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  • @lesswrong Organic #Rationality #Philosophy #Science

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    Nov 1, 2026
  • @lesswrong Monitor Evasion Depends on What RL Finds and What Monitors Miss #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Nov 1, 2026
  • @lesswrong Refelting My Keyboard #Rationality #Philosophy #Science

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    Nov 1, 2026
  • @lesswrong What would you do if you had all the time in the world? #Philosophy #Rationality #AI

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    Nov 1, 2026
  • @lesswrong Conclusions of my DIY Inkhaven #Rationality #Science #DIY

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong Explaining "AI might obliterate you" to senior policymakers in India #AI #Philosophy #Rationality

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong Accidentally Misleading People Should Be Embarrassing; Or, Higher Innocence #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong Against SURA #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong Legible Networks: recasting neural nets so you can read them exactly [linkpost] #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Science

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong Generalized belief states in transformers #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong What Social Constructs Are (And Are Not) #Philosophy #Rationality #Society

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong Reviewing my 2017 AI Risk Project #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong Low-volume cymbals are underrated #Rationality #Music #Philosophy

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong John Holt's Escape from Childhood: Summary #Philosophy #Psychology #Rationality

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @lesswrong Childhood and Education #22: Voice Without Exit #Rationality #Education #Philosophy

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong The Advocacy Gap in International AI Verification #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong Persona Geology: Underlying Structure in Character Training Adapters #AI #Rationality #MachineLearning

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong Microdosing the spirit of Anthropic #Rationality #AI #Philosophy

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong Dice enterprises as imperfect-recall games #Rationality #DecisionMaking #Philosophy

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong Could a first mover lock everyone out of outer space? #Space #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong The Three Nothings of Existence #Philosophy #Rationality #Science

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong Lessons From Red-teaming Auto-review, OpenAI's Blocking Monitor #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Safety

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong Unaligned weak models might exploit powerful aligned models #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Neutral Isn't Independent: LLM @-invocation #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong Old talks, 2000 - 2020 period. #Rationality #Philosophy #Science

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @lesswrong Walking Partway to School #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Formalising Newcomblike Problems #Rationality #DecisionTheory #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Formally Defining Wavefunction Branches #Rationality #Physics #Science

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    Oct 29, 2026
  • @lesswrong [Paper] Propensities Please: Exposing Alignment-Faking LLMs using Synthetic Document Finetuning #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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  • @lesswrong Probability ranges are a cop-out with 90-93% probability #Rationality #Probability #DecisionMaking

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  • @lesswrong Lie detection is best when it's cheap to cooperate #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking

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  • @lesswrong Someone Made an Infra-Bayesian RL Agent, and it One-Boxes! #AI #Rationality #Science

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  • @lesswrong The Newly "Needed" Labor: Under AI 2040, economic growth is normal, but prices fall exponentially #ArtificialIntelligence #Economics #Rationality

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  • @astral_codex_ten Links For October 2026 #Rationality #Psychiatry #Statistics

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  • @lesswrong Leaking Muse's Charter, Meta's model spec #Rationality #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy

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    Oct 29, 2026
  • @lesswrong AI #192: Anthropic Is Going Public #ArtificialIntelligence #Rationality #Philosophy

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    Oct 29, 2026
  • @lesswrong Compensating the victims of automation is economically beneficial #Economics #Automation #Rationality

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    Oct 29, 2026
  • @lesswrong Dependencies in conversation and in software #Rationality #Software #Philosophy

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    Oct 29, 2026
  • @lesswrong Everything Rots #Philosophy #Rationality #Science

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  • @lesswrong Borrow My Accordion? #Rationality #Philosophy #DecisionMaking

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