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The IABIED statement is not literally true

David Matolcsi18 Oct 2025 23:15 UTC

20 points

27 comments8 min readLW link

Libraries need more books

Algon18 Oct 2025 22:53 UTC

26 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Conjecture: Emergent φ is provable in Large Language Models

BarnicleBarn18 Oct 2025 22:38 UTC

−3 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

In defense of the goodness of ideas

Jordan Arel18 Oct 2025 21:59 UTC

6 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Sample Interesting First

Tomáš Gavenčiak18 Oct 2025 20:09 UTC

7 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Comma v0.1 converted to GGUF

Trevor Hill-Hand18 Oct 2025 15:54 UTC

9 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Using Bayes’ Theorem to determine Optimal Protein Intake

neptuneio18 Oct 2025 14:58 UTC

4 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Selected Graphics Showing Progress towards AGI

Chris_Leong18 Oct 2025 14:37 UTC

14 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Networking for Spies: Translating a Cyrillic Text with Claude Code

Austin Morrissey18 Oct 2025 7:46 UTC

8 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

Space colonization and scientific discovery could be mandatory for successful defensive AI

otto.barten18 Oct 2025 4:57 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: Functional connectomics reveals general wiring rule in mouse visual cortex

Devin Ward17 Oct 2025 23:33 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Meditation is dangerous

Algon17 Oct 2025 22:52 UTC

155 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

I handbound a book of Janus’s essays for my girlfriend

datawitch17 Oct 2025 17:38 UTC

22 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Dark Arts of Tokenization or: How I learned to start worrying and love LLMs’ undecoded outputs

Lovre17 Oct 2025 16:43 UTC

42 points

10 comments26 min readLW link

How To Vastly Increase Your Charitable Impact

Bentham's Bulldog17 Oct 2025 15:46 UTC

1 point

3 comments2 min readLW link

Nontrivial pillars of IABIED

Cole Wyeth17 Oct 2025 15:21 UTC

23 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

What Success Might Look Like

Richard Juggins17 Oct 2025 14:17 UTC

22 points

6 comments15 min readLW link

I’m an EA who benefitted from rationality

juliawise17 Oct 2025 12:27 UTC

62 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

AI #138 Part 2: Watch Out For Documents

Zvi17 Oct 2025 11:50 UTC

40 points

8 comments45 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mess AI – deliberate corruption of the training data to prevent superintelligence

avturchin17 Oct 2025 9:23 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Activation Plateaus: Where and How They Emerge

Matthew Shinkle and StefanHex

17 Oct 2025 5:48 UTC

36 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Can We Simulate Meiosis to Create Digital Gametes — and Are the Results Your Biological Offspring?

GJ17 Oct 2025 3:55 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Steven Adler reports that NVIDIA is attempting to stifle pro-export-control speach

Elizabeth17 Oct 2025 3:05 UTC

26 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(stevenadler.substack.com)

Spectral Taxonomy of QK Circuits in Transformer Models

Shantanu Darveshi17 Oct 2025 2:18 UTC

7 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Book Review: To Explain the World

Algon16 Oct 2025 23:00 UTC

23 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

AISN#64: New AGI Definition and Senate Bill Would Establish Liability for AI Harms

Corin Katzke and Dan H

16 Oct 2025 18:06 UTC

5 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(aisafety.substack.com)

Finding Features in Neural Networks with the Empirical NTK

jylin0416 Oct 2025 18:04 UTC

35 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Learning from the Luddites: Implications for a modern AI labour movement

JanWehner16 Oct 2025 17:11 UTC

12 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Reducing risk from scheming by studying trained-in scheming behavior

ryan_greenblatt16 Oct 2025 16:16 UTC

32 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Job Openings: SWE, PM, and Grants Coordinator to help improve grant-making

Ethan Ashkie16 Oct 2025 16:14 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(survivalandflourishing.com)

AI #138 Part 1: The People Demand Erotic Sycophants

Zvi16 Oct 2025 15:41 UTC

25 points

7 comments46 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cheap Labour Everywhere

Morpheus16 Oct 2025 13:15 UTC

136 points

34 comments2 min readLW link

Quantum immortality and AI risk – the fate of a lonely survivor

avturchin16 Oct 2025 11:40 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Complex Universe Theory of AI Psychology

Andrew Tomazos16 Oct 2025 4:31 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.tomazos.com)

[CS 2881r AI Safety] [Week 5] Content Policies

MB Samuel and audreyty

16 Oct 2025 4:27 UTC

1 point

0 comments12 min readLW link

Halfhaven Digest #2

Taylor G. Lunt16 Oct 2025 3:18 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Fragrance Free Confusion

jefftk16 Oct 2025 2:50 UTC

17 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Three Levels of Agency

Taylor G. Lunt16 Oct 2025 2:14 UTC

15 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: Functional connectomics reveals general wiring rule in mouse visual cortex

Devin Ward16 Oct 2025 1:56 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Electronics Mechanic → AI Safety Researcher: A 30-Month Journey to Model Welfare

probablyjonah16 Oct 2025 0:43 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

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)