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Markets in Democracy: What happens when you can sell your vote?

Mike Evron4 Oct 2025 23:59 UTC

4 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

$250 bounties for the best short stories set in our near future world & Brooklyn event to select them

Ramon Gonzalez4 Oct 2025 22:49 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

What I’ve Learnt About How to Sleep

Algon4 Oct 2025 20:52 UTC

25 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

The ‘Magic’ of LLMs: The Function of Language

Joseph Banks4 Oct 2025 17:45 UTC

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Open Philanthropy’s Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Team Is Hiring and Seeking New Grantees

miriam.hinthorn4 Oct 2025 17:42 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Consider Small Walks at Work

Morpheus4 Oct 2025 11:53 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Where does Sonnet 4.5′s desire to “not get too comfortable” come from?

Kaj_Sotala4 Oct 2025 10:19 UTC

91 points

16 comments64 min readLW link

A Workflow for System Prompted Model Organisms

michaelwaves3 Oct 2025 21:39 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Goodness is harder to achieve than competence

Joe Rogero3 Oct 2025 21:32 UTC

22 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: Connectomic traces of Hebbian plasticity in the entorhinal-hippocampal system

Devin Ward3 Oct 2025 21:24 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Good is a smaller target than smart

Joe Rogero3 Oct 2025 21:04 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Making Sense of Consciousness Part 6: Perceptions of Disembodiment

sarahconstantin3 Oct 2025 20:40 UTC

27 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Recent AI Experiences

abramdemski3 Oct 2025 19:32 UTC

54 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Our Experience Running Independent Evaluations on LLMs: What Have We Learned?

MAlvarado3 Oct 2025 18:26 UTC

7 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Do One New Thing A Day To Solve Your Problems

Algon3 Oct 2025 17:08 UTC

102 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

ENAIS is looking for an Executive Director (apply by 20th October)

gergogaspar and ENAIS

3 Oct 2025 15:29 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Anthropic’s JumpReLU training method is really good

chanind and Adrià Garriga-alonso

3 Oct 2025 15:23 UTC

22 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Sora and The Big Bright Screen Slop Machine

Zvi3 Oct 2025 11:40 UTC

38 points

1 comment35 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We’ve automated x-risk-pilling people

Mikhail Samin3 Oct 2025 10:26 UTC

51 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

(whycare.aisgf.us)

Open Thread Autumn 2025

kave3 Oct 2025 5:32 UTC

16 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: Connectomic traces of Hebbian plasticity in the entorhinal-hippocampal system

Devin Ward3 Oct 2025 5:13 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Prompting Myself: Maybe it’s not a damn platitude?

CstineSublime3 Oct 2025 2:28 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

IABIED and Memetic Engineering

Error3 Oct 2025 1:01 UTC

47 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Antisocial media: AI’s killer app?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)3 Oct 2025 0:00 UTC

35 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(therealartificialintelligence.substack.com)

Omelas Is Perfectly Misread

Tobias H2 Oct 2025 23:11 UTC

197 points

49 comments5 min readLW link

Journalism about game theory could advance AI safety quickly

Chris Santos-Lang2 Oct 2025 23:05 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

In which the author is struck by an electric couplet

Algon2 Oct 2025 21:46 UTC

10 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Nice-ish, smooth takeoff (with imperfect safeguards) probably kills most “classic humans” in a few decades.

Raemon2 Oct 2025 21:03 UTC

143 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

Eliciting secret knowledge from language models

Bartosz Cywiński, Arthur Conmy and Sam Marks

2 Oct 2025 20:57 UTC

67 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The Four Pillars: A Hypothesis for Countering Catastrophic Biological Risk

ASB2 Oct 2025 20:20 UTC

8 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

(defensesindepth.bio)

AI Risk: Can We Thread the Needle? [Recorded Talk from EA Summit Vancouver ’25]

Evan R. Murphy2 Oct 2025 19:08 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Checking in on AI-2027

Baybar2 Oct 2025 18:46 UTC

119 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

Prompt Framing Changes LLM Performance (and Safety)

Kilian Merkelbach2 Oct 2025 18:29 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

No, That’s Not What the Flight Costs

Max Niederman2 Oct 2025 17:55 UTC

45 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(maxniederman.com)

Why the Struggle for Safe AI Must Be Political

Alexander Müller and cansukutay

2 Oct 2025 16:38 UTC

−6 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Why AI Caste bias is more Dangerous than you think

shanzson2 Oct 2025 16:36 UTC

0 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Homo sapiens and homo silicus

Alexander Müller and Sophia Lopotaru

2 Oct 2025 16:33 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

How to Feel More Alive

Logan Riggs2 Oct 2025 15:45 UTC

47 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

AI and Biological Risk: Forecasting Key Capability Thresholds

Alvin Ånestrand2 Oct 2025 14:06 UTC

7 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

(forecastingaifutures.substack.com)

AI #136: A Song and Dance

Zvi2 Oct 2025 13:10 UTC

34 points

3 comments47 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some Biology Related Things I Found Interesting

Morpheus2 Oct 2025 12:18 UTC

37 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Random safe AGI idea dump

sig2 Oct 2025 10:16 UTC

−3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

How likely are “s-risks” (large-scale suffering outcomes) from unaligned AI compared to extinction risks?

CanYouFeelTheBenefits2 Oct 2025 10:02 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Are we an ASI thought experiment?

Amy Rose Vossberg2 Oct 2025 1:43 UTC

−6 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Why’s equality in logic less flexible than in category theory?

Algon1 Oct 2025 22:03 UTC

17 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

[Linkpost] A Field Guide to Writing Styles

Linch1 Oct 2025 21:49 UTC

17 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

(linch.substack.com)

</rant> </uncharitable> </psychologizing>

Raemon1 Oct 2025 21:20 UTC

53 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

How I think about alignment and ethics as a cooperation protocol software

Burny1 Oct 2025 21:09 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Introducing the Mox Guest Program

Austin Chen, RobinGoins and Rachel Shu

1 Oct 2025 18:35 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(moxsf.com)

The Problem of the Concentration of Power

hazem1 Oct 2025 18:13 UTC

−5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link