# Voting Results for the 2023 Review

The votes are in for the 2023 Review!

6,264 posts were written in 2023

662 of them were nominated.

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.

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Reviews
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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 relentlessly reasonable. He reviewed many posts thoughtfully, clearly state flaws, value props, and concrete potential improvements. I particularly liked his review of [Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy & Long-Term Benefit Trust](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6tjHf5ykvFqaNCErH/anthropic-s-responsible-scaling-policy-and-long-term-benefit?commentId=NyqcvZifqznNGKxdT)

I personally had the most direct "worldview update" from John Wentworth's [The Case Against AI Control Research](http://localhost:3000/posts/8wBN8cdNAv3c7vt6p/the-case-against-ai-control-research). I don't fully agree with John's take, but I found distinguishing how bad scheming is at different AI stages, and what else needs to be going right at that stage, a quite useful frame.

I was also grateful for Steve Byrnes extensive [opinionated review of the  “Sharp Left Turn” discourse](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2yLyT6kB7BQvTfEuZ/sharp-left-turn-discourse-an-opinionated-review).

Here's a general screenshot of top of the [Review Leaderboard.](https://www.lesswrong.com/reviews/2023) Thanks to everyone who participated.

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And, reminder, reviews now appear on the Spotlight Items, at the top of the home page, and on the [/bestoflesswrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/bestoflesswrong) page.

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Weighted Vote Totals
====================

In past years, we calculated the votes based on two groups of users: Established users with 1000+ karma (who got 3x the vote weight), and users with <1000 karma. 

This time, we're replacing that arbitrary cliff with a more granular "your review vote gets multiplied by your Strong Vote power." I mentioned we'd be doing something like that in the [announcement post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pudQtkre7f9GLmb2b/the-2023-lesswrong-review-the-basic-ask#Sliding_Scale_of_Voting_Power), noting:

> I haven't been happy with the arbitrary cliff here. It gives *more* power than I really wanted to allocate to people with 1000 karma, and not enough weight to people who have been around much longer and have demonstrated good judgment. But, karma is still a pretty messy indicator, so I don't want to give too *much* power to high karma users either.

Ultimately it seemed that "[Strong Vote power](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Sx3CJXA7JHxY2yDG/strong-votes-update-deployed)" basically did what we wanted. Very high karma users get more voting power, but each additional point takes roughly twice as much karma as the previous point, which limits how extreme the difference can get. Users pretty quickly ramp up to around ~6x voting power. Most longterm users will have somewhere around 8-9x. A few users get as high as 14x.

That said, to avoid de-anonymization of votes, on this post I'm displaying the "raw" vote strength of each vote, before being multiplied.

The Results
===========

Okay. You probably kinda scrolled past all that to get to what you're all here for: what were the best posts of LessWrong 2023, according to you, the people?

408 people voted. 161 people cast the six votes we asked to get the Good Citizen Stamp. Here's what they thought:

