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Why I Left Google DeepMind

TurnTrout15 Jul 2026 17:42 UTC

948 points

35 comments36 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

Malmesbury10 Feb 2026 17:59 UTC

788 points

58 comments10 min readLW link

How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez1 May 2026 23:24 UTC

736 points

79 comments8 min readLW link

Only Law Can Prevent Extinction

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Apr 2026 20:57 UTC

736 points

106 comments20 min readLW link

Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me

ryan_greenblatt15 Apr 2026 15:14 UTC

729 points

83 comments27 min readLW link

The Terrarium

Caleb Biddulph26 Mar 2026 18:08 UTC

588 points

53 comments21 min readLW link

Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers

jefftk27 Feb 2026 4:00 UTC

564 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Less Dead

Aurelia11 Mar 2026 5:07 UTC

553 points

140 comments8 min readLW link

AI 2040: Plan A

Daniel Kokotajlo, elifland, Thomas Larsen, romeo, bhalstead and ryan_greenblatt

9 Jul 2026 16:25 UTC

527 points

128 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ai-2040.com)

Surprising facts about the slave trade

Joseph Miller26 Jun 2026 1:34 UTC

452 points

48 comments8 min readLW link

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

ozymandias13 Apr 2026 16:47 UTC

448 points

45 comments5 min readLW link

(ozybrennan.substack.com)

Do not conquer what you cannot defend

habryka16 Apr 2026 4:13 UTC

429 points

73 comments6 min readLW link

Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It

mabramov25 Apr 2026 22:39 UTC

410 points

98 comments5 min readLW link

AI pause: the case for ASAP

KatjaGrace24 Jun 2026 21:31 UTC

402 points

51 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com)

Did Claude 3 Opus align itself via gradient hacking?

Fiora Starlight21 Feb 2026 22:24 UTC

394 points

49 comments20 min readLW link

How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret

Nicholas Andresen6 Jan 2026 16:31 UTC

386 points

33 comments18 min readLW link

(nickandresen.substack.com)

The Owned Ones

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2026 17:56 UTC

385 points

53 comments6 min readLW link

A Mechanistic Explanation of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles)

Charles Ye and Jasmine C.

22 Jun 2026 14:09 UTC

374 points

59 comments16 min readLW link

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 May 2026 22:11 UTC

368 points

132 comments22 min readLW link

A global workspace in language models

wesg6 Jul 2026 18:04 UTC

364 points

64 comments17 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes

Brinedew28 May 2026 22:16 UTC

359 points

29 comments15 min readLW link

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

Stanislav Fort27 Jan 2026 20:21 UTC

359 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

In My Misanthropy Era

jenn4 Jan 2026 18:34 UTC

357 points

154 comments8 min readLW link

(jenn.site)

Women should be able to open things

KatjaGrace21 May 2026 3:50 UTC

356 points

137 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)

nostalgebraist29 Apr 2026 3:53 UTC

348 points

84 comments9 min readLW link

On The Independence Axiom

Ihor Kendiukhov8 Mar 2026 14:38 UTC

342 points

92 comments23 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

335 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jenn.site)

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

Viliam4 May 2026 21:14 UTC

334 points

64 comments4 min readLW link

Lightcone Commons

habryka23 Jul 2026 18:35 UTC

328 points

23 comments19 min readLW link

Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety

Zephaniah Roe29 May 2026 4:08 UTC

321 points

62 comments4 min readLW link

My hobby: running deranged surveys

leogao27 Mar 2026 0:41 UTC

313 points

65 comments9 min readLW link

Morale

J Bostock12 Apr 2026 20:15 UTC

313 points

47 comments2 min readLW link

Models finding software vulnerabilities is not the primary source of cybersecurity risk

lc14 May 2026 3:39 UTC

312 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them

Raemon13 Apr 2026 17:35 UTC

309 points

71 comments5 min readLW link

Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance

Martin Sustrik26 Jan 2026 4:40 UTC

306 points

22 comments13 min readLW link

(www.250bpm.com)

The current bottleneck is political will, not research

Charbel-Raphaël11 Jul 2026 21:56 UTC

301 points

37 comments25 min readLW link

Daycare illnesses

Nina Panickssery13 Apr 2026 0:46 UTC

301 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

(blog.ninapanickssery.com)

Resolution (fka Sequent): scale and automation for higher confidence in alignment

Geoffrey Irving, Alex HT, Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Jacob Pfau, Marco Cozzi and Stan van Wingerden

10 Jun 2026 15:37 UTC

297 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(sequent.org)

Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse

Martin Sustrik14 Feb 2026 6:30 UTC

290 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

Socrates is Mortal

Benquo26 Mar 2026 15:34 UTC

288 points

55 comments10 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Gemma Needs Help

Anna Soligo10 Mar 2026 17:39 UTC

284 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

277 points

38 comments18 min readLW link

Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models

Anders Cairns Woodruff, Francis Rhys Ward, Dewi Gould, Rauno Arike, Jason R Brown, Jo Jiao, wlanderson, ariana_azarbal, harrymayne, Patrick Leask, Twm Stone, Josh Hills, Ida Caspary, Shubhorup Biswas and Julian Stastny

10 Jun 2026 17:58 UTC

274 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

Why You Don’t Believe in Xhosa Prophecies

Jan_Kulveit13 Feb 2026 2:25 UTC

270 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline

Ihor Kendiukhov17 Mar 2026 21:27 UTC

270 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

Bad Problems Don’t Stop Being Bad Because Somebody’s Wrong About Fault Analysis

Linch9 May 2026 1:30 UTC

265 points

76 comments3 min readLW link

Gyre

vgel17 Feb 2026 0:38 UTC

264 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

(vgel.me)

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

263 points

34 comments6 min readLW link

(blog.alignmentjournal.org)

Quality Matters Most When Stakes are Highest

LawrenceC20 Apr 2026 6:53 UTC

261 points

24 comments3 min readLW link