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How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

henry11 Aug 2025 19:58 UTC

493 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

(outsidetext.substack.com)

AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation

Tim Hua26 Aug 2025 20:03 UTC

365 points

46 comments26 min readLW link

Four ways learning Econ makes people dumber re: future AI

Steven Byrnes21 Aug 2025 17:52 UTC

357 points

49 comments6 min readLW link

(x.com)

The Problem

Rob Bensinger, tanagrabeast, yams, So8res, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Gretta Duleba

5 Aug 2025 21:40 UTC

317 points

217 comments26 min readLW link

How anticipatory cover-ups go wrong

Kaj_Sotala8 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC

299 points

25 comments6 min readLW link

Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)

habryka22 Aug 2025 23:02 UTC

250 points

399 comments30 min readLW link

Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus

Elizabeth16 Aug 2025 19:40 UTC

234 points

23 comments16 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

An epistemic advantage of working as a moderate

Buck20 Aug 2025 17:47 UTC

215 points

96 comments4 min readLW link

Emotions Make Sense

DaystarEld3 Aug 2025 7:03 UTC

211 points

40 comments21 min readLW link

(daystareld.com)

Hyperbolic model fits METR capabilities estimate worse than exponential model

gjm19 Aug 2025 15:12 UTC

202 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Will Any Crap Cause Emergent Misalignment?

J Bostock27 Aug 2025 18:20 UTC

195 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

Should you make stone tools?

Alex_Altair14 Aug 2025 0:15 UTC

193 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

Before LLM Psychosis, There Was Yes-Man Psychosis

johnswentworth25 Aug 2025 17:47 UTC

188 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

Somebody invented a better bookmark

Alex_Altair14 Aug 2025 17:57 UTC

177 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Many prediction markets would be better off as batched auctions

William Howard2 Aug 2025 12:04 UTC

173 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

(antidiluvian.substack.com)

Underdog bias rules everything around me

Richard_Ngo17 Aug 2025 19:21 UTC

169 points

54 comments7 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

My AGI timeline updates from GPT-5 (and 2025 so far)

ryan_greenblatt20 Aug 2025 16:11 UTC

163 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Open Global Investment as a Governance Model for AGI

Nick Bostrom27 Aug 2025 17:42 UTC

153 points

48 comments39 min readLW link

(nickbostrom.com)

My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Lighthaven

Zack_M_Davis17 Aug 2025 2:30 UTC

152 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Re: recent Anthropic safety research

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Aug 2025 22:52 UTC

150 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

(x.com)

METR’s Evaluation of GPT-5

GradientDissenter7 Aug 2025 22:17 UTC

141 points

15 comments20 min readLW link

(metr.github.io)

Training a Reward Hacker Despite Perfect Labels

ariana_azarbal, Victor Gillioz and TurnTrout

14 Aug 2025 23:57 UTC

137 points

45 comments4 min readLW link

The Inkhaven Residency

Ben Pace2 Aug 2025 18:51 UTC

137 points

39 comments3 min readLW link

SB-1047 Documentary: The Post-Mortem

Michaël Trazzi1 Aug 2025 21:42 UTC

130 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Towards Alignment Auditing as a Numbers-Go-Up Science

Sam Marks4 Aug 2025 22:30 UTC

127 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

(∃ Stochastic Natural Latent) Implies (∃ Deterministic Natural Latent)

johnswentworth and David Lorell

22 Aug 2025 21:46 UTC

126 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Agent foundations: not really math, not really science

Alex_Altair17 Aug 2025 5:48 UTC

119 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

The Egyptian Mamluks as case study for AI take-over

Buddenbroke19 Aug 2025 16:46 UTC

113 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming

Bentham's Bulldog12 Aug 2025 18:02 UTC

111 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

Summary of our Workshop on Post-AGI Outcomes

David Duvenaud, Raymond Douglas, Nora_Ammann and Jan_Kulveit

29 Aug 2025 17:14 UTC

107 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Why Latter-day Saints Have Strong Communities

Jeffrey Heninger17 Aug 2025 4:20 UTC

102 points

29 comments9 min readLW link

METR Research Update: Algorithmic vs. Holistic Evaluation

David Rein13 Aug 2025 22:47 UTC

101 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(metr.org)

Von Neumann’s Fallacy and You

incident-recipient28 Aug 2025 15:52 UTC

100 points

29 comments4 min readLW link

Yudkowsky on “Don’t use p(doom)”

Raemon22 Aug 2025 23:44 UTC

100 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Inscrutability was always inevitable, right?

Steven Byrnes6 Aug 2025 21:57 UTC

99 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Attaching requirements to model releases has serious downsides (relative to a different deadline for these requirements)

ryan_greenblatt27 Aug 2025 17:04 UTC

99 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Shorter Tokens Are More Likely

Brendan Long24 Aug 2025 0:22 UTC

98 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Generalized Coming Out Of The Closet

johnswentworth12 Aug 2025 21:38 UTC

92 points

59 comments4 min readLW link

Aesthetic Preferences Can Cause Emergent Misalignment

Anders Woodruff26 Aug 2025 18:41 UTC

92 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

A Comprehensive Guide to Running

Mr. Keating25 Aug 2025 15:12 UTC

88 points

24 comments16 min readLW link

Steve Petersen seeking funding

abramdemski1 Aug 2025 17:03 UTC

87 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Permanent Disempowerment is the Baseline

Vladimir_Nesov4 Aug 2025 17:43 UTC

87 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Anthropic] A hacker used Claude Code to automate ransomware

bohaska27 Aug 2025 14:57 UTC

86 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

The Dark Arts As A Scaffolding Skill For Rationality

Screwtape1 Aug 2025 17:12 UTC

85 points

25 comments7 min readLW link

Arguments About AI Consciousness Seem Highly Motivated And At Best Overconfident

Zvi25 Aug 2025 13:20 UTC

84 points

5 comments25 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Briefly on MAPLE, and the broader community

herschel19 Aug 2025 19:45 UTC

83 points

38 comments6 min readLW link

Debugging for Mid Coders

Raemon16 Aug 2025 22:32 UTC

82 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

The Collider Bias Theory of (Not Quite) Everything

Jack_S16 Aug 2025 16:53 UTC

82 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Saying Goodbye

sapphire3 Aug 2025 23:52 UTC

79 points

75 comments4 min readLW link

My Least Libertarian Opinion: Ban Exclusivity Deals*

Brendan Long10 Aug 2025 21:41 UTC

78 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)