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#rationality

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  • @lesswrong Lightcone Commons' funders (and SFF and CG) are mostly NOT funding things that will prevent our extinction #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Don't Burn the Boats for Slower Worlds #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong The Epicurean technique of meeting claims with more claims #Philosophy #Rationality #DecisionMaking

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong GPT-5.6 won't be Oppenheimer #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy #Rationality

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Stroh Violin Shoulder Rest #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Logical Share Splitting for People who Aren't Sure if They're Intuitionists or Not #Rationality #Philosophy #Logic

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Thoughts on attending the March Against AI Extinction #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy #Rationality

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Should you join the March Against AI Extinction? #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy #Rationality

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Orienting to 1 year AGI timelines #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 13, 2026
  • @lesswrong Your Research Needs More of The Void #Rationality #Research #Philosophy

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong Suppose we successfully train out self-preservation #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong Ephemeral agents escape the Arrow Information Paradox #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong Performative Neuroticism vs Genuine Connection #Philosophy #Psychology #Rationality

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong Post-Glasswing cybersecurity projects #CyberSecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong Future of AI Honeypots #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong Looping a transformer increases no-CoT capabilities more than general capabilities #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong We need more decorrelated evidence #Rationality #Science #Philosophy

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong Anthropic should measure the effect of evaluation awareness #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong How To Get A Friend To Leave An Abusive Relationship #Rationality #Psychology #Relationships

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong San Francisco Rationalist Dinner #Rationality #Philosophy #Community

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    Nov 12, 2026
  • @lesswrong Plan B for Alignment: Seeding Environmental Doubt #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong 2026 NYC Secular Solstice & East Coast Rationalist Megameetup #Rationality #Philosophy #Science

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  • @lesswrong Updates from METR report: short timelines vs IE #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Experience machines and Coxon's rhetorical failure #Philosophy #DecisionMaking #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong From FairBot to other cooperation conditions by substitution #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Chips for Humanity: Compute for AI safety research #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong FDT and the sacrificial volunteer's dilemma #Rationality #DecisionMaking #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Models Can Critique Delusions in Isolation but Revert to Affirming Them in Conversation #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Stroh Violin #Rationality #Science #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Is predicting AI behaviour a neglected AI safety agenda? #ArtificialIntelligence #Safety #Rationality

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    Nov 11, 2026
  • @lesswrong Don't Waste a Good Swarm Attack and the Colluder's Dilemma #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Intuitions towards a theory of agent foundations #AI #Philosophy #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong The Chain Lens [interim] #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 11, 2026
  • @lesswrong Kimi's Room (Preliminary Results) #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 11, 2026
  • @lesswrong Your speculations about capabilities are not automatically safe #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 11, 2026
  • @lesswrong LLMs can learn (some) multi-step reasoning on filler tokens #AI #MachineLearning #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong What I might do if I were a high-schooler in 2027 #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Fable 5.2 is Very, Very Paranoid #AI #Rationality #Philosophy

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