The first type of trans­for­ma­tive AI?

Lizka21 Jan 2026 23:47 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.forethought.org)

How (and why) to read Drexler on AI

owencb21 Jan 2026 23:25 UTC
55 points
12 comments6 min readLW link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Find­ing Your­self in Others

1a3orn21 Jan 2026 23:22 UTC
51 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

AI Risks Slip Out of Mind

MarkelKori21 Jan 2026 22:30 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

When should we train against a schem­ing mon­i­tor?

Mary Phuong21 Jan 2026 20:48 UTC
24 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Claude Codes #3

Zvi21 Jan 2026 19:50 UTC
47 points
5 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Claude’s new constitution

21 Jan 2026 19:37 UTC
176 points
47 comments6 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

Crimes of the Fu­ture, Solu­tions of the Past

evrim21 Jan 2026 19:20 UTC
18 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

On vi­sions of a “good fu­ture” for hu­man­ity in a world with ar­tifi­cial superintelligence

Jakub Growiec21 Jan 2026 18:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments30 min readLW link

The case for AGI safety products

Marius Hobbhahn21 Jan 2026 17:23 UTC
68 points
7 comments12 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing in the Op­po­site Direc­tion from Evidence

Dom Polsinelli21 Jan 2026 16:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
(dompols.substack.com)

Vibing with Claude, Jan­uary 2026 Edition

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Jan 2026 16:00 UTC
26 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(www.uncertainupdates.com)

AI Needs Peo­ple (So, It Won’t Be Like Ter­mi­na­tor Movie)

Victor Porton21 Jan 2026 14:42 UTC
−23 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Kredit Grant

kian21 Jan 2026 0:56 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Money Can’t Buy the Smile on a Child’s Face As They Look at A Beau­tiful Sun­set… but it also can’t buy a malaria free world: my cur­rent un­der­stand­ing of how Effec­tive Altru­ism has failed

Hazard20 Jan 2026 23:28 UTC
70 points
17 comments6 min readLW link
(naturalhazard.xyz)

ACX At­lanta Fe­bru­ary Meetup

Steve French20 Jan 2026 22:30 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

So Long Sucker: AI De­cep­tion, “Alli­ance Banks,” and In­sti­tu­tional Lying

fernando yt20 Jan 2026 22:29 UTC
47 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

No in­stru­men­tal con­ver­gence with­out AI psychology

TurnTrout20 Jan 2026 22:16 UTC
68 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(turntrout.com)

MLSN #18: Ad­ver­sar­ial Diffu­sion, Ac­ti­va­tion Or­a­cles, Weird Generalization

20 Jan 2026 17:03 UTC
14 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Against “If Any­one Builds It Every­one Dies”

Bentham's Bulldog20 Jan 2026 16:49 UTC
6 points
9 comments22 min readLW link

ChatGPT Self Portrait

Zvi20 Jan 2026 16:30 UTC
61 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Deep learn­ing as pro­gram synthesis

Zach Furman20 Jan 2026 15:35 UTC
150 points
33 comments41 min readLW link

The To­tal So­lar Eclipse of 2238 and GPT-5.2 Pro

spookyuser20 Jan 2026 14:27 UTC
5 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Free New Year’s Work­shop — Ele­men­tal Lenses for 2026

teebarnett20 Jan 2026 10:47 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why I Tran­si­tioned: A Response

quinoa marisa20 Jan 2026 2:06 UTC
156 points
47 comments10 min readLW link

Ap­pendix: Con­tra Fiora on Contra

quinoa marisa20 Jan 2026 1:53 UTC
14 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

A Criteron for Deception

Mariven20 Jan 2026 1:25 UTC
8 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(mariven.substack.com)

Ev­i­dence that would up­date me to­wards a soft­ware-only fast takeoff

Anders Cairns Woodruff20 Jan 2026 0:58 UTC
15 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

There may be low hang­ing fruit for a weak nootropic

Dom Polsinelli20 Jan 2026 0:51 UTC
31 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Every­body Wants to Rule the Fu­ture—Is Longter­mism’s Man­date of Heaven by Arith­metic Jus­tified?

E.G. Blee-Goldman19 Jan 2026 23:31 UTC
6 points
10 comments9 min readLW link

What can Kick­starter teach us about goal com­ple­tion?

Elijah19 Jan 2026 22:03 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

All (Non-Triv­ial) De­ci­sions Are Undecidable

(M)ason19 Jan 2026 21:51 UTC
−9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pre­train­ing on Aligned AI Data Dra­mat­i­cally Re­duces Misal­ign­ment—Even After Post-Training

RogerDearnaley19 Jan 2026 21:24 UTC
106 points
12 comments11 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Med­i­cal Roundup #6

Zvi19 Jan 2026 21:20 UTC
31 points
2 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Could LLM al­ign­ment re­search re­duce x-risk if the first takeover-ca­pa­ble AI is not an LLM?

Tim Hua19 Jan 2026 18:09 UTC
25 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

AGI both does and doesn’t have an in­finite time horizon

Sean Herrington19 Jan 2026 16:57 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Desider­ata of good prob­lems to hand off to AIs

Jozdien19 Jan 2026 16:55 UTC
29 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Test­ing few-shot coup probes

Joey Marcellino19 Jan 2026 16:31 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The Example

Valerii K.19 Jan 2026 15:27 UTC
10 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

How to think about en­e­mies: the ex­am­ple of Greenpeace

19 Jan 2026 11:02 UTC
18 points
22 comments10 min readLW link
(cognition.cafe)

Silent Agree­ment Evaluation

Graeme Ford19 Jan 2026 9:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Grad­ual Paths to Col­lec­tive Flourishing

Nora_Ammann19 Jan 2026 7:52 UTC
50 points
10 comments13 min readLW link

“Le­murian Time War” by Ccru

Nathan Delisle19 Jan 2026 5:37 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Five Th­e­ses on AI Art

jenn19 Jan 2026 4:24 UTC
61 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

@Last­bas­tionof­so­bri­ety & The Sin­gu­lar­ity

AdamLacerdo19 Jan 2026 0:45 UTC
4 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

VLAs as Model Or­ganisms for AI Safety

TheSigillite18 Jan 2026 22:40 UTC
16 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

“The first two weeks are the hard­est”: my first digi­tal declutter

mingyuan18 Jan 2026 22:04 UTC
219 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(mingyuan.substack.com)

When the LLM isn’t the one who’s wrong

Julian Bradshaw18 Jan 2026 21:37 UTC
81 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Lifelink™: Free­dom for your Child

TsviBT18 Jan 2026 20:35 UTC
9 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

How to Love Them Equally

Shoshannah Tekofsky18 Jan 2026 17:09 UTC
38 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(shoshanigans.substack.com)