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[Question] How are you approaching cognitive security as AI becomes more capable?

james oofou26 Aug 2025 20:52 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation

Tim Hua26 Aug 2025 20:03 UTC

370 points

46 comments26 min readLW link

Aesthetic Preferences Can Cause Emergent Misalignment

Anders Woodruff26 Aug 2025 18:41 UTC

95 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

ACX Fall Meetup

Adriana L26 Aug 2025 18:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Harmless reward hacks can generalize to misalignment in LLMs

Mia Taylor and Owain_Evans

26 Aug 2025 17:32 UTC

52 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Do-Divergence: A Bound for Maxwell’s Demon

johnswentworth and David Lorell

26 Aug 2025 17:07 UTC

66 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Reports Of AI Not Progressing Or Offering Mundane Utility Are Often Greatly Exaggerated

Zvi26 Aug 2025 14:00 UTC

42 points

1 comment16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Gamblification

Aprillion26 Aug 2025 11:48 UTC

23 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

A speculation on enlightenment

Richard_Kennaway26 Aug 2025 11:23 UTC

16 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

The “Sparsity vs Reconstruction Tradeoff” Illusion

chanind and Adrià Garriga-alonso

26 Aug 2025 4:39 UTC

21 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—The Fifth Amendment (Part 1)

Stephen Martin26 Aug 2025 4:05 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

LLMs Are Trained to Assume Their Output Is Perfect

Brendan Long26 Aug 2025 0:24 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

New Paper on Reflective Oracles & Grain of Truth Problem

Cole Wyeth26 Aug 2025 0:18 UTC

53 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Hidden Reasoning in LLMs: A Taxonomy

Rauno Arike, RohanS and Shubhorup Biswas

25 Aug 2025 22:43 UTC

73 points

12 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

5 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

45 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

62 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

Before LLM Psychosis, There Was Yes-Man Psychosis

johnswentworth25 Aug 2025 17:47 UTC

189 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

15 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

88 points

24 comments16 min readLW link

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

Zvi25 Aug 2025 13:20 UTC

84 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

60 points

8 comments21 min readLW link

(blog.redwoodresearch.org)

Kids and Cleaning

jefftk24 Aug 2025 3:30 UTC

40 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Shorter Tokens Are More Likely

Brendan Long24 Aug 2025 0:22 UTC

101 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Analysis of Variational Sparse Autoencoders

Zach Baker23 Aug 2025 23:58 UTC

12 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

9 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