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“Don’t Mock Yourself” by Algon
“If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, a semi-outsider review” by dvd
“The Most Common Bad Argument In These Parts” by J Bostock
“Towards a Typology of Strange LLM Chains-of-Thought” by 1a3orn
“I take antidepressants. You’re welcome” by Elizabeth
“Inoculation prompting: Instructing models to misbehave at train-time can improve run-time behavior” by Sam Marks
“Hospitalization: A Review” by Logan Riggs
“What, if not agency?” by abramdemski
“The Origami Men” by Tomás B.
“A non-review of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’” by boazbarak
“Notes on fatalities from AI takeover” by ryan_greenblatt
“Nice-ish, smooth takeoff (with imperfect safeguards) probably kills most ‘classic humans’ in a few decades.” by Raemon
“Omelas Is Perfectly Misread” by Tobias H
“Ethical Design Patterns” by AnnaSalamon
“You’re probably overestimating how well you understand Dunning-Kruger” by abstractapplic
“Reasons to sell frontier lab equity to donate now rather than later” by Daniel_Eth, Ethan Perez
“CFAR update, and New CFAR workshops” by AnnaSalamon
“Why you should eat meat - even if you hate factory farming” by KatWoods
[Linkpost] “Global Call for AI Red Lines - Signed by Nobel Laureates, Former Heads of State, and 200+ Prominent Figures” by Charbel-Raphaël
“This is a review of the reviews” by Recurrented
“The title is reasonable” by Raemon
“The Problem with Defining an ‘AGI Ban’ by Outcome (a lawyer’s take).” by Katalina Hernandez
“Contra Collier on IABIED” by Max Harms
“You can’t eval GPT5 anymore” by Lukas Petersson
“Teaching My Toddler To Read” by maia
“Safety researchers should take a public stance” by Ishual, Mateusz Bagiński
“The Company Man” by Tomás B.
“Christian homeschoolers in the year 3000” by Buck
“I enjoyed most of IABED” by Buck
“‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’ release day!” by alexvermeer
“Obligated to Respond” by Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
“Chesterton’s Missing Fence” by jasoncrawford
“The Eldritch in the 21st century” by PranavG, Gabriel Alfour
“The Rise of Parasitic AI” by Adele Lopez
“High-level actions don’t screen off intent” by AnnaSalamon
[Linkpost] “MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech” by Remmelt
“Your LLM-assisted scientific breakthrough probably isn’t real” by eggsyntax
“Trust me bro, just one more RL scale up, this one will be the real scale up with the good environments, the actually legit one, trust me bro” by ryan_greenblatt
“⿻ Plurality & 6pack.care” by Audrey Tang
[Linkpost] “The Cats are On To Something” by Hastings
[Linkpost] “Open Global Investment as a Governance Model for AGI” by Nick Bostrom
“Will Any Old Crap Cause Emergent Misalignment?” by J Bostock
“AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation” by Tim Hua
“Before LLM Psychosis, There Was Yes-Man Psychosis” by johnswentworth
“Training a Reward Hacker Despite Perfect Labels” by ariana_azarbal, vgillioz, TurnTrout
“Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)” by habryka
“Underdog bias rules everything around me” by Richard_Ngo
“Epistemic advantages of working as a moderate” by Buck
“Four ways Econ makes people dumber re: future AI” by Steven Byrnes
“Should you make stone tools?” by Alex_Altair
“My AGI timeline updates from GPT-5 (and 2025 so far)” by ryan_greenblatt
“Hyperbolic model fits METR capabilities estimate worse than exponential model” by gjm
“My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Lighthaven” by Zack_M_Davis
“Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus” by Elizabeth
“Somebody invented a better bookmark” by Alex_Altair
“How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?” by henry
“Re: Recent Anthropic Safety Research” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
“How anticipatory cover-ups go wrong” by Kaj_Sotala
“SB-1047 Documentary: The Post-Mortem” by Michaël Trazzi
“METR’s Evaluation of GPT-5” by GradientDissenter
“Emotions Make Sense” by DaystarEld
“The Problem” by Rob Bensinger, tanagrabeast, yams, So8res, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gretta Duleba
“Many prediction markets would be better off as batched auctions” by William Howard
“Whence the Inkhaven Residency?” by Ben Pace
“I am worried about near-term non-LLM AI developments” by testingthewaters
“Optimizing The Final Output Can Obfuscate CoT (Research Note)” by lukemarks, jacob_drori, cloud, TurnTrout
“About 30% of Humanity’s Last Exam chemistry/biology answers are likely wrong” by bohaska
“Maya’s Escape” by Bridgett Kay
“Do confident short timelines make sense?” by TsviBT, abramdemski
“HPMOR: The (Probably) Untold Lore” by Gretta Duleba, Eliezer Yudkowsky
“On ‘ChatGPT Psychosis’ and LLM Sycophancy” by jdp
“Subliminal Learning: LLMs Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data” by cloud, mle, Owain_Evans
“Love stays loved (formerly ‘Skin’)” by Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
“Make More Grayspaces” by Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
“Shallow Water is Dangerous Too” by jefftk
“Narrow Misalignment is Hard, Emergent Misalignment is Easy” by Edward Turner, Anna Soligo, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda
“Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety” by Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, Vlad Mikulik, Rohin Shah
“the jackpot age” by thiccythot
“Surprises and learnings from almost two months of Leo Panickssery” by Nina Panickssery
“An Opinionated Guide to Using Anki Correctly” by Luise
“Lessons from the Iraq War about AI policy” by Buck
“So You Think You’ve Awoken ChatGPT” by JustisMills
“Generalized Hangriness: A Standard Rationalist Stance Toward Emotions” by johnswentworth
“Comparing risk from internally-deployed AI to insider and outsider threats from humans” by Buck
“Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don’t?” by abhayesian, John Hughes, Alex Mallen, Jozdien, janus, Fabien Roger
“A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models” by titotal
“‘Buckle up bucko, this ain’t over till it’s over.’” by Raemon
“Shutdown Resistance in Reasoning Models” by benwr, JeremySchlatter, Jeffrey Ladish
“Authors Have a Responsibility to Communicate Clearly” by TurnTrout
“The Industrial Explosion” by rosehadshar, Tom Davidson
“Race and Gender Bias As An Example of Unfaithful Chain of Thought in the Wild” by Adam Karvonen, Sam Marks
“The best simple argument for Pausing AI?” by Gary Marcus
“Foom & Doom 2: Technical alignment is hard” by Steven Byrnes
“Proposal for making credible commitments to AIs.” by Cleo Nardo
“X explains Z% of the variance in Y” by Leon Lang
“A case for courage, when speaking of AI danger” by So8res
“My pitch for the AI Village” by Daniel Kokotajlo
“Foom & Doom 1: ‘Brain in a box in a basement’” by Steven Byrnes
“Futarchy’s fundamental flaw” by dynomight
“Do Not Tile the Lightcone with Your Confused Ontology” by Jan_Kulveit