| 0   | [AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion](/posts/d9FJHawgkiMSPjagR/ai-control-improving-safety-despite-intentional-subversion) Buck |     |
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| 1   | [Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball](/posts/Zp6wG5eQFLGWwcG6j/focus-on-the-places-where-you-feel-shocked-everyone-s) So8res |     |
| 2   | [Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible](/posts/JEhW3HDMKzekDShva/significantly-enhancing-adult-intelligence-with-gene-editing) GeneSmith |     |
| 3   | [Social Dark Matter](/posts/KpMNqA5BiCRozCwM3/social-dark-matter) Duncan Sabien (Deactivated) |     |
| 4   | [Statement on AI Extinction - Signed by AGI Labs, Top Academics, and Many Other Notable Figures](/posts/HcJPJxkyCsrpSdCii/statement-on-ai-extinction-signed-by-agi-labs-top-academics) Dan H |     |
| 5   | [Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down](/posts/oM9pEezyCb4dCsuKq/pausing-ai-developments-isn-t-enough-we-need-to-shut-it-all-1) Eliezer Yudkowsky |     |
| 6   | [Please don't throw your mind away](/posts/RryyWNmJNnLowbhfC/please-don-t-throw-your-mind-away) TsviBT |     |
| 7   | [How much do you believe your results?](/posts/nnDTgmzRrzDMiPF9B/how-much-do-you-believe-your-results) Eric Neyman |     |
| 8   | [AI Timelines](/posts/K2D45BNxnZjdpSX2j/ai-timelines) habryka |     |
| 9   | [Basics of Rationalist Discourse](/posts/XPv4sYrKnPzeJASuk/basics-of-rationalist-discourse-1) Duncan Sabien (Deactivated) |     |
| 10  | [Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities](/posts/ejxwraMP5ye7Bgmpm/things-i-learned-by-spending-five-thousand-hours-in-non-ea) jenn |     |
| 11  | [What a compute-centric framework says about AI takeoff speeds](/posts/Gc9FGtdXhK9sCSEYu/what-a-compute-centric-framework-says-about-ai-takeoff) Tom Davidson |     |
| 12  | [How to have Polygenically Screened Children](/posts/yT22RcWrxZcXyGjsA/how-to-have-polygenically-screened-children) GeneSmith |     |
| 13  | [Natural Abstractions: Key claims, Theorems, and Critiques](/posts/gvzW46Z3BsaZsLc25/natural-abstractions-key-claims-theorems-and-critiques-1) LawrenceC |     |
| 14  | [Alignment Implications of LLM Successes: a Debate in One Act](/posts/pYWA7hYJmXnuyby33/alignment-implications-of-llm-successes-a-debate-in-one-act) Zack\\_M\\_Davis |     |
| 15  | [Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research](/posts/ChDH335ckdvpxXaXX/model-organisms-of-misalignment-the-case-for-a-new-pillar-of-1) evhub |     |
| 16  | [Natural Latents: The Math](/posts/dWQWzGCSFj6GTZHz7/natural-latents-the-math) johnswentworth |     |
| 17  | [Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector](/posts/5spBue2z2tw4JuDCx/steering-gpt-2-xl-by-adding-an-activation-vector) TurnTrout |     |
| 18  | [SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)](/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation) Jessica Rumbelow |     |
| 19  | [The ants and the grasshopper](/posts/GJgudfEvNx8oeyffH/the-ants-and-the-grasshopper) Richard_Ngo |     |
| 20  | [Feedbackloop-first Rationality](/posts/pZrvkZzL2JnbRgEBC/feedbackloop-first-rationality) Raemon |     |
| 21  | [Deep Deceptiveness](/posts/XWwvwytieLtEWaFJX/deep-deceptiveness) So8res |     |
| 22  | [EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem](/posts/aW288uWABwTruBmgF/ea-vegan-advocacy-is-not-truthseeking-and-it-s-everyone-s-1) Elizabeth |     |
| 23  | [Davidad's Bold Plan for Alignment: An In-Depth Explanation](/posts/jRf4WENQnhssCb6mJ/davidad-s-bold-plan-for-alignment-an-in-depth-explanation) Charbel-Raphaël |     |
| 24  | [Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse](/posts/gPPdYTwPkdvAEYyEK/fucking-goddamn-basics-of-rationalist-discourse) LoganStrohl |     |
| 25  | [Against Almost Every Theory of Impact of Interpretability](/posts/LNA8mubrByG7SFacm/against-almost-every-theory-of-impact-of-interpretability-1) Charbel-Raphaël |     |
| 26  | [Guide to rationalist interior decorating](/posts/HJNtrNHf688FoHsHM/guide-to-rationalist-interior-decorating) mingyuan |     |
| 27  | [New report: "Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?"](/posts/yFofRxg7RRQYCcwFA/new-report-scheming-ais-will-ais-fake-alignment-during) Joe Carlsmith |     |
| 28  | [Predictable updating about AI risk](/posts/bHozHrQD4qxvKdfqq/predictable-updating-about-ai-risk) Joe Carlsmith |     |
