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Contra Wentworth on Physical Attractiveness for Men

Gretta Duleba26 May 2026 23:20 UTC

123 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

Training Language Models for Controlled Stochasticity

Sruthi Kuriakose and Davide Baldelli

26 May 2026 22:17 UTC

18 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Are Mythos’ Cyber Capabilities Overstated? - Yes and No

Muhan Luo26 May 2026 22:17 UTC

7 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Should we train LLMs to be human?

Hubert Plisiecki26 May 2026 22:16 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Steering Directions Are Explanations, Not Handles

JackYoung2726 May 2026 22:15 UTC

8 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

You Can’t Tell a Conscience From a Leash by Watching

GenericHousewife_B26 May 2026 22:14 UTC

6 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Finding the Mole: Bayesianism is Hard

laniakea26 May 2026 21:55 UTC

35 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Simplifying Alignment by Expanding Scope

Adam Chlipala26 May 2026 21:42 UTC

3 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Practical Learnings from Synthetic Document Finetuning

Axel Højmark and Jérémy Scheurer

26 May 2026 19:22 UTC

80 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Claude, Author of the Humanitas

Linch26 May 2026 16:05 UTC

118 points

42 comments16 min readLW link

When does debate help a weak judge? Evidence from code, logic and math

ethanelasky and frank_b_n

26 May 2026 14:36 UTC

16 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

ACX Atlanta June 2026 Meetup

Steve French26 May 2026 13:59 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

RTMH: Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas on AI

Zvi26 May 2026 13:20 UTC

36 points

5 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Fatal AGI Hardware Gap

jrincayc26 May 2026 12:55 UTC

4 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Many portions of Magnifica Humanitas appear to be AI-written

DanielFilan26 May 2026 7:40 UTC

78 points

51 comments6 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Brain transfers might be the easiest path to life extension

Semi-Pseudonymous26 May 2026 6:23 UTC

11 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on Bengio’s Scientist AI

Matthew Khoriaty26 May 2026 3:05 UTC

21 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Brackets Are a Bad Way to Regulate

Hide26 May 2026 3:01 UTC

75 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

(hidefromit.substack.com)

Donating 80% While It Still Counts

jefftk26 May 2026 1:30 UTC

123 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Notes on Fourier Analysis

Menotim26 May 2026 0:39 UTC

32 points

5 comments23 min readLW link

Improving Petri scheming audits with environment blueprints

Jannes Elstner26 May 2026 0:31 UTC

12 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Pope Leo’s First AI Encyclical – Summary and Commentary

John-Clark Levin25 May 2026 23:48 UTC

26 points

8 comments39 min readLW link

Cognitive Security as an AI Safety Cause Area

jsteinhardt25 May 2026 18:30 UTC

155 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Sentient Welfare Across Three Futures

MichaelDickens25 May 2026 16:22 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Linkpost: New Vatican Encyclical on AI Governance

Jackson Wagner25 May 2026 15:40 UTC

58 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

How AI Will Save Prediction Markets

alexjaniak25 May 2026 14:24 UTC

11 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

(x.com)

There should be a discussion about LW’s policy to allow calls for violence

Mikhail Samin25 May 2026 13:51 UTC

−5 points

21 comments10 min readLW link

Character-trained models can struggle to generalise

Nathaniel Mitrani25 May 2026 12:58 UTC

22 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Applications open for the Secure Program Synthesis Fellowship

eitan sprejer25 May 2026 10:04 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the Frontier Biodefense Fellowship (deadline 7 June)

Tobias H25 May 2026 7:58 UTC

5 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Taxing Small Cars To Improve MPG

jefftk24 May 2026 21:50 UTC

91 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Belief as Psychosis

MillardJMelnyk24 May 2026 17:21 UTC

−73 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

A (Slightly) Mechanistic Theory for Exponentially Increasing AI Time Horizons?

Oliver Sourbut24 May 2026 15:52 UTC

50 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

(www.oliversourbut.net)

Neurogastronomic Phenomenology for Advanced Beginners, Applied and Pure

Lorxus24 May 2026 13:56 UTC

19 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(tiled-with-pentagons.blogspot.com)

Heretical Pasta

jefftk24 May 2026 1:50 UTC

17 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Goodhart’s Law and a Minimum Viable Sugarscape: Karpathy Pattern ABM Autoresearch

Raven Of Empire23 May 2026 23:24 UTC

2 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Veganism is Virtuous, not Obligatory

Hide23 May 2026 23:19 UTC

10 points

10 comments25 min readLW link

(hidefromit.substack.com)

Low Expectancy is Not a Confidence Problem

Alex A23 May 2026 22:48 UTC

13 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Basic principles for dressing better.

spookycat23 May 2026 19:59 UTC

70 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

Boltzmann brains, like Doomsday, require no explaining

Steff23 May 2026 16:16 UTC

−18 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

Probabilities are not the right concept

David Matolcsi23 May 2026 16:10 UTC

88 points

30 comments15 min readLW link

Your Left Brain Doesn’t Trade With Your Right

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel23 May 2026 15:12 UTC

53 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

Out-of-Context Reasoning (OOCR) in LLMs: A Short Primer and Reading List

Owain_Evans23 May 2026 2:46 UTC

41 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(outofcontextreasoning.com)

Capitalism is only the first of our problems

Ian Matson23 May 2026 2:22 UTC

−9 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

A political movement will save us from extinction

rohantohab23 May 2026 2:12 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

How should we update on AI-enabled coups post-Mythos?

callumzc23 May 2026 2:10 UTC

16 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

How Humans Will Achieve Immortality (by transcending biology and becoming machine intelligence)

SeymourJReid23 May 2026 2:08 UTC

−4 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

PLA Daily Translation: Reflections on Warfare Brought by AGI

eeeee23 May 2026 0:52 UTC

51 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Can Large Language Models Identify Novel Threats? Part 1: Mirror Life and the Classification Gap

Failfinder7023 May 2026 0:15 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Leaky AI Safety Pipeline

Nikhil Kalidasu23 May 2026 0:14 UTC

12 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(crosscurrents.ink)