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Richard_Ngo

Karma: 27,622

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

Higher ed­u­ca­tion as class commitment

Richard_Ngo4 Sep 2026 2:00 UTC
60 points
4 comments16 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Ex­plain­ing Knigh­ti­anism on one foot

Richard_Ngo2 Sep 2026 0:53 UTC
157 points
23 comments11 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Devel­op­ing frames

Richard_Ngo26 Aug 2026 17:41 UTC
30 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

What just hap­pened? Prag­ma­tism and Pessimization

Richard_Ngo24 Aug 2026 2:03 UTC
466 points
176 comments27 min readLW link

What just hap­pened? A ret­ro­spec­tive of AI alignment

Richard_Ngo9 Aug 2026 15:58 UTC
635 points
152 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
91 points
11 comments9 min readLW link
(www.mindthefuture.info)

Towards a For­mal Scien­tific Epistemology

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

Eco­nomic effi­ciency of­ten un­der­mines so­ciopoli­ti­cal autonomy

Richard_Ngo10 Mar 2026 19:30 UTC
166 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
120 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Con­tra Ca­plan on higher education

Richard_Ngo16 Feb 2026 20:43 UTC
61 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
64 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)