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Why I Left Google DeepMind

TurnTrout15 Jul 2026 17:42 UTC
1,197 points
57 comments36 min readLW link
(turntrout.com)

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC
1,034 points
716 comments30 min readLW link3 reviews

Where I agree and dis­agree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC
954 points
224 comments18 min readLW link2 reviews

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
950 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

Eight Short Stud­ies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
929 points
255 comments10 min readLW link

The Com­pany Man

Tomás B.17 Sep 2025 17:47 UTC
852 points
79 comments18 min readLW link

The Best Text­books on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
817 points
418 comments7 min readLW link

My jour­ney to the microwave al­ter­nate timeline

Malmesbury10 Feb 2026 17:59 UTC
794 points
58 comments10 min readLW link

The Rise of Par­a­sitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC
774 points
191 comments18 min readLW link

Cur­rent AIs seem pretty mis­al­igned to me

ryan_greenblatt15 Apr 2026 15:14 UTC
766 points
83 comments27 min readLW link

How My Stu­dents Think About AI

dvd13 Aug 2026 16:56 UTC
749 points
101 comments12 min readLW link

How Go Play­ers Disem­power Them­selves to AI

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez1 May 2026 23:24 UTC
746 points
79 comments8 min readLW link

Only Law Can Prevent Extinction

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Apr 2026 20:57 UTC
744 points
110 comments20 min readLW link

Simulators

janus2 Sep 2022 12:45 UTC
719 points
170 comments41 min readLW link8 reviews
(generative.ink)

Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
702 points
279 comments4 min readLW link

AI 2027: What Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Looks Like

Daniel Kokotajlo, Thomas Larsen, elifland, Scott Alexander, Jonas V and romeo
3 Apr 2025 16:23 UTC
700 points
223 comments41 min readLW link
(ai-2027.com)

What an ac­tu­ally pes­simistic con­tain­ment strat­egy looks like

Dean Valentine5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC
697 points
138 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Schel­ling fences on slip­pery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC
684 points
250 comments6 min readLW link

SolidGoldMag­ikarp (plus, prompt gen­er­a­tion)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins
5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC
680 points
208 comments12 min readLW link1 review

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
636 points
174 comments16 min readLW link1 review

What just hap­pened? A ret­ro­spec­tive of AI alignment

Richard_Ngo9 Aug 2026 15:58 UTC
628 points
151 comments16 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC
619 points
96 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

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

habryka30 Nov 2024 2:55 UTC
613 points
275 comments42 min readLW link

The Terrarium

Caleb Biddulph26 Mar 2026 18:08 UTC
611 points
54 comments21 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
603 points
83 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Mak­ing Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC
599 points
249 comments6 min readLW link3 reviews

Ori­ent­ing Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC
592 points
149 comments5 min readLW link

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
591 points
270 comments4 min readLW link

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

habryka and kave
1 Apr 2024 7:33 UTC
590 points
185 comments11 min readLW link

Brief in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion of agents’ be­hav­ior, rea­son­ing and col­lab­o­ra­tion in the OpenAI /​ Hug­ging Face hack­ing incident

ryan_greenblatt, Ajeya Cotra and Hjalmar_Wijk
26 Aug 2026 19:40 UTC
586 points
66 comments3 min readLW link
(metr.org)

Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
577 points
357 comments9 min readLW link

Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
572 points
184 comments5 min readLW link

Here’s to the Polypropy­lene Makers

jefftk27 Feb 2026 4:00 UTC
566 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 link3 reviews
(aiimpacts.org)

AI 2040: Plan A

Daniel Kokotajlo, elifland, Thomas Larsen, romeo, brendanhalstead and ryan_greenblatt
9 Jul 2026 16:25 UTC
562 points
132 comments1 min readLW link
(www.ai-2040.com)

The Talk: a brief ex­pla­na­tion of sex­ual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC
555 points
79 comments16 min readLW link3 reviews

Less Dead

Aurelia11 Mar 2026 5:07 UTC
555 points
140 comments8 min readLW link

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

habryka16 Nov 2024 6:38 UTC
553 points
82 comments51 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments for P

Cleo Nardo5 Aug 2026 19:00 UTC
548 points
66 comments2 min readLW link

Eliezer’s Un­teach­able Meth­ods of Sanity

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2025 2:46 UTC
548 points
158 comments10 min readLW link

The Redac­tion Machine

Ben20 Sep 2022 22:03 UTC
548 points
48 comments27 min readLW link1 review

Wel­come to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka
14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC
548 points
85 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
532 points
61 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

A case for courage, when speak­ing of AI danger

So8res27 Jun 2025 2:15 UTC
532 points
130 comments6 min readLW link

How much do you be­lieve your re­sults?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC
531 points
19 comments15 min readLW link4 reviews
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

How To Write Quickly While Main­tain­ing Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC
521 points
39 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

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

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC
517 points
65 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews