[Question] What should I read to un­der­stand an­ces­tral hu­man so­ciety?

Lorec28 May 2025 23:36 UTC
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The case for coun­ter­mea­sures to memetic spread of mis­al­igned values

Alex Mallen28 May 2025 21:12 UTC
61 points
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a case for a less­wrong pri­vate pre­dic­tion market

don't_wanna_be_stupid_any_more28 May 2025 20:26 UTC
3 points
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LessWrong Feed [new, now in beta]

Ruby28 May 2025 19:01 UTC
53 points
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Fun With Veo 3 and Me­dia Generation

Zvi28 May 2025 18:30 UTC
29 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­v­erse Auc­tions for Group De­ci­sion-Making

krishmatta28 May 2025 17:52 UTC
3 points
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(krishmatta.net)

What col­lege ma­jor should I choose if I am un­sure?

contrejour28 May 2025 17:50 UTC
−1 points
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Eval­u­a­tion As Feed­back Cycle

belos28 May 2025 17:02 UTC
1 point
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(bestofagreatlot.substack.com)

How much might AI leg­is­la­tion cost in the U.S.?

will rinehart28 May 2025 16:21 UTC
−5 points
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What LLMs lack

p.b.28 May 2025 16:19 UTC
15 points
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Playlist In­spired by Man­i­fest 2024

Commander Zander28 May 2025 16:03 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(open.spotify.com)

AISN #56: Google Re­leases Veo 3

28 May 2025 16:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

How Self-Aware Are LLMs?

Christopher Ackerman28 May 2025 12:57 UTC
30 points
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Can We Hack He­donic Tread­mills?

Vincent Li28 May 2025 11:42 UTC
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AI’s goals may not match ours

28 May 2025 9:30 UTC
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AI may pur­sue goals

28 May 2025 9:30 UTC
13 points
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The Best Way to Align an LLM: Is In­ner Align­ment Now a Solved Prob­lem?

RogerDearnaley28 May 2025 6:21 UTC
35 points
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Spec­tral radii di­men­sion­al­ity re­duc­tion com­puted with­out gra­di­ent calculations

Joseph Van Name28 May 2025 5:06 UTC
5 points
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If you’re not sure how to sort a list or grid—se­ri­ate it!

gwern28 May 2025 3:54 UTC
218 points
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(www.jstatsoft.org)

Briefly an­a­lyz­ing the 10-year mora­to­rium amendment

RobertM28 May 2025 3:11 UTC
73 points
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Does Sort Really Fall Back to Disk?

jefftk28 May 2025 1:20 UTC
13 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Shift Re­sources to Ad­vo­cacy Now (Post 4 of 7 on AI Gover­nance)

Mass_Driver28 May 2025 1:19 UTC
60 points
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[Question] Colo­nial­ism in space: Does a col­lec­tion of minds have ex­actly two at­trac­tors?

StanislavKrym27 May 2025 23:35 UTC
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[Question] What are the best ar­gu­ments you’ve seen for the Li­tany of Gendlin?

flowerfeatherfocus27 May 2025 21:19 UTC
7 points
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What We Learned from Briefing 70+ Law­mak­ers on the Threat from AI

leticiagarcia27 May 2025 18:23 UTC
495 points
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(substack.com)

My script for or­ga­niz­ing OBNYC meetups

Orioth27 May 2025 18:14 UTC
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Un­trusted AIs can ex­ploit feed­back in con­trol protocols

27 May 2025 16:41 UTC
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Re­quiem for the hopes of a pre-AI world

Mitchell_Porter27 May 2025 14:47 UTC
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The Best of All Pos­si­ble Worlds

Jakub Growiec27 May 2025 13:16 UTC
11 points
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Dat­ing Roundup #5: Open­ing Day

Zvi27 May 2025 13:10 UTC
27 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Shoshannah Tekofsky27 May 2025 12:34 UTC
135 points
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(theaidigest.org)

Be­ware the Mo­ral Homophone

ymeskhout27 May 2025 12:06 UTC
69 points
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(www.ymeskhout.com)

As­so­ci­a­tion taxes are col­lu­sion subsidies

KatjaGrace27 May 2025 6:50 UTC
106 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Creat­ing My Own Win­ter Sols­tice Cel­e­bra­tion—South­ern Hemi­sphere Edition

joshuamerriam27 May 2025 2:11 UTC
8 points
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U.S. Govern­ment Seeks In­put on Na­tional AI R&D Strate­gic Plan—Dead­line May 29

mbrooks27 May 2025 1:57 UTC
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All Ra­tion­al­ists hate & sab­o­tage Strat­egy with­out hav­ing any aware­ness of it.

Oxidize26 May 2025 22:09 UTC
−27 points
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Per­sonal Ru­mi­na­tions on AI’s Miss­ing Vari­able Problem

Thehumanproject.ai26 May 2025 21:11 UTC
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Poetic Meth­ods II: Rhyme as a Fo­cus­ing Device

adamShimi26 May 2025 18:29 UTC
24 points
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(formethods.substack.com)

Is Build­ing Good Note-Tak­ing Soft­ware an AGI-Com­plete Prob­lem?

Thane Ruthenis26 May 2025 18:26 UTC
27 points
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Prin­ci­pal-Agent Prob­lems and the Struc­ture of Governance

belos26 May 2025 18:23 UTC
1 point
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(bestofagreatlot.substack.com)

[Question] Does the Univer­sal Geom­e­try of Embed­dings pa­per have big im­pli­ca­tions for in­ter­pretabil­ity?

Evan R. Murphy26 May 2025 18:20 UTC
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So­cratic Per­sua­sion: Giv­ing Opinionated Yet Truth-Seek­ing Advice

Neel Nanda26 May 2025 17:38 UTC
61 points
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(www.neelnanda.io)

[Be­neath Psy­chol­ogy] Case study on chronic pain: First in­sights, and the re­main­ing challenge

jimmy26 May 2025 17:29 UTC
14 points
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An ob­ser­va­tion on self-play

jonrxu26 May 2025 17:22 UTC
15 points
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New web­site an­a­lyz­ing AI com­pa­nies’ model evals

Zach Stein-Perlman26 May 2025 16:00 UTC
58 points
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New score­card eval­u­at­ing AI com­pa­nies on safety

Zach Stein-Perlman26 May 2025 16:00 UTC
72 points
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[Question] Ask­ing for AI Safety Ca­reer Advice

infinibot2726 May 2025 15:26 UTC
3 points
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Nerve Blisters: A Stoic Response

Jonathan Moregård26 May 2025 15:07 UTC
8 points
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(honestliving.substack.com)

On ‘On Car­ing’

atharva26 May 2025 13:39 UTC
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Claude 4 You: The Quest for Mun­dane Utility

Zvi26 May 2025 13:01 UTC
36 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)