Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
Prerequisites: Graceful Degradation. Summary of that: Some skills require the entire skill to be co
Applications are open for the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) Summer 2025 Program, runnin
I asserted that this forum could do with more 101-level and/or mathematical and/or falsifiable posts
We often talk about ensuring control, which in the context of this doc refers to preventing AIs fro
The mystery of the cathedralThe politics of the last decade have been very weird. The Great Awokeni
This is a link post. Summary: We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI
There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI looki
I previously wrote about Boots theory, the idea that "the rich are so rich because they spend less m
Our festival of truthseeking and blogging is happening again this year. It's from Friday May 30th to
TLDR: I now think it's <1% likely that average orcas are >=+6std intelligent.(I now think the
Replicating the Emergent Misalignment model suggests it is unfiltered, not unalignedWe were very exc
OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are Last week I covered Anthropic's submission to the request for sugges
The perfect exercise doesn’t exist. The good-enough exercise is anything you do regularly witho
So here's a post I spent the past two months writing and rewriting. I abandoned this current draft a
OpenAI reports that o3-mini with high reasoning and a Python tool receives a 32% on FrontierMath. Ho
AbstractOnce AI systems can design and build even more capable AI systems, we could see an intellig
Top items: Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act against Venezuelans and the Tren de Aragua gang. He s
Note: this is a research note based on observations from evaluating Claude Sonnet 3.7. We’re sharing
By Roland Pihlakas, Sruthi Kuriakose, Shruti Datta Gupta Summary and Key TakeawaysRelatively many pa
BackgroundFor almost ten years, I struggled with nail biting—especially in moments of boredom or st
