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Some astral energy extraction methods

Algon15 Oct 2025 23:22 UTC

24 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

AI-202X-slowdown: can CoT-based AIs become capable of aligning the ASI?

StanislavKrym15 Oct 2025 22:46 UTC

18 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #35: October 2025

Zvi15 Oct 2025 19:50 UTC

24 points

1 comment49 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rogue internal deployments via external APIs

Fabien Roger and Buck

15 Oct 2025 19:34 UTC

34 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Chemical Telescopes And The Process Of Science

sonicrocketman15 Oct 2025 18:05 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(brianschrader.com)

Updating the name of Open Philanthropy’s AI program

lukeprog15 Oct 2025 17:45 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Open Global Investment: Comparisons and Criticisms

Algon15 Oct 2025 17:20 UTC

15 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(aisafety.info)

We are too comfortable with AI “magic”

Baybar15 Oct 2025 17:00 UTC

−2 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Until the stars burn out? Assessing the stakes of AGI lock-in

MattAlexander15 Oct 2025 16:38 UTC

6 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Are calm introverts (like East Asians) uniquely suited for space travel & Mars missions?

David Sun15 Oct 2025 16:19 UTC

−4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(davidsun.substack.com)

It will cost you nothing to “bribe” a Utilitarian

Gabriel Alfour15 Oct 2025 15:51 UTC

41 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

How I Became a 5x Engineer with Claude Code

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Oct 2025 14:10 UTC

73 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

(www.uncertainupdates.com)

That Mad Olympiad

Tomás B.15 Oct 2025 13:45 UTC

178 points

14 comments14 min readLW link

A New Global Risk: Large Comet’s Impact on Sun Could Cause Fires on Earth

avturchin15 Oct 2025 13:20 UTC

58 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Can LLMs Coordinate? A Simple Schelling Point Experiment

Håvard Tveit Ihle15 Oct 2025 12:25 UTC

35 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Humans Are Spiky (In an LLM World)

faul_sname15 Oct 2025 8:40 UTC

28 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Gnashing of Teeth

Martin Sustrik15 Oct 2025 6:11 UTC

29 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.250bpm.com)

Communism By Another Name

Charlie Sanders15 Oct 2025 2:21 UTC

−5 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(www.dailymicrofiction.com)

Situational Awareness as a Prompt for LLM Parasitism

Baybar15 Oct 2025 1:45 UTC

8 points

6 comments19 min readLW link

Minimal Prompt Induction of Self-Talk in Base LLMs

dwmd15 Oct 2025 1:15 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The sum of its parts: composing AI control protocols

ZachParent, Lennart Finke and Tyler Tracy

15 Oct 2025 1:11 UTC

12 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Enhancing Genomic Foundation Model Robustness through Iterative Black-Box Adversarial Training

Jeyashree Krishnan and Ajay Mandyam Rangarajan

14 Oct 2025 20:54 UTC

8 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Postrationality: An Oral History

Gordon Seidoh Worley14 Oct 2025 19:18 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Why your boss isn’t worried about AI

beyarkay14 Oct 2025 17:58 UTC

11 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(boydkane.com)

Humanity AI Commits $500 million to AI and Democracy Protection, AI x Security, and more

peterr14 Oct 2025 17:51 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.macfound.org)

Thinking Partners: Building AI-Powered Knowledge Management Systems

Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI14 Oct 2025 17:42 UTC

18 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

SS26 Color Stats

sarahconstantin14 Oct 2025 17:20 UTC

21 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Work

Elizabeth14 Oct 2025 16:00 UTC

82 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

My views on Lesswrong

samuelshadrach14 Oct 2025 15:47 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

(samuelshadrach.com)

Trade Escalation, Supply Chain Vulnerabilities and Rare Earth Metals

Zvi14 Oct 2025 15:30 UTC

30 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

12 Angry Agents, or: A Plan for AI Empathy

Ram Rachum and Davidmanheim

14 Oct 2025 15:24 UTC

21 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

The “Length” of “Horizons”

Adam Scholl14 Oct 2025 14:48 UTC

183 points

27 comments7 min readLW link

My Software Setup

Morpheus14 Oct 2025 11:56 UTC

16 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.tassiloneubauer.com)

Narcissism, Echoism, and Sovereignism: A 4-D Model of Personality

Dawn Drescher14 Oct 2025 11:18 UTC

7 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

Current Language Models Struggle to Reason in Ciphered Language

Fabien Roger and Shiyuan Guo

14 Oct 2025 9:08 UTC

78 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

A personal take on why you should work at Forethought (maybe)

Lizka14 Oct 2025 8:59 UTC

26 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Discrete Generation

James Camacho14 Oct 2025 1:38 UTC

4 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(github.com)

Survey Results: Far UVC and Glycol Vapors

jefftk14 Oct 2025 1:00 UTC

16 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

How AI Manipulates—A Case Study

Adele Lopez14 Oct 2025 0:54 UTC

78 points

27 comments13 min readLW link

Recontextualization Mitigates Specification Gaming Without Modifying the Specification

ariana_azarbal, Victor Gillioz, TurnTrout and cloud

14 Oct 2025 0:53 UTC

125 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

AI Psychosis, with Tim Hua and Adele Lopez

Austin Chen, Rachel Shu, Tim Hua and Adele Lopez

14 Oct 2025 0:27 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is Lesswrong good for?

Algon13 Oct 2025 23:30 UTC

51 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Predictability is Underrated

Algon13 Oct 2025 22:40 UTC

20 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Mom Test for AI Extinction Scenarios

Taylor G. Lunt13 Oct 2025 22:21 UTC

70 points

61 comments5 min readLW link

If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, a semi-outsider review

dvd13 Oct 2025 22:10 UTC

212 points

67 comments15 min readLW link

Is There a Sound Argument for Generality in AI?

Juan Cadile13 Oct 2025 21:49 UTC

5 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Words make us Dumb #1: The “Point”lessness of Knowledge

Enmai.MCimbu13 Oct 2025 19:53 UTC

−9 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Reasons to sign a statement to ban superintelligence (+ FAQ for those on the fence)

Mateusz Bagiński and Ishual

13 Oct 2025 19:00 UTC

83 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Water Above the Ocean

Celer13 Oct 2025 16:00 UTC

15 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(keller.substack.com)

OpenAI #15: More on OpenAI’s Paranoid Lawfare Against Advocates of SB 53

Zvi13 Oct 2025 15:00 UTC

104 points

2 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)