25 Aug 2025 22:43 UTC

65 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

The NAO is Hiring for Partnerships, Response, Virology, and Wet Lab Management

jefftk25 Aug 2025 22:37 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(naobservatory.org)

ACX/SSC Meetup

teegs25 Aug 2025 20:21 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Proactive AI Control: A Case for Battery-Dependent Systems

Jesper L.25 Aug 2025 20:04 UTC

4 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Solving irrational fear as deciding: A worked example

jimmy25 Aug 2025 19:44 UTC

24 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Breastfeeding and IQ: Effects shrink as you control for more confounders

Nina Panickssery25 Aug 2025 18:43 UTC

44 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.ninapanickssery.com)

Quality Precision

Ben25 Aug 2025 17:58 UTC

24 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Neuroscience of human sexual attraction triggers (3 hypotheses)

Steven Byrnes25 Aug 2025 17:51 UTC

54 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

Before LLM Psychosis, There Was Yes-Man Psychosis

johnswentworth25 Aug 2025 17:47 UTC

186 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

Steelmanning Conscious AI Default Friendliness

J Bostock25 Aug 2025 16:56 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Meditations on Margarine

The Dao of Bayes25 Aug 2025 16:35 UTC

13 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

LLMs: psych subjects & quantitative BS

Weekend Editor25 Aug 2025 15:52 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Great responsibility requires great power

dr_s25 Aug 2025 15:18 UTC

16 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

A Comprehensive Guide to Running

Declan Molony25 Aug 2025 15:12 UTC

85 points

24 comments16 min readLW link

Arguments About AI Consciousness Seem Highly Motivated And At Best Overconfident

Zvi25 Aug 2025 13:20 UTC

81 points

5 comments25 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Overview of (Some) Biotech-Based Adult Intelligence Amplification Approaches

Ihor Kendiukhov25 Aug 2025 8:00 UTC

21 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

Diffusion Primer

Sneha Bangalore24 Aug 2025 23:35 UTC

3 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

The Best Resources To Build Any Intuition

Algon24 Aug 2025 19:12 UTC

66 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Evolution favors the ability to change subjective probabilities in MWI + Experimental test

avturchin24 Aug 2025 14:58 UTC

−3 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Intellectual Property

Stephen Martin24 Aug 2025 6:05 UTC

6 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on cooperating with unaligned AIs

Lukas Finnveden24 Aug 2025 4:19 UTC

53 points

8 comments21 min readLW link

(blog.redwoodresearch.org)

Kids and Cleaning

jefftk24 Aug 2025 3:30 UTC

39 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Shorter Tokens Are More Likely

Brendan Long24 Aug 2025 0:22 UTC

81 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

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