Poetry

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Zack_M_Davis12 Oct 2020 3:35 UTC

63 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalist Poetry Fans, Unite!

Scott Alexander20 Mar 2009 1:58 UTC

42 points

35 comments12 min readLW link

Less Wrong Poetry Corner: Coventry Patmore’s “Magna Est Veritas”

Zack_M_Davis30 Jan 2021 5:16 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Less Wrong Poetry Corner: Walter Raleigh’s “The Lie”

Zack_M_Davis4 Jan 2020 22:22 UTC

25 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

Storyteller’s convention, 2223 A.D.

plex7 Apr 2023 11:54 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Savanna Poets

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Mar 2008 18:42 UTC

73 points

40 comments5 min readLW link

Musing on the Many Worlds Hypothesis

David Gross5 Jul 2021 19:38 UTC

26 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

We Choose To Align AI

johnswentworth1 Jan 2022 20:06 UTC

286 points

17 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

You Can Face Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC

233 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

Calibration proverbs

Malmesbury11 Jan 2022 5:11 UTC

77 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Attach Yourself to the Right Person, and You’ll Go Far (a nerdy poem about bugs)

Character#273615 Feb 2026 23:36 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Snaw

Screwtape8 Nov 2025 6:42 UTC

23 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Babble

alkjash10 Jan 2018 21:56 UTC

226 points

36 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Poetic Methods I: Meter as Communication Protocol

adamShimi1 Feb 2025 18:22 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

The Litany Against Gurus

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Dec 2007 20:11 UTC

46 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

Big Yellow Tractor (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Feb 2020 18:43 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Even if you’re right, you’re wrong

DanielFilan22 Nov 2021 5:40 UTC

18 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

In remembrance of Sonnet ‘3.6’

kromem22 Oct 2025 0:43 UTC

18 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

The Myth of the Blue Sunlight

ship_shlap26 Feb 2022 21:42 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Charlatan Labyrinth

niplav16 Feb 2026 17:56 UTC

16 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

“Tilakkhana”, Gwern [poem]

gwern21 Oct 2025 2:39 UTC

22 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

Bayesiance (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Aug 2020 16:30 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The poetry of progress

jasoncrawford15 Nov 2021 19:24 UTC

51 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

MacArthur BART (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Jan 2023 22:50 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

A Tree of Light

Jarred Filmer18 Dec 2021 0:36 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Army of Jakoths (a parable)

MikkW21 May 2023 22:48 UTC

−6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A sonnet, a sestina, a villanelle

mingyuan9 Nov 2025 5:20 UTC

27 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(mingyuan.substack.com)

A Transhumanist Poem

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 5 Mar 2011 9:16 UTC

23 points

50 comments1 min readLW link

Parfit’s Escape (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley29 Mar 2019 2:31 UTC

41 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Epistemic status: poetry (and other poems)

Richard_Ngo21 Nov 2024 18:13 UTC

52 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Stanzas On Power Calculation

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 19:15 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

One night, without sleep

Mitchell_Porter16 Aug 2018 17:50 UTC

27 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

The Tree of Worlds (Solstice speech)

jchan20 Dec 2021 4:39 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Inching “Kubla Khan” and GPT into the same intellectual framework @ 3 Quarks Daily

Bill Benzon28 Mar 2023 19:50 UTC

5 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Самовопрошание

Vadim Golub9 Aug 2025 19:18 UTC

−7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

I am the very model of a self-recursive modeler

Jacob Falkovich6 Sep 2018 21:45 UTC

46 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Litany of a Bright Dilettante

Shmi18 Apr 2013 5:06 UTC

89 points

71 comments1 min readLW link

Emily Brontë on: Psychology Required for Serious™ AGI Safety Research

robertzk14 Sep 2022 14:47 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

I wrote this because of watermelon

Arti8 Jun 2023 3:55 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Little Johny Bayesian

Darmani18 Mar 2009 21:30 UTC

16 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

A poem for LessWrong

RolfAndreassen28 Jan 2011 20:40 UTC

32 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Vector semantics and “Kubla Khan,” Part 2

Bill Benzon17 Mar 2023 16:32 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Fred the Heretic, a GPT for poetry

Bill Benzon8 Dec 2024 16:52 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

MAKE IT BETTER (a poetic demonstration of the banality of GPT-3)

rogersbacon2 Jan 2023 20:47 UTC

7 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

At last! ChatGPT does, shall we say, interesting imitations of “Kubla Khan”

Bill Benzon24 Apr 2024 14:56 UTC

−3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Xanadu, GPT, and Beyond: An adventure of the mind

Bill Benzon27 Aug 2023 16:19 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Broken Creatures

jjmaturino29 Oct 2025 20:15 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(juan.maturino.me)

Frankenstein Delenda Est

eapache10 Jul 2020 14:38 UTC

11 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Storm by Tim Minchin

Vladimir_Nesov15 Mar 2009 14:48 UTC

17 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

What’s good about haikus?

KatjaGrace13 Jan 2021 8:10 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Psychoanalysis and Artificial Intelligence

Felipe K. Massaro15 May 2025 13:55 UTC

1 point

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The Gift We Give Tomorrow, Spoken Word [Finished?]

Raemon2 Dec 2011 3:20 UTC

37 points

39 comments6 min readLW link

Give my children minds

momom220 May 2026 14:14 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Science and Fiction: a pragmatic approach

Pedro R. Andrade28 Jul 2025 11:57 UTC

1 point

0 comments12 min readLW link

The Anti-Basilisk Cycle – A Human–AI Collaboration Born in One Unbroken Conversation

ЯΛIИ™22 Nov 2025 3:27 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

The AI Control Problem in a wider intellectual context

philosophybear13 Jan 2023 0:28 UTC

11 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

A poem written by a fancy autocomplete

Christopher King20 Apr 2023 2:31 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ

jan Sijan13 Apr 2023 15:37 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Seeing Ghosts by GPT-4

Christopher King20 May 2023 0:11 UTC

−13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Vector semantics and the (in-context) construction of meaning in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”

Bill Benzon14 Mar 2023 19:16 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

GOAL! Alignment—a short poem about a LLM having psychosis

Yoann B2 Jul 2026 13:30 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(yo252yo.substack.com)

A poem co-written by ChatGPT

Sherrinford16 Feb 2023 10:17 UTC

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Personal Account: To the Muck and the Mire

soycarts12 Nov 2025 19:38 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Merry Newtonmas LW. Have some rationalist music.

Spurlock25 Dec 2011 15:41 UTC

33 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Other Path—a poem

Jacob Falkovich15 Jul 2015 13:40 UTC

24 points

10 comments1 min readLW link