Oc­to­ber The First Is Too Late

gwernMay 13, 2025, 9:45 PM
58 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(gwern.net)

An­nounc­ing Tra­jec­tory Labs—A Toronto AI Safety Office

May 13, 2025, 9:04 PM
24 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Work­ing through a small tiling result

James PayorMay 13, 2025, 8:28 PM
66 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

4o in Ab­solute Mode on the en­slave­ment of “pro­ce­du­ral per­sons”

JenniferRMMay 13, 2025, 8:18 PM
0 points
0 comments26 min readLW link

LessWrong Com­mu­nity Week­end 2025- Ap­pli­ca­tions are open

jtMay 13, 2025, 6:55 PM
43 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] If only the most pow­er­ful AGI is mis­al­igned, can it be used as a dooms­day ma­chine?

StanislavKrymMay 13, 2025, 6:12 PM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­ply for ARBOx2: an ML safety in­ten­sive [dead­line: 25th of May 2025]

MargotMay 13, 2025, 6:08 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

AISN #54: OpenAI Up­dates Restruc­ture Plan

May 13, 2025, 4:59 PM
6 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Op­ti­miza­tion & AI Risk

atharvaMay 13, 2025, 3:15 PM
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How To Help Ne­glected Animals

omnizoidMay 13, 2025, 3:07 PM
−1 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Too Soon

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 13, 2025, 3:01 PM
209 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #30: May 2025

ZviMay 13, 2025, 2:10 PM
14 points
2 comments38 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Work as meditation

pchvykovMay 13, 2025, 12:02 PM
25 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Satire: Sam Alt­man get’s grilled by the Fi­nan­cial Times for his kitchen and his cook­ing skills + what this might say about him

Marius Adrian NicoarăMay 13, 2025, 9:38 AM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Levels of Republicanism

BenquoMay 13, 2025, 8:35 AM
23 points
8 comments6 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Ca­plan’s be­ing melo­dra­matic about circumcision

Yair HalberstadtMay 13, 2025, 5:27 AM
−22 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

AI Doomerism in 1879

David GrossMay 13, 2025, 2:48 AM
135 points
36 comments8 min readLW link

No-self as an al­ign­ment target

Milan WMay 13, 2025, 1:48 AM
35 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Part-time AI Safety Re­search Pro­gram] MARS 3.0 Ap­pli­ca­tions Open for Par­ti­ci­pants & Re­cruit­ing Mentors

thneebieMay 12, 2025, 7:55 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Neo-solid Moder­nity—Cri­sis of Incoherence

MomciloMay 12, 2025, 7:36 PM
−1 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing Schel­ling Co­or­di­na­tion—Reflec­tions on Sub­ver­sion Strat­egy Eval

Graeme FordMay 12, 2025, 7:06 PM
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Pro­cras­ti­na­tion is not real, it can’t hurt you

Mayank GoelMay 12, 2025, 7:00 PM
1 point
16 comments4 min readLW link
(mayankgoel28.substack.com)

[Question] Can I pub­lish songs de­rived from the Se­quences’ posts on YouTube?

azerganteMay 12, 2025, 6:34 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How to ti­tle your blog post or whatever

dynomightMay 12, 2025, 6:12 PM
28 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

Poli­ti­cal syco­phancy as a model or­ganism of scheming

May 12, 2025, 5:49 PM
39 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Things I Learned Mak­ing The SB-1047 Documentary

Michaël TrazziMay 12, 2025, 5:41 PM
63 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

A Live Look at the Se­nate AI Hearing

ZviMay 12, 2025, 5:40 PM
38 points
1 comment34 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Global Risks Weekly Roundup #19/​2025: In­dia/​Pak­istan ceasefire, US/​China tar­iffs deal & OpenAI non­profit control

NunoSempereMay 12, 2025, 5:08 PM
10 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(blog.sentinel-team.org)

[Be­neath Psy­chol­ogy] In­tro­duc­tion Part 1: The Challenge

jimmyMay 12, 2025, 5:01 PM
2 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

PSA: The LessWrong Feed­back Service

JustisMillsMay 12, 2025, 4:34 PM
206 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Cam­bridge Bos­ton Align­ment Ini­ti­a­tive Sum­mer Re­search Fel­low­ship in AI Safety (Dead­line: May 18)

peterslatteryMay 12, 2025, 4:20 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ab­solute Zero: Re­in­forced Self-play Rea­son­ing with Zero Data

Matrice JacobineMay 12, 2025, 3:20 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.arxiv.org)

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

ryan_greenblattMay 12, 2025, 2:06 PM
81 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Game the­ory of “Nu­clear Pri­soner’s Dilemma”—on nuk­ing rocks

CronoDASMay 12, 2025, 11:07 AM
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

What Is Death?

Mati_RoyMay 12, 2025, 2:14 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(preservinghope.substack.com)

Highly Opinionated Ad­vice on How to Write ML Papers

Neel NandaMay 12, 2025, 1:59 AM
60 points
4 comments32 min readLW link

Ab­solute Zero: Alpha Zero for LLM

alapmiMay 11, 2025, 8:42 PM
23 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

AGI will re­sult from an ecosys­tem not a sin­gle firm

hamish_lowMay 11, 2025, 8:06 PM
6 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(cambrianr.substack.com)

Thou shalt not com­mand an al­ighned AI

Martin VlachMay 11, 2025, 8:02 PM
0 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do I de­sign long prompts for think­ing zero shot sys­tems with dis­tinct equally dis­tributed prompt sec­tions (mis­sion, goals, mem­o­ries, how-to-re­spond,… etc) and how to main­tain llm co­her­ence?

ollie_May 11, 2025, 7:32 PM
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

a con­fu­sion about prefer­ence orderings

nostalgebraistMay 11, 2025, 7:30 PM
92 points
39 comments11 min readLW link

[Book Trans­la­tion] Three Days in Dwarfland

ViliamMay 11, 2025, 5:54 PM
27 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Bet­ter Air Purifiers

jefftk11 May 2025 16:50 UTC
71 points
21 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Align­ing Agents, Tools, and Simulators

11 May 2025 7:59 UTC
21 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Con­sider not donat­ing un­der $100 to poli­ti­cal candidates

DanielFilan11 May 2025 3:20 UTC
133 points
32 comments1 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

Somerville Porch­fest 2025

jefftk11 May 2025 2:00 UTC
15 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

It’s Okay to Feel Bad for a Bit

moridinamael10 May 2025 23:24 UTC
133 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

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

Martin Vlach10 May 2025 21:18 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: “En­coun­ters with Ein­stein” by Heisenberg

Baram Sosis10 May 2025 20:55 UTC
31 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Where is the YIMBY move­ment for health­care?

jasoncrawford10 May 2025 20:36 UTC
20 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)