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Fundamental Uncertainty Essay Contestants

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Aug 2026 23:01 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.uncertainupdates.com)

Alex Turner on Leaving Google DeepMind and Disagreements with Yudkowsky

Liron5 Aug 2026 22:45 UTC

59 points

1 comment40 min readLW link

Thomas Schelling’s Nobel Prize Speech: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima

Nathan Young5 Aug 2026 21:30 UTC

26 points

0 comments19 min readLW link

Terminal-Bench Leaderboard Rankings: Luck or Skill?

nateg5510155 Aug 2026 21:20 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

An argument of Parfit’s reconsidered with logical decision theory

transhumanist_atom_understander5 Aug 2026 20:47 UTC

12 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

R-lens: Making J-lens More Faithful on Early Layers

camilablank, agam_bhatia and Neel Nanda

5 Aug 2026 20:02 UTC

83 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Measuring coding agent misalignment in the wild

snaz5 Aug 2026 20:00 UTC

40 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

An International AI Slowdown Is Ready Whenever Politicians Are

Felix Choussat and adamk

5 Aug 2026 19:15 UTC

56 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

(newsletter.ai-frontiers.org)

Arguments for P

Cleo Nardo5 Aug 2026 19:00 UTC

549 points

66 comments2 min readLW link

Generalized atheism rules out “inaccurate simulation”-ism.

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Aug 2026 18:35 UTC

165 points

56 comments9 min readLW link

Berkeley Genomics Project seeking hires (and collabs)

TsviBT5 Aug 2026 18:32 UTC

41 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Charles Goodhart Elementary School

Zack_M_Davis5 Aug 2026 17:06 UTC

45 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

The Three AI Pills

Zvi5 Aug 2026 16:10 UTC

75 points

22 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Notes on the possibility of moral progress

MichaelDickens5 Aug 2026 16:05 UTC

14 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Regranting in 2026: now more than ever

Carol N and Austin Chen

5 Aug 2026 13:59 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(manifund.substack.com)

Randomness and Doomsday for Weak agents

Ben5 Aug 2026 12:24 UTC

32 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Vertical Tabs in Chrome

jefftk5 Aug 2026 12:10 UTC

48 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The goalposts are shrouded, not moving

philh5 Aug 2026 11:40 UTC

134 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Help (re)start AI Safety at UPenn!

hazemh and galchen2

5 Aug 2026 9:42 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Persona Corruption and Role Miscasting in Emergent Misalignment

unruly abstractions5 Aug 2026 4:56 UTC

17 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Warning Shots for AI Existential Risk: Will society answer the wake-up calls it receives?

David Abecassis and peterbarnett

5 Aug 2026 4:30 UTC

31 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

(techgov.intelligence.org)

AISafety.com Hackathon 2026

Bryce Robertson5 Aug 2026 4:15 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

See all upcoming AI safety events and training programs

Bryce Robertson, honeybee, Emily Marais and Søren Elverlin

5 Aug 2026 3:28 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Various Ways to Enable People

warner5 Aug 2026 0:03 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The AI Race is Not a Prisoner’s Dilemma

Vaughn Papenhausen4 Aug 2026 23:45 UTC

67 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Norms Are Broken Laws

sirawit4 Aug 2026 23:42 UTC

−14 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Why I think we live in a “simulation”

Eye You4 Aug 2026 22:43 UTC

4 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Returning to ARC

paulfchristiano4 Aug 2026 22:27 UTC

387 points

36 comments9 min readLW link

Geometric Rationality acts linearly in additive scenarios

Bunthut4 Aug 2026 22:04 UTC

18 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Most donors get risk wrong

jackultraphil4 Aug 2026 20:35 UTC

14 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

An Amicable Ape

James Stephen Brown4 Aug 2026 19:49 UTC

−1 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Beyond Tech’s Power: On Status, Sacrifice, and the Search for Legitimacy

mhdempsey4 Aug 2026 19:46 UTC

3 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Why don’t we just give AI the answers?

Brendan Long4 Aug 2026 19:46 UTC

89 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Announcing Lateral Workshop for experienced professionals moving into AI safety

Seth Lifland, Jacob Brinton and Topaz

4 Aug 2026 19:00 UTC

38 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Does Your LLM Trust You?

Bhalewow4 Aug 2026 18:57 UTC

8 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Don’t Dither

sarahconstantin4 Aug 2026 17:10 UTC

41 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

There Will Come Soft Rains

tanagrabeast4 Aug 2026 16:56 UTC

130 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Commodifying Thinking

Rex Heng4 Aug 2026 16:55 UTC

2 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Would We See It Coming? Preference Falsification Cascades in Multi-Agent Systems

Sophia Hatz4 Aug 2026 16:35 UTC

15 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Lets fix factory farming with AI

Kate Delbeke4 Aug 2026 15:28 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Why Formation Research is Working on Secret Loyalties

Alfie Lamerton4 Aug 2026 14:52 UTC

23 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

General capability—and capabilities generally—have no good y-axis

Thrasymachus4 Aug 2026 14:25 UTC

40 points

9 comments31 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Rewrite All the Code, All the Time

Adam Chlipala4 Aug 2026 13:20 UTC

31 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

When should we trust a latent representation?

Ratnaditya J4 Aug 2026 11:16 UTC

8 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Working on Economics with Fable 5

Wilsoniumite4 Aug 2026 8:10 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

What if people value their work mattering?

Tim H4 Aug 2026 6:02 UTC

31 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

[LINK] The Ferrett fails will save against the Dark Arts

CronoDAS4 Aug 2026 5:29 UTC

22 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(theferrett.substack.com)

Attackers Can Subliminally Implant a Backdoor at Low Sample Count Without Prompt Access

keshavs3 Aug 2026 22:08 UTC

23 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Selective Identity

warner3 Aug 2026 21:38 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

III. Anthropic reasoning has issues with infinite worlds; D-SIA can fix this

Stuart_Armstrong3 Aug 2026 21:31 UTC

18 points

5 comments17 min readLW link