| 29  | [\\[Fiction\\] A Disneyland Without Children](/posts/pk9mofif2jWbc6Tv3/fiction-a-disneyland-without-children) L Rudolf L |     |
| 30  | [The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism](/posts/yA8DWsHJeFZhDcQuo/the-talk-a-brief-explanation-of-sexual-dimorphism) Malmesbury |     |
| 31  | ["Carefully Bootstrapped Alignment" is organizationally hard](/posts/thkAtqoQwN6DtaiGT/carefully-bootstrapped-alignment-is-organizationally-hard) Raemon |     |
| 32  | [Tuning your Cognitive Strategies](/posts/bbB4pvAQdpGrgGvXH/tuning-your-cognitive-strategies) Raemon |     |
| 33  | [Enemies vs Malefactors](/posts/zidQmfFhMgwFzcHhs/enemies-vs-malefactors) So8res |     |
| 34  | [The Parable of the King and the Random Process](/posts/LzQtrHSYDafXynofq/the-parable-of-the-king-and-the-random-process) moridinamael |     |
| 35  | [GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators](/posts/nH4c3Q9t9F3nJ7y8W/gpts-are-predictors-not-imitators) Eliezer Yudkowsky |     |
| 36  | [Labs should be explicit about why they are building AGI](/posts/6HEYbsqk35butCYTe/labs-should-be-explicit-about-why-they-are-building-agi) peterbarnett |     |
| 37  | [Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born](/posts/R5yL6oZxqJfmqnuje/cultivating-a-state-of-mind-where-new-ideas-are-born) Henrik Karlsson |     |
| 38  | [Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty](/posts/iy2o4nQj9DnQD7Yhj/discussion-with-nate-soares-on-a-key-alignment-difficulty) HoldenKarnofsky |     |
| 39  | [Loudly Give Up, Don't Quietly Fade](/posts/bkfgTSHhm3mqxgTmw/loudly-give-up-don-t-quietly-fade) Screwtape |     |
| 40  | [We don’t trade with ants](/posts/wB7hdo4LDdhZ7kwJw/we-don-t-trade-with-ants) KatjaGrace |     |
| 41  | [Neural networks generalize because of this one weird trick](/posts/fovfuFdpuEwQzJu2w/neural-networks-generalize-because-of-this-one-weird-trick) Jesse Hoogland |     |
| 42  | [My views on “doom”](/posts/xWMqsvHapP3nwdSW8/my-views-on-doom) paulfchristiano |     |
| 43  | [Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes](/posts/Wiz4eKi5fsomRsMbx/change-my-mind-veganism-entails-trade-offs-and-health-is-one) Elizabeth |     |
| 44  | [Lessons On How To Get Things Right On The First Try](/posts/f3kM7NM5eGMTp3KtZ/lessons-on-how-to-get-things-right-on-the-first-try) johnswentworth |     |
| 45  | [Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety](/posts/zaaGsFBeDTpCsYHef/shallow-review-of-live-agendas-in-alignment-and-safety) technicalities |     |
| 46  | [The Learning-Theoretic Agenda: Status 2023](/posts/ZwshvqiqCvXPsZEct/the-learning-theoretic-agenda-status-2023) Vanessa Kosoy |     |
| 47  | [Improving the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal](/posts/F6HSHzKezkh6aoTr2/improving-the-welfare-of-ais-a-nearcasted-proposal) ryan_greenblatt |     |
| 48  | [Book Review: Going Infinite](/posts/AocXh6gJ9tJC2WyCL/book-review-going-infinite) Zvi |     |
| 49  | [Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk](/posts/2sLwt2cSAag74nsdN/speaking-to-congressional-staffers-about-ai-risk) Zuko's Shame |     |
| 50  | [Why it's so hard to talk about Consciousness](/posts/NyiFLzSrkfkDW4S7o/why-it-s-so-hard-to-talk-about-consciousness) Rafael Harth |     |
| 51  | [Acausal normalcy](/posts/3RSq3bfnzuL3sp46J/acausal-normalcy) Andrew_Critch |     |
| 52  | [Towards Developmental Interpretability](/posts/TjaeCWvLZtEDAS5Ex/towards-developmental-interpretability) Jesse Hoogland |     |
| 53  | [Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition](/posts/uGDtroD26aLvHSoK2/dear-self-we-need-to-talk-about-ambition-1) Elizabeth |     |
| 54  | [Thoughts on “AI is easy to control” by Pope & Belrose](/posts/YyosBAutg4bzScaLu/thoughts-on-ai-is-easy-to-control-by-pope-and-belrose) Steven Byrnes |     |
| 55  | [Thoughts on sharing information about language model capabilities](/posts/fRSj2W4Fjje8rQWm9/thoughts-on-sharing-information-about-language-model) paulfchristiano |     |
| 56  | [FixDT](/posts/8dbimB7EJXuYxmteW/fixdt) abramdemski |     |
| 57  | [My Model Of EA Burnout](/posts/pDzdb4smpzT3Lwbym/my-model-of-ea-burnout) LoganStrohl |     |
| 58  | [Accidentally Load Bearing](/posts/QBeN49SoKpDMX3kKk/accidentally-load-bearing) jefftk |     |
| 59  | [Comp Sci in 2027 (Short story by Eliezer Yudkowsky)](/posts/gQyphPbaLHBMJoghD/comp-sci-in-2027-short-story-by-eliezer-yudkowsky) sudo |     |
