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

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

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

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