Third Symposium on AIT & ML: AI Safety Applications
We are organizing a symposium on the intersection of algorithmic information theory and machine learning…
Category: Opinion
Honest Ethics & AI – Part 1: The origins of morality
LW AI disclaimer: No text in this essay has been written or edited by an…
Some data on the shape of the forgetting curve
The forgetting curve is often schematically pictured like this, as on Wikipedia:Learners often take this…
Ballistic FOMO
Dear LessWrong community,This is my first posting attempt here after occasionally passing by from time…
What holds AI safety together? Co-authorship networks from 200 papers
We (social science PhD students) computed co-authorship networks based on a corpus of 200 AI…
You should try contra dancing
A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days is “How would you spend your life…
Manifund’s Falcon Fund
Manifund is launching a new animal welfare fund, led by regrantor Marcus Abramovitch. We make…
Is the Cat Out of the Bag?: Who knows how to make AGI?
Adapted from 2025-04-10 memo to AISII’ve previously made arguments like:Not long after it becomes possible…
An Empirical Study of Methods for SFTing Opaque Reasoning Models
We open-source our code here.IntroductionCurrent reasoning models produce chains of thought that are largely human-readable,…
Contra Events Pairing Callers By Age?
A friend observed a pattern where contra dance events seem to be pairing older and…