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4:56

“Voting Results for the 2023 Review” by Raemon

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/06

The votes are in for the 2023 Review!6,264 posts were written in 2023. 662 of them got at least one positive Review Vote.209 of them got at least one review, and a positive Review Vote total.50 of them shall be displayed in the Best of LessWrong, Year 2023. Reviews Exactly 100 people wrote reviews, and many of them I found particularly valuable. I want to give some particular shout outs to Ryan Greenblatt, John Wentworth, and Steve Byrnes. I found Ryan Greenblatt's reviews to be sort of

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15:48

“C’mon guys, Deliberate Practice is Real” by Raemon

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/06

I'm writing a more in-depth review of the State of Feedbackloop Rationality. (I've written a short review on the original post)But I feel like a lot of people have some kind of skepticism that isn't really addressed by "well, after 6 months of work spread out over 1.5 years, I've made... some progress, which feels promising enough to me to keep going but is not overwhelming evidence if you're skeptical."So, this post is sort of a rant about that. A lot of people have default skepticism about "the

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2:36

“Wired on: ’DOGE personnel with admin access to” by...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/05

This is a link post.I haven't looked into this in detail, and I'm not actually sure how unique a situation this is. But, it updated me on "institutional changes to the US that might be bad[1]", and it seemed good if LessWrong folk did some sort of Orient Step on it.A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED.Two of

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12:35

“Subjective Naturalism in Decision Theory: Savage vs....

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/05

Audio note: this article contains 55 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. Summary:This post outlines how a view we call subjective naturalism[1] poses challenges to classical Savage-style decision theory. Subjective naturalism requires (i) richness (the ability to represent all propositions the agent can entertain, including self-referential ones) and (ii) austerity (excluding events the agent deems

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26:56

“Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition” by...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/05

Audio note: this article contains 182 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. I (Subhash) am a Masters student in the Tegmark AI Safety Lab at MIT. I am interested in recruiting for full time roles this Spring - please reach out if you're interested in working together! TLDRThis blog post accompanies the paper "Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition." Key findings: We show that LLMs represent

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11:06

“Reviewing LessWrong: Screwtape’s Basic Answer” by...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/05

Yeah I put this off until the last day, and I'm not sure this is the format Raemon was actually looking for. Oh well.Then, in proportion to how valuable they seem, spend at least some time this month reflecting... ...on the big picture of what intellectual progress seems important to you. Do it whatever way is most valuable to you. But, do it publicly, this month, such that it helps encourage other people to do so as well. And ideally, do it with some degree of "looking back" – either of your own

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39:20

“We’re in Deep Research” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/05

The latest addition to OpenAI's Pro offerings is their version of Deep Research.Have you longed for 10k word reports on anything your heart desires, 100 times a month, at a level similar to a graduate student intern? We have the product for you. Table of Contents The Pitch. It's Coming. Is It Safe?. How Does Deep Research Work?. Killer Shopping App. Rave Reviews. Research Reports. Perfecting the Prompt. Not So Fast!. What's Next?. Paying the Five. The Lighter Side. The Pitch OpenAI:

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0:53

“Meta: Frontier AI Framework” by Zach Stein-Perlman

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/05

This is a link post.Meta just published its version of an RSP (blogpost, framework).(Expect several more of these in the next week as AI companies try to look like they're meeting the Seoul summit commitments before the Paris summit deadline in a week.)Summary, quotes, and commentary in progress.We define catastrophic outcomes in two domains: Cybersecurity and Chemical & biological risks. --- First published: February 3rd, 2025 Source:

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10:23

“Anti-Slop Interventions?” by abramdemski

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/05

In his recent post arguing against AI Control research, John Wentworth argues that the median doom path goes through AI slop, rather than scheming. I find this to be plausible. I believe this suggests a convergence of interests between AI capabilities research and AI alignment research.Historically, there has been a lot of concern about differential progress amongst AI safety researchers (perhaps especially those I tend to talk to). Some research is labeled as "capabilities" while other is labeled

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3:17

“Tear Down the Burren” by jefftk

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/04

I love the Burren. It hosts something like seven weekly sessions in a range of styles and the back room has hosted many great acts including many of my friends. It's a key space in the Boston folk scene, and it's under threat from developers who want to tear it down. But after thinking it through, and noting that this puts me on the other side from many of my friends, I think the project should go ahead. The proposal isn't to tear down paradise to put up a parking lot, it's to put up

