Sam Alt­man’s track record of ma­nipu­la­tion: some quotes from Karen Hao’s “Em­pire of AI”

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Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage & AI

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Just com­plain­ing about LLM syco­phancy (filler epi­sode)

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Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Nov 2025 20:21 UTC
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AI Safety Un­con­fer­ence, Melbourne 2025

mjkerrison3 Nov 2025 19:36 UTC
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[Question] High-Re­sis­tance Sys­tems to Change: Can a Poli­ti­cal Strat­egy Ap­ply to Per­sonal Change?

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Leav­ing Open Philan­thropy, go­ing to Anthropic

Joe Carlsmith3 Nov 2025 17:38 UTC
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Red Heart

PeterMcCluskey3 Nov 2025 17:32 UTC
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Fal­ling AI Costs and the Pro­lifer­a­tion of Offen­sive Capabilities

Felix Choussat3 Nov 2025 17:32 UTC
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The EU could hold AI ca­pa­bil­ities de­vel­op­ment hostage if they wanted to

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)3 Nov 2025 16:54 UTC
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What’s up with An­thropic pre­dict­ing AGI by early 2027?

ryan_greenblatt3 Nov 2025 16:45 UTC
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To im­prove Ra­tion­al­ity, cre­ate Situations

abstractapplic3 Nov 2025 16:10 UTC
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The Un­rea­son­able Effec­tive­ness of Fiction

Raelifin3 Nov 2025 15:35 UTC
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Crime and Pu­n­ish­ment #1

Zvi3 Nov 2025 15:30 UTC
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Solv­ing a prob­lem with mindware

Alexandre Variengien3 Nov 2025 15:17 UTC
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Pub­lish­ing aca­demic pa­pers on trans­for­ma­tive AI is a nightmare

Jakub Growiec3 Nov 2025 13:04 UTC
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Pep­per­oni and the end of morality

ceselder3 Nov 2025 10:15 UTC
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Try­ing to un­der­stand my own cog­ni­tive edge

Wei Dai3 Nov 2025 8:49 UTC
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There’s some chance oral her­pes is pretty bad for you?

GradientDissenter3 Nov 2025 6:30 UTC
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“What’s hard about this? What can I do about that?”

Raemon3 Nov 2025 5:30 UTC
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Eras­mus: So­cial Eng­ineer­ing at Scale

Martin Sustrik3 Nov 2025 5:20 UTC
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Spend­ing Less by Do­ing More

Philipreal3 Nov 2025 4:54 UTC
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Lack of So­cial Grace is a Lack of Skill

Screwtape3 Nov 2025 4:43 UTC
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Live Con­ver­sa­tional Threads: Not an AI Notetaker

adiga3 Nov 2025 4:24 UTC
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A glimpse of the other side

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MichaelDickens3 Nov 2025 3:52 UTC
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Why and how you should make your home smart (it’s cheap and se­cure!)

Mikhail Samin3 Nov 2025 3:27 UTC
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Body Time and Daylight Sav­ings Apologetics

dreeves3 Nov 2025 1:24 UTC
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viemccoy3 Nov 2025 0:19 UTC
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For­give Sa­vants Their Midwittery

Algon3 Nov 2025 0:00 UTC
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Are ap­ples made of cells?

Alex_Altair2 Nov 2025 22:12 UTC
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Halfhaven halftime

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anaguma2 Nov 2025 21:06 UTC
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Donut The­ory of Consciousness

abramdemski2 Nov 2025 19:57 UTC
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Rea­son About In­tel­li­gence, Not AI

Patrick Spencer2 Nov 2025 19:42 UTC
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Hu­man Values ≠ Goodness

johnswentworth2 Nov 2025 19:24 UTC
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Doom from a Solu­tion to the Align­ment Problem

koanchuk2 Nov 2025 16:37 UTC
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Ohio House Bill 469

Stephen Martin2 Nov 2025 16:26 UTC
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I Won­dered Why I Pro­cras­ti­nate Even On Things I Am “Pas­sion­ate” About

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Brain­storm­ing 25 Ques­tions I Am In­ter­ested In

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Me con­sum­ing five differ­ent forms of me­dia at once to min­i­mize the chance of a thought occurring

Dentosal2 Nov 2025 8:03 UTC
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A re­view of MSUM’s AI In­no­va­tion Sum­mit: Day One

Philipreal2 Nov 2025 6:15 UTC
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FTL travel and sci­en­tific realism

Adam Scherlis2 Nov 2025 6:03 UTC
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Reflec­tions on 4 years of meta-honesty

GradientDissenter2 Nov 2025 5:29 UTC
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Bet­ter ways to do grayscale screens

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Shar­ing in­for­ma­tion about Light­cone Infrastructure

Mikhail Samin2 Nov 2025 5:15 UTC
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2025 Unoffi­cial LW Com­mu­nity Cen­sus, Re­quest for Comments

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Met­formin 1000mg/​day upon symp­tom on­set may re­duce your risk of long covid by 10-30%

Drake Thomas2 Nov 2025 4:57 UTC
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Time, Panpsy­chism, and Sub­strate In­de­pen­dence

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