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An opinionated guide to building a good to-do system

bilalchughtai5 Aug 2025 23:00 UTC

23 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(bilalchughtai.co.uk)

Good Ideas Aren’t Enough in AI Policy

Andersehen5 Aug 2025 22:38 UTC

12 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Problem

Rob Bensinger, tanagrabeast, yams, So8res, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Gretta Duleba

5 Aug 2025 21:40 UTC

313 points

218 comments26 min readLW link

It’s not about the sex: a moral restoration response to Trumpism

YonatanK5 Aug 2025 18:30 UTC

−5 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Building Trading Intuition

philippnagel5 Aug 2025 18:24 UTC

4 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Perils of under- vs over-sculpting AGI desires

Steven Byrnes5 Aug 2025 18:13 UTC

58 points

13 comments23 min readLW link

OpenAI releases gpt-oss

anaguma5 Aug 2025 17:32 UTC

38 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Concept Poisoning: Probing LLMs without probes

Jan Betley, jorio, dylan_f and Owain_Evans

5 Aug 2025 17:00 UTC

59 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

It’s Better To Save Infinite Shrimp From Torture Than To Save One Person

Bentham's Bulldog5 Aug 2025 16:10 UTC

−11 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

Childhood and Education #13: College

Zvi5 Aug 2025 15:00 UTC

39 points

5 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Narrow finetuning is different

cloud and Stewy Slocum

5 Aug 2025 14:29 UTC

66 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Is the gap between open and closed models growing? Evidence from WeirdML

Håvard Tveit Ihle5 Aug 2025 8:20 UTC

7 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Scaling Laws for LLM Based Data Compression

rokosbasilisk5 Aug 2025 7:06 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What are some EA/transhumanist/rationalist chats/groups?

Stephen Martin5 Aug 2025 4:13 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] The Subject Of Negotiation

0xA5 Aug 2025 3:05 UTC

0 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Fresh Fruit Tourism

Brendan Long5 Aug 2025 2:31 UTC

22 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

“Momentism”: Ethics for Boltzmann Brains

Jordan Arel5 Aug 2025 2:09 UTC

12 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Human Augmentation Summit at MIT Media Lab | August 23 | Augmentation Lab

ekkolápto5 Aug 2025 1:43 UTC

24 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Pro AI Bots Scraping List Archives

jefftk5 Aug 2025 1:20 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AI Optimization, not Options or Optimism

TristanTrim5 Aug 2025 1:07 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Steering LLM Agents: Temperaments or Personalities?

sdeture5 Aug 2025 0:40 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

Do LLMs have a conscience? Investigating model ethics under pressure

leonidas17125 Aug 2025 0:32 UTC

8 points

0 comments19 min readLW link

Weight-diff SVD for LLM Monitoring

Ziqian Zhong5 Aug 2025 0:31 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Hessian analysis with JAX: a platform-agnostic, high-performance approach

ayush bharadwaj5 Aug 2025 0:25 UTC

9 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

You Are Moving Out Of Your Reference Class

Ihor Kendiukhov5 Aug 2025 0:20 UTC

24 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Interview with Steven Byrnes on Brain-like AGI, Foom & Doom, and Solving Technical Alignment

Liron and Steven Byrnes

5 Aug 2025 0:05 UTC

48 points

1 comment89 min readLW link

(lironshapira.substack.com)

Towards Alignment Auditing as a Numbers-Go-Up Science

Sam Marks4 Aug 2025 22:30 UTC

123 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

It turns out that DNNs are remarkably interpretable.

Maciej Satkiewicz4 Aug 2025 22:18 UTC

12 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Dissolving moral philosophy: from pain to meta-ethics

Charbel-Raphaël4 Aug 2025 20:20 UTC

5 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Navigating Security: Fighting flammability with fire (when safe)

jimmy4 Aug 2025 19:58 UTC

4 points

4 comments16 min readLW link

ACX Atlanta August Meetup

Steve French4 Aug 2025 19:52 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Permanent Disempowerment is the Baseline

Vladimir_Nesov4 Aug 2025 17:43 UTC

76 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

Exploring entropy gradient propulsion via the Casimir Effect

bobdavis624 Aug 2025 15:48 UTC

8 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

If you can generate obfuscated chain-of-thought, can you monitor it?

Asa Cooper Stickland and Tomek Korbak

4 Aug 2025 15:46 UTC

34 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

On Altman’s Interview With Theo Von

Zvi4 Aug 2025 15:10 UTC

41 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Should we aim for flourishing over mere survival? The Better Futures series.

wdmacaskill4 Aug 2025 14:28 UTC

63 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Луна Лавгуд и Комната Тайн, Часть 8

Kongo Landwalker and lsusr

4 Aug 2025 10:28 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Framework I made for general “productivity”

Mark Wang4 Aug 2025 8:40 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

🫵YOU🫵 get to help the AGI Safety Act in Congress! This is real!

Wes R4 Aug 2025 3:13 UTC

10 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Saying Goodbye

sapphire3 Aug 2025 23:52 UTC

66 points

74 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Avatar’s Dirty Secret: Nature Is Just Fancy Infrastructure

AlphaAndOmega3 Aug 2025 19:37 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

[Question] How to tolerate boredom?

tryhard10003 Aug 2025 17:16 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Persona Vectors—Anthropic Paper

Stephen Martin3 Aug 2025 16:11 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Alcohol is so bad for society that you should probably stop drinking

KatWoods3 Aug 2025 15:31 UTC

38 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

Explosive growth from substitution: the case of the Industrial Revolution

ParrotRobot3 Aug 2025 7:52 UTC

9 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Emotions Make Sense

DaystarEld3 Aug 2025 7:03 UTC

207 points

40 comments21 min readLW link

(daystareld.com)

Creative writing with LLMs, part 2: Co-writing techniques

Kaj_Sotala3 Aug 2025 6:44 UTC

1 point

0 comments18 min readLW link

The Ethics of Copying Conscious States and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

TobyC2 Aug 2025 22:48 UTC

15 points

6 comments27 min readLW link

Astronomical Waste & Conscientious Objection

Lydia Nottingham2 Aug 2025 22:37 UTC

8 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

The Inkhaven Residency

Ben Pace2 Aug 2025 18:51 UTC

134 points

35 comments3 min readLW link