owencb

Karma: 2,622

AI for epistemics: the good, the bad and the ugly

owencb and rosehadshar

13 Apr 2026 17:16 UTC

19 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Defense-favoured coordination design sketches

owencb, Oliver Sourbut, Lizka and rosehadshar

6 Apr 2026 15:19 UTC

18 points

6 comments25 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Persona Self-replication experiment

Jan_Kulveit, Raymond Douglas, vgel, Ondřej Havlíček, owencb and David Duvenaud

2 Apr 2026 18:18 UTC

39 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(theartificialself.ai)

Persona self-replication experiment

Jan_Kulveit, Raymond Douglas, vgel, Ondřej Havlíček, owencb and David Duvenaud

2 Apr 2026 18:10 UTC

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

AI for AI for Epistemics

owencb and Lukas Finnveden

1 Apr 2026 16:12 UTC

50 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Models differ in identity propensities

Jan_Kulveit, Raymond Douglas, vgel, owencb, David Duvenaud and Ondřej Havlíček

16 Mar 2026 10:45 UTC

58 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

The Artificial Self

Jan_Kulveit, Raymond Douglas, vgel, owencb, David Duvenaud and Ondřej Havlíček

15 Mar 2026 1:37 UTC

118 points

13 comments29 min readLW link

Strategic awareness tools: design sketches

rosehadshar, owencb, Lizka and Oliver Sourbut

11 Feb 2026 12:28 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Design sketches for a more sensible world

owencb, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut and rosehadshar

9 Feb 2026 10:22 UTC

26 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Design sketches for angels-on-the-shoulder

owencb, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut and rosehadshar

9 Feb 2026 9:52 UTC

23 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

How (and why) to read Drexler on AI

owencb21 Jan 2026 23:25 UTC

55 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Human Dignity: a review

owencb8 Dec 2025 20:37 UTC

32 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Embedded Altruism [slides]

owencb1 Jul 2025 13:02 UTC

22 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The crucible — how I think about the situation with AI

owencb5 May 2025 13:18 UTC

25 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Disempowerment spirals as a likely mechanism for existential catastrophe

Raymond Douglas and owencb

10 Apr 2025 14:37 UTC

76 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Knowledge, Reasoning, and Superintelligence

owencb26 Mar 2025 23:28 UTC

21 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

AI Tools for Existential Security

Lizka and owencb

14 Mar 2025 18:38 UTC

22 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

The Choice Transition

owencb and Raymond Douglas

18 Nov 2024 12:30 UTC

54 points

6 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

(strangecities.substack.com)

A brief history of the automated corporation

owencb4 Nov 2024 14:35 UTC

26 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy

owencb and AI Impacts

28 Oct 2024 17:10 UTC

40 points

3 comments30 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)