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

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

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

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)