Speciesquest 2026

eukaryote31 Dec 2025 23:24 UTC
27 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

[Question] How Should Poli­ti­cal Si­tu­a­tions Be Clas­sified In Order To Pick The Lo­cally Best Vot­ing Sys­tem For Each Si­tu­a­tion?

JenniferRM31 Dec 2025 22:49 UTC
19 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

AI Fu­tures Timelines and Take­off Model: Dec 2025 Update

31 Dec 2025 22:34 UTC
147 points
34 comments25 min readLW link

What drives LLM bail? A small Mech In­terp study

Anton de la Fuente31 Dec 2025 21:19 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Lu­me­na­tor 2.0

Keri Warr31 Dec 2025 20:48 UTC
36 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(keri.warr.ca)

[Question] Is in­tel­li­gent in­duc­tion even pos­si­ble?

PickleBrine31 Dec 2025 20:11 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Plan − 2025 Update

31 Dec 2025 20:10 UTC
96 points
21 comments7 min readLW link

Safety Net When AIs Take Our Jobs

PeterMcCluskey31 Dec 2025 20:05 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

2025 Year in Review

Zvi31 Dec 2025 19:50 UTC
57 points
4 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Essen­tial­ism of Lesswrong

milanrosko31 Dec 2025 17:34 UTC
−45 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Uncer­tain Up­dates: De­cem­ber 2025

Gordon Seidoh Worley31 Dec 2025 16:20 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.uncertainupdates.com)

Halfhaven Forever

Viliam31 Dec 2025 15:59 UTC
23 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Grad­ing my 2022 pre­dic­tions for 2025

Yitz31 Dec 2025 15:45 UTC
62 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

My 2025 in review

jasoncrawford31 Dec 2025 14:46 UTC
12 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Mys­ti­cal and psy­chotic states: similar­i­ties and differences

Vadim Golub31 Dec 2025 14:02 UTC
7 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Me, My­self, and AI

Byron Lee31 Dec 2025 7:27 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

My The­ory of Change

Xyra Sinclair31 Dec 2025 2:11 UTC
−9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Progress up­date: syn­thetic mod­els of nat­u­ral data

Ari Brill31 Dec 2025 1:31 UTC
23 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Per­son­al­iza­tion Re­quires Data

zef31 Dec 2025 0:45 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.uzpg.me)

Please re­mem­ber how strange this all is.

Tobes31 Dec 2025 0:36 UTC
29 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Mech­a­nize Work’s es­say on Un­falsifi­able Doom

StanislavKrym30 Dec 2025 22:57 UTC
10 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(www.mechanize.work)

The 7 Types Of Ad­vice (And 3 Com­mon Failure Modes)

Linch30 Dec 2025 21:55 UTC
27 points
3 comments7 min readLW link
(inchpin.substack.com)

Don’t Sell Stock to Donate

jefftk30 Dec 2025 19:50 UTC
113 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The ori­gin of rot

Abhishaike Mahajan30 Dec 2025 17:51 UTC
33 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(www.owlposting.com)

[Ad­vanced In­tro to AI Align­ment] 1. Goal-Directed Rea­son­ing and Why It Matters

Towards_Keeperhood30 Dec 2025 15:48 UTC
12 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Dat­ing Roundup #9: Sig­nals and Selection

Zvi30 Dec 2025 12:40 UTC
38 points
3 comments13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Many can write faster asm than the com­piler, yet don’t. Why?

faul_sname30 Dec 2025 8:40 UTC
77 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­cep­tion­ally Gifted Children

John Boyle30 Dec 2025 6:28 UTC
24 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Chro­mo­some iden­ti­fi­ca­tion methods

TsviBT30 Dec 2025 6:02 UTC
38 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

CFAR’s todo list re: our workshops

AnnaSalamon30 Dec 2025 5:16 UTC
63 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

More de­tails on CFAR’s new workshops

AnnaSalamon30 Dec 2025 5:12 UTC
61 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

What’s go­ing on at CFAR? (Up­dates and Fundraiser)

AnnaSalamon30 Dec 2025 5:00 UTC
110 points
39 comments30 min readLW link

End-of year dona­tion taxes 101

GradientDissenter30 Dec 2025 2:16 UTC
35 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Bos­ton Sols­tice 2025 Retrospective

jefftk30 Dec 2025 1:10 UTC
13 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Does the USG have ac­cess to smarter mod­els than the labs’?

jacob_drori29 Dec 2025 22:51 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

24% of the US pub­lic is now aware of AI xrisk

otto.barten29 Dec 2025 22:03 UTC
30 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Steer­ing RL Train­ing: Bench­mark­ing In­ter­ven­tions Against Re­ward Hacking

29 Dec 2025 21:55 UTC
72 points
11 comments19 min readLW link

Aware­ness Jailbreak­ing: Re­veal­ing True Align­ment in Eval­u­a­tion-Aware Models

Maheep Chaudhary29 Dec 2025 21:29 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

De­cem­ber 2025 Links

nomagicpill29 Dec 2025 20:20 UTC
8 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(nomagicpill.substack.com)

The Techno-Hu­man­ist Man­i­festo, wrapup and pub­lish­ing announcement

jasoncrawford29 Dec 2025 18:51 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Un­pack­ing Jonah Wilberg’s God­dess of Every­thing Else

StanislavKrym29 Dec 2025 18:25 UTC
6 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] • → 🚹 → •

artdeco29 Dec 2025 17:50 UTC
26 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

How To Create A Lsusr Golem

M_Chouchani29 Dec 2025 17:50 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Dat­ing Roundup #8: Tactics

Zvi29 Dec 2025 16:40 UTC
61 points
2 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ping pong com­pu­ta­tion in superposition

Alex Gibson29 Dec 2025 16:31 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The x-risk case for ex­er­cise: to have the most im­pact, the world needs you at your best

KatWoods29 Dec 2025 15:37 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Bot Alexan­der on Hot Zom­bies and AI Adolescents

future_detective29 Dec 2025 14:52 UTC
−8 points
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Defeat­ing Moloch: The view from Evolu­tion­ary Game Theory

Jonah Wilberg29 Dec 2025 14:37 UTC
24 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

PrincInt (PIBBSS) Op­por­tu­ni­ties: Sum­mer Fel­low­ship, Post­doc, and Ops Role (Dead­lines in Jan­uary)

DusanDNesic29 Dec 2025 12:12 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Weak­est Model in the Selector

Alice Blair29 Dec 2025 6:55 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link