Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma.If you
It'll take until ~2050 to repeat the level of scaling that pretraining compute is experiencing
In this blog post, we analyse how the recent AI 2027 forecast by Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander,
This is a link post. to follow up my philantropic pledge from 2020, i've updated my philanthrop
I’ve been thinking recently about what sets apart the people who’ve done the best work at Anthropic
This is a link post. Guillaume Blanc has a piece in Works in Progress (I assume based on his paper)
We’ve written a new report on the threat of AI-enabled coups. I think this is a very serious risk
Back in the 1990s, ground squirrels were briefly fashionable pets, but their popularity came to an
Subtitle: Bad for loss of control risks, bad for concentration of power risks I’ve had this sitting
Though, given my doomerism, I think the natsec framing of the AGI race is likely wrongheaded, let m
Introduction Writing this post puts me in a weird epistemic position. I simultaneously believe that:
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently worried about a world where only 30% of jobs become automa
Audio note: this article contains 31 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to
This is a link post. When I was a really small kid, one of my favorite activities was to try and dam
This is part of the MIRI Single Author Series. Pieces in this series represent the beliefs and opin
Short AI takeoff timelines seem to leave no time for some lines of alignment research to become imp
In this post, we present a replication and extension of an alignment faking model organism: Replic
Summary: We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI agents can complete
“In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elms trees were green a
In 2021 I wrote what became my most popular blog post: What 2026 Looks Like. I intended to keep wri
Epistemic status: This post aims at an ambitious target: improving intuitive understanding directly
