:38 UTC

151 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI o1

Zach Stein-Perlman12 Sep 2024 17:30 UTC

147 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

Stanislav Petrov Quarterly Performance Review

Ricki Heicklen26 Sep 2024 21:20 UTC

145 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(bayesshammai.substack.com)

That Alien Message—The Animation

Writer7 Sep 2024 14:53 UTC

144 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

The Checklist: What Succeeding at AI Safety Will Involve

Sam Bowman3 Sep 2024 18:18 UTC

142 points

49 comments22 min readLW link

(sleepinyourhat.github.io)

Survey: How Do Elite Chinese Students Feel About the Risks of AI?

Nick Corvino2 Sep 2024 18:11 UTC

141 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

[Completed] The 2024 Petrov Day Scenario

Ben Pace and Raemon

26 Sep 2024 8:08 UTC

136 points

114 comments5 min readLW link

My Number 1 Epistemology Book Recommendation: Inventing Temperature

adamShimi8 Sep 2024 14:30 UTC

116 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Why I funded PIBBSS

Ryan Kidd15 Sep 2024 19:56 UTC

115 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

Backdoors as an analogy for deceptive alignment

Jacob_Hilton and Mark Xu

6 Sep 2024 15:30 UTC

104 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

What happens if you present 500 people with an argument that AI is risky?

KatjaGrace and Nathan Young

4 Sep 2024 16:40 UTC

102 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Refactoring cryonics as structural brain preservation

Andy_McKenzie11 Sep 2024 18:36 UTC

102 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

2024 Petrov Day Retrospective

Ben Pace and Raemon

28 Sep 2024 21:30 UTC

93 points

25 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best arguments for/against AIs being “slightly ‘nice’”?

Raemon24 Sep 2024 2:00 UTC

93 points

54 comments31 min readLW link

You can, in fact, bamboozle an unaligned AI into sparing your life

David Matolcsi29 Sep 2024 16:59 UTC

92 points

171 comments27 min readLW link

Executable philosophy as a failed totalizing meta-worldview

jessicata4 Sep 2024 22:50 UTC

88 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

[Intuitive self-models] 1. Preliminaries

Steven Byrnes19 Sep 2024 13:45 UTC

86 points

20 comments15 min readLW link

GPT-o1

Zvi16 Sep 2024 13:40 UTC

86 points

34 comments46 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

OpenAI o1, Llama 4, and AlphaZero of LLMs

Vladimir_Nesov14 Sep 2024 21:27 UTC

83 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

AI #83: The Mask Comes Off

Zvi26 Sep 2024 12:00 UTC

82 points

19 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to prevent collusion when using untrusted models to monitor each other

Buck25 Sep 2024 18:58 UTC

81 points

6 comments22 min readLW link

Not every accommodation is a Curb Cut Effect: The Handicapped Parking Effect, the Clapper Effect, and more

Michael Cohn15 Sep 2024 5:27 UTC

80 points

39 comments10 min readLW link

(perplexedguide.net)

The case for a negative alignment tax

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

18 Sep 2024 18:33 UTC

79 points

20 comments7 min readLW link

[Intuitive self-models] 2. Conscious Awareness

Steven Byrnes25 Sep 2024 13:29 UTC

79 points

48 comments16 min readLW link

Is “superhuman” AI forecasting BS? Some experiments on the “539″ bot from the Centre for AI Safety

titotal18 Sep 2024 13:07 UTC

78 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

My 10-year retrospective on trying SSRIs

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2024 20:30 UTC

76 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

The Obliqueness Thesis

jessicata19 Sep 2024 0:26 UTC

75 points

16 comments17 min readLW link

Excerpts from “A Reader’s Manifesto”

Arjun Panickssery6 Sep 2024 22:37 UTC

72 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Adam Optimizer Causes Privileged Basis in Transformer LM Residual Stream

Diego Caples and rrenaud

6 Sep 2024 17:55 UTC

70 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Investigating an insurance-for-AI startup

L Rudolf L and Florence Hinder

21 Sep 2024 15:29 UTC

69 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(www.strataoftheworld.com)

[Paper] A is for Absorption: Studying Feature Splitting and Absorption in Sparse Autoencoders

chanind, TomasD, hrdkbhatnagar and Joseph Bloom

25 Sep 2024 9:31 UTC

69 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Estimating Tail Risk in Neural Networks

Mark Xu13 Sep 2024 20:00 UTC

68 points

9 comments23 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

o1-preview is pretty good at doing ML on an unknown dataset

Håvard Tveit Ihle20 Sep 2024 8:39 UTC

67 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Book Review: On the Edge: The Fundamentals

Zvi23 Sep 2024 13:40 UTC

64 points

3 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)