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The Company Man

Tomás B.17 Sep 2025 17:47 UTC

827 points

79 comments18 min readLW link

The Rise of Parasitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC

764 points

191 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

695 points

223 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

655 points

144 comments2 min readLW link

How to Make Superbabies

GeneSmith and kman

19 Feb 2025 20:39 UTC

647 points

361 comments31 min readLW link

Orienting Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC

591 points

148 comments5 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

Eliezer’s Unteachable Methods of Sanity

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2025 2:46 UTC

524 points

156 comments10 min readLW link

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

leticiagarcia27 May 2025 18:23 UTC

511 points

17 comments16 min readLW link

(substack.com)

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

henry11 Aug 2025 19:58 UTC

500 points

42 comments7 min readLW link

(outsidetext.substack.com)

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

454 points

59 comments15 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document

Richard Weiss28 Nov 2025 23:22 UTC

442 points

44 comments43 min readLW link

Turning 20 in the probable pre-apocalypse

Parv Mahajan21 Dec 2025 10:14 UTC

440 points

66 comments3 min readLW link

How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

joshc7 Feb 2025 17:10 UTC

430 points

142 comments29 min readLW link

(x.com)

HPMOR: The (Probably) Untold Lore

Gretta Duleba and Eliezer Yudkowsky

25 Jul 2025 18:39 UTC

430 points

164 comments38 min readLW link

The Case Against AI Control Research

johnswentworth21 Jan 2025 16:03 UTC

430 points

85 comments6 min readLW link

Will Jesus Christ return in an election year?

Eric Neyman24 Mar 2025 16:50 UTC

427 points

59 comments4 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

the void

nostalgebraist11 Jun 2025 3:19 UTC

419 points

108 comments1 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Playing in the Creek

Hastings10 Apr 2025 17:39 UTC

405 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(hgreer.com)

Legible vs. Illegible AI Safety Problems

Wei Dai4 Nov 2025 21:39 UTC

389 points

95 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment remains a hard, unsolved problem

evhub27 Nov 2025 8:45 UTC

383 points

97 comments14 min readLW link

AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation

Tim Hua26 Aug 2025 20:03 UTC

379 points

47 comments27 min readLW link

A Bear Case: My Predictions Regarding AI Progress

Thane Ruthenis5 Mar 2025 16:41 UTC

376 points

167 comments9 min readLW link

Hospitalization: A Review

Logan Riggs9 Oct 2025 14:36 UTC

374 points

21 comments9 min readLW link

Generalized Hangriness: A Standard Rationalist Stance Toward Emotions

johnswentworth10 Jul 2025 18:22 UTC

372 points

71 comments7 min readLW link

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

titotal19 Jun 2025 13:29 UTC

369 points

40 comments39 min readLW link

(titotal.substack.com)

What’s the short timeline plan?

Marius Hobbhahn2 Jan 2025 14:59 UTC

368 points

51 comments23 min readLW link

LessWrong has been acquired by EA

habryka1 Apr 2025 13:09 UTC

366 points

55 comments1 min readLW link

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

Steven Byrnes21 Aug 2025 17:52 UTC

364 points

52 comments6 min readLW link

(x.com)

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

Steven Byrnes3 Dec 2025 18:37 UTC

363 points

92 comments17 min readLW link

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit

lc24 Mar 2025 19:28 UTC

361 points

89 comments8 min readLW link

(zeropath.com)

VDT: a solution to decision theory

L Rudolf L1 Apr 2025 21:04 UTC

360 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

Paranoia: A Beginner’s Guide

habryka13 Nov 2025 7:56 UTC

357 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

348 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

Policy for LLM Writing on LessWrong

jimrandomh and Ruby

24 Mar 2025 21:41 UTC

340 points

72 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

339 points

27 comments6 min readLW link

Interpretability Will Not Reliably Find Deceptive AI

Neel Nanda4 May 2025 16:32 UTC

336 points

69 comments7 min readLW link

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

Jan Betley and Owain_Evans

25 Feb 2025 17:39 UTC

335 points

92 comments4 min readLW link

Why I Transitioned: A Case Study

Fiora Starlight1 Nov 2025 22:58 UTC

332 points

79 comments10 min readLW link

So You Think You’ve Awoken ChatGPT

JustisMills11 Jul 2025 1:01 UTC

329 points

88 comments9 min readLW link

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

KatWoods25 Sep 2025 15:39 UTC

326 points

101 comments10 min readLW link

The Problem

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

5 Aug 2025 21:40 UTC

326 points

219 comments26 min readLW link

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

aggliu4 Nov 2025 2:00 UTC

326 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

(signoregalilei.com)

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

habryka13 Dec 2025 19:32 UTC

316 points

129 comments52 min readLW link

Beware General Claims about “Generalizable Reasoning Capabilities” (of Modern AI Systems)

LawrenceC11 Jun 2025 19:27 UTC

315 points

19 comments16 min readLW link

Make More Grayspaces

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

313 points

65 comments13 min readLW link

Towards a Typology of Strange LLM Chains-of-Thought

1a3orn9 Oct 2025 22:02 UTC

310 points

29 comments9 min readLW link

So You Want To Make Marginal Progress...

johnswentworth7 Feb 2025 23:22 UTC

309 points

42 comments4 min readLW link

Tracing the Thoughts of a Large Language Model

Adam Jermyn27 Mar 2025 17:20 UTC

308 points

24 comments10 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)