So where’s this AI thing going?

Seth Herd10 Sep 2026 11:46 UTC

14 points

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(sethaherd.com)

Astra can do a concerning amount with no chain of thought

Neel Nanda10 Sep 2026 2:31 UTC

117 points

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Can a superintelligence do THAT?

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Sep 2026 21:59 UTC

85 points

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Final research agenda #3: towards automated Husserlian CEV

Mitchell_Porter9 Sep 2026 21:52 UTC

11 points

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Have deranged conspiracy theories actually exploded? The short answer: probably not.

KatSpartz9 Sep 2026 21:35 UTC

20 points

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Automation and Political Power

MarkelKori9 Sep 2026 19:55 UTC

10 points

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Pretraining an LLM without mentions of consciousness

Eye You and frmsaul

9 Sep 2026 19:38 UTC

20 points

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Bottlenecks in AI Safety—Opportunities for Impact

Brian Davies9 Sep 2026 17:48 UTC

21 points

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Data bottlenecks won’t prevent an intelligence explosion (but they will slow it down)

Tom Davidson9 Sep 2026 16:06 UTC

17 points

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(www.forethought.org)

“ULC” and AI x-risk

k3nt9 Sep 2026 15:51 UTC

5 points

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FutureEval Spring Results: Pros Beat Bots, but the Gap is Nearly Gone

Ben Wilson and John Bash

9 Sep 2026 15:09 UTC

13 points

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(www.metaculus.com)

Estimating GPT-6 Astra’s no-CoT Time Horizon

Francis Rhys Ward and Dewi Gould

9 Sep 2026 13:54 UTC

92 points

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Self Hosting

Tomás B.9 Sep 2026 13:45 UTC

103 points

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httpi: the internet protocol to reduce compute from misbehaving agents

joao_abrantes9 Sep 2026 7:54 UTC

−15 points

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GPT-6 Astra can do a lot of multi-hop reasoning without chain of thought

RohanS9 Sep 2026 5:15 UTC

100 points

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One Billion Hemingways

Girard Dorney9 Sep 2026 4:46 UTC

32 points

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(extinctiondesk.substack.com)

No, detached linear probes won’t save us

RobinHa9 Sep 2026 4:45 UTC

24 points

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How good are slop-vestigators?

Hasan Baig, OscarGilg and Hamzah

8 Sep 2026 22:13 UTC

130 points

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Is there an acceptable way to store clothes?

KatjaGrace8 Sep 2026 20:43 UTC

3 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com)

FLOP Around and Find Out: LLM Training Workload Size Estimation With Power Monitoring

William Fowler8 Sep 2026 19:43 UTC

9 points

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