LessWrong (Curated & Popular)

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Exciting Update: OpenAI has released this blog post and paper which makes me very happy. It's b

LLM-based coding-assistance tools have been out for ~2 years now. Many developers have been reportin

Background: After the release of Claude 3.7 Sonnet,[1] an Anthropic employee started livestreaming C

Note: an audio narration is not available for this article. Please see the original text. The origi

In a recent post, Cole Wyeth makes a bold claim:. . . there is one crucial test (yes this is a crux)

This isn't really a "timeline", as such – I don't know the timings – but this is

This is a critique of How to Make Superbabies on LessWrong.Disclaimer: I am not a geneticist[1], and

This is a link post.Your AI's training data might make it more “evil” and more able to circumve

I recently wrote about complete feedback, an idea which I think is quite important for AI safety. Ho

First, let me quote my previous ancient post on the topic:Effective Strategies for Changing Public O

In a previous book review I described exclusive nightclubs as the particle colliders of sociology—pl

This is the abstract and introduction of our new paper. We show that finetuning state-of-the-art LLM

It doesn’t look good.What used to be the AI Safety Summits were perhaps the most promising thing hap

Note: this is a static copy of this wiki page. We are also publishing it as a post to ensure visibil

Arbital was envisioned as a successor to Wikipedia. The project was discontinued in 2017, but not be

We’ve spent the better part of the last two decades unravelling exactly how the human genome works a

Audio note: this article contains 134 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to

This is an all-in-one crosspost of a scenario I originally published in three parts on my blog (No S

On March 14th, 2015, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality made its final post. Wrap parties w

A friend of mine recently recommended that I read through articles from the journal International Se