| 60  | [The Plan - 2023 Version](/posts/HfqbjwpAEGep9mHhc/the-plan-2023-version) johnswentworth |     |
| 61  | [When is Goodhart catastrophic?](/posts/fuSaKr6t6Zuh6GKaQ/when-is-goodhart-catastrophic) Drake Thomas |     |
| 62  | [Evaluating the historical value misspecification argument](/posts/i5kijcjFJD6bn7dwq/evaluating-the-historical-value-misspecification-argument) Matthew Barnett |     |
| 63  | [Contrast Pairs Drive the Empirical Performance of Contrast Consistent Search (CCS)](/posts/9vwekjD6xyuePX7Zr/contrast-pairs-drive-the-empirical-performance-of-contrast) Scott Emmons |     |
| 64  | [Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned](/posts/jtoPawEhLNXNxvgTT/bing-chat-is-blatantly-aggressively-misaligned) evhub |     |
| 65  | [Cyborgism](/posts/bxt7uCiHam4QXrQAA/cyborgism) NicholasKees |     |
| 66  | [Shell games](/posts/zqmAMst8hmsdJqrpR/shell-games) TsviBT |     |
| 67  | [Ten Levels of AI Alignment Difficulty](/posts/EjgfreeibTXRx9Ham/ten-levels-of-ai-alignment-difficulty) Sammy Martin |     |
| 68  | [Introducing Fatebook: the fastest way to make and track predictions](/posts/yS3d46m23wRKDQobt/introducing-fatebook-the-fastest-way-to-make-and-track) Adam B |     |
| 69  | [Modal Fixpoint Cooperation without Löb's Theorem](/posts/2WpPRrqrFQa6n2x3W/modal-fixpoint-cooperation-without-loeb-s-theorem) Andrew_Critch |     |
| 70  | [How to (hopefully ethically) make money off of AGI](/posts/CTBta9i8sav7tjC2r/how-to-hopefully-ethically-make-money-off-of-agi) habryka |     |
| 71  | [AI: Practical Advice for the Worried](/posts/CvfZrrEokjCu3XHXp/ai-practical-advice-for-the-worried) Zvi |     |
| 72  | [\\[Valence series\\] 1. Introduction](/posts/As7bjEAbNpidKx6LR/valence-series-1-introduction) Steven Byrnes |     |
| 73  | [Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning](/posts/TDqvQFks6TWutJEKu/towards-monosemanticity-decomposing-language-models-with) Zac Hatfield-Dodds |     |
| 74  | [Responses to apparent rationalist confusions about game / decision theory](/posts/895Qmhyud2PjDhte6/responses-to-apparent-rationalist-confusions-about-game) Anthony DiGiovanni |     |
| 75  | [Why and How to Graduate Early \\[U.S.\\]](/posts/dkchEFnM9EYpW3bjK/why-and-how-to-graduate-early-u-s) Tego |     |
| 76  | [Updates and Reflections on Optimal Exercise after Nearly a Decade](/posts/RydETq379eoWqBFvj/updates-and-reflections-on-optimal-exercise-after-nearly-a) romeostevensit |     |
| 77  | [Getting Started With Naturalism](/posts/MveBB3aCz3k2jzgJs/getting-started-with-naturalism) LoganStrohl |     |
| 78  | [Why Not Subagents?](/posts/bzmLC3J8PsknwRZbr/why-not-subagents) johnswentworth |     |
| 79  | [Meta-level adversarial evaluation of oversight techniques might allow robust measurement of their adequacy](/posts/MbWWKbyD5gLhJgfwn/meta-level-adversarial-evaluation-of-oversight-techniques-1) Buck |     |
| 80  | [A case for AI alignment being difficult](/posts/wnkGXcAq4DCgY8HqA/a-case-for-ai-alignment-being-difficult) jessicata |     |
| 81  | [Consciousness as a conflationary alliance term for intrinsically valued internal experiences](/posts/KpD2fJa6zo8o2MBxg/consciousness-as-a-conflationary-alliance-term-for) Andrew_Critch |     |
| 82  | [The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You](/posts/ydmctK2qLyrR9Xztd/the-101-space-you-will-always-have-with-you) Screwtape |     |
| 83  | [Coup probes: Catching catastrophes with probes trained off-policy](/posts/WCj7WgFSLmyKaMwPR/coup-probes-catching-catastrophes-with-probes-trained-off) Fabien Roger |     |
| 84  | [Preventing Language Models from hiding their reasoning](/posts/9Fdd9N7Escg3tcymb/preventing-language-models-from-hiding-their-reasoning) Fabien Roger |     |
| 85  | [Teleosemantics!](/posts/WGEPBmErv8ufrq8Fc/teleosemantics) abramdemski |     |
| 86  | [My Objections to "We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky"](/posts/wAczufCpMdaamF9fy/my-objections-to-we-re-all-gonna-die-with-eliezer-yudkowsky) Quintin Pope |     |
| 87  | [Why Not Just Outsource Alignment Research To An AI?](/posts/3gAccKDW6nRKFumpP/why-not-just-outsource-alignment-research-to-an-ai) johnswentworth |     |
| 88  | [Childhoods of exceptional people](/posts/CYN7swrefEss4e3Qe/childhoods-of-exceptional-people) Henrik Karlsson |     |
| 89  | [How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions](/posts/khFC2a4pLPvGtXAGG/how-to-catch-an-ai-liar-lie-detection-in-black-box-llms-by) JanB |     |
