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How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez1 May 2026 23:24 UTC

746 points

79 comments8 min readLW link

The Owned Ones

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2026 17:56 UTC

399 points

53 comments6 min readLW link

Women should be able to open things

KatjaGrace21 May 2026 3:50 UTC

379 points

142 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 May 2026 22:11 UTC

370 points

132 comments22 min readLW link

Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes

Brinedew28 May 2026 22:16 UTC

363 points

29 comments15 min readLW link

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

Viliam4 May 2026 21:14 UTC

345 points

66 comments4 min readLW link

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

Zephaniah Roe29 May 2026 4:08 UTC

324 points

62 comments4 min readLW link

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

Dean Valentine14 May 2026 3:39 UTC

316 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

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

Linch9 May 2026 1:30 UTC

268 points

75 comments3 min readLW link

x-risk-themed

kave6 May 2026 15:16 UTC

251 points

26 comments3 min readLW link

(kaverennedy.substack.com)

A relatively brief explanation of Boltzmann Brains

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 May 2026 21:19 UTC

216 points

162 comments4 min readLW link

MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)15 May 2026 12:30 UTC

212 points

13 comments18 min readLW link

(boydkane.com)

Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations

Subhash Kantamneni, kitft, Euan Ong and Sam Marks

7 May 2026 20:21 UTC

209 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology)

Steven Byrnes11 May 2026 17:48 UTC

193 points

74 comments16 min readLW link

Who Got Breasts First and How We Got Them

rba11 May 2026 13:11 UTC

165 points

59 comments10 min readLW link

A Year Late, Claude Finally Beats Pokémon

Julian Bradshaw16 May 2026 7:05 UTC

164 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Interpreting Language Model Parameters

Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors and Lee Sharkey

5 May 2026 17:37 UTC

164 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.goodfire.ai)

Cognitive Security as an AI Safety Cause Area

jsteinhardt25 May 2026 18:30 UTC

162 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)

Elizabeth3 May 2026 19:20 UTC

161 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The Iliad Intensive Course Materials (April 2026)

Leon Lang, David Udell and Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

11 May 2026 18:55 UTC

160 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Automated Alignment is Harder Than You Think

Aleksandr Bowkis, Marie_DB, Jacob Pfau and Geoffrey Irving

14 May 2026 22:01 UTC

145 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The Darwinian Honeymoon—Why I am not as impressed by human progress as I used to be

Elias Schmied10 May 2026 15:55 UTC

144 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

theory uplift differentially benefits safety & is underleveraged

yudhister20 May 2026 21:43 UTC

130 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Risk from fitness-seeking AIs: mechanisms and mitigations

Alex Mallen1 May 2026 17:42 UTC

130 points

0 comments32 min readLW link

Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Alignment from Token Zero

Julian Minder, Raghav Singhal, Viktor Moskvoretskii, Stefan Krsteski, ashtonanderson, rolandaydin and Robert West

20 May 2026 14:16 UTC

130 points

27 comments17 min readLW link

(modelraising.ai)

You Are Not Immune To Mode Collapse

J Bostock2 May 2026 19:57 UTC

128 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

(jbostock.substack.com)

Contra Wentworth on Physical Attractiveness for Men

Gretta Duleba26 May 2026 23:20 UTC

127 points

28 comments8 min readLW link

The AI Industrial Explosion — Part 1: Maximum growth rates with current production methods

djbinder4 May 2026 15:32 UTC

126 points

14 comments12 min readLW link

(defensesindepth.bio)

Taking woo seriously but not literally

Kaj_Sotala4 May 2026 13:36 UTC

126 points

27 comments23 min readLW link

(kajsotala.substack.com)

Convergent Abstraction Hypothesis

Jan_Kulveit15 May 2026 0:04 UTC

125 points

20 comments6 min readLW link

Donating 80% While It Still Counts

jefftk26 May 2026 1:30 UTC

123 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training

harrymayne, Lev McKinney and Owain_Evans

18 May 2026 18:37 UTC

121 points

37 comments8 min readLW link

Claude, Author of the Humanitas

Linch26 May 2026 16:05 UTC

119 points

42 comments16 min readLW link

Incriminating misaligned AI models via distillation

Alek Westover, SebastianP, Alex Mallen, Jozdien, Alexa Pan, Julian Stastny and Vivek Hebbar

15 May 2026 21:43 UTC

119 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Optimisation: Selective versus Predictive

Raymond Douglas12 May 2026 14:03 UTC

118 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Voters are surprisingly open to talking about AI risk

less_raichu13 May 2026 14:08 UTC

117 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Implications Of Predicting The Next Token

jdp19 May 2026 22:17 UTC

115 points

6 comments31 min readLW link

(minihf.com)

Many individual CEVs are probably quite bad

Viliam6 May 2026 20:18 UTC

111 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

Try, even if they have you cold

WalterL7 May 2026 17:19 UTC

105 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

International Law Cannot Prevent Extinction Either

Sausage Vector Machine9 May 2026 22:34 UTC

104 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Practical Learnings from Synthetic Document Finetuning

Axel Højmark and Jérémy Scheurer

26 May 2026 19:22 UTC

104 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

Probabilities are not the right concept

David Matolcsi23 May 2026 16:10 UTC

94 points

33 comments15 min readLW link

Will we really put data centers in space?

Avi Parrack and fin

22 May 2026 23:51 UTC

94 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Don’t be too Clever to Take Obvious Advice

Hide15 May 2026 3:01 UTC

93 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

(hidefromit.substack.com)

Your rights when flying to Europe

Yair Halberstadt5 May 2026 19:17 UTC

92 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Bringing More Expertise to Bear on Alignment

Edmund Lau, Geoffrey Irving, Cameron Holmes and David Africa

8 May 2026 10:29 UTC

92 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Taxing Small Cars To Improve MPG

jefftk24 May 2026 21:50 UTC

92 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Claude is Now Alignment-Pretrained

RogerDearnaley13 May 2026 23:19 UTC

90 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

What am I, if not an AI?

makiba21 May 2026 13:14 UTC

85 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

Announcing Geodesic Research

Puria, Cam, Alexandra Narin, Edward James Young and Kyle O’Brien

27 May 2026 16:40 UTC

85 points

2 comments5 min readLW link