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What’s guaranteed in Life?

shanzson12 Dec 2025 21:27 UTC

−6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating LLM hypothesis generation in biology is hard.

Austin Morrissey12 Dec 2025 20:48 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

Book Review: The Age of Fighting Sail

Suspended Reason12 Dec 2025 20:15 UTC

63 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

U.S. Democracy Threat Index: $10,000 in Forecasting Prizes

ChristianWilliams12 Dec 2025 19:43 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Conditional On Long-Range Signal, Ising Still Factors Locally

johnswentworth and David Lorell

12 Dec 2025 19:31 UTC

31 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Leading models take chilling tradeoffs in realistic scenarios, new research finds

Mordechai Rorvig12 Dec 2025 18:27 UTC

−2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.foommagazine.org)

Wittgenstein was wrong

Ben (Berlin)12 Dec 2025 16:33 UTC

3 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026

Zvi12 Dec 2025 14:40 UTC

28 points

4 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Information in circulation is self-organised critical. Small changes in environment can make large, discontinuous changes in the information space.

puffymist12 Dec 2025 14:16 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI self-replication roundup

tbs12 Dec 2025 14:15 UTC

4 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

(meditationsondigitalminds.substack.com)

The Fly Farm

J Bostock12 Dec 2025 13:24 UTC

31 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

New 80k problem profile: extreme power concentration

rosehadshar12 Dec 2025 13:05 UTC

48 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

The point of view of the universe

Alexandre Variengien12 Dec 2025 12:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(alexandrevariengien.com)

The Fantastic Piece of Tinfoil in my Wallet

jefftk12 Dec 2025 3:30 UTC

59 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AISN #66: Evaluating Frontier Models, New Gemini and Claude, Preemption is Back

Nick_Stockton12 Dec 2025 3:10 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(aisafety.substack.com)

Annals of Counterfactual Han

GenericModel12 Dec 2025 1:11 UTC

48 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(enrichedjamsham.substack.com)

Does dissolving newcomb’s paradox matter?

Srdjan Miletic12 Dec 2025 1:06 UTC

15 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.dissent.blog)

ARC-AGI-2 human baseline surpassed (updated)

Tim H12 Dec 2025 0:10 UTC

21 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Designing the World’s Safest AI based on Morality Models

shanzson11 Dec 2025 23:33 UTC

−12 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

ASI Already Knows About Torture—In Defense of Talking Openly About S-Risks

KatWoods11 Dec 2025 21:15 UTC

−9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Cognitive Tech from Algorithmic Information Theory

Cole Wyeth11 Dec 2025 20:32 UTC

41 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing Progress in Medicine, a high school summer career exploration program

jasoncrawford11 Dec 2025 18:33 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Weird Generalization & Inductive Backdoors

Jorio Cocola, Owain_Evans and dylan_f

11 Dec 2025 18:18 UTC

152 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

The tree, the fly, the ant, the dog, the farmer and the businessman

Alexandre Variengien11 Dec 2025 17:56 UTC

14 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(alexandrevariengien.com)

Ships in the Night – A Short Story

Dhruv Sumathi11 Dec 2025 17:11 UTC

15 points

0 comments29 min readLW link

My AGI safety research—2025 review, ’26 plans

Steven Byrnes11 Dec 2025 17:05 UTC

133 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

Thinking through a lens of physiology

Vadim Golub11 Dec 2025 16:55 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, another semi-outsider review

manueldelrio11 Dec 2025 15:43 UTC

50 points

18 comments8 min readLW link

North Sentinelese Post-Singularity

Cleo Nardo11 Dec 2025 14:57 UTC

71 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

Flock – work in public with friends (beta testers wanted)

henryaj11 Dec 2025 14:23 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI #146: Chipping In

Zvi11 Dec 2025 14:22 UTC

40 points

6 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sea snails in a cocaine vaccine

Alexandre Variengien11 Dec 2025 14:22 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Resources for parents

Viliam11 Dec 2025 10:46 UTC

21 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Steganographic Chains of Thought Are Low-Probability but High-Stakes: Evidence and Arguments

Artem Karpov11 Dec 2025 7:40 UTC

19 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Systems Analysis: AI Alignment and the Principal-Agent Problem

D Wong11 Dec 2025 3:48 UTC

1 point

0 comments24 min readLW link

Brain-inspired LLM alignment

mtaran11 Dec 2025 3:08 UTC

13 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Seven Perspectives on LLMs

GenericModel11 Dec 2025 2:11 UTC

20 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

(enrichedjamsham.substack.com)

MIRI Comms is hiring

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)11 Dec 2025 0:46 UTC

81 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Some evidence against the idea strange CoT stems from incentives to compress language

williawa10 Dec 2025 22:43 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Follow-through on Bay Solstice

Raemon10 Dec 2025 22:07 UTC

104 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

Rock Paper Scissors is Not Solved, In Practice

Linch10 Dec 2025 21:37 UTC

59 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

(inchpin.substack.com)

Childhood and Education #15: Got To Get Out

Zvi10 Dec 2025 21:31 UTC

48 points

3 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Apply to ESPR & PAIR 2026, Rationality and AI Camps for Ages 16-21

Stag10 Dec 2025 19:39 UTC

25 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluation as a (Cooperation-Enabling?) Tool

VojtaKovarik10 Dec 2025 18:54 UTC

18 points

0 comments28 min readLW link

Consider calling the NY governor about the RAISE Act

thenoviceoof10 Dec 2025 18:47 UTC

15 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

No ghost in the machine

fin10 Dec 2025 18:35 UTC

10 points

5 comments45 min readLW link

(finmoorhouse.com)

Most Algorithmic Progress is Data Progress [Linkpost]

Noosphere8910 Dec 2025 17:48 UTC

35 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

(www.beren.io)

Fibonacci Holds Information

milanrosko10 Dec 2025 17:16 UTC

11 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Register for SPAR Demo Day on Saturday, Dec 13

Topaz and agucova

10 Dec 2025 16:58 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

We don’t know what most microbial genes do. Can genomic language models help?

Abhishaike Mahajan10 Dec 2025 16:04 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link