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A case against successionism for Galaxy-brain Gavin

Freddie19 Aug 2025 23:55 UTC

2 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Distributed Multi-Armed Bandits

AlphaZard19 Aug 2025 23:46 UTC

19 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Briefly on MAPLE, and the broader community

herschel19 Aug 2025 19:45 UTC

83 points

38 comments6 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

Do model evaluations fall prey to the Good(er) Regulator Theorem?

testingthewaters19 Aug 2025 16:19 UTC

6 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

ACX autumn meetup in Madrid

a.olmotitos19 Aug 2025 16:09 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

What’s your AI thinking?

Shoshannah Tekofsky19 Aug 2025 15:20 UTC

22 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(theaidigest.org)

Hyperbolic model fits METR capabilities estimate worse than exponential model

gjm19 Aug 2025 15:12 UTC

201 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Two new AI futures mapped out: Tool AI and d/acc (linkpost to EA Forum post)

elte and Allison Duettmann

19 Aug 2025 14:30 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Monthly Roundup #33: August 2025

Zvi19 Aug 2025 12:40 UTC

41 points

6 comments57 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Capital and Industry

ykevinzhang19 Aug 2025 12:35 UTC

15 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Hyperbolic trend with upcoming singularity fits METR capabilities estimates.

Valentin202619 Aug 2025 11:41 UTC

13 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Bursting Bubbles: AI Financial Engineering

Charlie Edwards19 Aug 2025 8:17 UTC

−4 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Discovering Backdoor Triggers

andrq, Tim Hua, Sam Marks, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

19 Aug 2025 6:24 UTC

57 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Tort Liability (Part 2)

Stephen Martin19 Aug 2025 4:06 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

On closed-door AI safety research

richbc18 Aug 2025 21:59 UTC

76 points

11 comments15 min readLW link

My notes from “Energy: A Beginner’s Guide”

dominicq18 Aug 2025 20:49 UTC

12 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(sundaystopwatch.eu)

How to actually decide

jimmy18 Aug 2025 19:46 UTC

21 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Giving AIs safe motivations

Joe Carlsmith18 Aug 2025 18:00 UTC

36 points

3 comments51 min readLW link

GPT-5: The Reverse DeepSeek Moment

Zvi18 Aug 2025 13:50 UTC

73 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Every Politician Thinks They’re So Right (and Why That’s a Disaster)

Crazy philosopher18 Aug 2025 9:06 UTC

11 points

27 comments7 min readLW link

Morality, Values and Trade-Offs

Gabriel Alfour18 Aug 2025 8:52 UTC

8 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Handing People Puzzles

Alice Blair18 Aug 2025 6:27 UTC

28 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Tort Liability (Part 1)

Stephen Martin18 Aug 2025 6:07 UTC

7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

ABSOLUTE POWER (A short story)

Taylor G. Lunt18 Aug 2025 1:10 UTC

17 points

3 comments20 min readLW link

The Strange Science of Interpretability: Recent Papers and a Reading List for the Philosophy of Interpretability

Kola Ayonrinde17 Aug 2025 23:38 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The parable of the underdog

Said Achmiz17 Aug 2025 22:39 UTC

25 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.datasecretslox.com)

Underdog bias rules everything around me

Richard_Ngo17 Aug 2025 19:21 UTC

159 points

53 comments7 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

Apply for the 2025 Dovetail fellowship

Alex_Altair and Alfred Harwood

17 Aug 2025 19:09 UTC

42 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Writing Out My Tunes

jefftk17 Aug 2025 17:00 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Plan E for AI Doom

Ihor Kendiukhov17 Aug 2025 15:26 UTC

67 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Meaning in life—should I have it? How did you find yours?

Aprillion17 Aug 2025 9:49 UTC

13 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Types of Consequences

Stephen Martin17 Aug 2025 6:52 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Agent foundations: not really math, not really science

Alex_Altair17 Aug 2025 5:48 UTC

114 points

25 comments5 min readLW link

Why Latter-day Saints Have Strong Communities

Jeffrey Heninger17 Aug 2025 4:20 UTC

102 points

29 comments9 min readLW link

Immortalism—A Rational Case for Solving Death

vampiretooth17 Aug 2025 3:56 UTC

11 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Lighthaven

Zack_M_Davis17 Aug 2025 2:30 UTC

151 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

On Pessimization

Richard_Ngo17 Aug 2025 1:10 UTC

61 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

Debugging for Mid Coders

Raemon16 Aug 2025 22:32 UTC

82 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus

Elizabeth16 Aug 2025 19:40 UTC

226 points

23 comments16 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

35 Thoughts About AGI and 1 About GPT-5

snewman16 Aug 2025 19:20 UTC

21 points

20 comments16 min readLW link

(secondthoughts.ai)

keyMetas — If training an AI requires vectorizing the hidden, why not try it with our goals?

P. João16 Aug 2025 18:07 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Comprehensive Case Against Trump

Bentham's Bulldog16 Aug 2025 17:30 UTC

−14 points

34 comments26 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

How we hacked business school

Logan Kieller and Michael Samoilov

16 Aug 2025 15:22 UTC

17 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(agenticconjectures.substack.com)

[Question] Why did interest in “AI risk” and “AI safety” spike in June and July 2025? (Google Trends)

WilliamKiely16 Aug 2025 15:22 UTC

32 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Four types of approaches for your emotional problems

Kaj_Sotala16 Aug 2025 13:59 UTC

43 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

‘Just Tax Land’ - what’s the point?

Hruss16 Aug 2025 12:37 UTC

−3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Mind Conditioning

Gabriel Alfour16 Aug 2025 11:20 UTC

−1 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Anthropic Lets Claude Opus 4 & 4.1 End Conversations

Stephen Martin16 Aug 2025 5:01 UTC

53 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)