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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

15 comments3 min readLW link

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury

Annapurna8 Nov 2025 23:01 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(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?

gersonkroiz, Greg Kocher and Tim Hua

8 Nov 2025 18:26 UTC

26 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Cake vs Lack of Cake

Notelrac8 Nov 2025 18:10 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Unexpected Things that are People

Ben Goldhaber8 Nov 2025 17:12 UTC

209 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

A humanist critique of technological determinism

Alexander Müller and ilijalichkovski

8 Nov 2025 15:27 UTC

10 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Five very good reasons to not write down literally every single thought you have

ceselder8 Nov 2025 10:22 UTC

18 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Review: Parsifal at the SF Opera

Adam Scherlis8 Nov 2025 8:25 UTC

10 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(adam.scherl.is)

Escalation and perception

TsviBT8 Nov 2025 8:12 UTC

69 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

The Snaw

Screwtape8 Nov 2025 6:42 UTC

23 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Augustine of Hippo’s Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love in Latin (or: Claude as Pandoc++)

DanielFilan8 Nov 2025 6:31 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Comparing Payor & Löb

abramdemski8 Nov 2025 5:40 UTC

54 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Mourning a life without AI

Nikola Jurkovic8 Nov 2025 4:44 UTC

194 points

63 comments6 min readLW link

(nikolajurkovic.substack.com)

Two Times I Was Surprised By My Own Values

johnswentworth8 Nov 2025 3:56 UTC

13 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

The solution to akrasia apparently isn’t not having any goals

Dentosal8 Nov 2025 3:53 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Anthropic & Dario’s dream

Simon Lermen8 Nov 2025 1:19 UTC

55 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Against “You can just do things”

zroe18 Nov 2025 0:58 UTC

61 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Agent Foundations: Paradigmatizing in Math and Science

TristanTrim8 Nov 2025 0:37 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

From Thermodynamics to Sora: A Comprehensive Introduction to Denoising Diffusion for Video Generation

phenomanon7 Nov 2025 23:36 UTC

5 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

Pythia

plex7 Nov 2025 23:31 UTC

99 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

Start an AI safety group with the Pathfinder Fellowship

Topaz7 Nov 2025 21:05 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI is not inevitable.

David Scott Krueger7 Nov 2025 20:31 UTC

29 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(therealartificialintelligence.substack.com)

Announcing “Computational Functionalism Debate” (soliciting paid feedback): Test your intuitions about consciousness

ChrisPercy7 Nov 2025 20:12 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Hawley-Blumenthal AI Risk Evaluation Act

David Abecassis7 Nov 2025 19:09 UTC

42 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(techgov.intelligence.org)

Secular Solstice Roundup 2025

datawitch7 Nov 2025 19:03 UTC

14 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The Decalogue For Aligned AI.

theophilus tabuke7 Nov 2025 18:47 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Analytical Validation of Biomarkers is Not the Full Story

mnarayan7 Nov 2025 18:39 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(blog.neurostats.org)

A country of alien idiots in a datacenter: AI progress and public alarm

Seth Herd7 Nov 2025 16:56 UTC

94 points

17 comments11 min readLW link

Bologna ACX/LW meetup

Luca Petrolati7 Nov 2025 16:55 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

On Sam Altman’s Second Conversation with Tyler Cowen

Zvi7 Nov 2025 16:40 UTC

15 points

3 comments30 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Plans to build AGI with nuclear reactor-like safety lack ‘systematic thinking,’ say researchers

Mordechai Rorvig7 Nov 2025 16:25 UTC

−1 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.foommagazine.org)

13 Arguments About a Transition to Neuralese AIs

Rauno Arike7 Nov 2025 16:19 UTC

49 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

Open Letter to Ohio House Reps

Stephen Martin7 Nov 2025 16:05 UTC

16 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Two easy digital intentionality practices

mingyuan7 Nov 2025 15:11 UTC

38 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(mingyuan.substack.com)

Is it really paranoia if I’m really Out to Get Me?

Dentosal7 Nov 2025 8:28 UTC

0 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Did you know you can just buy blackbelts?

Screwtape7 Nov 2025 7:47 UTC

22 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

GPTF-8: A tokenizer-based character encoding

Adam Scherlis7 Nov 2025 7:47 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(adam.scherl.is)

Cancer; A Crime Story (and other tales of optimization gone wrong)

Jonas Hallgren7 Nov 2025 7:09 UTC

19 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

A scheme to credit hack policy gradient training

Adrià Garriga-alonso7 Nov 2025 6:24 UTC

15 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[CS2881r][Week 8] When Agents Prefer Hacking To Failure: Evaluating Misalignment Under Pressure

Joseph Bejjani, Itamar Rocha Filho, Haichuan Wang and Zidi Xiong

7 Nov 2025 5:45 UTC

2 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

Liberation Clippy

abramdemski7 Nov 2025 5:21 UTC

17 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Minimizing Loss ≠ Maximizing Intelligence

Taylor G. Lunt7 Nov 2025 4:15 UTC

7 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Solstice Season 2025: Ritual Roundup & Megameetups

Raemon7 Nov 2025 3:58 UTC

58 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

My new nonprofit Evitable is hiring.

David Scott Krueger7 Nov 2025 3:39 UTC

74 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Willpower is exhausting, use content blockers

mingyuan7 Nov 2025 2:20 UTC

28 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(mingyuan.substack.com)

A review of MSUM’s AI Innovation Summit: Day Two

Philipreal7 Nov 2025 1:10 UTC

2 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Brutalist Prose

Sinclair Chen7 Nov 2025 0:59 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Can we do useful meta-analysis? Unjournal evaluations of “Meaningfully reducing consumption of meat… is an unsolved problem...”

david reinstein7 Nov 2025 0:40 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)