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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC
955 points
711 comments30 min readLW link3 reviews

Where I agree and dis­agree with Eliezer

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

Eight Short Stud­ies On Excuses

Scott Alexander20 Apr 2010 23:01 UTC
872 points
254 comments10 min readLW link

Preface

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

The Best Text­books on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
786 points
417 comments7 min readLW link

SolidGoldMag­ikarp (plus, prompt gen­er­a­tion)

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

What an ac­tu­ally pes­simistic con­tain­ment strat­egy looks like

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

Simulators

janus2 Sep 2022 12:45 UTC
668 points
168 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
661 points
222 comments41 min readLW link
(ai-2027.com)

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

So8res14 May 2025 19:00 UTC
648 points
114 comments2 min readLW link

The Com­pany Man

Tomás B.17 Sep 2025 17:47 UTC
639 points
51 comments18 min readLW link

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)

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

Schel­ling fences on slip­pery slopes

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

How to Make Superbabies

GeneSmith and kman
19 Feb 2025 20:39 UTC
625 points
358 comments31 min readLW link

Hu­mans are not au­to­mat­i­cally strategic

AnnaSalamon8 Sep 2010 7:02 UTC
621 points
278 comments4 min readLW link

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

habryka30 Nov 2024 2:55 UTC
611 points
270 comments42 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

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

The Rise of Par­a­sitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC
597 points
161 comments20 min readLW link

Mak­ing Vaccine

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

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC
588 points
163 comments16 min readLW link1 review

Pain is not the unit of Effort

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

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

habryka and kave
1 Apr 2024 7:33 UTC
577 points
182 comments11 min readLW link

Ori­ent­ing Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC
563 points
146 comments5 min readLW link

Diseased think­ing: dis­solv­ing ques­tions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC
554 points
356 comments9 min readLW link

Let’s think about slow­ing down AI

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

Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

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

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

habryka16 Nov 2024 6:38 UTC
533 points
81 comments51 min readLW link

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

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

The Talk: a brief ex­pla­na­tion of sex­ual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC
530 points
77 comments16 min readLW link3 reviews

The Redac­tion Machine

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

A case for courage, when speak­ing of AI danger

So8res27 Jun 2025 2:15 UTC
519 points
128 comments6 min readLW link

How much do you be­lieve your re­sults?

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

Los­ing the root for the tree

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

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)

Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
489 points
61 comments3 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
489 points
75 comments10 min readLW link

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

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

Wel­come to LessWrong!

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

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

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

How To Write Quickly While Main­tain­ing Epistemic Rigor

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

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

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

I would have shit in that alley, too

Declan Molony18 Jun 2024 4:41 UTC
471 points
135 comments4 min readLW link

The ants and the grasshopper

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

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

So8res2 Feb 2023 0:27 UTC
467 points
64 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

Sig­nifi­cantly En­hanc­ing Adult In­tel­li­gence With Gene Edit­ing May Be Possible

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

100 Tips for a Bet­ter Life

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

Counter-the­ses on Sleep

Natália21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC
453 points
135 comments15 min readLW link1 review

It’s Prob­a­bly Not Lithium

Natália28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC
445 points
186 comments28 min readLW link1 review

The Best Tacit Knowl­edge Videos on Every Subject

Parker Conley31 Mar 2024 17:14 UTC
443 points
175 comments21 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing From One Example

Scott Alexander28 Apr 2009 22:00 UTC
440 points
423 comments6 min readLW link