| 90  | [The Soul Key](/posts/tHvFtfFKjhfy3sQpC/the-soul-key) Richard_Ngo |     |
| 91  | [Never Drop A Ball](/posts/jruPqRkyFjbariAKL/never-drop-a-ball) Screwtape |     |
| 92  | [Cohabitive Games so Far](/posts/bF353RHmuzFQcsokF/cohabitive-games-so-far) mako yass |     |
| 93  | [The salt in pasta water fallacy](/posts/LHAJuYy453YwiKFt5/the-salt-in-pasta-water-fallacy) Thomas Sepulchre |     |
| 94  | [Untrusted smart models and trusted dumb models](/posts/LhxHcASQwpNa3mRNk/untrusted-smart-models-and-trusted-dumb-models) Buck |     |
| 95  | [Some Rules for an Algebra of Bayes Nets](/posts/XHtygebvHoJSSeNPP/some-rules-for-an-algebra-of-bayes-nets) johnswentworth |     |
| 96  | [How to Bounded Distrust](/posts/rvpEF2mBLeZE9j53n/how-to-bounded-distrust) Zvi |     |
| 97  | [Yudkowsky vs Hanson on FOOM: Whose Predictions Were Better?](/posts/gGSvwd62TJAxxhcGh/yudkowsky-vs-hanson-on-foom-whose-predictions-were-better) 1a3orn |     |
| 98  | [Before smart AI, there will be many mediocre or specialized AIs](/posts/5sWNnbHRkExfLaS49/before-smart-ai-there-will-be-many-mediocre-or-specialized) Lukas Finnveden |     |
| 99  | [A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX](/posts/BpTDJj6TrqGYTjFcZ/a-golden-age-of-building-excerpts-and-lessons-from-empire) Bird Concept |     |
| 100 | [Apocalypse insurance, and the hardline libertarian take on AI risk](/posts/mSeesg7i4d9scWAet/apocalypse-insurance-and-the-hardline-libertarian-take-on-ai) So8res |     |
| 101 | [A freshman year during the AI midgame: my approach to the next year](/posts/mfFn46AEiBL5EzaXr/a-freshman-year-during-the-ai-midgame-my-approach-to-the) Buck |     |
| 102 | [Aumann-agreement is common](/posts/4S6zunFNFY3f5JYxt/aumann-agreement-is-common) tailcalled |     |
| 103 | [grey goo is unlikely](/posts/FijbeqdovkgAusGgz/grey-goo-is-unlikely) bhauth |     |
| 104 | [Iron deficiencies are very bad and you should treat them](/posts/6frs5xTkeLc9vZSRN/iron-deficiencies-are-very-bad-and-you-should-treat-them) Elizabeth |     |
| 105 | [Dark Forest Theories](/posts/xDNyXGCDephBuNF8c/dark-forest-theories) Raemon |     |
| 106 | [Connectomics seems great from an AI x-risk perspective](/posts/ybmDkJAj3rdrrauuu/connectomics-seems-great-from-an-ai-x-risk-perspective) Steven Byrnes |     |
| 107 | [Views on when AGI comes and on strategy to reduce existential risk](/posts/sTDfraZab47KiRMmT/views-on-when-agi-comes-and-on-strategy-to-reduce) TsviBT |     |
| 108 | [The 'Neglected Approaches' Approach: AE Studio's Alignment Agenda](/posts/qAdDzcBuDBLexb4fC/the-neglected-approaches-approach-ae-studio-s-alignment) Cameron Berg |     |
| 109 | [Thinking By The Clock](/posts/WJtq4DoyT9ovPyHjH/thinking-by-the-clock) Screwtape |     |
| 110 | [Killing Socrates](/posts/JcgtKunqmELefxksx/killing-socrates) Duncan Sabien (Deactivated) |     |
| 111 | [You don't get to have cool flaws](/posts/niPHLviGAWzzZTzit/you-don-t-get-to-have-cool-flaws) Neil |     |
| 112 | [Noting an error in Inadequate Equilibria](/posts/woCPxs8GxE7H35zzK/noting-an-error-in-inadequate-equilibria) Matthew Barnett |     |
| 113 | [Assume Bad Faith](/posts/e4GBj6jxRZcsHFSvP/assume-bad-faith) Zack\\_M\\_Davis |     |
| 114 | [Measuring and Improving the Faithfulness of Model-Generated Reasoning](/posts/BKvJNzALpxS3LafEs/measuring-and-improving-the-faithfulness-of-model-generated) Ansh Radhakrishnan |     |
| 115 | [When can we trust model evaluations?](/posts/dBmfb76zx6wjPsBC7/when-can-we-trust-model-evaluations) evhub |     |
| 116 | [Benchmarks for Detecting Measurement Tampering \\[Redwood Research\\]](/posts/inALbAqdx63KTaGgs/benchmarks-for-detecting-measurement-tampering-redwood) ryan_greenblatt |     |
| 117 | [Learning-theoretic agenda reading list](/posts/fsGEyCYhqs7AWwdCe/learning-theoretic-agenda-reading-list) Vanessa Kosoy |     |
| 118 | [Exercise: Solve "Thinking Physics"](/posts/PiPH4gkcMuvLALymK/exercise-solve-thinking-physics) Raemon |     |
| 119 | [Why Simulator AIs want to be Active Inference AIs](/posts/YEioD8YLgxih3ydxP/why-simulator-ais-want-to-be-active-inference-ais) Jan_Kulveit |     |
| 120 | [What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals](/posts/6FkWnktH3mjMAxdRT/what-i-would-do-if-i-wasn-t-at-arc-evals) LawrenceC |     |
