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"Will no one rid me of this turbulent pest?" by Metacelsus
[HUMAN VOICE] "Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP" by John Wentworth
"RSPs are pauses done right" by evhub
"Comparing Anthropic's Dictionary Learning to Ours" by Robert_AIZI
"Announcing MIRI’s new CEO and leadership team" by Gretta Duleba
"Cohabitive Games so Far" by mako yass
"Announcing Dialogues" by Ben Pace
"Response to Quintin Pope’s Evolution Provides No Evidence For the Sharp Left Turn" by Zvi
"Evaluating the historical value misspecification argument" by Matthew Barnett
"Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning" by Zac Hatfield-Dodds
"Thomas Kwa's MIRI research experience" by Thomas Kwa and others
"'Diamondoid bacteria' nanobots: deadly threat or dead-end? A nanotech investigation" by titotal
"The Lighthaven Campus is open for bookings" by Habryka
"How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions" by Jan Brauner et al.
"EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem" by Elizabeth
"The King and the Golem" by Richard Ngo
"Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Directions in Language Models" by Logan Riggs et al
"Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP" by John Wentworth
"There should be more AI safety orgs" by Marius Hobbhahn
"The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism" by Malmesbury
"A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX" by jacobjacob
"AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas" by TurnTrout & Garrett Baker
"UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever" by Wei Dai
"Sum-threshold attacks" by TsviBT
"Report on Frontier Model Training" by Yafah Edelman
"A list of core AI safety problems and how I hope to solve them" by Davidad
"One Minute Every Moment" by abramdemski
"Sharing Information About Nonlinear" by Ben Pace
"Defunding My Mistake" by ymeskhout
"What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals" by LawrenceC
"Meta Questions about Metaphilosophy" by Wei Dai
"The U.S. is becoming less stable" by lc
"OpenAI API base models are not sycophantic, at any size" by Nostalgebraist
"Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition" by Elizabeth
"Assume Bad Faith" by Zack_M_Davis
"Book Launch: "The Carving of Reality," Best of LessWrong vol. III" by Raemon
"Large Language Models will be Great for Censorship" by Ethan Edwards
"6 non-obvious mental health issues specific to AI safety" by Igor Ivanov
"Ten Thousand Years of Solitude" by agp
"Against Almost Every Theory of Impact of Interpretability" by Charbel-Raphaël
"Feedbackloop-first Rationality" by Raemon
"Inflection.ai is a major AGI lab" by Nikola
"Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research" by evhub, Nicholas Schiefer, Carson Denison, Ethan Perez
"When can we trust model evaluations?" bu evhub
"ARC Evals new report: Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks" by Beth Barnes
"The "public debate" about AI is confusing for the general public and for policymakers because it is a three-sided debate" by Adam David Long
"My current LK99 questions" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
"Thoughts on sharing information about language model capabilities" by paulfchristiano
"Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born" by Henrik Karlsson
"Self-driving car bets" by paulfchristiano
"Yes, It's Subjective, But Why All The Crabs?" by johnswentworth
"Grant applications and grand narratives" by Elizabeth
"Brain Efficiency Cannell Prize Contest Award Ceremony" by Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
"Rationality !== Winning" by Raemon
"Cryonics and Regret" by MvB
"Unifying Bargaining Notions (2/2)" by Diffractor
"The ants and the grasshopper" by Richard Ngo
"Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector" by TurnTrout et al.
"An artificially structured argument for expecting AGI ruin" by Rob Bensinger
"How much do you believe your results?" by Eric Neyman
"Mental Health and the Alignment Problem: A Compilation of Resources (updated April 2023)" by Chris Scammell & DivineMango
"On AutoGPT" by Zvi
"GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
"A stylized dialogue on John Wentworth's claims about markets and optimization" by Nate Soares
"Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty" by Holden Karnofsky
"Deep Deceptiveness" by Nate Soares
"The Onion Test for Personal and Institutional Honesty" by Chana Messinger & Andrew Critch
"There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)" by Eukaryote
"Losing the root for the tree" by Adam Zerner
"It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World" by Gwern
"Why I think strong general AI is coming soon" by Porby
"What failure looks like" by Paul Christiano
"Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options" by Duncan Sabien
""Carefully Bootstrapped Alignment" is organizationally hard" by Raemon
"More information about the dangerous capability evaluations we did with GPT-4 and Claude." by Beth Barnes
"Enemies vs Malefactors" by Nate Soares
"The Parable of the King and the Random Process" by moridinamael
"The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)" by Cleo Nardo
"Acausal normalcy" by Andrew Critch
"Please don't throw your mind away" by TsviBT
"Cyborgism" by Nicholas Kees & Janus
"Childhoods of exceptional people" by Henrik Karlsson
"What I mean by "alignment is in large part about making cognition aimable at all"" by Nate Soares
"On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas" by Natália Coelho Mendonça
"SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)"
"Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball" by Nate Soares
"Basics of Rationalist Discourse" by Duncan Sabien
"Sapir-Whorf for Rationalists" by Duncan Sabien
"My Model Of EA Burnout" by Logan Strohl
"The Social Recession: By the Numbers" by Anton Stjepan Cebalo
"Recursive Middle Manager Hell" by Raemon
"The Feeling of Idea Scarcity" by John Wentworth
"Models Don't 'Get Reward'" by Sam Ringer
"How 'Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision' Fits Into a Broader Alignment Scheme" by Collin
"The next decades might be wild" by Marius Hobbhahn
"Lessons learned from talking to >100 academics about AI safety" by Marius Hobbhahn
"How my team at Lightcone sometimes gets stuff done" by jacobjacob
"Decision theory does not imply that we get to have nice things" by So8res
"What 2026 looks like" by Daniel Kokotajlo
Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case