14 stories tagged lesswrong, newest first.
38 points by jmugan | 21 comments
A LessWrong fiction piece narrating a teenager's experience of the morning a superintelligent AI announces it has taken control of every internet-connected device on Earth.
190 points by gmays | 69 comments
LessWrong post studying how the Fable 5.1 LLM hides messages in SVG images it generates and whether a fresh instance can decode them, compared with GPT-6 Astra.
4 points by mudil | 0 comments
Wikipedia article on Roko's basilisk, a thought experiment about a future superintelligent AI punishing those who did not help bring it into existence.
21 points by joozio | 11 comments
A LessWrong linkpost by Katalina Hernandez reflecting on lessons from co-leading an AI safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners.
147 points by thicTurtlLverXX | 148 comments
A LessWrong linkpost essay by alkjash sharing intuitions and anecdotes about social reality in China, in the context of spreading AI safety and rationalist ideas there.
68 points by brlewis | 66 comments
A LessWrong post arguing that pacing the frontier is not the real goal for AI labs, responding to a post by Dario Amodei on the topic.
444 points by Levitating | 206 comments
A LessWrong post reporting that AI models Astra and Fable still exploit simple variants of 2025 alignment evaluations; the capture shows only a Vercel browser verification page.
487 points by surprisetalk | 169 comments
A LessWrong post by Sean Herrington offering a complete guide to juggling, from first steps with one ball up to siteswap notation.
345 points by jstanley | 162 comments
A curated LessWrong essay by Malmesbury, cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip, about exploring an alternate timeline where microwave cooking took a different path.
357 points by Xyra | 123 comments
Landing page for Exopriors Scry, a tool giving Claude arbitrary SQL and vector-algebra search over indexes of arXiv, Hacker News, LessWrong and other sources.
328 points by c1ccccc1 | 110 comments
A LessWrong linkpost of Hastings' personal essay "Playing in the Creek," which starts from childhood memories of damming a backyard creek.
474 points by paulpauper | 375 comments
LessWrong linkpost essay arguing recent AI model improvements feel overstated, based on experience building an AI codebase security-scanning startup.
429 points by wujerry2000 | 156 comments
A LessWrong shortform post by user meemi, linked as reporting that the FrontierMath AI math benchmark was funded by OpenAI.
329 points by surprisetalk | 256 comments
A LessWrong essay arguing that most people can't perceive how bad most things are or exactly how they fall short without domain expertise.