| 121 | [Evaluations (of new AI Safety researchers) can be noisy](/posts/HACcn8roty9KBAWzZ/evaluations-of-new-ai-safety-researchers-can-be-noisy) LawrenceC |     |
| 122 | [The King and the Golem](/posts/bteq4hMW2hqtKE49d/the-king-and-the-golem) Richard_Ngo |     |
| 123 | [Love, Reverence, and Life](/posts/BsAt7bhGJqgsi7vpo/love-reverence-and-life) Elizabeth |     |
| 124 | [Auditing failures vs concentrated failures](/posts/hirhSqvEAq7pdnyPG/auditing-failures-vs-concentrated-failures) ryan_greenblatt |     |
| 125 | [Elements of Rationalist Discourse](/posts/svuBpoSduzhYjFPrA/elements-of-rationalist-discourse) Rob Bensinger |     |
| 126 | [Evolution provides no evidence for the sharp left turn](/posts/hvz9qjWyv8cLX9JJR/evolution-provides-no-evidence-for-the-sharp-left-turn) Quintin Pope |     |
| 127 | [Latent variables for prediction markets: motivation, technical guide, and design considerations](/posts/ufW5LvcwDuL6qjdBT/latent-variables-for-prediction-markets-motivation-technical) tailcalled |     |
| 128 | [UFO Betting: Put Up or Shut Up](/posts/t5W87hQF5gKyTofQB/ufo-betting-put-up-or-shut-up) RatsWrongAboutUAP |     |
| 129 | [Some background for reasoning about dual-use alignment research](/posts/zswuToWK6zpYSwmCn/some-background-for-reasoning-about-dual-use-alignment) Charlie Steiner |     |
| 130 | [Scalable Oversight and Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Compatible approaches to the same problem](/posts/hw2tGSsvLLyjFoLFS/scalable-oversight-and-weak-to-strong-generalization) Ansh Radhakrishnan |     |
| 131 | [The Base Rate Times, news through prediction markets](/posts/DfQ3Ls45WnYuguqfc/the-base-rate-times-news-through-prediction-markets) vandemonian |     |
| 132 | [Mob and Bailey](/posts/myJ5RbHwtxLzvuwXb/mob-and-bailey) Screwtape |     |
| 133 | [Pretraining Language Models with Human Preferences](/posts/8F4dXYriqbsom46x5/pretraining-language-models-with-human-preferences) Tomek Korbak |     |
| 134 | [Touch reality as soon as possible (when doing machine learning research)](/posts/fqryrxnvpSr5w2dDJ/touch-reality-as-soon-as-possible-when-doing-machine) LawrenceC |     |
| 135 | [POC \\|\\| GTFO culture as partial antidote to alignment wordcelism](/posts/xsB3dDg5ubqnT7nsn/poc-or-or-gtfo-culture-as-partial-antidote-to-alignment) lc |     |
| 136 | [A to Z of things](/posts/JByMmDjnBLnHSqhkS/a-to-z-of-things) KatjaGrace |     |
| 137 | [OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, etc. should shut down.](/posts/8SjnKxjLniCAmcjnG/openai-deepmind-anthropic-etc-should-shut-down) Tamsin Leake |     |
| 138 | [Model, Care, Execution](/posts/mkDs86ciwwjnpyeZW/model-care-execution) Ricki Heicklen |     |
| 139 | [Symbol/Referent Confusions in Language Model Alignment Experiments](/posts/rMZvtrrcfwTMy685K/symbol-referent-confusions-in-language-model-alignment) johnswentworth |     |
| 140 | [Careless talk on US-China AI competition? (and criticism of CAIS coverage)](/posts/uRyKkyYstxZkCNcoP/careless-talk-on-us-china-ai-competition-and-criticism-of) Oliver Sourbut |     |
| 141 | [Alexander and Yudkowsky on AGI goals](/posts/rwkkcgSpnAyE8oNo3/alexander-and-yudkowsky-on-agi-goals) Scott Alexander |     |
| 142 | [Deception Chess: Game #1](/posts/6dn6hnFRgqqWJbwk9/deception-chess-game-1) Zane |     |
| 143 | [Ethodynamics of Omelas](/posts/ikoi5PcyZBw5v8pbt/ethodynamics-of-omelas) dr_s |     |
| 144 | [Here's Why I'm Hesitant To Respond In More Depth](/posts/JpM9Gi9frSENjexEr/here-s-why-i-m-hesitant-to-respond-in-more-depth) DirectedEvolution |     |
| 145 | [Shutting Down the Lightcone Offices](/posts/psYNRb3JCncQBjd4v/shutting-down-the-lightcone-offices) habryka |     |
| 146 | [shoes with springs](/posts/LwvfYGZTSud7Rsuyw/shoes-with-springs) bhauth |     |
| 147 | [Would You Work Harder In The Least Convenient Possible World?](/posts/uauTcRiLseDyh49YL/would-you-work-harder-in-the-least-convenient-possible-world) Firinn |     |
| 148 | [Bayesian Networks Aren't Necessarily Causal](/posts/qPrPNakJBq23muf4n/bayesian-networks-aren-t-necessarily-causal) Zack\\_M\\_Davis |     |
| 149 | [One Day Sooner](/posts/EsxowsJsRopTGALCX/one-day-sooner) Screwtape |     |
| 150 | ["Publish or Perish" (a quick note on why you should try to make your work legible to existing academic communities)](/posts/LKAogXdruuZXdx6ZH/publish-or-perish-a-quick-note-on-why-you-should-try-to-make) David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet) |     |
