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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC

956 points

711 comments30 min readLW link 3 reviews

Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC

907 points

224 comments18 min readLW link 2 reviews

Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

876 points

254 comments10 min readLW link

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

875 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

791 points

417 comments7 min readLW link

The Company Man

Tomás B.17 Sep 2025 17:47 UTC

740 points

70 comments18 min readLW link

SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins

5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC

687 points

208 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

682 points

138 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Rise of Parasitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC

681 points

177 comments20 min readLW link

Simulators

janus2 Sep 2022 12:45 UTC

670 points

168 comments41 min readLW link 8 reviews

(generative.ink)

AI 2027: What Superintelligence Looks Like

Daniel Kokotajlo, Thomas Larsen, elifland, Scott Alexander, Jonas V and romeo

3 Apr 2025 16:23 UTC

668 points

222 comments41 min readLW link

(ai-2027.com)

Eliezer and I wrote a book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

So8res14 May 2025 19:00 UTC

648 points

114 comments2 min readLW link

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

Cleo Nardo3 Mar 2023 3:22 UTC

645 points

188 comments16 min readLW link

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

636 points

250 comments6 min readLW link

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

632 points

278 comments4 min readLW link

How to Make Superbabies

GeneSmith and kman

19 Feb 2025 20:39 UTC

629 points

358 comments31 min readLW link

(The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven’s big fundraiser

habryka30 Nov 2024 2:55 UTC

611 points

273 comments42 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

597 points

83 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

591 points

249 comments6 min readLW link 3 reviews

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

589 points

166 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

584 points

94 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

LessWrong’s (first) album: I Have Been A Good Bing

habryka and kave

1 Apr 2024 7:33 UTC

577 points

183 comments11 min readLW link

Orienting Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC

564 points

147 comments5 min readLW link

Let’s think about slowing down AI

KatjaGrace22 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC

556 points

182 comments38 min readLW link 3 reviews

(aiimpacts.org)

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

554 points

356 comments9 min readLW link

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

536 points

184 comments5 min readLW link

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

535 points

269 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman and OpenAI blog)

habryka16 Nov 2024 6:38 UTC

533 points

81 comments51 min readLW link

The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC

532 points

77 comments16 min readLW link 3 reviews

A case for courage, when speaking of AI danger

So8res27 Jun 2025 2:15 UTC

524 points

128 comments6 min readLW link

The Redaction Machine

Ben20 Sep 2022 22:03 UTC

521 points

48 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

How much do you believe your results?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC

515 points

18 comments15 min readLW link 4 reviews

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Losing the root for the tree

Adam Zerner20 Sep 2022 4:53 UTC

501 points

31 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle

Elizabeth16 Oct 2022 17:40 UTC

495 points

121 comments12 min readLW link 3 reviews

(acesounderglass.com)

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

493 points

61 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

493 points

76 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment Faking in Large Language Models

ryan_greenblatt, evhub, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright, Fabien Roger, Monte M, Sam Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Sam Bowman and Buck

18 Dec 2024 17:19 UTC

490 points

75 comments10 min readLW link

New Endorsements for “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

Malo18 Jun 2025 16:30 UTC

488 points

55 comments4 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

What We Learned from Briefing 70+ Lawmakers on the Threat from AI

leticiagarcia27 May 2025 18:23 UTC

487 points

17 comments16 min readLW link

(substack.com)

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

henry11 Aug 2025 19:58 UTC

487 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

(outsidetext.substack.com)

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

485 points

39 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC

473 points

44 comments5 min readLW link 4 reviews

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

I would have shit in that alley, too

Declan Molony18 Jun 2024 4:41 UTC

471 points

135 comments4 min readLW link

Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone’s dropping the ball

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC

469 points

64 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

100 Tips for a Better Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC

463 points

130 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible

GeneSmith and kman

12 Dec 2023 18:14 UTC

462 points

206 comments33 min readLW link 2 reviews

Counter-theses on Sleep

Natália21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC

453 points

135 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject

Parker Conley31 Mar 2024 17:14 UTC

448 points

175 comments21 min readLW link

It’s Probably Not Lithium

Natália28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC

447 points

186 comments28 min readLW link 1 review

Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities

jenn1 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC

445 points

35 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

(jenn.site)