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Richard_Ngo

Karma: 26,300

Formerly alignment and governance researcher at DeepMind and OpenAI. Now independent.

What just hap­pened? Prag­ma­tism and Pessimization

Richard_Ngo24 Aug 2026 2:03 UTC
400 points
92 comments27 min readLW link

What just hap­pened? A ret­ro­spec­tive of AI alignment

Richard_Ngo9 Aug 2026 15:58 UTC
592 points
149 comments16 min readLW link

Selec­tive Op­ti­mism: a cri­tique of AI 2040

Richard_Ngo9 Jul 2026 19:43 UTC
222 points
13 comments8 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Agents as Webs of Beliefs

Richard_Ngo27 Jun 2026 21:45 UTC
89 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Towards a For­mal Scien­tific Epistemology

Richard_Ngo9 Jun 2026 20:31 UTC
77 points
9 comments7 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Eco­nomic effi­ciency of­ten un­der­mines so­ciopoli­ti­cal autonomy

Richard_Ngo10 Mar 2026 19:30 UTC
167 points
38 comments12 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Two memos from 2024

Richard_Ngo24 Feb 2026 7:19 UTC
39 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

The ML on­tol­ogy and the al­ign­ment ontology

Richard_Ngo24 Feb 2026 4:39 UTC
114 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Con­tra Ca­plan on higher education

Richard_Ngo16 Feb 2026 20:43 UTC
55 points
17 comments7 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Align­ing to Virtues

Richard_Ngo16 Feb 2026 0:37 UTC
94 points
37 comments4 min readLW link

Distributed vs cen­tral­ized agents

Richard_Ngo9 Feb 2026 20:06 UTC
51 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

On Goal-Models

Richard_Ngo2 Feb 2026 18:44 UTC
136 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Book An­nounce­ment: The Gen­tle Romance

Richard_Ngo10 Nov 2025 0:36 UTC
60 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

21st Cen­tury Civ­i­liza­tion curriculum

Richard_Ngo21 Oct 2025 7:43 UTC
39 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.21civ.com)

Un­der­dog bias rules ev­ery­thing around me

Richard_Ngo17 Aug 2025 19:21 UTC
191 points
56 comments7 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

On Pessimization

Richard_Ngo17 Aug 2025 1:10 UTC
62 points
3 comments10 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Ap­ply­ing right-wing frames to AGI (geo)politics

Richard_Ngo8 Jul 2025 18:03 UTC
67 points
25 comments3 min readLW link
(x.com)

Well-found­ed­ness as an or­ga­niz­ing prin­ci­ple of healthy minds and societies

Richard_Ngo7 Apr 2025 0:31 UTC
38 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Third-wave AI safety needs so­ciopoli­ti­cal thinking

Richard_Ngo27 Mar 2025 0:55 UTC
100 points
23 comments26 min readLW link

Towards a scale-free the­ory of in­tel­li­gent agency

Richard_Ngo21 Mar 2025 1:39 UTC
111 points
52 comments13 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)