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Mechanize Work’s essay on Unfalsifiable Doom

StanislavKrym30 Dec 2025 22:57 UTC

9 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

(www.mechanize.work)

The 7 Types Of Advice (And 3 Common Failure Modes)

Linch30 Dec 2025 21:55 UTC

26 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(inchpin.substack.com)

Don’t Sell Stock to Donate

jefftk30 Dec 2025 19:50 UTC

109 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The origin of rot

Abhishaike Mahajan30 Dec 2025 17:51 UTC

33 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

[Advanced Intro to AI Alignment] 1. Goal-Directed Reasoning and Why It Matters

Towards_Keeperhood30 Dec 2025 15:48 UTC

12 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Dating Roundup #9: Signals and Selection

Zvi30 Dec 2025 12:40 UTC

37 points

3 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Many can write faster asm than the compiler, yet don’t. Why?

faul_sname30 Dec 2025 8:40 UTC

73 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

Exceptionally Gifted Children

John Boyle30 Dec 2025 6:28 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Chromosome identification methods

TsviBT30 Dec 2025 6:02 UTC

38 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

CFAR’s todo list re: our workshops

AnnaSalamon30 Dec 2025 5:16 UTC

63 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

More details on CFAR’s new workshops

AnnaSalamon30 Dec 2025 5:12 UTC

59 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

What’s going on at CFAR? (Updates and Fundraiser)

AnnaSalamon30 Dec 2025 5:00 UTC

108 points

39 comments35 min readLW link

End-of year donation taxes 101

GradientDissenter30 Dec 2025 2:16 UTC

35 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Boston Solstice 2025 Retrospective

jefftk30 Dec 2025 1:10 UTC

13 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Does the USG have access to smarter models than the labs’?

jacob_drori29 Dec 2025 22:51 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

24% of the US public is now aware of AI xrisk

otto.barten29 Dec 2025 22:03 UTC

30 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Steering RL Training: Benchmarking Interventions Against Reward Hacking

ariaw, Josh Engels and Neel Nanda

29 Dec 2025 21:55 UTC

47 points

10 comments19 min readLW link

Awareness Jailbreaking: Revealing True Alignment in Evaluation-Aware Models

Maheep Chaudhary29 Dec 2025 21:29 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

December 2025 Links

nomagicpill29 Dec 2025 20:20 UTC

8 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(nomagicpill.substack.com)

The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, wrapup and publishing announcement

jasoncrawford29 Dec 2025 18:51 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Unpacking Jonah Wilberg’s Goddess of Everything Else

StanislavKrym29 Dec 2025 18:25 UTC

6 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

[Book Review] • → 🚹 → •

artdeco29 Dec 2025 17:50 UTC

26 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

How To Create A Lsusr Golem

M_Chouchani29 Dec 2025 17:50 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Dating Roundup #8: Tactics

Zvi29 Dec 2025 16:40 UTC

58 points

2 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ping pong computation in superposition

Alex Gibson29 Dec 2025 16:31 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The x-risk case for exercise: to have the most impact, the world needs you at your best

KatWoods29 Dec 2025 15:37 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Bot Alexander on Hot Zombies and AI Adolescents

future_detective29 Dec 2025 14:52 UTC

−8 points

11 comments25 min readLW link

Defeating Moloch: The view from Evolutionary Game Theory

Jonah Wilberg29 Dec 2025 14:37 UTC

24 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

PrincInt (PIBBSS) Opportunities: Summer Fellowship, Postdoc, and Ops Role (Deadlines in January)

DusanDNesic29 Dec 2025 12:12 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Weakest Model in the Selector

Alice Blair29 Dec 2025 6:55 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Re: “A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design”

Raemon29 Dec 2025 6:35 UTC

54 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(worrydream.com)

Magic Words and Performative Utterances

Screwtape29 Dec 2025 6:21 UTC

30 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

The pace of progress, 4 years later

Veedrac29 Dec 2025 4:16 UTC

25 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

The CIA Poisoned My Dog: Two Stories About Paranoid Delusions and Damage Control

River29 Dec 2025 3:59 UTC

123 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

How to never make a bad decision

Wes R28 Dec 2025 23:21 UTC

−4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Research agenda for training aligned AIs using concave utility functions following the principles of homeostasis and diminishing returns

Roland Pihlakas28 Dec 2025 21:53 UTC

14 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Stratified Memes

KAP28 Dec 2025 21:17 UTC

11 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Training Matching Pursuit SAEs on LLMs

chanind28 Dec 2025 18:57 UTC

19 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Do LLMs Condition Safety Behaviour on Dialect? Preliminary Evidence

Aakash Rana28 Dec 2025 18:21 UTC

7 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Meditations on Suffering

MeditationsOnShrimp28 Dec 2025 17:39 UTC

−1 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

November 2025 Links

nomagicpill28 Dec 2025 15:51 UTC

19 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(nomagicpill.substack.com)

Reviews I: Everyone’s Responsibility

nomagicpill28 Dec 2025 15:48 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(nomagicpill.substack.com)

Introspection via localization

Victor Godet28 Dec 2025 14:26 UTC

35 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Crystals in NNs: Technical Companion Piece

Jonas Hallgren28 Dec 2025 10:44 UTC

22 points

4 comments15 min readLW link

Have You Tried Thinking About It As Crystals?

Jonas Hallgren28 Dec 2025 10:44 UTC

72 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

Alignment Is Not One Problem: A 3D Map of AI Risk

Anurag 28 Dec 2025 8:44 UTC

3 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Orpheus’ Basilisk

pulwat28 Dec 2025 0:43 UTC

21 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

A Conflict Between AI Alignment and Philosophical Competence

Wei Dai27 Dec 2025 21:32 UTC

69 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Glucose Supplementation for Sustained Stimulant Cognition

Johannes C. Mayer27 Dec 2025 19:58 UTC

34 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief Proof That You Are Every Conscious Thing

Jason R27 Dec 2025 17:16 UTC

−16 points

15 comments3 min readLW link