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"Dario Amodei – The Adolescence of Technology" by habryka
"AlgZoo: uninterpreted models with fewer than 1,500 parameters" by Jacob_Hilton
"Does Pentagon Pizza Theory Work?" by rba
"The inaugural Redwood Research podcast" by Buck, ryan_greenblatt
"Canada Lost Its Measles Elimination Status Because We Don’t Have Enough Nurses Who Speak Low German" by jenn
"Deep learning as program synthesis" by Zach Furman
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa
"Claude’s new constitution" by Zac Hatfield-Dodds
[Linkpost] "“The first two weeks are the hardest”: my first digital declutter" by mingyuan
"What Washington Says About AGI" by zroe1
"Precedents for the Unprecedented: Historical Analogies for Thirteen Artificial Superintelligence Risks" by James_Miller
"Why we are excited about confession!" by boazbarak, Gabriel Wu, Manas Joglekar
"Backyard cat fight shows Schelling points preexist language" by jchan
"How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret" by Nicholas Andresen
"On Owning Galaxies" by Simon Lermen
"AI Futures Timelines and Takeoff Model: Dec 2025 Update" by elifland, bhalstead, Alex Kastner, Daniel Kokotajlo
"In My Misanthropy Era" by jenn
"2025 in AI predictions" by jessicata
"Good if make prior after data instead of before" by dynomight
"Measuring no CoT math time horizon (single forward pass)" by ryan_greenblatt
"Recent LLMs can use filler tokens or problem repeats to improve (no-CoT) math performance" by ryan_greenblatt
"Turning 20 in the probable pre-apocalypse" by Parv Mahajan
"Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment" by Cam, Puria Radmard, Kyle O’Brien, David Africa, Samuel Ratnam, andyk
"Dancing in a World of Horseradish" by lsusr
"Contradict my take on OpenPhil’s past AI beliefs" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
"Opinionated Takes on Meetups Organizing" by jenn
"How to game the METR plot" by shash42
"Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers" by Sam Marks, Adam Karvonen, James Chua, Subhash Kantamneni, Euan Ong, Julian Minder, Clément Dumas, Owain_Evans
"Scientific breakthroughs of the year" by technicalities
"A high integrity/epistemics political machine?" by Raemon
"How I stopped being sure LLMs are just making up their internal experience (but the topic is still confusing)" by Kaj_Sotala
“My AGI safety research—2025 review, ’26 plans” by Steven Byrnes
“Weird Generalization & Inductive Backdoors” by Jorio Cocola, Owain_Evans, dylan_f
“Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon” by Julian Bradshaw
“The funding conversation we left unfinished” by jenn
“The behavioral selection model for predicting AI motivations” by Alex Mallen, Buck
“Little Echo” by Zvi
“A Pragmatic Vision for Interpretability” by Neel Nanda
“AI in 2025: gestalt” by technicalities
“Eliezer’s Unteachable Methods of Sanity” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
“An Ambitious Vision for Interpretability” by leogao
“6 reasons why ‘alignment-is-hard’ discourse seems alien to human intuitions, and vice-versa” by Steven Byrnes
“Three things that surprised me about technical grantmaking at Coefficient Giving (fka Open Phil)” by null
“MIRI’s 2025 Fundraiser” by alexvermeer
“The Best Lack All Conviction: A Confusing Day in the AI Village” by null
“The Boring Part of Bell Labs” by Elizabeth
[Linkpost] “The Missing Genre: Heroic Parenthood - You can have kids and still punch the sun” by null
“Writing advice: Why people like your quick bullshit takes better than your high-effort posts” by null
“Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document” by null
“Unless its governance changes, Anthropic is untrustworthy” by null
“Alignment remains a hard, unsolved problem” by null
“Video games are philosophy’s playground” by Rachel Shu
“Stop Applying And Get To Work” by plex
“Gemini 3 is Evaluation-Paranoid and Contaminated” by null
“Natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking in production RL” by evhub, Monte M, Benjamin Wright, Jonathan Uesato
“Anthropic is (probably) not meeting its RSP security commitments” by habryka
“Varieties Of Doom” by jdp
“How Colds Spread” by RobertM
“New Report: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence” by Aaron_Scher, David Abecassis, Brian Abeyta, peterbarnett
“Where is the Capital? An Overview” by johnswentworth
“Problems I’ve Tried to Legibilize” by Wei Dai
“Do not hand off what you cannot pick up” by habryka
“7 Vicious Vices of Rationalists” by Ben Pace
“Tell people as early as possible it’s not going to work out” by habryka
“Everyone has a plan until they get lied to the face” by Screwtape
“Please, Don’t Roll Your Own Metaethics” by Wei Dai
“Paranoia rules everything around me” by habryka
“Human Values ≠ Goodness” by johnswentworth
“Condensation” by abramdemski
“Mourning a life without AI” by Nikola Jurkovic
“Unexpected Things that are People” by Ben Goldhaber
“Sonnet 4.5’s eval gaming seriously undermines alignment evals, and this seems caused by training on alignment evals” by Alexa Pan, ryan_greenblatt
“Publishing academic papers on transformative AI is a nightmare” by Jakub Growiec
“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fiction” by Raelifin
“Legible vs. Illegible AI Safety Problems” by Wei Dai
“Lack of Social Grace is a Lack of Skill” by Screwtape
[Linkpost] “I ate bear fat with honey and salt flakes, to prove a point” by aggliu
“What’s up with Anthropic predicting AGI by early 2027?” by ryan_greenblatt
[Linkpost] “Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models” by Drake Thomas
[Linkpost] “You’re always stressed, your mind is always busy, you never have enough time” by mingyuan
“LLM-generated text is not testimony” by TsviBT
“Post title: Why I Transitioned: A Case Study” by Fiora Sunshine
“The Memetics of AI Successionism” by Jan_Kulveit
“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord
“An Opinionated Guide to Privacy Despite Authoritarianism” by TurnTrout
“Cancer has a surprising amount of detail” by Abhishaike Mahajan
“AIs should also refuse to work on capabilities research” by Davidmanheim
“On Fleshling Safety: A Debate by Klurl and Trapaucius.” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
“EU explained in 10 minutes” by Martin Sustrik
“Cheap Labour Everywhere” by Morpheus
[Linkpost] “Consider donating to AI safety champion Scott Wiener” by Eric Neyman
“Which side of the AI safety community are you in?” by Max Tegmark
“Doomers were right” by Algon
“Do One New Thing A Day To Solve Your Problems” by Algon
“Humanity Learned Almost Nothing From COVID-19” by niplav
“Consider donating to Alex Bores, author of the RAISE Act” by Eric Neyman
“Meditation is dangerous” by Algon
“That Mad Olympiad” by Tomás B.
“The ‘Length’ of ‘Horizons’” by Adam Scholl
“Don’t Mock Yourself” by Algon