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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC

1,009 points

715 comments30 min readLW link 3 reviews

Why I Left Google DeepMind

TurnTrout15 Jul 2026 17:42 UTC

947 points

35 comments36 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)

Where I agree and disagree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC

941 points

224 comments18 min readLW link 2 reviews

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC

934 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

Eight Short Studies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC

918 points

255 comments10 min readLW link

The Company Man

Tomás B.17 Sep 2025 17:47 UTC

832 points

79 comments18 min readLW link

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC

813 points

418 comments7 min readLW link

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

Malmesbury10 Feb 2026 17:59 UTC

788 points

58 comments10 min readLW link

The Rise of Parasitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC

771 points

191 comments20 min readLW link

How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez1 May 2026 23:24 UTC

736 points

79 comments8 min readLW link

Only Law Can Prevent Extinction

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Apr 2026 20:57 UTC

736 points

106 comments20 min readLW link

Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me

ryan_greenblatt15 Apr 2026 15:14 UTC

729 points

83 comments27 min readLW link

Simulators

janus2 Sep 2022 12:45 UTC

718 points

170 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

697 points

223 comments41 min readLW link

(ai-2027.com)

What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC

694 points

138 comments6 min readLW link 2 reviews

Humans are not automatically strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC

687 points

279 comments4 min readLW link

SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins

5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC

679 points

208 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Schelling fences on slippery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC

664 points

250 comments6 min readLW link

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

So8res14 May 2025 19:00 UTC

655 points

144 comments2 min readLW link

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

Cleo Nardo3 Mar 2023 3:22 UTC

654 points

188 comments16 min readLW link

How to Make Superbabies

GeneSmith and kman

19 Feb 2025 20:39 UTC

649 points

363 comments31 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

631 points

174 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC

614 points

96 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

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

habryka30 Nov 2024 2:55 UTC

612 points

273 comments42 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC

603 points

83 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Making Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC

598 points

249 comments6 min readLW link 3 reviews

Orienting Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC

592 points

148 comments5 min readLW link

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

habryka and kave

1 Apr 2024 7:33 UTC

589 points

185 comments11 min readLW link

The Terrarium

Caleb Biddulph26 Mar 2026 18:08 UTC

588 points

53 comments21 min readLW link

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC

588 points

269 comments4 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

575 points

357 comments9 min readLW link

Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers

jefftk27 Feb 2026 4:00 UTC

564 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Let’s think about slowing down AI

KatjaGrace22 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC

563 points

182 comments38 min readLW link 3 reviews

(aiimpacts.org)

Reason as memetic immune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC

559 points

184 comments5 min readLW link

The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC

553 points

79 comments16 min readLW link 3 reviews

Less Dead

Aurelia11 Mar 2026 5:07 UTC

553 points

140 comments8 min readLW link

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

habryka16 Nov 2024 6:38 UTC

552 points

82 comments51 min readLW link

The Redaction Machine

Ben20 Sep 2022 22:03 UTC

545 points

48 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

Welcome to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC

544 points

85 comments2 min readLW link

Eliezer’s Unteachable Methods of Sanity

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2025 2:46 UTC

537 points

157 comments10 min readLW link

A case for courage, when speaking of AI danger

So8res27 Jun 2025 2:15 UTC

531 points

130 comments6 min readLW link

AI 2040: Plan A

Daniel Kokotajlo, elifland, Thomas Larsen, romeo, bhalstead and ryan_greenblatt

9 Jul 2026 16:25 UTC

527 points

128 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ai-2040.com)

How much do you believe your results?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC

527 points

19 comments15 min readLW link 4 reviews

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC

521 points

61 comments3 min readLW link 3 reviews

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

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC

515 points

65 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

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

leticiagarcia27 May 2025 18:23 UTC

515 points

17 comments16 min readLW link

(substack.com)

Losing the root for the tree

Biff Wiff20 Sep 2022 4:53 UTC

512 points

31 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC

509 points

45 comments5 min readLW link 4 reviews

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

508 points

39 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

henry11 Aug 2025 19:58 UTC

501 points

42 comments7 min readLW link

(outsidetext.substack.com)