A pen­cil is not a pen­cil is not a pencil

Algon10 Nov 2025 23:59 UTC
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The Open Strat­egy Dic­ta­tor Game: An Ex­per­i­ment in Trans­par­ent Cooperation

Michael Glass10 Nov 2025 23:26 UTC
13 points
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DC/​Mary­land Sec­u­lar Solstice

maia10 Nov 2025 23:25 UTC
13 points
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What I learned build­ing a lan­guage-learn­ing app

depressurize10 Nov 2025 21:04 UTC
5 points
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(chadnauseam.com)

An­drej Karpa­thy on LLM cog­ni­tive deficits

Nina Panickssery10 Nov 2025 21:02 UTC
45 points
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(www.dwarkesh.com)

Con­scious­ness as a Distributed Ponzi Scheme

abramdemski10 Nov 2025 20:18 UTC
34 points
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Maat—In­tro Post

TristanTrim10 Nov 2025 20:09 UTC
3 points
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Var­i­ously Effec­tive Altruism

Zvi10 Nov 2025 19:21 UTC
14 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why does ev­ery­thing feel so ur­gent?

mingyuan10 Nov 2025 18:11 UTC
19 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(mingyuan.substack.com)

Om­ni­science one bit at a time: Chap­ter 2

Dentosal10 Nov 2025 15:47 UTC
4 points
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So­cial drives 1: “Sym­pa­thy Re­ward”, from com­pas­sion to dehumanization

Steven Byrnes10 Nov 2025 14:53 UTC
36 points
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On­tol­ogy for AI Cults and Cy­borg Egregores

Jan_Kulveit10 Nov 2025 13:19 UTC
65 points
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From Vi­talik: Galaxy brain resistance

Gabriel Alfour10 Nov 2025 13:06 UTC
115 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(vitalik.eth.limo)

The jailbreak ar­gu­ment against LLM values

technicalities10 Nov 2025 12:05 UTC
25 points
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The grapefruit juice effect

Adam Scherlis10 Nov 2025 8:49 UTC
38 points
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(adam.scherl.is)

Against Pow­er­ful Text Editors

dreeves10 Nov 2025 8:11 UTC
10 points
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MtG Colour Wheel ap­plied to Politics

samuelshadrach10 Nov 2025 5:05 UTC
−5 points
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(samuelshadrach.com)

The only im­por­tant ASI timeline

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)10 Nov 2025 4:53 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(boydkane.com)

Book An­nounce­ment: The Gen­tle Romance

Richard_Ngo10 Nov 2025 0:36 UTC
60 points
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(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Three Kinds Of On­tolog­i­cal Foundations

johnswentworth10 Nov 2025 0:33 UTC
40 points
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When does Claude sab­o­tage code? An Agen­tic Misal­ign­ment fol­low-up

Nathan Delisle9 Nov 2025 23:11 UTC
18 points
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Man­i­fest X DC Open­ing Bene­dic­tion - Mak­ing Friends Along the Way

JohnofCharleston9 Nov 2025 23:10 UTC
42 points
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Seed Of Oa­sis

0xA9 Nov 2025 22:00 UTC
1 point
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Learn­ing in­for­ma­tion which is full of spiders

Screwtape9 Nov 2025 21:05 UTC
59 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

In­tro­spec­tion or con­fu­sion?

Victor Godet9 Nov 2025 20:53 UTC
43 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Re­learn­ing how to be human

mingyuan9 Nov 2025 20:20 UTC
18 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(mingyuan.substack.com)

Condensation

abramdemski9 Nov 2025 19:08 UTC
156 points
16 comments16 min readLW link

Om­ni­science one bit at a time: Chap­ter 1

Dentosal9 Nov 2025 18:10 UTC
23 points
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We’re Not The Cen­ter of the Mo­ral Universe

Bentham's Bulldog9 Nov 2025 16:46 UTC
−6 points
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Grad­ual Disem­pow­er­ment Monthly Roundup #2

Raymond Douglas9 Nov 2025 14:43 UTC
46 points
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We’re Already Liv­ing in a Sci-Fi World

David Bravo9 Nov 2025 14:20 UTC
7 points
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AI hasn’t seen wide­spread adop­tion be­cause the labs are fo­cus­ing on au­tomat­ing AI R&D

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)9 Nov 2025 14:02 UTC
10 points
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(boydkane.com)

Struc­tural Es­ti­mates of Hu­man Computation

Nicolas Villarreal9 Nov 2025 13:46 UTC
−11 points
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Heroic re­spon­si­bil­ity is morally neutral

Dumbledore's Army9 Nov 2025 13:15 UTC
18 points
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Prob­lems I’ve Tried to Legibilize

Wei Dai9 Nov 2025 10:27 UTC
143 points
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The Gen­eral So­cial Sur­vey and the ACX Survey

Screwtape9 Nov 2025 7:54 UTC
15 points
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There should be unicorns

Mikhail Samin9 Nov 2025 7:38 UTC
17 points
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(mikhailsamin.substack.com)

One Shot Sin­ga­long­ing is an at­ti­tude, not a skill or a song-difficulty-level*

Raemon9 Nov 2025 7:29 UTC
54 points
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Where Our Eng­ineer­ing Ed­u­ca­tion Went Wrong

L.M.Sherlock9 Nov 2025 6:02 UTC
26 points
2 comments9 min readLW link
(lmsherlock.substack.com)

A son­net, a ses­tina, a villanelle

mingyuan9 Nov 2025 5:20 UTC
27 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(mingyuan.substack.com)

n-ary Huff­man coding

Adam Scherlis9 Nov 2025 5:05 UTC
18 points
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(adam.scherl.is)

Liou­ville’s The­o­rem and the Se­cond Law

Algon9 Nov 2025 0:00 UTC
26 points
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In­so­far As I Think LLMs “Don’t Really Un­der­stand Things”, What Do I Mean By That?

johnswentworth8 Nov 2025 23:37 UTC
90 points
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Why AC is cheap, but AC re­pair is a luxury

Annapurna8 Nov 2025 23:01 UTC
3 points
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(a16z.substack.com)

My­opia Mythology

abramdemski8 Nov 2025 22:22 UTC
38 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Om­nis­cal­ing to MNIST

cloud8 Nov 2025 19:42 UTC
100 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

Can Models be Eval­u­a­tion Aware Without Ex­plicit Ver­bal­iza­tion?

8 Nov 2025 18:26 UTC
26 points
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Cake vs Lack of Cake

Notelrac8 Nov 2025 18:10 UTC
1 point
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Un­ex­pected Things that are People

Ben Goldhaber8 Nov 2025 17:12 UTC
209 points
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A hu­man­ist cri­tique of tech­nolog­i­cal determinism

8 Nov 2025 15:27 UTC
10 points
0 comments6 min readLW link