| 151 | [Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy & Long-Term Benefit Trust](/posts/6tjHf5ykvFqaNCErH/anthropic-s-responsible-scaling-policy-and-long-term-benefit) Zac Hatfield-Dodds |     |
| 152 | [Think carefully before calling RL policies "agents"](/posts/rmfjo4Wmtgq8qa2B7/think-carefully-before-calling-rl-policies-agents) TurnTrout |     |
| 153 | [Going Crazy and Getting Better Again](/posts/bNKcKb8LYaQe49kWF/going-crazy-and-getting-better-again) Evenstar |     |
| 154 | [The benevolence of the butcher](/posts/2ujT9renJwdrcBqcE/the-benevolence-of-the-butcher) dr_s |     |
| 155 | [Nietzsche's Morality in Plain English](/posts/Ypo9kNpp45EELgEdK/nietzsche-s-morality-in-plain-english) Arjun Panickssery |     |
| 156 | [Cryonics and Regret](/posts/inARBH5DwQTrvvRj8/cryonics-and-regret) MvB |     |
| 157 | [RSPs are pauses done right](/posts/mcnWZBnbeDz7KKtjJ/rsps-are-pauses-done-right) evhub |     |
| 158 | [Giant (In)scrutable Matrices: (Maybe) the Best of All Possible Worlds](/posts/GkC6YTu4DWp2zwf9k/giant-in-scrutable-matrices-maybe-the-best-of-all-possible) 1a3orn |     |
| 159 | [Why I’m not into the Free Energy Principle](/posts/MArdnet7pwgALaeKs/why-i-m-not-into-the-free-energy-principle) Steven Byrnes |     |
| 160 | [The ‘ petertodd’ phenomenon](/posts/jkY6QdCfAXHJk3kea/the-petertodd-phenomenon) mwatkins |     |
| 161 | [Which personality traits are real? Stress-testing the lexical hypothesis](/posts/ftPQugx2726zAL2Ff/which-personality-traits-are-real-stress-testing-the-lexical) tailcalled |     |
| 162 | [Green goo is plausible](/posts/ibaCBwfnehYestpi5/green-goo-is-plausible) anithite |     |
| 163 | [Rational Unilateralists Aren't So Cursed](/posts/TkwJupKzDpGHLxoG6/rational-unilateralists-aren-t-so-cursed) SCP |     |
| 164 | [Competitive, Cooperative, and Cohabitive](/posts/9qJYdFkhNQimvmjBF/competitive-cooperative-and-cohabitive) Screwtape |     |
| 165 | [Have Attention Spans Been Declining?](/posts/Pweg9xpKknkNwN8Fx/have-attention-spans-been-declining) niplav |     |
| 166 | [Hell is Game Theory Folk Theorems](/posts/d2HvpKWQ2XGNsHr8s/hell-is-game-theory-folk-theorems) jessicata |     |
| 167 | [Reducing sycophancy and improving honesty via activation steering](/posts/zt6hRsDE84HeBKh7E/reducing-sycophancy-and-improving-honesty-via-activation) Nina Panickssery |     |
| 168 | [Are there cognitive realms?](/posts/NvwjExA7FcPDoo3L7/are-there-cognitive-realms) TsviBT |     |
| 169 | ["Rationalist Discourse" Is Like "Physicist Motors"](/posts/SX6wQEdGfzz7GKYvp/rationalist-discourse-is-like-physicist-motors) Zack\\_M\\_Davis |     |
| 170 | [Being at peace with Doom](/posts/iJnBLanZLephL5cao/being-at-peace-with-doom) Johannes C. Mayer |     |
| 171 | [Recreating the caring drive](/posts/JjqZexMgvarBFMKPs/recreating-the-caring-drive) Catnee |     |
| 172 | [The God of Humanity, and the God of the Robot Utilitarians](/posts/SfZRWxktiFFJ5FNk8/the-god-of-humanity-and-the-god-of-the-robot-utilitarians) Raemon |     |
| 173 | [Agentized LLMs will change the alignment landscape](/posts/dcoxvEhAfYcov2LA6/agentized-llms-will-change-the-alignment-landscape) Seth Herd |     |
| 174 | [Ability to solve long-horizon tasks correlates with wanting things in the behaviorist sense](/posts/AWoZBzxdm4DoGgiSj/ability-to-solve-long-horizon-tasks-correlates-with-wanting) So8res |     |
| 175 | [What's up with "Responsible Scaling Policies"?](/posts/jyM7MSTvy8Qs6aZcz/what-s-up-with-responsible-scaling-policies) habryka |     |
| 176 | [The Real Fanfic Is The Friends We Made Along The Way](/posts/SibcE6H9i6wifzqAF/the-real-fanfic-is-the-friends-we-made-along-the-way) Eneasz |     |
| 177 | [New User's Guide to LessWrong](/posts/LbbrnRvc9QwjJeics/new-user-s-guide-to-lesswrong) Ruby |     |
| 178 | [We don't understand what happened with culture enough](/posts/wCtegGaWxttfKZsfx/we-don-t-understand-what-happened-with-culture-enough) Jan_Kulveit |     |
| 179 | [Seth Explains Consciousness](/posts/FQhtpHFiPacG3KrvD/seth-explains-consciousness) Jacob Falkovich |     |
| 180 | [\\[Valence series\\] 2. Valence & Normativity](/posts/SqgRtCwueovvwxpDQ/valence-series-2-valence-and-normativity) Steven Byrnes |     |
| 181 | [Fifty Flips](/posts/hsA8hnvuyaXZdx3am/fifty-flips) abstractapplic |     |
| 182 | [So you want to save the world? An account in paladinhood](/posts/Qw6qsgR2Qm6rp574A/so-you-want-to-save-the-world-an-account-in-paladinhood) Tamsin Leake |     |
