French Non-Profit Law: As­so­ci­a­tions are as cool as Amer­i­can churches

Lucie Philippon20 Aug 2025 22:02 UTC
40 points
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AI Safety Comms Retreat

Vishakha20 Aug 2025 20:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The trou­ble with “en­light­en­ment”

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Aug 2025 19:00 UTC
15 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(uncertainupdates.substack.com)

An epistemic ad­van­tage of work­ing as a moderate

Buck20 Aug 2025 17:47 UTC
217 points
96 comments4 min readLW link

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

come work on dan­ger­ous ca­pa­bil­ity miti­ga­tions at Anthropic

Dave Orr20 Aug 2025 15:11 UTC
31 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

AI Com­pan­ion Conditions

Zvi20 Aug 2025 15:00 UTC
54 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What to do with pre-or­der if I live in Rus­sia?

EniScien20 Aug 2025 13:39 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Coh and the ripped codice, a tale of the horns effect

AdamLacerdo20 Aug 2025 10:10 UTC
−3 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Lo­cal De­tours On A Nar­row Path: How might AI treaties fail in China?

Jack_S20 Aug 2025 9:09 UTC
21 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(torchestogether.substack.com)

Le­gal Per­son­hood—Tort Li­a­bil­ity (Part 3)

Stephen Martin20 Aug 2025 6:33 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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
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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)

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

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

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