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Call on AI Companies: Publish Your Whistleblowing Policies

karl31 Jul 2025 22:04 UTC

20 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Do Not Render Your Counterfactuals

AlphaAndOmega31 Jul 2025 21:35 UTC

110 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Emergence Is Beautiful—beauty and meaning in an entropic universe

James Stephen Brown31 Jul 2025 19:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Sharpening the Shears: 8 Lessons from Garden Leave

Jordan Rubin31 Jul 2025 18:57 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(jordanmrubin.substack.com)

AISN #60: The AI Action Plan

Corin Katzke and Dan H

31 Jul 2025 18:20 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Approximating Human Preferences Using a Multi-Judge Learned System

JoseFaustino, eitan sprejer, Fernando Avalos and Augusto Bernardi

31 Jul 2025 18:01 UTC

19 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Follow-up to “My Empathy Is Rarely Kind”

johnswentworth31 Jul 2025 17:21 UTC

80 points

42 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: The MANIAC

Annapurna31 Jul 2025 15:18 UTC

15 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Red-Thing-Ism

J Bostock31 Jul 2025 14:09 UTC

101 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

AI #127: Continued Claude Code Complications

Zvi31 Jul 2025 13:40 UTC

32 points

4 comments43 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

I am worried about near-term non-LLM AI developments

testingthewaters31 Jul 2025 13:15 UTC

251 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

What do we do about the Inevitable?

CSDD31 Jul 2025 10:22 UTC

−7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Several questions about Zen koans

Said Achmiz31 Jul 2025 6:35 UTC

24 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

Beyond Hangriness: A Deeper Framework for Emotional Clarity

jaredclucas30 Jul 2025 23:59 UTC

−7 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

LLMs Are Already Misaligned: Simple Experiments Prove It

Mackam30 Jul 2025 23:48 UTC

12 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Replicators—Pandora’s dangerous children

James Stephen Brown30 Jul 2025 22:39 UTC

19 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Exploration hacking: can reasoning models subvert RL?

Damon Falck, Joschka Braun and Eyon Jang

30 Jul 2025 22:02 UTC

16 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Optimizing The Final Output Can Obfuscate CoT (Research Note)

lukemarks, jacob_drori, cloud and TurnTrout

30 Jul 2025 21:26 UTC

196 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

A Timing Problem for Instrumental Convergence

rhys southan30 Jul 2025 19:15 UTC

2 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

(link.springer.com)

Childhood and Education: College Admissions

Zvi30 Jul 2025 17:40 UTC

51 points

11 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Apply to SPAR Fall 2025—80+ projects!

agucova30 Jul 2025 17:34 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Dimensions of logical time as economic strategies

tayzzyronth30 Jul 2025 16:56 UTC

10 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

On Wireheading

Dave92F130 Jul 2025 16:26 UTC

9 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Uncertain Updates: July 2025

Gordon Seidoh Worley30 Jul 2025 14:50 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(uncertainupdates.substack.com)

Will AGI Emerge Through Self-Generated Reward Loops?

Moksh Nirvaan30 Jul 2025 13:17 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Sex Determination as a Bottleneck to Species Development

Morpheus30 Jul 2025 8:27 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] When will the Fooming Shoggoths songs from LessOnline 2025 come out?

Brendan Long30 Jul 2025 4:04 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

My Empathy Is Rarely Kind

johnswentworth30 Jul 2025 3:49 UTC

73 points

230 comments4 min readLW link

Pitfalls of Building UDT Agents

Cole Wyeth30 Jul 2025 3:27 UTC

26 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

China proposes new global AI cooperation organisation

Matrice Jacobine30 Jul 2025 2:50 UTC

84 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reuters.com)

Neel Nanda MATS Applications Open (Due Aug 29)

Neel Nanda30 Jul 2025 0:55 UTC

22 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(tinyurl.com)

Better than logarithmic returns to reasoning?

Oliver Sourbut30 Jul 2025 0:50 UTC

14 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

They’re a simulation and you must love anyway

Andrew Huang30 Jul 2025 0:01 UTC

9 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

Critique of “The Case for Strong Longtermism”

Zeren29 Jul 2025 23:58 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Jagged Vs. Continuous intelligence

Mohsen29 Jul 2025 23:57 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are two potentially simple techniques an example of Mencken’s law?

StanislavKrym29 Jul 2025 23:37 UTC

4 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

The many paths to permanent disempowerment even with shutdownable AIs (MATS project summary for feedback)

GideonF29 Jul 2025 23:20 UTC

55 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Against racing to AGI: Cooperation, deterrence, and catastrophic risks

Max_He-Ho29 Jul 2025 22:23 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(philpapers.org)

Very Light Hardshell Suitcases

jefftk29 Jul 2025 20:10 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Misalignments and RL failure modes in the early stage of superintelligence

shu yang29 Jul 2025 18:23 UTC

13 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Low P(x-risk) as the Bailey for Low P(doom)

Vladimir_Nesov29 Jul 2025 18:01 UTC

48 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Building Black-box Scheming Monitors

james__p, richbc, Simon Storf and Marius Hobbhahn

29 Jul 2025 17:41 UTC

39 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

Deliberative Credit Assignment (DCA): Making Faithful Reasoning Profitable

Florian_Dietz29 Jul 2025 16:23 UTC

9 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

Want to work in US emerging technology policy? Horizon fellowship applications are live

PolicyTakes29 Jul 2025 16:15 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(horizonpublicservice.org)

Spilling the Tea

Zvi29 Jul 2025 14:20 UTC

34 points

8 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How one logical fallacy killed God, corrupted Science and now fuels the AI race

Jáchym Fibír29 Jul 2025 13:50 UTC

−39 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(www.phiand.ai)

About 30% of Humanity’s Last Exam chemistry/biology answers are likely wrong

bohaska29 Jul 2025 11:59 UTC

208 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

(www.futurehouse.org)

People Are Less Happy Than They Seem

Jakub Halmeš29 Jul 2025 6:03 UTC

19 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(unpredictabletokens.substack.com)

I wrote a song parody

CronoDAS29 Jul 2025 6:00 UTC

41 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Teaching kids to swim

Steven Byrnes29 Jul 2025 3:10 UTC

55 points

12 comments3 min readLW link