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My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

Malmesbury10 Feb 2026 17:59 UTC

774 points

58 comments10 min readLW link

Only Law Can Prevent Extinction

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Apr 2026 20:57 UTC

700 points

100 comments20 min readLW link

Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me

ryan_greenblatt15 Apr 2026 15:14 UTC

670 points

80 comments27 min readLW link

How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez1 May 2026 23:24 UTC

662 points

71 comments8 min readLW link

The Terrarium

Caleb Biddulph26 Mar 2026 18:08 UTC

569 points

50 comments21 min readLW link

Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers

jefftk27 Feb 2026 4:00 UTC

551 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Less Dead

Aurelia11 Mar 2026 5:07 UTC

550 points

139 comments8 min readLW link

What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half

ozymandias13 Apr 2026 16:47 UTC

422 points

41 comments5 min readLW link

(ozybrennan.substack.com)

Do not conquer what you cannot defend

habryka16 Apr 2026 4:13 UTC

407 points

72 comments6 min readLW link

Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It

mabramov25 Apr 2026 22:39 UTC

401 points

94 comments5 min readLW link

Did Claude 3 Opus align itself via gradient hacking?

Fiora Starlight21 Feb 2026 22:24 UTC

389 points

49 comments20 min readLW link

How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret

Nicholas Andresen6 Jan 2026 16:31 UTC

379 points

32 comments18 min readLW link

(nickandresen.substack.com)

AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (while curl cancelled its bug bounty)

Stanislav Fort27 Jan 2026 20:21 UTC

358 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

Irretrievability; or, Murphy’s Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 May 2026 22:11 UTC

356 points

131 comments22 min readLW link

The Owned Ones

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2026 17:56 UTC

344 points

48 comments6 min readLW link

On The Independence Axiom

Ihor Kendiukhov8 Mar 2026 14:38 UTC

339 points

90 comments23 min readLW link

In My Misanthropy Era

jenn4 Jan 2026 18:34 UTC

335 points

153 comments8 min readLW link

(jenn.site)

It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I really do have a life

Viliam4 May 2026 21:14 UTC

326 points

59 comments4 min readLW link

Canada Lost Its Measles Elimination Status Because We Don’t Have Enough Nurses Who Speak Low German

jenn25 Jan 2026 18:33 UTC

325 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jenn.site)

Morale

J Bostock12 Apr 2026 20:15 UTC

307 points

47 comments2 min readLW link

Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance

Martin Sustrik26 Jan 2026 4:40 UTC

301 points

20 comments13 min readLW link

(www.250bpm.com)

My hobby: running deranged surveys

leogao27 Mar 2026 0:41 UTC

295 points

64 comments9 min readLW link

Daycare illnesses

Nina Panickssery13 Apr 2026 0:46 UTC

293 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

(blog.ninapanickssery.com)

Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them

Raemon13 Apr 2026 17:35 UTC

289 points

70 comments5 min readLW link

Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse

Martin Sustrik14 Feb 2026 6:30 UTC

289 points

52 comments8 min readLW link

(www.250bpm.com)

Anthropic’s “Hot Mess” paper overstates its case (and the blog post is worse)

RobertM4 Feb 2026 6:30 UTC

288 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)

nostalgebraist29 Apr 2026 3:53 UTC

287 points

76 comments9 min readLW link

Women should be able to open things

KatjaGrace21 May 2026 3:50 UTC

285 points

112 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Socrates is Mortal

Benquo26 Mar 2026 15:34 UTC

284 points

54 comments10 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Gemma Needs Help

Anna Soligo10 Mar 2026 17:39 UTC

278 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

models have some pretty funny attractor states

aryaj, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

12 Feb 2026 21:14 UTC

275 points

38 comments18 min readLW link

Why You Don’t Believe in Xhosa Prophecies

Jan_Kulveit13 Feb 2026 2:25 UTC

263 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline

Ihor Kendiukhov17 Mar 2026 21:27 UTC

262 points

41 comments5 min readLW link

Gyre

vgel17 Feb 2026 0:38 UTC

259 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

(vgel.me)

Quality Matters Most When Stakes are Highest

LawrenceC20 Apr 2026 6:53 UTC

257 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

My Willing Complicity In “Human Rights Abuse”

AlphaAndOmega15 Mar 2026 10:42 UTC

255 points

37 comments11 min readLW link

An Alignment Journal: Coming Soon

Dan MacKinlay, JessRiedel, Edmund Lau, Daniel Murfet, Scott Aaronson, Jan_Kulveit, david reinstein, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Marcus Hutter

3 Mar 2026 20:27 UTC

255 points

29 comments6 min readLW link

(blog.alignmentjournal.org)

Post-AGI Economics As If Nothing Ever Happens

Jan_Kulveit4 Feb 2026 17:39 UTC

252 points

41 comments8 min readLW link

(boundedlyrational.substack.com)

10 non-boring ways I’ve used AI in the last month

habryka21 Apr 2026 2:12 UTC

247 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

2025 in AI predictions

jessicata2 Jan 2026 4:29 UTC

244 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

No, we haven’t uploaded a fly yet

Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston19 Mar 2026 23:43 UTC

236 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life

kman8 Apr 2026 19:12 UTC

234 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

The Spectre haunting the “AI Safety” Community

Gabriel Alfour21 Feb 2026 11:14 UTC

232 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Do not be surprised if LessWrong gets hacked

RobertM9 Apr 2026 3:42 UTC

230 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

Update on the Alex Bores campaign

Eric Neyman27 Apr 2026 16:51 UTC

226 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Open sourcing a browser extension that shows when people are wrong on the internet

lc24 Feb 2026 16:36 UTC

226 points

34 comments2 min readLW link

(github.com)

Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”

LawrenceC29 Apr 2026 3:00 UTC

223 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Nectome: All That I Know

Raelifin15 Apr 2026 15:46 UTC

222 points

30 comments43 min readLW link

Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

eleweek7 Feb 2026 16:11 UTC

217 points

13 comments13 min readLW link

(psychotechnology.substack.com)

Preventing extinction from ASI on a $50M yearly budget

Andrea_Miotti, Alex Amadori and Gabriel Alfour

21 Apr 2026 16:39 UTC

215 points

54 comments21 min readLW link

(controlai.com)