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It’s Okay to Feel Bad for a Bit

moridinamaelMay 10, 2025, 11:24 PM

142 points

102 votes

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34 comments3 min readLW link

G.D. as Capitalist Evolution, and the claim for humanity’s (temporary) upper hand

Martin VlachMay 10, 2025, 9:18 PM

8 points

3 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: “Encounters with Einstein” by Heisenberg

Baram SosisMay 10, 2025, 8:55 PM

31 points

14 votes

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6 comments7 min readLW link

Where is the YIMBY movement for healthcare?

jasoncrawfordMay 10, 2025, 8:36 PM

20 points

15 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Become a Superintelligence Yourself

Yaroslav GranowskiMay 10, 2025, 8:20 PM

2 points

6 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

A Look Inside a Frequentist

EggsMay 10, 2025, 3:18 PM

5 points

8 votes

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10 comments3 min readLW link

Open-source weaponry

samuelshadrachMay 10, 2025, 1:11 PM

3 points

4 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(samuelshadrach.com)

Glass box learners want to be black box

Cole WyethMay 10, 2025, 11:05 AM

49 points

20 votes

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10 comments4 min readLW link

Takes and loose predictions on AI progress and some key problems

zefMay 10, 2025, 10:11 AM

5 points

4 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(halcyoncyborg.substack.com)

Corbent – A Master Plan for Next‑Generation Direct Air Capture

RudaibaMay 10, 2025, 4:09 AM

11 points

9 votes

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15 comments19 min readLW link

What if we just…didn’t build AGI? An Argument Against Inevitability

Nate SharpeMay 10, 2025, 3:37 AM

8 points

11 votes

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7 comments14 min readLW link

(natezsharpe.substack.com)

Mind the Coherence Gap: Lessons from Steering Llama with Goodfire

eitan sprejerMay 9, 2025, 9:29 PM

4 points

3 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

My Experience With EMDR

SableMay 9, 2025, 9:25 PM

22 points

6 votes

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0 comments11 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

AI’s Hidden Game: Understanding Strategic Deception in AI and Why It Matters for Our Future

EmilyinAIMay 9, 2025, 8:01 PM

4 points

3 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Muddling Through Some Thoughts on the Nature of Historiography

E.G. Blee-GoldmanMay 9, 2025, 7:04 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments4 min readLW link

A Guide to AI 2027

koenraneMay 9, 2025, 5:14 PM

0 points

5 votes

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1 comment28 min readLW link

Let’s stop making “Intelligence scale” graphs with humans and AI

ExpertiumMay 9, 2025, 4:01 PM

3 points

11 votes

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15 comments1 min readLW link

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

ryan_greenblatt and elifland

May 9, 2025, 2:49 PM

91 points

36 votes

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23 comments9 min readLW link

Cheaters Gonna Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat

ZviMay 9, 2025, 2:30 PM

55 points

26 votes

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4 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Humans vs LLM, memes as theorems

Yaroslav GranowskiMay 9, 2025, 1:26 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Moving towards a question-based planning framework, instead of task lists

casualphysicsenjoyerMay 9, 2025, 12:18 PM

4 points

2 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

(substack.com)

Jim Babcock’s Mainline Doom Scenario: Human-Level AI Can’t Control Its Successor

Liron and jimrandomh

May 9, 2025, 5:20 AM

30 points

11 votes

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4 comments62 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Attend the 2025 Reproductive Frontiers Summit, June 10-12

TsviBT and Rachel Reid

May 9, 2025, 5:17 AM

59 points

20 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Interest In Conflict Is Instrumentally Convergent

ScrewtapeMay 9, 2025, 2:16 AM

66 points

25 votes

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58 comments10 min readLW link

Is ChatGPT actually fixed now?

sjadlerMay 8, 2025, 11:34 PM

17 points

7 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(stevenadler.substack.com)

Post EAG London AI x-Safety Co-working Retreat

plexMay 8, 2025, 11:00 PM

10 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

a brief critique of reduction

Vadim GolubMay 8, 2025, 10:43 PM

−17 points

7 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

Video & transcript: Challenges for Safe & Beneficial Brain-Like AGI

Steven ByrnesMay 8, 2025, 9:11 PM

26 points

10 votes

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0 comments18 min readLW link

Appendix: Interpretable by Design—Constraint Sets with Disjoint Limit Points

Ronak_MehtaMay 8, 2025, 9:09 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Interpretable by Design—Constraint Sets with Disjoint Limit Points

Ronak_MehtaMay 8, 2025, 9:08 PM

24 points

8 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

(ronakrm.github.io)

Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?

Matrice JacobineMay 8, 2025, 8:10 PM

8 points

6 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.tobyord.com)

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

Buck and Julian Stastny

May 8, 2025, 7:06 PM

77 points

17 votes

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3 comments15 min readLW link

Behold the Pale Child (escaping Moloch’s Mad Maze)

rogersbaconMay 8, 2025, 4:36 PM

8 points

15 votes

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16 comments11 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

An alignment safety case sketch based on debate

Marie_DB, Jacob Pfau, Benjamin Hilton and Geoffrey Irving

May 8, 2025, 3:02 PM

57 points

16 votes

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21 comments25 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Mechanistic Interpretability Via Learning Differential Equations: AI Safety Camp Project Intermediate Report.

Valentin2026, ayoakin, Eduard Kovalets, tz3r0n4r, Soumyadeep Bose, Utkarsh Priyadarshi, Varun Piram and Axel Ahlqvist

May 8, 2025, 2:45 PM

8 points

6 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

AI #115: The Evil Applications Division

ZviMay 8, 2025, 1:40 PM

32 points

15 votes

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3 comments62 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Steganographic Potentials of Language Models

artkpv, Tinuade and SCho

May 8, 2025, 11:23 AM

9 points

6 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Our bet on whether the AI market will crash

Remmelt and mabramov

May 8, 2025, 9:56 AM

23 points

13 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Concept-anchored representation engineering for alignment

Sandy FraserMay 8, 2025, 8:59 AM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Orthogonality Thesis in layman’s terms.

Michael (@lethal_ai)May 8, 2025, 8:31 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Arkose may be closing, but you can help

Victoria BrookMay 8, 2025, 7:28 AM

8 points

4 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Healing powers of meditation or the role of attention in humoral regulation.

Yaroslav GranowskiMay 8, 2025, 6:48 AM

7 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Orienting Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworthMay 8, 2025, 5:23 AM

566 points

344 votes

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147 comments5 min readLW link

Relational Alignment: Trust, Repair, and the Emotional Work of AI

Priyanka BharadwajMay 8, 2025, 2:44 AM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

There’s more low-hanging fruit in interdisciplinary work thanks to LLMs

ChristianKlMay 7, 2025, 7:48 PM

26 points

10 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI Claims Nonprofit Will Retain Nominal Control

ZviMay 7, 2025, 7:40 PM

65 points

19 votes

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4 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Social status games might have “compute weight class” in the future

RaemonMay 7, 2025, 6:56 PM

34 points

14 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

Events of Low Probability: Buridan’s Principle

Nikita GladkovMay 7, 2025, 6:46 PM

12 points

8 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Which journalists would you give quotes to? [one journalist per comment, agree vote for trustworthy]

Nathan YoungMay 7, 2025, 6:39 PM

12 points

12 votes

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26 comments1 min readLW link

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

Mass_DriverMay 7, 2025, 5:13 PM

119 points

42 votes

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20 comments33 min readLW link

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