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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC
977 points
713 comments30 min readLW link3 reviews

Where I agree and dis­agree with Eliezer

paulfchristiano19 Jun 2022 19:15 UTC
923 points
224 comments18 min readLW link2 reviews

Preface

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Mar 2015 19:00 UTC
910 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Eight Short Stud­ies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
895 points
255 comments10 min readLW link

The Com­pany Man

Tomás B.17 Sep 2025 17:47 UTC
813 points
79 comments18 min readLW link

The Best Text­books on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
808 points
418 comments7 min readLW link

My jour­ney to the microwave al­ter­nate timeline

Malmesbury10 Feb 2026 17:59 UTC
755 points
55 comments10 min readLW link

The Rise of Par­a­sitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC
747 points
188 comments20 min readLW link

Simulators

janus2 Sep 2022 12:45 UTC
698 points
169 comments41 min readLW link8 reviews
(generative.ink)

AI 2027: What Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Looks Like

Daniel Kokotajlo, Thomas Larsen, elifland, Scott Alexander, Jonas V and romeo
3 Apr 2025 16:23 UTC
692 points
223 comments41 min readLW link
(ai-2027.com)

What an ac­tu­ally pes­simistic con­tain­ment strat­egy looks like

lc5 Apr 2022 0:19 UTC
687 points
138 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

SolidGoldMag­ikarp (plus, prompt gen­er­a­tion)

Jessica Rumbelow and mwatkins
5 Feb 2023 22:02 UTC
675 points
208 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
657 points
279 comments4 min readLW link

Eliezer and I wrote a book: If Any­one Builds It, Every­one Dies

So8res14 May 2025 19:00 UTC
653 points
144 comments2 min readLW link

Schel­ling fences on slip­pery slopes

Scott Alexander16 Mar 2012 23:44 UTC
649 points
250 comments6 min readLW link

How to Make Superbabies

GeneSmith and kman
19 Feb 2025 20:39 UTC
643 points
361 comments31 min readLW link

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

Cleo Nardo3 Mar 2023 3:22 UTC
643 points
188 comments16 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC
613 points
170 comments16 min readLW link1 review

(The) Light­cone is noth­ing with­out its peo­ple: LW + Lighthaven’s big fundraiser

habryka30 Nov 2024 2:55 UTC
612 points
273 comments42 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC
606 points
94 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
600 points
83 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Mak­ing Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC
594 points
249 comments6 min readLW link3 reviews

Ori­ent­ing Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC
587 points
148 comments5 min readLW link

LessWrong’s (first) album: I Have Been A Good Bing

habryka and kave
1 Apr 2024 7:33 UTC
576 points
183 comments11 min readLW link

Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
569 points
357 comments9 min readLW link

Let’s think about slow­ing down AI

KatjaGrace22 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC
558 points
182 comments38 min readLW link3 reviews
(aiimpacts.org)

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
557 points
269 comments4 min readLW link

Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetz19 Sep 2009 21:05 UTC
553 points
184 comments5 min readLW link

The Talk: a brief ex­pla­na­tion of sex­ual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC
552 points
78 comments16 min readLW link3 reviews

OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Alt­man and OpenAI blog)

habryka16 Nov 2024 6:38 UTC
546 points
82 comments51 min readLW link

A case for courage, when speak­ing of AI danger

So8res27 Jun 2025 2:15 UTC
531 points
130 comments6 min readLW link

The Redac­tion Machine

Ben20 Sep 2022 22:03 UTC
530 points
48 comments27 min readLW link1 review

Less Dead

Aurelia11 Mar 2026 5:07 UTC
527 points
134 comments8 min readLW link

Here’s to the Polypropy­lene Makers

jefftk27 Feb 2026 4:00 UTC
524 points
14 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How much do you be­lieve your re­sults?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC
523 points
18 comments15 min readLW link4 reviews
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Wel­come to LessWrong!

Ruby, Raemon, RobertM and habryka
14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC
518 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
512 points
61 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Los­ing the root for the tree

Adam Zerner20 Sep 2022 4:53 UTC
509 points
31 comments9 min readLW link1 review

What We Learned from Briefing 70+ Law­mak­ers on the Threat from AI

leticiagarcia27 May 2025 18:23 UTC
506 points
17 comments16 min readLW link
(substack.com)

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

henry11 Aug 2025 19:58 UTC
498 points
42 comments7 min readLW link
(outsidetext.substack.com)

The ants and the grasshopper

Richard_Ngo4 Jun 2023 22:00 UTC
496 points
45 comments5 min readLW link4 reviews
(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Luck based medicine: my re­sent­ful story of be­com­ing a med­i­cal miracle

Elizabeth16 Oct 2022 17:40 UTC
495 points
121 comments12 min readLW link3 reviews
(acesounderglass.com)

Eliezer’s Un­teach­able Meth­ods of Sanity

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2025 2:46 UTC
494 points
154 comments10 min readLW link

How To Write Quickly While Main­tain­ing Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC
493 points
39 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

Align­ment Fak­ing in Large Lan­guage Models

ryan_greenblatt, evhub, Carson Denison, Benjamin Wright, Fabien Roger, Monte M, Sam Marks, Johannes Treutlein, Sam Bowman and Buck
18 Dec 2024 17:19 UTC
491 points
86 comments10 min readLW link3 reviews

Fo­cus on the places where you feel shocked ev­ery­one’s drop­ping the ball

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC
488 points
65 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

I would have shit in that alley, too

Declan Molony18 Jun 2024 4:41 UTC
488 points
143 comments4 min readLW link2 reviews

New En­dorse­ments for “If Any­one Builds It, Every­one Dies”

Malo18 Jun 2025 16:30 UTC
488 points
55 comments4 min readLW link
(intelligence.org)

100 Tips for a Bet­ter Life

Ideopunk22 Dec 2020 14:30 UTC
470 points
130 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Sig­nifi­cantly En­hanc­ing Adult In­tel­li­gence With Gene Edit­ing May Be Possible

GeneSmith and kman
12 Dec 2023 18:14 UTC
468 points
206 comments33 min readLW link2 reviews