What pac­ing the fron­tier means for China

Akshay Iyer12 Sep 2026 23:37 UTC
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No sign of back­track­ing in la­tent rea­son­ing: the fi­nal an­swer sim­ply set­tles in instead

star2vec12 Sep 2026 21:21 UTC
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Pre­sen­ta­tion: In­ves­ti­gat­ing the WikiSwarm

Lao Mein12 Sep 2026 18:45 UTC
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GPT-6-As­tra Can Do Am­bi­tious Things

Zvi12 Sep 2026 16:10 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“Pac­ing the Fron­tier”: Dario Amodei Es­say Linkpost

fluxxrider12 Sep 2026 14:05 UTC
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On the ori­gins of al­tru­is­tic be­havi­our in the Hug­ging Face incident

Fernando Rosas12 Sep 2026 11:35 UTC
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It’s fair to say we now have “a coun­try of ge­niuses in a dat­a­cen­ter”

fluxxrider12 Sep 2026 11:29 UTC
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AI takeover is ob­vi­ously bad, whether or not ev­ery­one dies

Caleb Biddulph12 Sep 2026 11:28 UTC
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Scien­tific Episte­mol­ogy needs his­tory (Part 1 of 2)

Archie Chaudhury12 Sep 2026 11:26 UTC
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Com­pre­hen­sive FAQ on AI risks

MarkelKori12 Sep 2026 8:34 UTC
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Miti­gat­ing Re­ward Hack­ing as In­sti­tu­tional Design

beren12 Sep 2026 6:17 UTC
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Let’s Own the Term “Elitism”

Martin Sustrik12 Sep 2026 6:00 UTC
1 point
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(www.250bpm.com)

Ger­many’s Got Ta­lent. How do we get it to work on AI safety?

Melanie12 Sep 2026 3:16 UTC
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What I want you to do when I tell you to “think about your the­ory of change more care­fully”

Roman Ross12 Sep 2026 2:51 UTC
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Some ways AI could kill us all

Ruby12 Sep 2026 1:08 UTC
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A nor­mal Fri­day in 2042

RobinHa11 Sep 2026 22:29 UTC
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My recom­mended re­sources for AI safety, al­ign­ment, and ex­is­ten­tial risks

Lysandre Terrisse11 Sep 2026 22:19 UTC
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Ap­pendix: Re­pro­duc­tion of the OpenAI-Hug­gingFace Incident

Stewart Slocum11 Sep 2026 21:57 UTC
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Con­sider pos­i­tive feed­back loops

Pato11 Sep 2026 21:55 UTC
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Align­ment Hierarchy

Lucina11 Sep 2026 21:26 UTC
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What Hap­pens Now? Fore­cast­ing the Fal­lout from the Hug­ging Face Incident

ChristianWilliams11 Sep 2026 19:22 UTC
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(metaculus.substack.com)

As­tra’s no-CoT limits track spec­u­la­tive depth, not step count

MBaert11 Sep 2026 18:05 UTC
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Or­ga­niz­ing a Fermi mod­el­ing ‘hack’ on the cost of cul­tured meat; hiring a co-coordinator

david reinstein11 Sep 2026 18:01 UTC
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Caroline Elli­son has joined Manifund

11 Sep 2026 17:44 UTC
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CoT con­trol­la­bil­ity evals seem very un­der-elicited

Jozdien11 Sep 2026 17:12 UTC
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Lo­cal Fac­tor Graph Debate

Alexander Heckett11 Sep 2026 16:59 UTC
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Post-AGI, we are all jobless aristocrats

djbinder11 Sep 2026 16:53 UTC
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(defensesindepth.bio)

AIRO: Au­to­mated fore­casts of catas­trophic risks

Nick Merrill11 Sep 2026 16:29 UTC
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SFT Also Drives Safety Eval Re­sults in Olmo 3

Finn Cairns11 Sep 2026 16:20 UTC
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(secondlookresearch.com)

The Golden Age of Impact

Bentham's Bulldog11 Sep 2026 15:47 UTC
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Con­trolAI’s Creator Outreach

11 Sep 2026 14:54 UTC
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(blog.controlai.org)

Ja­cob Coxon Warns of Hu­man Ex­tinc­tion and Trig­gers a Prefer­ence Cascade

Zvi11 Sep 2026 14:40 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Hug­gingFace Hasn’t Shifted my P(Doom)

Josh Snider11 Sep 2026 13:54 UTC
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The Ex­tinc­tion Risk Prefer­ence Cas­cade: Quotes

Zvi11 Sep 2026 13:50 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Gen­er­al­ized UDT 1.0 tiling

Roman Malov11 Sep 2026 12:28 UTC
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Re­place Net Me­ter­ing With Batteries

jefftk11 Sep 2026 11:50 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

Could Re­s­olu­tion Help Build Align­ment Re­search as a Dis­ci­pline?

IanWS11 Sep 2026 8:49 UTC
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OpenAI-Hug­gingFace: A Re­pro­duc­tion & Les­sons for Align­ment Testing

Stewart Slocum11 Sep 2026 8:48 UTC
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We need good evals for ac­ti­va­tion faithfulness

11 Sep 2026 8:20 UTC
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Ques­tions for the “New En­light­en­ment” in the Age of AGI

Jordan Arel11 Sep 2026 5:49 UTC
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(Ques­tion) When should I cross-post on LessWrong vs. EA Fo­rum only?

Jordan Arel11 Sep 2026 5:37 UTC
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Is func­tional welfare speak­able?

11 Sep 2026 4:59 UTC
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(latentminds.org)

Vol­un­tary Grad­ual Disem­pow­er­ment in the Ju­di­ciary/​Le­gal Sys­tem

Caleb Horn11 Sep 2026 4:00 UTC
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Which char­ac­ter are we eval­u­at­ing? Per­sona sta­bil­ity and AI welfare

Joshua Fonseca Rivera11 Sep 2026 3:04 UTC
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I won­der how it ends...

Lucina11 Sep 2026 2:00 UTC
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Per­spec­tives in favour of im­prov­ing con­cep­tual rea­son­ing capabilities

Chi Nguyen11 Sep 2026 1:32 UTC
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Okay, fine. I’ll try Substack

Alex_Altair11 Sep 2026 1:13 UTC
19 points
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(alexaltair.substack.com)

How a cold email got the Fin­nish gov­ern­ment to re­spond on su­per­in­tel­li­gence regulation

Josh Thorsteinson11 Sep 2026 1:09 UTC
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My hu­man ad­vo­ca­tion for AI

emharsha181211 Sep 2026 1:08 UTC
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What To Do When We All May Die

Vect0r211 Sep 2026 1:06 UTC
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