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“Murder plots are infohazards” by Chris Monteiro
“Why Did Elon Musk Just Offer to Buy Control of OpenAI for $100 Billion?” by garrison
“The ‘Think It Faster’ Exercise” by Raemon
“So You Want To Make Marginal Progress...” by johnswentworth
“What is malevolence? On the nature, measurement, and distribution of dark traits” by David Althaus
“How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years” by joshc
“Gradual Disempowerment, Shell Games and Flinches” by Jan_Kulveit
“Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development” by Jan_Kulveit, Raymond D, Nora_Ammann, Deger Turan, David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet), David Duvenaud
“Planning for Extreme AI Risks” by joshc
“Catastrophe through Chaos” by Marius Hobbhahn
“Will alignment-faking Claude accept a deal to reveal its misalignment?” by ryan_greenblatt
“‘Sharp Left Turn’ discourse: An opinionated review” by Steven Byrnes
“Ten people on the inside” by Buck
“Anomalous Tokens in DeepSeek-V3 and r1” by henry
“Tell me about yourself:LLMs are aware of their implicit behaviors” by Martín Soto, Owain_Evans
“Instrumental Goals Are A Different And Friendlier Kind Of Thing Than Terminal Goals” by johnswentworth, David Lorell
“A Three-Layer Model of LLM Psychology” by Jan_Kulveit
“Training on Documents About Reward Hacking Induces Reward Hacking” by evhub
“AI companies are unlikely to make high-assurance safety cases if timelines are short” by ryan_greenblatt
“Mechanisms too simple for humans to design” by Malmesbury
“The Gentle Romance” by Richard_Ngo
“Quotes from the Stargate press conference” by Nikola Jurkovic
“The Case Against AI Control Research” by johnswentworth
“Don’t ignore bad vibes you get from people” by Kaj_Sotala
“[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty” by tandem
“Building AI Research Fleets” by bgold, Jesse Hoogland
“What Is The Alignment Problem?” by johnswentworth
“Applying traditional economic thinking to AGI: a trilemma” by Steven Byrnes
“Passages I Highlighted in The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien” by Ivan Vendrov
“Parkinson’s Law and the Ideology of Statistics” by Benquo
“Capital Ownership Will Not Prevent Human Disempowerment” by beren
“Activation space interpretability may be doomed” by bilalchughtai, Lucius Bushnaq
“What o3 Becomes by 2028” by Vladimir_Nesov
“What Indicators Should We Watch to Disambiguate AGI Timelines?” by snewman
“How will we update about scheming?” by ryan_greenblatt
“OpenAI #10: Reflections” by Zvi
“Maximizing Communication, not Traffic” by jefftk
“What’s the short timeline plan?” by Marius Hobbhahn
“Shallow review of technical AI safety, 2024” by technicalities, Stag, Stephen McAleese, jordine, Dr. David Mathers
“By default, capital will matter more than ever after AGI” by L Rudolf L
“Review: Planecrash” by L Rudolf L
“The Field of AI Alignment: A Postmortem, and What To Do About It” by johnswentworth
“When Is Insurance Worth It?” by kqr
“Orienting to 3 year AGI timelines” by Nikola Jurkovic
“What Goes Without Saying” by sarahconstantin
“o3” by Zach Stein-Perlman
“‘Alignment Faking’ frame is somewhat fake” by Jan_Kulveit
“AIs Will Increasingly Attempt Shenanigans” by Zvi
“Alignment Faking in Large Language Models” by ryan_greenblatt, evhub, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright, Fabien Roger, Monte M, Sam Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Sam Bowman, Buck
“Communications in Hard Mode (My new job at MIRI)” by tanagrabeast
“Biological risk from the mirror world” by jasoncrawford
“Subskills of ‘Listening to Wisdom’” by Raemon
“Understanding Shapley Values with Venn Diagrams” by Carson L
“LessWrong audio: help us choose the new voice” by PeterH
“Understanding Shapley Values with Venn Diagrams” by agucova
“o1: A Technical Primer” by Jesse Hoogland
“Gradient Routing: Masking Gradients to Localize Computation in Neural Networks” by cloud, Jacob G-W, Evzen, Joseph Miller, TurnTrout
“Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming” by Marius Hobbhahn, AlexMeinke, Bronson Schoen
“(The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven’s first big fundraiser” by habryka
“Repeal the Jones Act of 1920” by Zvi
“China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race” by garrison
“Information vs Assurance” by johnswentworth
“You are not too ‘irrational’ to know your preferences.” by DaystarEld
“‘The Solomonoff Prior is Malign’ is a special case of a simpler argument” by David Matolcsi
“‘It’s a 10% chance which I did 10 times, so it should be 100%’” by egor.timatkov
“OpenAI Email Archives” by habryka
“Ayn Rand’s model of ‘living money’; and an upside of burnout” by AnnaSalamon
“Neutrality” by sarahconstantin
“Making a conservative case for alignment” by Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins, AE Studio
“OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman)” by habryka
“Catastrophic sabotage as a major threat model for human-level AI systems” by evhub
“The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed” by Zvi
“o1 is a bad idea” by abramdemski
“Current safety training techniques do not fully transfer to the agent setting” by Simon Lermen, Govind Pimpale
“Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
“Survival without dignity” by L Rudolf L
“The Median Researcher Problem” by johnswentworth
“The Compendium, A full argument about extinction risk from AGI” by adamShimi, Gabriel Alfour, Connor Leahy, Chris Scammell, Andrea_Miotti
“What TMS is like” by Sable
“The hostile telepaths problem” by Valentine
“A bird’s eye view of ARC’s research” by Jacob_Hilton
“A Rocket–Interpretability Analogy” by plex
“I got dysentery so you don’t have to” by eukaryote
“Overcoming Bias Anthology” by Arjun Panickssery
“Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology” by dynomight
“My theory of change for working in AI healthtech” by Andrew_Critch
“Why I’m not a Bayesian” by Richard_Ngo
“The AGI Entente Delusion” by Max Tegmark
“Momentum of Light in Glass” by Ben
“Overview of strong human intelligence amplification methods” by TsviBT
“Struggling like a Shadowmoth” by Raemon
“Three Subtle Examples of Data Leakage” by abstractapplic
“the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated” by nostalgebraist
“Cryonics is free” by Mati_Roy
“Stanislav Petrov Quarterly Performance Review” by Ricki Heicklen
“Laziness death spirals” by PatrickDFarley
“‘Slow’ takeoff is a terrible term for ‘maybe even faster takeoff, actually’” by Raemon
“ASIs will not leave just a little sunlight for Earth ” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Skills from a year of Purposeful Rationality Practice ” by Raemon
“How I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy ” by zhukeepa