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Eliezer and I wrote a book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

So8res14 May 2025 19:00 UTC

652 points

143 comments2 min readLW link

Orienting Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC

576 points

148 comments5 min readLW link

What We Learned from Briefing 70+ Lawmakers on the Threat from AI

leticiagarcia27 May 2025 18:23 UTC

495 points

17 comments16 min readLW link

(substack.com)

Interpretability Will Not Reliably Find Deceptive AI

Neel Nanda4 May 2025 16:32 UTC

331 points

68 comments7 min readLW link

Truth or Dare

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)29 May 2025 0:07 UTC

263 points

61 comments69 min readLW link

If you’re not sure how to sort a list or grid—seriate it!

gwern28 May 2025 3:54 UTC

218 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jstatsoft.org)

Too Soon

Gordon Seidoh Worley13 May 2025 15:01 UTC

218 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

Winning the power to lose

KatjaGrace20 May 2025 6:40 UTC

218 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

PSA: The LessWrong Feedback Service

JustisMills12 May 2025 16:34 UTC

216 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Slowdown After 2028: Compute, RLVR Uncertainty, MoE Data Wall

Vladimir_Nesov1 May 2025 13:54 UTC

200 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

Gemini Diffusion: watch this space

Yair Halberstadt20 May 2025 19:29 UTC

194 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

The Best Reference Works for Every Subject

Parker Conley14 May 2025 0:58 UTC

158 points

31 comments6 min readLW link

(parconley.com)

It’s hard to make scheming evals look realistic for LLMs

Igor Ivanov and Danil Kadochnikov

24 May 2025 19:17 UTC

150 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

It’s Okay to Feel Bad for a Bit

moridinamael10 May 2025 23:24 UTC

149 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

Social Anxiety Isn’t About Being Liked

Chris Lakin16 May 2025 22:26 UTC

148 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Consider not donating under $100 to political candidates

DanielFilan11 May 2025 3:20 UTC

141 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

AI Doomerism in 1879

David Gross13 May 2025 2:48 UTC

139 points

36 comments8 min readLW link

Season Recap of the Village: Agents raise $2,000

Shoshannah Tekofsky27 May 2025 12:34 UTC

135 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

(theaidigest.org)

Meditations on Doge

Martin Sustrik25 May 2025 12:00 UTC

131 points

44 comments9 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Five Hinge‑Questions That Decide Whether AGI Is Five Years Away or Twenty

charlieoneill6 May 2025 2:48 UTC

127 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Please Donate to CAIP (Post 1 of 7 on AI Governance)

Mass_Driver7 May 2025 17:13 UTC

123 points

20 comments33 min readLW link

Notes on the Long Tasks METR paper, from a HCAST task contributor

abstractapplic4 May 2025 23:17 UTC

115 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

UK AISI’s Alignment Team: Research Agenda

Benjamin Hilton, Jacob Pfau, Marie_DB and Geoffrey Irving

7 May 2025 16:33 UTC

113 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

[linkpost] One Year in DC

tlevin19 May 2025 19:46 UTC

112 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.greentape.pub)

We’re Not Advertising Enough (Post 3 of 7 on AI Governance)

Mass_Driver22 May 2025 17:05 UTC

110 points

10 comments28 min readLW link

AI Governance to Avoid Extinction: The Strategic Landscape and Actionable Research Questions

peterbarnett and Aaron_Scher

1 May 2025 22:46 UTC

109 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(techgov.intelligence.org)

Prioritizing Work

jefftk1 May 2025 2:00 UTC

109 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

What OpenAI Told California’s Attorney General

garrison17 May 2025 23:14 UTC

108 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(www.obsolete.pub)

Do you even have a system prompt? (PSA / repo)

Croissanthology29 May 2025 18:49 UTC

108 points

77 comments2 min readLW link

Association taxes are collusion subsidies

KatjaGrace27 May 2025 6:50 UTC

106 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Generating the Funniest Joke with RL (according to GPT-4.1)

agg16 May 2025 5:09 UTC

103 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

RA x ControlAI video: What if AI just keeps getting smarter?

Writer2 May 2025 14:19 UTC

100 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Gradual Disempowerment: Concrete Research Projects

Raymond Douglas29 May 2025 18:55 UTC

100 points

10 comments10 min readLW link

The Ukraine War and the Kill Market

Martin Sustrik4 May 2025 7:50 UTC

98 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

The Sweet Lesson: AI Safety Should Scale With Compute

Jesse Hoogland5 May 2025 19:03 UTC

97 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Requiem for the hopes of a pre-AI world

Mitchell_Porter27 May 2025 14:47 UTC

97 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

a confusion about preference orderings

nostalgebraist11 May 2025 19:30 UTC

93 points

39 comments11 min readLW link

Slow corporations as an intuition pump for AI R&D automation

ryan_greenblatt and elifland

9 May 2025 14:49 UTC

91 points

25 comments9 min readLW link

Dreams of Ideas

Joseph Miller19 May 2025 2:15 UTC

90 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Sleep need reduction therapies

harsimony21 May 2025 15:22 UTC

87 points

19 comments10 min readLW link

(splittinginfinity.substack.com)

Claude 4 You: Safety and Alignment

Zvi25 May 2025 14:00 UTC

86 points

8 comments63 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Letting Kids Be Kids

Zvi30 May 2025 10:50 UTC

86 points

15 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AIs at the current capability level may be important for future safety work

ryan_greenblatt12 May 2025 14:06 UTC

82 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Anthropic is Quietly Backpedalling on its Safety Commitments

garrison23 May 2025 2:26 UTC

81 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

(www.obsolete.pub)

Better Air Purifiers

jefftk11 May 2025 16:50 UTC

81 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Misalignment and Strategic Underperformance: An Analysis of Sandbagging and Exploration Hacking

Buck and Julian Stastny

8 May 2025 19:06 UTC

80 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

Highly Opinionated Advice on How to Write ML Papers

Neel Nanda12 May 2025 1:59 UTC

80 points

4 comments32 min readLW link

The stakes of AI moral status

Joe Carlsmith21 May 2025 18:20 UTC

79 points

65 comments14 min readLW link

(joecarlsmith.substack.com)

Navigating burnout

gw3 May 2025 22:07 UTC

77 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(www.georgeyw.com)

Policy recommendations regarding reproductive technology

TsviBT22 May 2025 14:49 UTC

76 points

2 comments3 min readLW link