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Stratified Utopia

Cleo Nardo21 Oct 2025 19:09 UTC

73 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

Early stage goal-directednesss

Raemon21 Oct 2025 17:41 UTC

20 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

On Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast With Andrej Karpathy

Zvi21 Oct 2025 16:00 UTC

38 points

6 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Samuel x Bhishma—Superintelligence by 2030?

samuelshadrach21 Oct 2025 15:32 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Remarks on Bayesian studies from 1963

dynomight21 Oct 2025 12:47 UTC

37 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Why deep space programs select for calm agreeable introverted candidates

David Sun21 Oct 2025 10:22 UTC

−4 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

⿻ Symbiogenesis vs. Convergent Consequentialism

Audrey Tang and plex

21 Oct 2025 10:10 UTC

60 points

5 comments20 min readLW link

How the Human Lens Shapes Machine Minds

Alexander Müller and cansukutay

21 Oct 2025 9:08 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

21st Century Civilization curriculum

Richard_Ngo21 Oct 2025 7:43 UTC

35 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.21civ.com)

Ramblings on the Self Indication Assumption

Angela Pretorius21 Oct 2025 5:45 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

An epistemic theory of populism [link post to Joseph Heath]

Siebe21 Oct 2025 5:30 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

EU explained in 10 minutes

Martin Sustrik21 Oct 2025 4:40 UTC

244 points

49 comments8 min readLW link

(www.250bpm.com)

“Tilakkhana”, Gwern [poem]

gwern21 Oct 2025 2:39 UTC

22 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

Attending Your First Contra Dance in a Fragrance-Compliant Manner

jefftk21 Oct 2025 0:40 UTC

4 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies march assurance contract should indicate how many signatures it has received

Peter Berggren20 Oct 2025 19:38 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Thought Experiment] If Human Extinction “Improves the World,” Should We Oppose It? Species Bias and the Utilitarian Challenge

satopi20 Oct 2025 17:38 UTC

−17 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Can you find the steganographically hidden message?

Kei Nishimura-Gasparian20 Oct 2025 17:29 UTC

48 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

How cause-area specific conferences can strengthen the EA community

MariusWenk20 Oct 2025 17:02 UTC

2 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A Mathematical Model of Alcor’s Economic Survival

Syd Lonreiro_20 Oct 2025 16:24 UTC

1 point

3 comments3 min readLW link

How Stuart Buck funded the replication crisis

Elizabeth20 Oct 2025 15:51 UTC

56 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(goodscience.substack.com)

Secular Solstice: Bremen (Dec 13)

marta_k and benjaminalt

20 Oct 2025 15:49 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Contra-Zombies? Contra-Zombies!: Chalmers as a parallel to Hume

Shiva's Right Foot20 Oct 2025 14:56 UTC

−2 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Consider donating to Alex Bores, author of the RAISE Act

Eric Neyman20 Oct 2025 14:50 UTC

259 points

20 comments18 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

Zvi20 Oct 2025 13:22 UTC

78 points

7 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Considerations around career costs of political donations

GradientDissenter20 Oct 2025 12:51 UTC

97 points

17 comments15 min readLW link

A Cup of Blue Tea

Rudaiba20 Oct 2025 11:22 UTC

−2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

A Bayesian nightmare: Instagram and Sampling bias

Abhay Chowdhry20 Oct 2025 5:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Uncommon Utilitarianism #2: Positive Utilitarianism

Alice Blair20 Oct 2025 4:17 UTC

6 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Final-Exam-Tier Medical Problem With Handwavy Reasons We Can’t Just Call A Licensed M.D.

Lorec20 Oct 2025 1:01 UTC

25 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Humanity Learned Almost Nothing From COVID-19

niplav19 Oct 2025 21:24 UTC

163 points

38 comments4 min readLW link

Frontier LLM Race/Sex Exchange Rates

Arjun Panickssery19 Oct 2025 18:36 UTC

48 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(arctotherium.substack.com)

Scenes, cliques and teams—a high level ontology of groups

Tobes19 Oct 2025 16:51 UTC

47 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

The idea of paradigm testing of LLMs

Daniel Fenge19 Oct 2025 13:52 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Learnable Skills

Morpheus19 Oct 2025 11:12 UTC

10 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Give Me Your Data: The Rationalist Mind Meld

Taylor G. Lunt19 Oct 2025 2:25 UTC

114 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

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