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The Weirdness of Dating/Mating: Deep Nonconsent Preference

johnswentworth2 Jan 2026 23:05 UTC

9 points

72 comments6 min readLW link

Can AI learn human societal norms from social feedback (without recapitulating all the ways this has failed in human history?)

foodforthought2 Jan 2026 22:11 UTC

7 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Fertility Roundup #5: Causation

Zvi2 Jan 2026 22:00 UTC

19 points

5 comments25 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Scale-Free Goodness

testingthewaters2 Jan 2026 21:00 UTC

10 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(aclevername.substack.com)

Does developmental cognitive psychology provide any hints for making model alignment more robust?

foodforthought2 Jan 2026 20:31 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Does evolution provide any hints for making model alignment more robust?

foodforthought2 Jan 2026 19:06 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Where do AI Safety Fellows go? Analyzing a dataset of 600+ alumni

Christopher_Clay2 Jan 2026 18:14 UTC

22 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Instruct Vectors—Base models can be instruct with activation vectors

Eriskii2 Jan 2026 18:14 UTC

24 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

[Advanced Intro to AI Alignment] 2. What Values May an AI Learn? — 4 Key Problems

Towards_Keeperhood2 Jan 2026 14:51 UTC

37 points

10 comments19 min readLW link

2025 Letter

zef2 Jan 2026 13:57 UTC

10 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

(zephyyr.substack.com)

2025 in AI predictions

jessicata2 Jan 2026 4:29 UTC

251 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

Debunking claims about subquadratic attention

Vladimir Ivanov2 Jan 2026 4:23 UTC

32 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

The bio-pirate’s guide to GLP-1 agonists

quiet_NaN2 Jan 2026 3:32 UTC

40 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

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

Zack_M_Davis1 Jan 2026 23:14 UTC

88 points

9 comments44 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

Taiwan war timelines might be shorter than AI timelines

Baram Sosis1 Jan 2026 22:30 UTC

115 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

2 comments1 min readLW link

$500 Write like lsusr competition—Results

lsusr1 Jan 2026 20:53 UTC

41 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Overwhelming Superintelligence

Raemon1 Jan 2026 20:51 UTC

81 points

31 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

gersonkroiz, aditya singh, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

1 Jan 2026 16:37 UTC

25 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

130 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

2 comments2 min readLW link

You will be OK

Boaz Barak1 Jan 2026 0:33 UTC

62 points

57 comments4 min readLW link

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

20 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

AI Futures Timelines and Takeoff Model: Dec 2025 Update

elifland, brendanhalstead, Alex Kastner and Daniel Kokotajlo

31 Dec 2025 22:34 UTC

149 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

johnswentworth and David Lorell

31 Dec 2025 20:10 UTC

97 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

[deleted]31 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

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

My Theory of Change

Xyra Sinclair31 Dec 2025 2:11 UTC

−5 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

30 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)