Raymond Douglas

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Gradual Disempowerment Monthly Roundup #2

Raymond DouglasNov 9, 2025, 2:43 PM

30 points

10 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

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

David Duvenaud, Raymond Douglas, Jan_Kulveit, scasper and MariaK

Oct 28, 2025, 9:55 PM

36 points

8 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Gradual Disempowerment Monthly Roundup

Raymond DouglasOct 6, 2025, 3:36 PM

119 points

48 votes

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9 comments6 min readLW link

Summary of our Workshop on Post-AGI Outcomes

David Duvenaud, Raymond Douglas, Nora_Ammann and Jan_Kulveit

Aug 29, 2025, 5:14 PM

107 points

41 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Healthy AI relationships as a microcosm

Raymond DouglasJul 23, 2025, 3:59 PM

13 points

6 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

‘AI for societal uplift’ as a path to victory

Raymond DouglasJul 4, 2025, 3:32 PM

85 points

32 votes

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22 comments2 min readLW link

Upcoming workshop on Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria

David Duvenaud, Jan_Kulveit, Raymond Douglas, Nora_Ammann and David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)

Jun 21, 2025, 3:57 PM

25 points

11 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Gradual Disempowerment: Concrete Research Projects

Raymond DouglasMay 29, 2025, 6:55 PM

100 points

37 votes

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10 comments10 min readLW link

Disempowerment spirals as a likely mechanism for existential catastrophe

Raymond Douglas and owencb

Apr 10, 2025, 2:37 PM

74 points

25 votes

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7 comments5 min readLW link

Selection Pressures on LM Personas

Raymond DouglasMar 28, 2025, 8:33 PM

39 points

13 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development

Jan_Kulveit, Raymond Douglas, Nora_Ammann, Deger Turan, David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet) and David Duvenaud

Jan 30, 2025, 5:03 PM

167 points

61 votes

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65 comments2 min readLW link

(gradual-disempowerment.ai)

What does success look like?

Raymond DouglasJan 23, 2025, 5:48 PM

11 points

3 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

The Choice Transition

owencb and Raymond Douglas

Nov 18, 2024, 12:30 PM

54 points

16 votes

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4 comments15 min readLW link

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Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires

owencb and Raymond Douglas

Jul 11, 2024, 9:38 AM

155 points

57 votes

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32 comments12 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

ChatGPT can learn indirect control

Raymond DouglasMar 21, 2024, 9:11 PM

213 points

125 votes

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27 comments1 min readLW link

Predictive model agents are sort of corrigible

Raymond DouglasJan 5, 2024, 2:05 PM

35 points

12 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

Picking Mentors For Research Programmes

Raymond DouglasNov 10, 2023, 1:01 PM

105 points

51 votes

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8 comments4 min readLW link

Goal-Direction for Simulated Agents

Raymond DouglasJul 12, 2023, 5:06 PM

33 points

13 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

Language Models can be Utility-Maximising Agents

Raymond DouglasFeb 1, 2023, 6:13 PM

22 points

14 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Taking Clones Seriously

Raymond DouglasDec 1, 2021, 5:29 PM

56 points

33 votes

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45 comments2 min readLW link

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