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Analysis of Variational Sparse Autoencoders

Zach Baker23 Aug 2025 23:58 UTC

11 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Thoughts About how RLHF and Related “Prosaic” Approaches Could be Used to Create Robustly Aligned AIs.

williawa23 Aug 2025 21:05 UTC

10 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

On the Function of Faith in A Probably-Simulated Universe

testingthewaters23 Aug 2025 20:28 UTC

−8 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

(aclevername.substack.com)

The Data Scaling Hypothesis

harsimony23 Aug 2025 18:18 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

How a Non-Dual Language Could Redefine AI Safety

Marcio Díaz23 Aug 2025 16:40 UTC

1 point

6 comments3 min readLW link

The Great Game: Game Theory for Collective Intelligence

Rome Viharo23 Aug 2025 15:04 UTC

−2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Startup Jungle

Logan Kieller23 Aug 2025 14:59 UTC

7 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(agenticconjectures.substack.com)

The most common mistakes people make starting EA orgs

KatWoods23 Aug 2025 14:18 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Futility Illusions

silentbob23 Aug 2025 10:54 UTC

31 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Corporate Ownership & Formation

Stephen Martin23 Aug 2025 5:45 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

AI 2027 Response Followup

SE Gyges23 Aug 2025 4:41 UTC

3 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Pasta Cooking Time

jefftk23 Aug 2025 3:00 UTC

22 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Pet Ownership

incident-recipient23 Aug 2025 1:54 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Reflections on writing 15 daily blog posts

CstineSublime23 Aug 2025 1:50 UTC

12 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

How Econ 101 makes us blinder on trade, morals, jobs with AI – and on marginal costs

FlorianH23 Aug 2025 0:59 UTC

17 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

(nearlyfar.org)

Memory Decoding Journal Club: Behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity underlies CA1 place fields

Devin Ward23 Aug 2025 0:53 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Yudkowsky on “Don’t use p(doom)”

Raemon22 Aug 2025 23:44 UTC

98 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)

habryka22 Aug 2025 23:02 UTC

244 points

395 comments30 min readLW link

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

johnswentworth and David Lorell

22 Aug 2025 21:46 UTC

126 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

One more reason for AI capable of independent moral reasoning: alignment itself and cause prioritisation

Michele Campolo22 Aug 2025 15:53 UTC

−3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Buddhism & AI Initiative

Chris Scammell22 Aug 2025 15:50 UTC

29 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

DeepSeek v3.1 Is Not Having a Moment

Zvi22 Aug 2025 15:50 UTC

40 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Doing good… best?

Michele Campolo22 Aug 2025 15:48 UTC

−1 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

With enough knowledge, any conscious agent acts morally

Michele Campolo22 Aug 2025 15:44 UTC

−2 points

9 comments36 min readLW link

If we can educate AIs, why not apply that education to people?

P. João22 Aug 2025 14:04 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

CEO of Microsoft AI’s “Seemingly Conscious AI” Post

Stephen Martin22 Aug 2025 13:58 UTC

64 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Could we have predicted emergent misalignment a priori using unsupervised behaviour elicitation?

Daniel Tan22 Aug 2025 13:42 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

An Introduction to Credal Sets and Infra-Bayes Learnability

Brittany Gelb22 Aug 2025 13:03 UTC

33 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Contracts (Part 2)

Stephen Martin22 Aug 2025 4:53 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

When Money Becomes Power

Gabriel Alfour22 Aug 2025 4:14 UTC

61 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Proof Section to an Introduction to Credal Sets and Infra-Bayes Learnability

Brittany Gelb21 Aug 2025 23:11 UTC

13 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Resampling Conserves Redundancy (Approximately)

johnswentworth and David Lorell

21 Aug 2025 22:43 UTC

68 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

The anti-fragile culture

lincolnquirk21 Aug 2025 21:41 UTC

30 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

A Conservative Vision For AI Alignment

Davidmanheim and Ram Rachum

21 Aug 2025 18:14 UTC

25 points

34 comments12 min readLW link

Emergent morality in AI weakens the Orthogonality Thesis

dawnstrata21 Aug 2025 17:57 UTC

−1 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

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

Steven Byrnes21 Aug 2025 17:52 UTC

360 points

49 comments6 min readLW link

(x.com)

Memory Decoding Journal Club: Behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity underlies CA1 place fields

Devin Ward21 Aug 2025 16:13 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Could one country outgrow the rest of the world?

Tom Davidson21 Aug 2025 15:32 UTC

45 points

23 comments17 min readLW link

(newsletter.forethought.org)

What is “Meaningness”

Gordon Seidoh Worley and SpectrumDT

21 Aug 2025 14:57 UTC

11 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

AI #130: Talking Past The Sale

Zvi21 Aug 2025 13:50 UTC

37 points

4 comments60 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Critiques of FDT Often Stem From Confusion About Newcomblike Problems

Heighn21 Aug 2025 13:19 UTC

7 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Contracts (Part 1)

Stephen Martin21 Aug 2025 5:23 UTC

10 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Being honest with AIs

Lukas Finnveden21 Aug 2025 3:57 UTC

63 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

(blog.redwoodresearch.org)

ACX Fall Meetup 2025 @ Klang Valley, Malaysia

Yi-Yang21 Aug 2025 3:34 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Lucie Philippon20 Aug 2025 22:02 UTC

40 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

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