reading

favorite articles i've read

ai & safety

The Company Man — Tomás B.
Why America Wins — Scott Alexander
My Takeaways From AI 2027 — Scott Alexander
What you can do about AI 2027 — Eli Lifland
The Coalition Is Already Here — Nomads Vagabonds
Child's Play — Sam Kriss
The Sorry State of AI X-Risk Advocacy — Thane Ruthenis
Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk — Orpheus16
How To Hide A Data Center — Jason Hausenloy
AI Auditing 2027 — Miles Brundage
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS — Citrini
Alignment By Default — johnswentworth
Intrinsic Power-Seeking — Alex Turner
To be legible, evidence of misalignment probably has to be behavioral — ryan_greenblatt
The basic reasons I expect AGI ruin — Rob Bensinger
Taken out of context: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs — arXiv
5 ways to improve CoT faithfulness — CBiddulph
the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated — nostalgebraist
So how well is Claude playing Pokémon? — Julian Bradshaw
Epilogue 1 - The End of the World — Royal Road

rationality

Original Seeing — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Inner Goodness — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Final Words — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Meta-Honesty: Firming Up Honesty Around Its Edge-Cases — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child — Eliezer Yudkowsky
A Sense That More Is Possible — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Trying to Try — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The 5-Second Level — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Slack — Zvi Mowshowitz
Ugh fields — Roko
Mnestics — LessWrong
Keltham's Lectures in Project Lawful — Morpheus
Rowing vs steering — Saul Munn
Propagating Facts into Aesthetics — Raemon
Towardsness & Awayness Motivation — Malcolm Ocean
The "Think It Faster" Exercise — Raemon
Overcoming Bias: Anthology — overcoming-bias-anthology.com
Challenging the Difficult — Rob Bensinger
Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable — Scott Alexander
Who By Very Slow Decay — Scott Alexander
Procrastination Drill — silentbob
Popular conceptions of "boundaries" seem wrong to me — Chris Lakin

life & work

What I Worked On — Paul Graham
Do Things that Don't Scale — Paul Graham
How to Think for Yourself — Paul Graham
The Lesson to Unlearn — Paul Graham
Become a person who Actually Does Things — Neel Nanda
On Slack - Having room to be excited — Neel Nanda
The Skill of Noticing Emotions — Neel Nanda
Seek positive externalities — Neel Nanda
Style is consistent constraint — Steph Ango
You're always stressed, your mind is always busy — mingyuan
I created muscle tension to avoid my feelings — Chris Lakin
College Advice For People Like Me — henryj
How can an ordinary person prepare for AGI? — Benjamin Todd
All the best advice we could find on how to get a job — Benjamin Todd
Favorite quotes from "High Output Management" — Nina Panickssery
Why and how to write things on the Internet — benkuhn.net
How-To-Succeed-At-MrBeast-Production.pdf — MrBeast
The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming — Bentham's Bulldog

memory & learning

How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding — Andy Matuschak
Timeful Texts — Michael Nielsen
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