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The Company Man

Tomás B.17 Sep 2025 17:47 UTC

785 points

79 comments18 min readLW link

The Rise of Parasitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC

717 points

180 comments20 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

676 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

652 points

143 comments2 min readLW link

How to Make Superbabies

GeneSmith and kman

19 Feb 2025 20:39 UTC

637 points

360 comments31 min readLW link

Orienting Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC

575 points

148 comments5 min readLW link

A case for courage, when speaking of AI danger

So8res27 Jun 2025 2:15 UTC

530 points

129 comments6 min readLW link

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

leticiagarcia27 May 2025 18:23 UTC

495 points

17 comments16 min readLW link

(substack.com)

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

henry11 Aug 2025 19:58 UTC

494 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

(outsidetext.substack.com)

Eliezer’s Unteachable Methods of Sanity

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2025 2:46 UTC

491 points

147 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)

Accountability Sinks

Martin Sustrik22 Apr 2025 5:00 UTC

452 points

58 comments15 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document

Richard Weiss28 Nov 2025 23:22 UTC

440 points

44 comments43 min readLW link

How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

joshc7 Feb 2025 17:10 UTC

426 points

142 comments29 min readLW link

(x.com)

HPMOR: The (Probably) Untold Lore

Gretta Duleba and Eliezer Yudkowsky

25 Jul 2025 18:39 UTC

426 points

162 comments38 min readLW link

Will Jesus Christ return in an election year?

Eric Neyman24 Mar 2025 16:50 UTC

416 points

59 comments4 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Turning 20 in the probable pre-apocalypse

Parv Mahajan21 Dec 2025 10:14 UTC

407 points

65 comments3 min readLW link

Playing in the Creek

Hastings10 Apr 2025 17:39 UTC

401 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(hgreer.com)

the void

nostalgebraist11 Jun 2025 3:19 UTC

396 points

107 comments1 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

The Case Against AI Control Research

johnswentworth21 Jan 2025 16:03 UTC

387 points

85 comments6 min readLW link

A Bear Case: My Predictions Regarding AI Progress

Thane Ruthenis5 Mar 2025 16:41 UTC

377 points

163 comments9 min readLW link

A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models

titotal19 Jun 2025 13:29 UTC

372 points

40 comments39 min readLW link

(titotal.substack.com)

Legible vs. Illegible AI Safety Problems

Wei Dai4 Nov 2025 21:39 UTC

370 points

95 comments2 min readLW link

AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation

Tim Hua26 Aug 2025 20:03 UTC

370 points

46 comments26 min readLW link

Generalized Hangriness: A Standard Rationalist Stance Toward Emotions

johnswentworth10 Jul 2025 18:22 UTC

366 points

70 comments7 min readLW link

Hospitalization: A Review

Logan Riggs9 Oct 2025 14:36 UTC

365 points

21 comments9 min readLW link

LessWrong has been acquired by EA

habryka1 Apr 2025 13:09 UTC

364 points

55 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment remains a hard, unsolved problem

evhub27 Nov 2025 8:45 UTC

362 points

96 comments14 min readLW link

What’s the short timeline plan?

Marius Hobbhahn2 Jan 2025 14:59 UTC

362 points

51 comments23 min readLW link

Four ways learning Econ makes people dumber re: future AI

Steven Byrnes21 Aug 2025 17:52 UTC

359 points

52 comments6 min readLW link

(x.com)

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit

lc24 Mar 2025 19:28 UTC

359 points

87 comments8 min readLW link

(zeropath.com)

6 reasons why “alignment-is-hard” discourse seems alien to human intuitions, and vice-versa

Steven Byrnes3 Dec 2025 18:37 UTC

357 points

89 comments17 min readLW link

VDT: a solution to decision theory

L Rudolf L1 Apr 2025 21:04 UTC

352 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

Paranoia: A Beginner’s Guide

habryka13 Nov 2025 7:56 UTC

347 points

70 comments13 min readLW link

Subliminal Learning: LLMs Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data

cloud, mle and Owain_Evans

22 Jul 2025 16:37 UTC

343 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

Policy for LLM Writing on LessWrong

jimrandomh24 Mar 2025 21:41 UTC

339 points

71 comments2 min readLW link

Global Call for AI Red Lines—Signed by Nobel Laureates, Former Heads of State, and 200+ Prominent Figures

Charbel-Raphaël22 Sep 2025 18:22 UTC

338 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

Jan Betley and Owain_Evans

25 Feb 2025 17:39 UTC

334 points

92 comments4 min readLW link

Interpretability Will Not Reliably Find Deceptive AI

Neel Nanda4 May 2025 16:32 UTC

331 points

68 comments7 min readLW link

The Problem

Rob Bensinger, tanagrabeast, yams, So8res, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Gretta Duleba

5 Aug 2025 21:40 UTC

324 points

217 comments26 min readLW link

Why I Transitioned: A Case Study

Fiora Sunshine1 Nov 2025 22:58 UTC

324 points

80 comments10 min readLW link

I ate bear fat with honey and salt flakes, to prove a point

aggliu4 Nov 2025 2:00 UTC

324 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

(signoregalilei.com)

So You Think You’ve Awoken ChatGPT

JustisMills11 Jul 2025 1:01 UTC

323 points

88 comments9 min readLW link

Why you should eat meat—even if you hate factory farming

KatWoods25 Sep 2025 15:39 UTC

314 points

97 comments10 min readLW link

Make More Grayspaces

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)19 Jul 2025 22:22 UTC

311 points

65 comments13 min readLW link

Toss a bitcoin to your Lightcone – LW + Lighthaven’s 2026 fundraiser

habryka13 Dec 2025 19:32 UTC

310 points

129 comments52 min readLW link

Tracing the Thoughts of a Large Language Model

Adam Jermyn27 Mar 2025 17:20 UTC

307 points

24 comments10 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Towards a Typology of Strange LLM Chains-of-Thought

1a3orn9 Oct 2025 22:02 UTC

305 points

29 comments9 min readLW link

Murder plots are infohazards

Chris Monteiro13 Feb 2025 19:15 UTC

304 points

46 comments2 min readLW link

So You Want To Make Marginal Progress...

johnswentworth7 Feb 2025 23:22 UTC

304 points

42 comments4 min readLW link