| 183 | [A Playbook for AI Risk Reduction (focused on misaligned AI)](/posts/Fbk9H6ipfybHyqjrp/a-playbook-for-ai-risk-reduction-focused-on-misaligned-ai) HoldenKarnofsky |     |
| 184 | [Moral Reality Check (a short story)](/posts/umJMCaxosXWEDfS66/moral-reality-check-a-short-story) jessicata |     |
| 185 | [Takeaways from calibration training](/posts/oRTzrjJDss6twSnBD/takeaways-from-calibration-training) Olli Järviniemi |     |
| 186 | [Efficiency and resource use scaling parity](/posts/Q3XaZTExzDpCLr4wu/efficiency-and-resource-use-scaling-parity) Ege Erdil |     |
| 187 | [Spaciousness In Partner Dance: A Naturalism Demo](/posts/cgAaShQeuL53zzGsT/spaciousness-in-partner-dance-a-naturalism-demo) LoganStrohl |     |
| 188 | [\\[Valence series\\] 3. Valence & Beliefs](/posts/rM8DwFKZM4eB7i2p8/valence-series-3-valence-and-beliefs) Steven Byrnes |     |
| 189 | [Fighting without hope](/posts/w2gYsWF3CLBXZkHfg/fighting-without-hope) Zuko's Shame |     |
| 190 | [On Tapping Out](/posts/Mqvn5asmXuBoCSGZy/on-tapping-out) Screwtape |     |
| 191 | [Beware of Fake Alternatives](/posts/emsHFEnyxXR8nEj6p/beware-of-fake-alternatives) silentbob |     |
| 192 | [Truth and Advantage: Response to a draft of "AI safety seems hard to measure"](/posts/SpDHvbcJsiE5mxBzj/truth-and-advantage-response-to-a-draft-of-ai-safety-seems) So8res |     |
| 193 | [AI #1: Sydney and Bing](/posts/WkchhorbLsSMbLacZ/ai-1-sydney-and-bing) Zvi |     |
| 194 | [The shape of AGI: Cartoons and back of envelope](/posts/bku9odAYPyQwHqzCo/the-shape-of-agi-cartoons-and-back-of-envelope) boazbarak |     |
| 195 | [Underwater Torture Chambers: The Horror Of Fish Farming](/posts/Nnis3dFYZRRAzWuEA/underwater-torture-chambers-the-horror-of-fish-farming) omnizoid |     |
| 196 | [Finding Neurons in a Haystack: Case Studies with Sparse Probing](/posts/yXiu6DBxKKWXC8Ygx/finding-neurons-in-a-haystack-case-studies-with-sparse) wesg |     |
| 197 | [How should TurnTrout handle his DeepMind equity situation?](/posts/Be3ertyJfwDdQucdd/how-should-turntrout-handle-his-deepmind-equity-situation) habryka |     |
| 198 | [When do "brains beat brawn" in Chess? An experiment](/posts/odtMt7zbMuuyavaZB/when-do-brains-beat-brawn-in-chess-an-experiment) titotal |     |
| 199 | [There are no coherence theorems](/posts/yCuzmCsE86BTu9PfA/there-are-no-coherence-theorems) Dan H |     |
| 200 | [The Power of High Speed Stupidity](/posts/5qyytGqZWv5bt6723/the-power-of-high-speed-stupidity) robotelvis |     |
| 201 | [Book Review: Consciousness Explained (as the Great Catalyst)](/posts/naEDcbicBBykiTFwi/book-review-consciousness-explained-as-the-great-catalyst) Rafael Harth |     |
| 202 | [Large language models learn to represent the world](/posts/Neh76ueECviJ6p75o/large-language-models-learn-to-represent-the-world) gjm |     |
| 203 | [Ruining an expected-log-money maximizer](/posts/JAmyTWoukk8xzhE9n/ruining-an-expected-log-money-maximizer) philh |     |
| 204 | [A problem with the most recently published version of CEV](/posts/LRuaCRpTc2zMhDDbb/a-problem-with-the-most-recently-published-version-of-cev) ThomasCederborg |     |
| 205 | [In Defense of Parselmouths](/posts/R28YGeAzDHehrnc7f/in-defense-of-parselmouths) Screwtape |     |
| 206 | [Five Worlds of AI (by Scott Aaronson and Boaz Barak)](/posts/Kfr7PgXRQow9kbGx7/five-worlds-of-ai-by-scott-aaronson-and-boaz-barak) mishka |     |
| 207 | [When Omnipotence is Not Enough](/posts/r8w2SxmYqgssdjWwd/when-omnipotence-is-not-enough) lsusr |     |
| 208 | [Why You Should Never Update Your Beliefs](/posts/LCduhA4m3RhMjZJPA/why-you-should-never-update-your-beliefs) Arjun Panickssery |     |
| 209 | [Responsible Scaling Policies Are Risk Management Done Wrong](/posts/9nEBWxjAHSu3ncr6v/responsible-scaling-policies-are-risk-management-done-wrong) simeon_c |     |
| 210 | [A Way To Be Okay](/posts/EvKa7EakoXreCkhC6/a-way-to-be-okay) Duncan Sabien (Deactivated) |     |
| 211 | ["Justice, Cherryl."](/posts/vfjptEJ2oahLqRyZz/justice-cherryl) Zack\\_M\\_Davis |     |
| 212 | [Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure.](/posts/4mM8RYsm4okrqGSqx/large-language-models-can-strategically-deceive-their-users) ReaderM |     |
| 213 | [\\[Link\\] A community alert about Ziz](/posts/T5RzkFcNpRdckGauu/link-a-community-alert-about-ziz) DanielFilan |     |

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