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Pre-LessOnline coworking at Mox
Rachel Shu
and
Austin Chen
May 19, 2025, 11:18 PM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
From dopamine detox to enlightment
Stefan Scortescu
May 19, 2025, 8:27 PM
−1
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
One Year in DC
tlevin
May 19, 2025, 7:46 PM
110
points
5
comments
LW
link
(www.greentape.pub)
What if Chinese AI becomes misaligned first?
Arkhos Winter
May 19, 2025, 7:35 PM
9
points
1
comment
24
min read
LW
link
The Crawling Chaos, or why immortality is both inevitable and a curse
0blivion
May 19, 2025, 7:25 PM
−12
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
America Makes AI Chip Diffusion Deal with UAE and KSA
Zvi
May 19, 2025, 7:10 PM
51
points
7
comments
27
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Beneath Psychology] Introduction Part 2: The Solution and What’s to Come
jimmy
May 19, 2025, 6:02 PM
16
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
US credit rating downgraded, $1T in Gulf state investments in the US, Kurdistan Workers’ Party disbanded | Sentinel Global Risks Weekly Roundup #20/2025
NunoSempere
May 19, 2025, 5:59 PM
22
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(blog.sentinel-team.org)
Survey of Multi-agent LLM Evaluations
Nikola Jurkovic
May 19, 2025, 5:42 PM
9
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Semen and Semantics: Understanding Porn with Language Embeddings
future_detective
May 19, 2025, 3:39 PM
64
points
27
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(github.com)
Thinking Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Deal In The World Is Surprisingly Intuitive
omnizoid
May 19, 2025, 3:30 PM
−9
points
18
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on “Antiqua et nova” (Catholic Church’s AI statement)
jchan
May 19, 2025, 1:30 PM
38
points
9
comments
11
min read
LW
link
FLF Fellowship on AI for Human Reasoning: $25-50k, 12 weeks
Oliver Sourbut
and
Ben Goldhaber
May 19, 2025, 1:25 PM
75
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.flf.org)
[Paper] Safety by Measurement: A Systematic Literature Review of AI Safety Evaluation Methods
markov
and
Charbel-Raphaël
May 19, 2025, 10:38 AM
25
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A widely shared AI productivity paper was retracted, is possibly fraudulent
titotal
May 19, 2025, 10:18 AM
56
points
4
comments
LW
link
The Fragility of Naive Dynamism
Davidmanheim
May 19, 2025, 7:51 AM
20
points
2
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Dreams of Ideas
Joseph Miller
May 19, 2025, 2:15 AM
89
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What We Talk About When We Talk About Objective Functions
Waddington
May 18, 2025, 10:48 PM
8
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Letter to The Honourable Evan Solomon
Annapurna
May 18, 2025, 4:34 PM
−1
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(jorgevelez.substack.com)
Gödel, Escher, Bach in the age of LLMs
Tahp
May 18, 2025, 4:22 PM
21
points
4
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(passwordpaper.com)
Limits to Control Workshop
Orpheus
,
Remmelt Ellen
and
T-bo🔸
May 18, 2025, 4:05 PM
12
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
ChatGPT deceives users that it’s cleared its memory when it hasn’t
danielechlin
May 18, 2025, 3:17 PM
15
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Modeling versus Implementation
Cole Wyeth
May 18, 2025, 1:38 PM
27
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
azergante
May 18, 2025, 9:38 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(home.cern)
European Links (18.05.25)
Martin Sustrik
May 18, 2025, 4:20 AM
16
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.substack.com)
Google Logo Ligature Bug
jefftk
May 18, 2025, 2:40 AM
49
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Who wants a free AI Safety Domain?
Zohar Jackson
May 18, 2025, 12:37 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Can Reasoning Models Avoid the Most Forbidden Technique?
Brendan Long
May 17, 2025, 11:26 PM
8
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.brendanlong.com)
What OpenAI Told California’s Attorney General
garrison
May 17, 2025, 11:14 PM
108
points
3
comments
LW
link
(www.obsolete.pub)
Multipolar AI is Underrated
Allison Duettmann
May 17, 2025, 10:03 PM
16
points
1
comment
16
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Will we survive if AI solves engineering before deception?
Knight Lee
May 17, 2025, 7:22 PM
21
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seven ways to Improve the Internal Model Principle
Alfred Harwood
May 17, 2025, 4:38 PM
12
points
0
comments
13
min read
LW
link
D&D.Sci: The Choosing Ones
abstractapplic
May 17, 2025, 3:26 PM
46
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The absent-minded variations
dr_s
May 17, 2025, 6:57 AM
24
points
13
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Book Review: The Art of Happiness
Screwtape
May 17, 2025, 4:56 AM
37
points
23
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Management is the Near Future
jefftk
May 17, 2025, 2:50 AM
52
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Proof Section to an Introduction to Reinforcement Learning for Understanding Infra-Bayesianism
Brittany Gelb
May 17, 2025, 2:36 AM
3
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning for Understanding Infra-Bayesianism
Brittany Gelb
May 17, 2025, 2:34 AM
11
points
0
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus.”
Devin Ward
May 16, 2025, 11:55 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Social Anxiety Isn’t About Being Liked
Chipmonk
May 16, 2025, 10:26 PM
136
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(chrislakin.blog)
Events: Debate & Fiction Project
abramdemski
May 16, 2025, 9:51 PM
39
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
How Fast Can Algorithms Advance Capabilities? | Epoch Gradient Update
henryj
May 16, 2025, 9:38 PM
37
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(epoch.ai)
P-Values Know When You’re Cheating
Eggs
May 16, 2025, 8:34 PM
21
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Minds are magic
k64
May 16, 2025, 7:10 PM
0
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
US-China trade talks should pave way for AI safety treaty [SCMP crosspost]
otto.barten
May 16, 2025, 4:55 PM
10
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Direct Realism is probably false
TerriLeaf
May 16, 2025, 4:36 PM
−3
points
19
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Regarding South Africa
Zvi
May 16, 2025, 4:10 PM
71
points
5
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Notes on Consciousness
CSDD
May 16, 2025, 2:17 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
reflecting on criticism
Vadim Golub
May 16, 2025, 11:59 AM
4
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Generating the Funniest Joke with RL (according to GPT-4.1)
agg
May 16, 2025, 5:09 AM
99
points
22
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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