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"10 posts I don’t have time to write" by habryka

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"$50 million a year for a 10% chance to ban ASI" by Andrea_Miotti, Alex Amadori, Gabriel Alfour

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"Evil is bad, actually (Vassar and Olivia Schaefer callout post)" by plex

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"10 non-boring ways I’ve used AI in the last month" by habryka

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"Feel like a room has bad vibes? The lighting is probably too “spiky” or too blue" by habryka

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"Quality Matters Most When Stakes are Highest" by LawrenceC

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"Reevaluating AGI Ruin in 2026" by lc

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"Having OCD is like living in North Korea (Here’s how I escaped)" by Declan Molony

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"There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical" by habryka

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"Meaningful Questions Have Return Types" by Drake Morrison

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"Carpathia Day" by Drake Morrison

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"Let goodness conquer all that it can defend" by habryka

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"Do not conquer what you cannot defend" by habryka

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"Nectome: All That I Know" by Raelifin

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"Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me" by ryan_greenblatt

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"Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them" by Raemon

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"Morale" by J Bostock

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"Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes" by Alex Mallen, ryan_greenblatt

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"The policy surrounding Mythos marks an irreversible power shift" by sil

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"Only Law Can Prevent Extinction" by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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"Dario probably doesn’t believe in superintelligence" by RobertM

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"Daycare illnesses" by Nina Panickssery

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"If Mythos actually made Anthropic employees 4x more productive, I would radically shorten my timelines" by ryan_greenblatt

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"Do not be surprised if LessWrong gets hacked" by RobertM

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"My picture of the present in AI" by ryan_greenblatt

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"The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life" by kman

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"AIs can now often do massive easy-to-verify SWE tasks and I’ve updated towards shorter timelines" by ryan_greenblatt

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"dark ilan" by ozymandias

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"Dispatch from Anthropic v. Department of War Preliminary Injunction Motion Hearing" by Zack_M_Davis

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"The Corner-Stone" by Benquo

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"The Practical Guide to Superbabies" by GeneSmith

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"Anthropic’s Pause is the Most Expensive Alarm in Corporate History" by Ruby

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"“You Have Not Been a Good User” (LessWrong’s second album)" by habryka

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"Lesswrong Liberated" by Ronny Fernandez

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"Product Alignment is not Superintelligence Alignment (and we need the latter to survive)" by plex

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"Gyre" by vgel

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"Some things I noticed while LARPing as a grantmaker" by Zach Stein-Perlman

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"My hobby: running deranged surveys" by leogao

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"Socrates is Mortal" by Benquo

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"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

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"My Most Costly Delusion" by Ihor Kendiukhov

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"The Case for Low-Competence ASI Failure Scenarios" by Ihor Kendiukhov

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"Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?" by Benquo

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"You can’t imitation-learn how to continual-learn" by Steven Byrnes

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"Nullius in Verba" by Aurelia

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"Broad Timelines" by Toby_Ord

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"No, we haven’t uploaded a fly yet" by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

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"Terrified Comments on Corrigibility in Claude’s Constitution" by Zack_M_Davis

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"PSA: Predictions markets often have very low liquidity; be careful citing them." by Eye You

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"“The AI Doc” is coming out March 26" by Rob Bensinger, Beckeck

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"Customer Satisfaction Opportunities" by Tomás B.

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"Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline" by Ihor Kendiukhov

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"Personality Self-Replicators" by eggsyntax

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"My Willing Complicity In “Human Rights Abuse”" by AlphaAndOmega

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"Economic efficiency often undermines sociopolitical autonomy" by Richard_Ngo

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"Don’t Let LLMs Write For You" by JustisMills

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"Thoughts on the Pause AI protest" by philh

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"Prologue to Terrified Comments on Claude’s Constitution" by Zack_M_Davis

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"Less Dead" by Aurelia

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"Gemma Needs Help" by Anna Soligo

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"On Independence Axiom" by Ihor Kendiukhov

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"Solar storms" by Croissanthology

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"Schelling Goodness, and Shared Morality as a Goal" by Andrew_Critch

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"Maybe there’s a pattern here?" by dynomight

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"OpenAI’s surveillance language has many potential loopholes and they can do better" by Tom Smith

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"An Alignment Journal: Coming Soon" by Dan MacKinlay, JessRiedel, Edmund Lau, Daniel Murfet, Scott Aaronson, Jan_Kulveit

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"Frontier AI companies probably can’t leave the US" by Anders Woodruff

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"Persona Parasitology" by Raymond Douglas

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"Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers" by jefftk

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"Anthropic: “Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War”" by Matrice Jacobine

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"Are there lessons from high-reliability engineering for AGI safety?" by Steven Byrnes

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"Open sourcing a browser extension that tells you when people are wrong on the internet" by lc

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"The persona selection model" by Sam Marks

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"Responsible Scaling Policy v3" by HoldenKarnofsky

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"Did Claude 3 Opus align itself via gradient hacking?" by Fiora Starlight

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"The Spectre haunting the “AI Safety” Community" by Gabriel Alfour

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"Why we should expect ruthless sociopath ASI" by Steven Byrnes

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"You’re an AI Expert – Not an Influencer" by Max Winga

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"The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19" by GeneSmith

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"The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference" by Abhishaike Mahajan

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"The world keeps getting saved and you don’t notice" by Bogoed

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"Solemn Courage" by aysja

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"Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse" by Martin Sustrik

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"Why You Don’t Believe in Xhosa Prophecies" by Jan_Kulveit

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"Weight-Sparse Circuits May Be Interpretable Yet Unfaithful" by jacob_drori

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"My journey to the microwave alternate timeline" by Malmesbury

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"Stone Age Billionaire Can’t Words Good" by Eneasz

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"On Goal-Models" by Richard_Ngo

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"Prompt injection in Google Translate reveals base model behaviors behind task-specific fine-tuning" by megasilverfist

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"Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics" by eleweek

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"Post-AGI Economics As If Nothing Ever Happens" by Jan_Kulveit

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"IABIED Book Review: Core Arguments and Counterarguments" by Stephen McAleese

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"Anthropic’s “Hot Mess” paper overstates its case (and the blog post is worse)" by RobertM

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"Conditional Kickstarter for the “Don’t Build It” March" by Raemon

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"How to Hire a Team" by Gretta Duleba

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"The Possessed Machines (summary)" by L Rudolf L

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"Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance" by Martin Sustrik

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"AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (while curl cancelled its bug bounty)" by Stanislav Fort

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"Dario Amodei – The Adolescence of Technology" by habryka

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"AlgZoo: uninterpreted models with fewer than 1,500 parameters" by Jacob_Hilton