Why So Much Moloch?

Algon16 Nov 2025 23:59 UTC
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Where is the Cap­i­tal? An Overview

johnswentworth16 Nov 2025 23:18 UTC
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Don’t defer to peo­ple when they’re clearly lying

Warty16 Nov 2025 23:01 UTC
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The skills and physics of high-perfor­mance driv­ing, Pt. 2

Ruby16 Nov 2025 21:17 UTC
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Trans­for­ma­tive AI ex­pec­ta­tions are not new

ParrotRobot16 Nov 2025 21:04 UTC
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Pro­cess Crimes and Pedan­tic Rules

Screwtape16 Nov 2025 21:00 UTC
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Om­ni­science one bit at a time: Chap­ter 4

Dentosal16 Nov 2025 20:50 UTC
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Wiki AI

abramdemski16 Nov 2025 20:11 UTC
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Ar­rows of time and space

Yair Halberstadt16 Nov 2025 19:58 UTC
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I Spent 30 Days Learn­ing to Smile More Charismatically

Taylor G. Lunt16 Nov 2025 15:28 UTC
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Dar­win’s LLMs—Nat­u­ral Selec­tion is Already Shap­ing AI

Ben Turtel16 Nov 2025 15:20 UTC
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No one un­der­stands that to­mor­row will not be to­day and I don’t know what to do.

AdamLacerdo16 Nov 2025 13:59 UTC
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A Case for Biol­ogy of the Living

matthew allen16 Nov 2025 13:35 UTC
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The new Pluribus TV show is a great and un­usual anal­ogy for AI.

AGoyet16 Nov 2025 13:25 UTC
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Con­sid­er­ing the Rele­vance of Com­pu­ta­tional Uncer­tainty for AI Safety

Cole Wyeth16 Nov 2025 13:07 UTC
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The Bad­ness of Death in Differ­ent Me­taeth­i­cal Theories

avturchin16 Nov 2025 8:54 UTC
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Di­ag­o­nal­iza­tion: A (slightly) more rigor­ous model of paranoia

habryka16 Nov 2025 7:56 UTC
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Brand New Ex­pe­rience Salesman

Screwtape16 Nov 2025 7:56 UTC
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7 Vi­cious Vices of Rationalists

Ben Pace16 Nov 2025 7:45 UTC
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Sup­port the Move­ment against AI ex­tinc­tion risk

samuelshadrach16 Nov 2025 4:41 UTC
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(samuelshadrach.com)

Find­ing My In­ter­nal Com­pass, Literally

eleweek16 Nov 2025 4:02 UTC
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(psychotechnology.substack.com)

Now, “Tether­ing” is a Big­ger Ed­u­ca­tional Prob­lem Than “In­volu­tion”

L.M.Sherlock16 Nov 2025 4:00 UTC
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The Am­bi­guity Of “Hu­man Values” Is A Fea­ture, Not A Bug

johnswentworth16 Nov 2025 3:47 UTC
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Put num­bers on stuff, all the time, oth­er­wise scope in­sen­si­tivity will eat you

habryka16 Nov 2025 3:04 UTC
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AI safety un­der­val­ues founders

Ryan Kidd16 Nov 2025 1:59 UTC
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Sharp­en­ing Your Map: In­tro­duc­ing Calibrate

Vermillion16 Nov 2025 1:32 UTC
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The skills and physics of high-perfor­mance driv­ing, Pt. 1

Ruby16 Nov 2025 0:54 UTC
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Why does ChatGPT think mam­moths were al­ive in De­cem­ber?

Steff16 Nov 2025 0:40 UTC
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(ramblingafter.substack.com)

Your Clone Wants to Kill You Be­cause You As­sumed Too Much

Algon15 Nov 2025 23:21 UTC
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Writ­ing Hack: Write It Just Like That

eleweek15 Nov 2025 22:16 UTC
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(psychotechnology.substack.com)

AI loves octopuses

Sean Herrington15 Nov 2025 21:59 UTC
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Punc­tu­a­tion & Quo­ta­tion Conventions

abramdemski15 Nov 2025 18:13 UTC
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Ma­tri­ces map be­tween biproducts

jessicata15 Nov 2025 18:05 UTC
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(unstableontology.com)

Don’t use the phrase “hu­man val­ues”

Nina Panickssery15 Nov 2025 16:49 UTC
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Halfway there; on des­per­a­tion management

Dentosal15 Nov 2025 14:55 UTC
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“Mid­dle­march” is inane and also one of my fa­vorite books

Ben Pace15 Nov 2025 7:58 UTC
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Just Another Five Minutes

Screwtape15 Nov 2025 7:47 UTC
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Same cog­ni­tive paints, ex­ceed­ingly differ­ent men­tal pictures

Ruby15 Nov 2025 7:13 UTC
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A Love Song to Nicotine

eleweek15 Nov 2025 6:54 UTC
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(psychotechnology.substack.com)

In­creas­ing re­turns to effort are common

habryka15 Nov 2025 6:53 UTC
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Pri­vate La­tent No­ta­tion and AI-Hu­man Alignment

Robert Shuler15 Nov 2025 5:47 UTC
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On Bat­tle-Short: What, How, and Why Not To

Lorxus15 Nov 2025 5:27 UTC
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The Flaw in the Paper­clip Max­i­mizer Thought Experiment

Taylor G. Lunt15 Nov 2025 4:46 UTC
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“But You’d Like To Feel Com­pan­ionate Love, Right? … Right?”

johnswentworth15 Nov 2025 4:28 UTC
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Gen­er­a­tion Ship: A Protest Song For PauseAI

LoganStrohl15 Nov 2025 1:17 UTC
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Will AI sys­tems drift into mis­al­ign­ment?

joshc15 Nov 2025 1:03 UTC
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Every­day Clean Air

jefftk15 Nov 2025 1:00 UTC
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Some Sun Tsu quotes sound like they’re ac­tu­ally about de­bates/​epistemics

depressurize15 Nov 2025 0:41 UTC
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What are your im­pos­si­ble prob­lems?

Raemon15 Nov 2025 0:28 UTC
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Pre­dic­tion mar­kets for so­cial de­duc­tion games

Mikhail Samin15 Nov 2025 0:18 UTC
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(mikhailsamin.substack.com)