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32:58

“o3-mini Early Days” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/04

New model, new hype cycle, who dis? On a Friday afternoon, OpenAI was proud to announce the new model o3-mini and also o3-mini-high which is somewhat less mini, or for some other reasoning tasks you might still want o1 if you want a broader knowledge base, or if you’re a pro user o1-pro, while we want for o3-not-mini and o3-pro, except o3 can use web search and o1 can’t so it has the better knowledge in that sense, then on a Sunday night they launched Deep Research which is different from Google's

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4:36

“OpenAI releases deep research agent” by Seth Herd

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/03

This is a link post.Today we’re launching deep research in ChatGPT, a new agentic capability that conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. It accomplishes in tens of minutes what would take a human many hours.Deep research is OpenAI's next agent that can do work for you independently—you give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst. Powered by a version of the

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14:43

“Pick two: concise, comprehensive, or clear rules” by...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/03

There once was a post on LessWrong asking why so many bans? The OP of that post complained of, among other things, being punished despite not having broken any rules that they knew about before taking the action they got punished for. I started to write a comment, which then ballooned out of scope. The following is based on my own experiences trying to write rules. 1.I claim the ideal rules are concise, comprehensive, and clear[1]. In practice, I think that we usually have to pick two.Concise: Ideal

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16:14

“2024 was the year of the big battery, and what that...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/03

The sunlight hitting even a small portion of the United States has enough energy to power the whole country—that simple calculation was the subject of the last post. All this shows on its own is that running the country on solar power is physically possible. With photovoltaics it may be not just possible but practical, but photovoltaics on their own left open the question of what to do at night. Now it seems that the answer may be battery energy storage. Here's Tesla's sales of battery energy

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10:49

“Alderaan” by lsusr

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/02

Obi-Wan Kenobi bought passage from a scumbag with a confusing name. Luke couldn't tell whether Han's name was pronounced /hɑːn/ /hæn/? Fortunately this story is in prose, not film, and the pronuncuation of "Han"'s name is not plot relevant, so I can just write "Han" and leave the choice of pronunciation up to you. Whatever pronunciation you pick, they emerged from hyperspace in the Alderaan system. Han briefed his passengers on the their upcoming landing. "Thank you for flying with us. We have

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10:17

“The Simplest Good” by Jesse Hoogland

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/02

Common Law AI worked better than anyone expected.Dr. Sarah Chen was skeptical from the start. "You're essentially training them to be moral judges," she warned during the initial architecture review. "What if they overfit on ethics?" The room laughed. "Better than the alternative," someone quipped. The idea was simple enough: move the "constitution" part of Constitutional AI into pretraining and replace post-training with an online-learning-based "case law" system. The constitution would establish a

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10:50

“Gradual Disempowerment, Shell Games and Flinches” by...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/02

Over the past year and half, I've had numerous conversations about the risks we describe in Gradual Disempowerment. (The shortest useful summary of the core argument is: To the extent human civilization is human-aligned, most of the reason for the alignment is that humans are extremely useful to various social systems like the economy, and states, or as substrate of cultural evolution. When human cognition ceases to be useful, we should expect these systems to become less aligned, leading to human

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7:13

“Falsehoods you might believe about people who are at...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/02

I go to a lot of rationalist meetups. I quite enjoy them, and it's often because of the people who go to the meetups. There's a number of assumptions you might have about people who go to rationalist meetups, and many of them are mostly true. However, there is a difference between most examples and all examples. Most birds can fly. In the tradition of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names then, I would like to present to you the following Falsehoods You Might Believe About People At A

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7:57

“Some articles in ‘International Security’ that I...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/02/01

A friend of mine recently recommended that I read through articles from the journal International Security, in order to learn more about international relations, national security, and political science. I've really enjoyed it so far, and I think it's helped me have a clearer picture of how IR academics think about stuff, especially the core power dynamics that they think shape international relations.Here are a few of the articles I most enjoyed."Not So Innocent" argues that ethnoreligious

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8:40

“The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2025/01/31

This is the best sociological account of the AI x-risk reduction efforts of the last ~decade that I've seen. I encourage folks to engage with its critique and propose better strategies going forward.Here's the opening ~20% of the post. I encourage reading it all.In recent decades, a growing coalition has emerged to oppose the development of artificial intelligence technology, for fear that the imminent development of smarter-than-human machines could doom humanity to extinction. The now-influential

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