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What I did in the he­do­nium shock­wave, by Emma, age six and a half

ozymandias13 Apr 2026 16:47 UTC
125 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(ozybrennan.substack.com)

How Go Play­ers Disem­power Them­selves to AI

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez1 May 2026 23:24 UTC
590 points
61 comments8 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence Dis­solves Privacy

Vaniver2 Apr 2026 3:50 UTC
158 points
70 comments6 min readLW link

Pas­sages I High­lighted in The Let­ters of J.R.R.Tolkien

Ivan Vendrov25 Nov 2024 1:47 UTC
145 points
44 comments31 min readLW link

What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC
453 points
55 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

My jour­ney to the microwave al­ter­nate timeline

Malmesbury10 Feb 2026 17:59 UTC
772 points
58 comments10 min readLW link

Real-Life Ex­am­ples of Pre­dic­tion Sys­tems In­terfer­ing with the Real World (Pre­dict-O-Matic Prob­lems)

NunoSempere3 Dec 2020 22:00 UTC
135 points
30 comments9 min readLW link

The Terrarium

Caleb Biddulph26 Mar 2026 18:08 UTC
550 points
49 comments21 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­ized Han­gri­ness: A Stan­dard Ra­tion­al­ist Stance Toward Emotions

johnswentworth10 Jul 2025 18:22 UTC
372 points
71 comments7 min readLW link

Ac­countabil­ity Sinks

Martin Sustrik22 Apr 2025 5:00 UTC
454 points
59 comments15 min readLW link
(250bpm.substack.com)

In­ter­pretabil­ity Will Not Reli­ably Find De­cep­tive AI

Neel Nanda4 May 2025 16:32 UTC
336 points
69 comments7 min readLW link

The 3 Books Tech­nique for Learn­ing a New Skilll

Trinley Goldenberg9 Jan 2019 12:45 UTC
217 points
50 comments2 min readLW link

How I stopped be­ing sure LLMs are just mak­ing up their in­ter­nal ex­pe­rience (but the topic is still con­fus­ing)

Kaj_Sotala13 Dec 2025 12:38 UTC
202 points
68 comments29 min readLW link

Morale

J Bostock12 Apr 2026 20:15 UTC
302 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

Utility Max­i­miza­tion = De­scrip­tion Length Minimization

johnswentworth18 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC
226 points
54 comments6 min readLW link

The Problem

Rob Bensinger, tanagrabeast, yams, So8res, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Gretta Duleba
5 Aug 2025 21:40 UTC
326 points
219 comments26 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC
617 points
172 comments16 min readLW link1 review

Babble

alkjash10 Jan 2018 21:56 UTC
225 points
36 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The Talk: a brief ex­pla­na­tion of sex­ual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC
553 points
79 comments16 min readLW link3 reviews

You can’t imi­ta­tion-learn how to con­tinual-learn

Steven Byrnes16 Mar 2026 21:20 UTC
186 points
51 comments6 min readLW link