Davidmanheim

Karma: 6,600

If AI is normal technology, history is not reassuring.

Davidmanheim20 May 2026 7:21 UTC

55 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

You Aren’t in Charge of the Overton Window; Politics Is Not Interior Design

Davidmanheim16 Apr 2026 8:08 UTC

63 points

15 comments12 min readLW link

Treaties, Regulations, and Research can be Complements

Davidmanheim13 Apr 2026 7:04 UTC

24 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

“What Exactly Would An International AI Treaty Say?” Is a Bad Objection

Davidmanheim26 Mar 2026 16:29 UTC

92 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

$1 billion is not enough; OpenAI Foundation must start spending tens of billions each year

Davidmanheim25 Mar 2026 13:04 UTC

49 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Hunting Undead Stochastic Parrots: Finding and Killing the Arguments

Davidmanheim12 Mar 2026 11:37 UTC

48 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

The Law of Positive-Sum Badness

Davidmanheim8 Mar 2026 13:27 UTC

51 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Smokey, This is not ’Nam Or: [Already] over the [red] line!

Davidmanheim8 Feb 2026 12:24 UTC

110 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Security Complacency Meets Frontier AI: The Coming Collapse of ‘Secure by Apathy’

Davidmanheim25 Nov 2025 9:39 UTC

20 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

AIs should also refuse to work on capabilities research

Davidmanheim27 Oct 2025 8:42 UTC

168 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

12 Angry Agents, or: A Plan for AI Empathy

Ram Rachum and Davidmanheim

14 Oct 2025 15:24 UTC

22 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

Messy on Purpose: Part 2 of A Conservative Vision for the Future

Davidmanheim and Ram Rachum

7 Oct 2025 17:00 UTC

17 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

The Counterfactual Quiet AGI Timeline

Davidmanheim5 Oct 2025 9:09 UTC

72 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

A Conservative Vision For AI Alignment

Davidmanheim and Ram Rachum

21 Aug 2025 18:14 UTC

26 points

35 comments12 min readLW link

Semiotic Grounding as a Precondition for Safe and Cooperative AI

Davidmanheim27 Jul 2025 16:11 UTC

22 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

No, We’re Not Getting Meaningful Oversight of AI

Davidmanheim9 Jul 2025 11:10 UTC

48 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The Fragility of Naive Dynamism

Davidmanheim19 May 2025 7:51 UTC

20 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

Therapist in the Weights: Risks of Hyper-Introspection in Future AI Systems

Davidmanheim28 Apr 2025 6:42 UTC

15 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Grounded Ghosts in the Machine—Friston Blankets, Mirror Neurons, and the Quest for Cooperative AI

Davidmanheim10 Apr 2025 10:15 UTC

9 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(davidmanheim.com)

Davidmanheim’s Shortform

Davidmanheim16 Jan 2025 8:23 UTC

7 points

18 comments1 min readLW link