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Raymond Douglas

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I’m a researcher at ACS working on understanding agency and optimisation, especially in the context of how ais work and how society is going to work once the ais are everywhere.

The Machines Lack Honour

Raymond Douglas9 Jun 2026 15:30 UTC
172 points
20 comments12 min readLW link

Op­ti­mi­sa­tion: Selec­tive ver­sus Predictive

Raymond Douglas12 May 2026 14:03 UTC
117 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Up­com­ing Work­shop on Post-AGI Civ­i­liza­tional Equil­ibria

30 Apr 2026 19:51 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Per­sona Self-repli­ca­tion experiment

2 Apr 2026 18:18 UTC
39 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(theartificialself.ai)

Per­sona self-repli­ca­tion experiment

2 Apr 2026 18:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

La­tent In­tro­spec­tion (and other open-source in­tro­spec­tion pa­pers)

24 Mar 2026 21:23 UTC
96 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Models differ in iden­tity propensities

16 Mar 2026 10:45 UTC
58 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

The Ar­tifi­cial Self

15 Mar 2026 1:37 UTC
122 points
13 comments29 min readLW link

Per­sona Parasitology

Raymond Douglas16 Feb 2026 16:22 UTC
177 points
38 comments11 min readLW link

Disem­pow­er­ment pat­terns in real-world AI usage

29 Jan 2026 16:36 UTC
49 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

GD Roundup #4 - in­fer­ence, mo­nop­o­lies, and AI Jesus

Raymond Douglas14 Jan 2026 15:43 UTC
38 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

When does com­pe­ti­tion lead to recog­nis­able val­ues?

12 Jan 2026 23:13 UTC
66 points
18 comments25 min readLW link
(postagi.org)

The Eco­nomics of Trans­for­ma­tive AI

8 Jan 2026 22:22 UTC
64 points
4 comments18 min readLW link
(post-agi.org)

Grad­ual Disem­pow­er­ment Monthly Roundup #3

Raymond Douglas9 Dec 2025 16:02 UTC
49 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ray­mond Dou­glas’s Shortform

Raymond Douglas9 Dec 2025 13:30 UTC
7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Grad­ual Disem­pow­er­ment Monthly Roundup #2

Raymond Douglas9 Nov 2025 14:43 UTC
46 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Up­com­ing Work­shop on Post-AGI Eco­nomics, Cul­ture, and Governance

28 Oct 2025 21:55 UTC
43 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Grad­ual Disem­pow­er­ment Monthly Roundup

Raymond Douglas6 Oct 2025 15:36 UTC
121 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Sum­mary of our Work­shop on Post-AGI Outcomes

29 Aug 2025 17:14 UTC
112 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Healthy AI re­la­tion­ships as a microcosm

Raymond Douglas23 Jul 2025 15:59 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link