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Pre-LessOnline coworking at Mox

Rachel Shu and Austin Chen

May 19, 2025, 11:18 PM

4 points

1 vote

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2 comments1 min readLW link

From dopamine detox to enlightment

Stefan ScortescuMay 19, 2025, 8:27 PM

−1 points

5 votes

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2 comments10 min readLW link

[linkpost] One Year in DC

tlevinMay 19, 2025, 7:46 PM

112 points

57 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.greentape.pub)

What if Chinese AI becomes misaligned first?

Arkhos WinterMay 19, 2025, 7:35 PM

9 points

9 votes

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1 comment24 min readLW link

The Crawling Chaos, or why immortality is both inevitable and a curse

0blivionMay 19, 2025, 7:25 PM

−12 points

7 votes

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18 comments2 min readLW link

America Makes AI Chip Diffusion Deal with UAE and KSA

ZviMay 19, 2025, 7:10 PM

51 points

15 votes

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7 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Beneath Psychology] Introduction Part 2: The Solution and What’s to Come

jimmyMay 19, 2025, 6:02 PM

30 points

15 votes

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2 comments11 min readLW link

US credit rating downgraded, $1T in Gulf state investments in the US, Kurdistan Workers’ Party disbanded | Sentinel Global Risks Weekly Roundup #20/2025

NunoSempereMay 19, 2025, 5:59 PM

22 points

6 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

(blog.sentinel-team.org)

Survey of Multi-agent LLM Evaluations

Nikola JurkovicMay 19, 2025, 5:42 PM

9 points

3 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

Semen and Semantics: Understanding Porn with Language Embeddings

future_detectiveMay 19, 2025, 3:39 PM

69 points

50 votes

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27 comments6 min readLW link

(github.com)

Thinking Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Deal In The World Is Surprisingly Intuitive

Bentham's BulldogMay 19, 2025, 3:30 PM

−8 points

18 votes

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23 comments7 min readLW link

Thoughts on “Antiqua et nova” (Catholic Church’s AI statement)

jchanMay 19, 2025, 1:30 PM

38 points

14 votes

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9 comments11 min readLW 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

23 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW 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

22 points

14 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

A widely shared AI productivity paper was retracted, is possibly fraudulent

titotalMay 19, 2025, 10:18 AM

58 points

31 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

The Fragility of Naive Dynamism

DavidmanheimMay 19, 2025, 7:51 AM

20 points

4 votes

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1 comment17 min readLW link

Dreams of Ideas

Joseph MillerMay 19, 2025, 2:15 AM

90 points

49 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

What We Talk About When We Talk About Objective Functions

WaddingtonMay 18, 2025, 10:48 PM

8 points

2 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Letter to The Honourable Evan Solomon

AnnapurnaMay 18, 2025, 4:34 PM

−1 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Gödel, Escher, Bach in the age of LLMs

TahpMay 18, 2025, 4:22 PM

26 points

16 votes

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7 comments12 min readLW link

(passwordpaper.com)

Limits to Control Workshop

Orpheus, Remmelt Ellen and T-bo🔸

May 18, 2025, 4:05 PM

12 points

7 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

ChatGPT deceives users that it’s cleared its memory when it hasn’t

d_el_ezMay 18, 2025, 3:17 PM

15 points

7 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

Modeling versus Implementation

Cole WyethMay 18, 2025, 1:38 PM

27 points

8 votes

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10 comments3 min readLW link

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

azerganteMay 18, 2025, 9:38 AM

4 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(home.cern)

European Links (18.05.25)

Martin SustrikMay 18, 2025, 4:20 AM

16 points

7 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Google Logo Ligature Bug

jefftkMay 18, 2025, 2:40 AM

49 points

24 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Who wants a free AI Safety Domain?

Zohar JacksonMay 18, 2025, 12:37 AM

5 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Can Reasoning Models Avoid the Most Forbidden Technique?

Brendan LongMay 17, 2025, 11:26 PM

9 points

4 votes

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9 comments3 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

What OpenAI Told California’s Attorney General

garrisonMay 17, 2025, 11:14 PM

108 points

33 votes

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3 comments8 min readLW link

(www.obsolete.pub)

Multipolar AI is Underrated

Allison DuettmannMay 17, 2025, 10:03 PM

19 points

12 votes

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1 comment16 min readLW link

[Question] Will we survive if AI solves engineering before deception?

Knight LeeMay 17, 2025, 7:22 PM

21 points

8 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Seven ways to Improve the Internal Model Principle

Alfred HarwoodMay 17, 2025, 4:38 PM

15 points

5 votes

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0 comments13 min readLW link

D&D.Sci: The Choosing Ones

abstractapplicMay 17, 2025, 3:26 PM

48 points

18 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

The absent-minded variations

dr_sMay 17, 2025, 6:57 AM

24 points

10 votes

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13 comments9 min readLW link

Book Review: The Art of Happiness

ScrewtapeMay 17, 2025, 4:56 AM

37 points

13 votes

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23 comments11 min readLW link

Management is the Near Future

jefftkMay 17, 2025, 2:50 AM

53 points

23 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Proof Section to an Introduction to Reinforcement Learning for Understanding Infra-Bayesianism

Brittany GelbMay 17, 2025, 2:36 AM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning for Understanding Infra-Bayesianism

Brittany GelbMay 17, 2025, 2:34 AM

21 points

6 votes

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0 comments20 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus.”

Devin WardMay 16, 2025, 11:55 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Social Anxiety Isn’t About Being Liked

Chris LakinMay 16, 2025, 10:26 PM

145 points

98 votes

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21 comments2 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Events: Debate & Fiction Project

abramdemskiMay 16, 2025, 9:51 PM

39 points

14 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

How Fast Can Algorithms Advance Capabilities? | Epoch Gradient Update

henryjMay 16, 2025, 9:38 PM

39 points

22 votes

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10 comments6 min readLW link

(epoch.ai)

P-Values Know When You’re Cheating

EggsMay 16, 2025, 8:34 PM

21 points

10 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Minds are magic

k64May 16, 2025, 7:10 PM

0 points

5 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

US-China trade talks should pave way for AI safety treaty [SCMP crosspost]

otto.bartenMay 16, 2025, 4:55 PM

10 points

7 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Direct Realism is probably false

TerriLeafMay 16, 2025, 4:36 PM

−3 points

9 votes

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19 comments3 min readLW link

Regarding South Africa

ZviMay 16, 2025, 4:10 PM

71 points

32 votes

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5 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Notes on Consciousness

CSDDMay 16, 2025, 2:17 PM

3 points

2 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

reflecting on criticism

Vadim GolubMay 16, 2025, 11:59 AM

4 points

4 votes

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5 comments10 min readLW link

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

aggMay 16, 2025, 5:09 AM

103 points

65 votes

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22 comments4 min readLW link

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