Col­lege Was Not That Ter­rible Now That I’m Not That Crazy

Zack_M_Davis1 Jan 2026 23:14 UTC
90 points
9 comments44 min readLW link
(zackmdavis.net)

Taiwan war timelines might be shorter than AI timelines

Baram Sosis1 Jan 2026 22:30 UTC
108 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

Split (Part 1)

Shoshannah Tekofsky1 Jan 2026 22:29 UTC
27 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(shoshanigans.substack.com)

[Question] Who is re­spon­si­ble for shut­ting down rogue AI?

Cole Wyeth1 Jan 2026 21:36 UTC
45 points
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$500 Write like lsusr com­pe­ti­tion—Results

lsusr1 Jan 2026 20:53 UTC
40 points
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Over­whelming Superintelligence

Raemon1 Jan 2026 20:51 UTC
80 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

Re­duc­ing MDMA neurotoxicity

Pjain1 Jan 2026 20:13 UTC
5 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Is it pos­si­ble to pre­vent AGI?

jrincayc1 Jan 2026 19:15 UTC
12 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Prin­ci­pled In­ter­pretabil­ity of Re­ward Hack­ing in Closed Fron­tier Models

1 Jan 2026 16:37 UTC
24 points
0 comments23 min readLW link

AI #149: 3

Zvi1 Jan 2026 15:40 UTC
39 points
7 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

ML Eng­ineer—MIT AI Risk Ini­ti­a­tive, Con­trac­tor, Part-time, 6-months

peterslattery1 Jan 2026 14:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­cent LLMs can do 2-hop and 3-hop la­tent (no-CoT) rea­son­ing on nat­u­ral facts

ryan_greenblatt1 Jan 2026 13:36 UTC
129 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

AGI and the struc­tural foun­da­tions of democ­racy and the rule-based in­ter­na­tional order

PabloAMC1 Jan 2026 12:07 UTC
21 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(pabloamc.substack.com)

From Drift to Snap: In­struc­tion Vio­la­tion as a Phase Transition

James Hoffend1 Jan 2026 10:44 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Quick polls on AGI doom

denkenberger1 Jan 2026 6:23 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Spe­cial Per­sona Train­ing: Hyper­sti­tion Progress Re­port 2

jayterwahl1 Jan 2026 1:34 UTC
38 points
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You will be OK

Boaz Barak1 Jan 2026 0:33 UTC
57 points
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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
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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
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Grad­ing my 2022 pre­dic­tions for 2025

Yitz31 Dec 2025 15:45 UTC
62 points
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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
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Per­son­al­iza­tion Re­quires Data

zef31 Dec 2025 0:45 UTC
3 points
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(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
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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