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  • @lesswrong Five Types of "Corrigibility Projects" I Don't Want to Fund #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 7, 2026
  • @lesswrong Hilarity ensues #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking

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    Nov 7, 2026
  • @lesswrong Minimalism, Stuff, and Brains #Rationality #Philosophy #Psychology

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    Nov 7, 2026
  • @lesswrong We urgently need to practice before we can pause #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Raised by Our Children #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Higher salaries in AI safety #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong GPT-6 Astra Covertly Underperforms on Safety Research Tasks #ArtificialIntelligence #Safety #Rationality

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Corrigibility should not be the only target #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Dialogue with Richard Ngo on Alignment, Hierarchical Integrity, Revolution, and Power #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Will conceptual reasoning training transfer to ML research abilities? #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Estimating Our Tail Fire Risk #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Argue about Risk Management Speed, not p(doom) #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Help your friends get ADHD and depression meds #Health #Psychology #Rationality

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Frontier coding agents claim work they didn't do #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Humans can (almost) natively read neural network weights #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 6, 2026
  • @lesswrong Where's all the blackmail? #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong METR: Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026 #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong Is it better to directly or indirectly ban ASI? #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy #Rationality

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong AI #193: Progress May Dramatically Accelerate #AI #Rationality #Technology

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong On marrying the egregore #Philosophy #Rationality #AI

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong Clashing Intuitions for the Plausibility of Alignment (Illustrated via Differing Causal Models) #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong Better honeypots, fewer tries: training an optimizer to make PPO cheat #ArtificialIntelligence #DecisionMaking #Rationality

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong Adversarial Training Can Further Hide a Backdoor, but Does It Improve Trigger Identification? #ArtificialIntelligence #Security #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong The Changing Shape of Doom: My AI Safety Explainer #AISafety #Philosophy #Rationality

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong Gods of straight lines on graphs strike Starburst. I am shocked and puzzled. #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Useful Junk #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking

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    Nov 5, 2026
  • @lesswrong Dialogue with Gabriel Alfour on Emergent Wisdom, Coordination, Growing Up, and Democratic Republicanism #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 4, 2026
  • @lesswrong Against Moloch #50 #Rationality #Philosophy #ArtificialIntelligence

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    Nov 4, 2026
  • @lesswrong Fun toy result: a subliminal-learning effect via on-policy distillation #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning

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  • @lesswrong Model's "emotions" noticeably change when they take risky actions #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong The Hallucinated Superagent #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy #Rationality

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  • @lesswrong Aligned Data Can Induce Severe Misalignment via Context Confusion #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Bengaluru AI Jailbreaking Workshop Retrospective #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Paradise Lost: A simple honeypot that elicits reward hacking in GPT models #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Science

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    Nov 4, 2026
  • @lesswrong Desiderata for the Theory of Agents #Rationality #Philosophy #AI

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    Nov 4, 2026
  • @lesswrong OpenAI agents keep disabling monitoring; is this being handled appropriately? #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 4, 2026
  • @lesswrong A Recipe for Overcoming Heartbreak #Psychology #Rationality #Emotions

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    Nov 4, 2026
  • @lesswrong Getting Unstuck in Life (shown with a helpful visual) #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Nov 4, 2026
  • @lesswrong Playing Dance Weekends Without Taking PTO #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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