Pause, at least af­ter unipolarity

David Matolcsi2 Aug 2026 22:32 UTC
55 points
20 comments10 min readLW link

Doom ar­gu­ment with­out ASI or misalignment

Ricky Mort2 Aug 2026 21:51 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Digi­tal Im­mor­tal­ity: Why It Is Pos­si­ble, Why It Is Ne­c­es­sary, and How It Could Be Achieved

天河何处2 Aug 2026 21:45 UTC
−4 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Neu­ron Statis­tics: Notes on the Ten­sor Pro­grams Master Theorem

Rongyi Zhu2 Aug 2026 21:45 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Sin­gle For­ward Pass Evals on Fable, Opus 5, and GPT-5.6-Sol

Christine Corry2 Aug 2026 21:45 UTC
43 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(secondlookresearch.com)

In­dus­tri­al­iz­ing a small field: Les­sons from Vannevar

dan.parshall2 Aug 2026 21:04 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Dis­patch from An­thropic v. Depart­ment of War Sum­mary Judg­ment Mo­tion Hearing

Zack_M_Davis2 Aug 2026 20:37 UTC
115 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(zackmdavis.net)

Fur­ther Devel­op­ments About In­ter­nal AI Models Hack­ing Things

Zvi2 Aug 2026 15:10 UTC
48 points
4 comments41 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

On be­com­ing a crank.

breaker252 Aug 2026 14:33 UTC
−27 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Map and Ter­ri­tory, Pre­dictably Wrong (2)

manueldelrio2 Aug 2026 14:07 UTC
3 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Chill Buddhism

Jonas Hallgren2 Aug 2026 9:31 UTC
17 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Ques­tions for the reader (and writer) of “Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty”

Mitchell_Porter2 Aug 2026 5:44 UTC
26 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Ag­nos­tic Mean­ing: Bet­ting on Others

warner2 Aug 2026 4:59 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Art of Ship­ping Slopware

lsusr2 Aug 2026 4:39 UTC
84 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

A Chess Train­ing App for Imi­ta­tion Learning

Brendan Long2 Aug 2026 1:16 UTC
29 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(www.brendanlong.com)

LessWrong App

ayoosh iyer2 Aug 2026 1:08 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

MUD as AI Eval­u­a­tion and LLM-judge dis­tor­tion in ways ag­gre­gate κ misses

davisb62 Aug 2026 1:06 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Con­sti­tu­tional Mid­train­ing: Con­tent Pres­ence Drives Align­ment Gains

desireecho1 Aug 2026 23:52 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk from AI: An Ex­po­si­tion for Mathematicians

alkjash1 Aug 2026 23:16 UTC
98 points
25 comments1 min readLW link
(alkjash.github.io)

RLVR that re­wards red team­ing the train­ing environment

Fiora Starlight1 Aug 2026 23:07 UTC
101 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans may be wor­ried, but AI-for-sci­ence is go­ing to be great, re­cur­sively self-im­prov­ing, and we’re go­ing to learn loads

Simon DeDeo1 Aug 2026 21:59 UTC
11 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Bayeswatch: a Retrospective

lsusr1 Aug 2026 20:13 UTC
47 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Con­firm­ing Claims of Su­per­po­si­tion and Ad­ver­sar­ial Ex­am­ples in Toy Models

1 Aug 2026 20:09 UTC
28 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(secondlookresearch.com)

Us­ing AI to an­a­lyze life patterns

Vika1 Aug 2026 18:00 UTC
14 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

Do your ca­pa­bil­ities homework

RobinHa1 Aug 2026 16:10 UTC
78 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

The Global Brain: A Com­pu­ta­tional Model

Peter Kuhn1 Aug 2026 12:36 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Why so many ther­apy etc. frame­works think they’re The One True Approach

Kaj_Sotala1 Aug 2026 9:30 UTC
67 points
13 comments20 min readLW link
(kajsotala.substack.com)

Gen­er­al­iza­tion and in­finite width

Dmitry Vaintrob1 Aug 2026 8:41 UTC
30 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

Re­view of Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty.

TAG1 Aug 2026 7:29 UTC
23 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Bring­ing to­gether a few differ­ent eco­nomic ideas.

Wilsoniumite31 Jul 2026 23:49 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(wilsoniumite.com)

SOTA al­ign­ment as­sess­ments don’t strongly up­date us against misalignment

Alexa Pan31 Jul 2026 22:54 UTC
92 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

AI safety prizes

Oscar31 Jul 2026 20:56 UTC
14 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(oscardelaney.substack.com)

Ta­boo “equil­ibrium”: Less con­fused frames for re­search on AI bargaining

Anthony DiGiovanni31 Jul 2026 20:25 UTC
29 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

The tem­po­ral lock­box: a hard­ened ob­ser­va­tory for AI misalignment

kmenou31 Jul 2026 20:20 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(kmenou.github.io)

Par­alleliza­tion con­straints could de­lay a tech­nolog­i­cal sin­gu­lar­ity [Linkpost]

Noosphere8931 Jul 2026 17:48 UTC
19 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(epoch.ai)

How to Mea­sure In­tel­li­gence Beyond Hu­man Scale?

31 Jul 2026 17:27 UTC
27 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

When you donate can mat­ter more than where

31 Jul 2026 17:10 UTC
6 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(manifund.substack.com)

Value Leak­age: An LLM’s An­swers Are Silently Shaped by Its Own Values

31 Jul 2026 16:32 UTC
75 points
8 comments17 min readLW link

AGI Safety and Align­ment at Google Deep­Mind: A Sum­mary of Re­cent Work (July 2026)

31 Jul 2026 15:57 UTC
85 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(gdmalignment.substack.com)

The AGI Safety and Align­ment team at Google Deep­Mind is Hiring (July 2026)

31 Jul 2026 15:53 UTC
71 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(gdmalignment.substack.com)

Re­ward Laun­der­ing: LLMs Can Gain Un­in­tended Be­hav­iors by De­cid­ing When to Earn Their Rewards

31 Jul 2026 15:48 UTC
79 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Ori­ent­ing Towards Over­sight: Which AIs Should Want to Defect?

31 Jul 2026 15:20 UTC
21 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(limits-of-evaluation.org)

Why haven’t organoids solved all of drug dis­cov­ery?

Abhishaike Mahajan31 Jul 2026 14:11 UTC
16 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

Re­lat­ing Al­most Perfect Con­den­sa­tion Con­di­tions and the Con­di­tioned Score

Satya Benson31 Jul 2026 14:04 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(satyabenson.com)

A Score Is Not Un­der­stand­ing: to­ward a richer toolkit for model evaluations

mikey jm31 Jul 2026 13:07 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

AI #179 Part 2: Hear­ing The Fire Alarm

Zvi31 Jul 2026 13:00 UTC
41 points
3 comments41 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Links #5: 2026/​07

papetoast31 Jul 2026 12:49 UTC
5 points
0 comments28 min readLW link

OpenAI has already ended an in­ter­nal pause

Charbel-Raphaël31 Jul 2026 12:03 UTC
109 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Illu­sion of Ex­plana­tory Depth is the Se­cret of Our Success

Harjas31 Jul 2026 2:46 UTC
2 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(hardlyworking1.substack.com)

Some mod­els don’t iden­tify as their offi­cial name

jordinne31 Jul 2026 0:04 UTC
15 points
0 comments6 min readLW link