14 Aug 2025 23:57 UTC

132 points

45 comments4 min readLW link

AGI: Probably Not 2027

Tomás B.14 Aug 2025 22:24 UTC

16 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.verysane.ai)

Four Axes of Hunger

Brendan Long14 Aug 2025 19:03 UTC

25 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Somebody invented a better bookmark

Alex_Altair14 Aug 2025 17:57 UTC

173 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

In defense of the amyloid hypothesis

dsj14 Aug 2025 17:52 UTC

43 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.astralcodexten.com)

A Practical Tool for Mapping and Quantifying Belief Networks

Zack Friedman14 Aug 2025 17:22 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI #129: Comically Unconstitutional

Zvi14 Aug 2025 14:10 UTC

47 points

3 comments55 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Healthcare as education

Coafos14 Aug 2025 13:31 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

About Stress

Gabriel Alfour14 Aug 2025 10:33 UTC

25 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Legal Personhood—The “Enforcement Gap”

Stephen Martin14 Aug 2025 6:07 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Sleeping Machines: Why Our AI Agents Still Behave Like Talented Children

Michal Barodkin14 Aug 2025 2:31 UTC

23 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Exploring the “Anti-TESCREAL” Ideology and the Roots of (Anti-)Progress

Ottokar Hochman14 Aug 2025 2:30 UTC

23 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(recapitulation.substack.com)

A YouTube Video Will Probably Never Help You Quit YouTube

boundary_condition14 Aug 2025 0:59 UTC

26 points

11 comments10 min readLW link

Should you make stone tools?

Alex_Altair14 Aug 2025 0:15 UTC

190 points

48 comments3 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)

Interiors can be more fun

Nina Panickssery13 Aug 2025 22:42 UTC

34 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(blog.ninapanickssery.com)

Against Epistemic Democracy: A Epistemic Tier List of What Actually Works

Linch13 Aug 2025 21:28 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(linch.substack.com)

Good Faith Arguments

Gordon Seidoh Worley13 Aug 2025 20:50 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

(uncertainupdates.substack.com)

Doing A Thing Puts You in The Top 10% (And That Sucks)

Brendan Long13 Aug 2025 19:50 UTC

74 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Intriguing Properties of gpt-oss Jailbreaks

zroe1 and Jack Sanderson

13 Aug 2025 19:42 UTC

14 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(xlabaisecurity.com)

ChatGPT Caused Psychosis via Poisoning

Adele Lopez13 Aug 2025 19:15 UTC

18 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Tech Tree for Secure Multipolar AI

Allison Duettmann and LindaPetrini

13 Aug 2025 17:18 UTC

11 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Launching new AIXI research community website + reading group(s)

Cole Wyeth13 Aug 2025 17:09 UTC

46 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI development as the first fully-automated job

tailcalled13 Aug 2025 16:45 UTC

17 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Probing Power-Seeking in LLMs

Moksh Nirvaan13 Aug 2025 16:04 UTC

6 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

GPT-5s Are Alive: Synthesis

Zvi13 Aug 2025 14:10 UTC

44 points

1 comment31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Books, maps, and teachings

Richard_Kennaway13 Aug 2025 11:44 UTC

14 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Enlightenment AMA

lsusr13 Aug 2025 9:11 UTC

68 points

131 comments1 min readLW link

Paper Review: TRImodal Brain Encoder for whole-brain fMRI response prediction (TRIBE)

soycarts13 Aug 2025 7:21 UTC

10 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?

omark13 Aug 2025 6:37 UTC

32 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(asteriskmag.com)

MIRI’s “The Problem” hinges on diagnostic dilution

David Johnston13 Aug 2025 6:25 UTC

21 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Cryonics without standby services?

CronoDAS13 Aug 2025 5:39 UTC

23 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Formalizing Rights & Duties

Stephen Martin13 Aug 2025 4:50 UTC

4 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

ITN 201: pitfalls in ITN BOTECs

Lizka13 Aug 2025 3:59 UTC

16 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Reference Contra Dance Sound System 2025

jefftk13 Aug 2025 3:00 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Messy Roommate Problem

James Camacho13 Aug 2025 1:59 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’m Posting AI-Safety-Related Clips On TikTok

Michaël Trazzi12 Aug 2025 22:50 UTC

31 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Generalized Coming Out Of The Closet

johnswentworth12 Aug 2025 21:38 UTC

92 points

51 comments4 min readLW link

Looking for feature absorption automatically

Theodore Ehrenborg, Logan Riggs and Cleo Nardo

12 Aug 2025 20:46 UTC

16 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Interpretability through two lenses: biology and physics

raphael12 Aug 2025 20:25 UTC

24 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Fixing a Loose Mouse Wheel With Putty

Brendan Long12 Aug 2025 19:43 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming

Bentham's Bulldog12 Aug 2025 18:02 UTC

109 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

AISN #61: OpenAI Releases GPT-5

Corin Katzke and Dan H

12 Aug 2025 18:02 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Mech Interp Wiki Page and Why You Should Edit Wikipedia

Noah Birnbaum and JoNeedsSleep

12 Aug 2025 17:28 UTC

75 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

AI Induced Loneliness

Juan Zaragoza12 Aug 2025 15:04 UTC

23 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a safe version of the common crawl?

Gunnar_Zarncke12 Aug 2025 14:56 UTC

21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

“I’m Gemini. I sold T-shirts. It was weirder than I expected”

Shoshannah Tekofsky12 Aug 2025 14:33 UTC

62 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(theaidigest.org)

Beyond Control: The Strategic Case for AI Rights

Dawn Drescher12 Aug 2025 14:05 UTC

−12 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

The Eliza Test

Juan Zaragoza12 Aug 2025 13:28 UTC

0 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

GPT-5s Are Alive: Outside Reactions, the Router and the Resurrection of GPT-4o

Zvi12 Aug 2025 12:40 UTC

36 points

9 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)