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Maxwell Peterson5 Oct 2025 23:23 UTC

21 points

8 comments13 min readLW link

The Sadism Spectrum and How to Access It

Dawn Drescher5 Oct 2025 23:09 UTC

14 points

2 comments20 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

Maybe social media algorithms don’t suck

Algon5 Oct 2025 18:47 UTC

70 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Base64Bench: How good are LLMs at base64, and why care about it?

richbc5 Oct 2025 18:07 UTC

39 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What can Canadians do to help end the AI arms race?

Tom9385 Oct 2025 18:03 UTC

8 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

17 years old, self-taught state control—looking for people who actually get this

Cornelius Caspian5 Oct 2025 18:02 UTC

−3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Behavior Best-of-N achieves Near Human Performance on Computer Tasks

Baybar5 Oct 2025 16:53 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Accelerating AI Safety Progress via Technical Methods- Calling Researchers, Founders, and Funders

Martin Leitgab5 Oct 2025 16:40 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Mini-Symposium on Accelerating AI Safety Progress via Technical Methods—Hybrid In-Person and Virtual

Martin Leitgab5 Oct 2025 16:05 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

CanYouFeelTheBenefits5 Oct 2025 14:38 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

LLMs are badly misaligned

Joe Rogero5 Oct 2025 14:00 UTC

27 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

The Counterfactual Quiet AGI Timeline

Davidmanheim5 Oct 2025 9:09 UTC

71 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

AISafety.com Reading Group session 328

Søren Elverlin5 Oct 2025 7:51 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

How the NanoGPT Speedrun WR dropped by 20% in 3 months

larry-dial5 Oct 2025 1:05 UTC

54 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

a quick thought about AI alignment

foodforthought5 Oct 2025 0:51 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Making Your Pain Worse can Get You What You Want

Logan Riggs5 Oct 2025 0:19 UTC

87 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

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

Mike Evron4 Oct 2025 23:59 UTC

4 points

21 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

29 points

8 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

103 points

23 comments64 min readLW link

Munk Debate on AI: a few observations and opinions

[deactivated]4 Oct 2025 0:24 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 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

58 points

5 comments6 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

208 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

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

gergogaspar and ENAIS

3 Oct 2025 15:29 UTC

16 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

39 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Sora and The Big Bright Screen Slop Machine

Zvi3 Oct 2025 11:40 UTC

42 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

34 comments1 min readLW link

(whycare.aisgf.us)

Open Thread Autumn 2025

kave3 Oct 2025 5:32 UTC

20 points

97 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

2 comments1 min readLW link

IABIED and Memetic Engineering

Error3 Oct 2025 1:01 UTC

49 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

221 points

59 comments5 min readLW link

Journalism about game theory could advance AI safety quickly

Chris Santos-Lang2 Oct 2025 23:05 UTC

8 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

155 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

68 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

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

ASB2 Oct 2025 20:20 UTC

9 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

128 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Prompt Framing Changes LLM Performance (and Safety)

Kilian Merkelbach2 Oct 2025 18:29 UTC

5 points

0 comments7 min readLW link