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Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026 — LessWrong
1+ mon, 16+ hour ago (1451+ words) As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI. …...
Finding the Seams of Perception — LessWrong
1+ mon, 17+ hour ago (466+ words) The tricky thing about experiencing the territory beneath our maps is that we habitually map over the gaps as fast as we can find them — the act of seeing that reality isn't what we believed itself changes our belief. Every…...
Rationality Is Not Reversed Irrationality — LessWrong
1+ mon, 22+ hour ago (325+ words) Many people have observed that Tyler Cowen's Act Like it is science is a clear case of an isolated demand for rigor. I agree, but I feel it's worth trying to understand how he ended up there. Tyler Cowen is…...
Patient Zero — LessWrong
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (1706+ words) I want to show you something, she says.She’s magnetic. The way she smiles. Tilts her shoulder. It’s in the corners of her eyes, in the curl of her lips. Always leading you on, always holding something hidden from you,…...
Extreme concentration of power over ASI has non-obvious advantages — LessWrong
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (1458+ words) I also contrast this to the scenario in which we distribute power over strong AI[4] more broadly. Broad access to AI capable of creating better AI and novel weapons and tactics is unlikely to remain stable. This is a sharp…...
How risky would it be to make powerful AI obey one or a few people? — LessWrong
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (989+ words) It seems fairly likely that the first powerful AIs will be instruction-following rather than value-aligned, and will be controlled by a small number of people. So it makes sense to worry what individual people might do with such immense power....
Those Who Make History — LessWrong
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (61+ words) In 1972, astronauts on Apollo 17 set foot on the moon for a final time, collecting samples in the Taurus-Littrow valley, on the edge of Mare Serenita…...
Seeing things through in the age of AI — LessWrong
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (432+ words) AI is fantastic at prototyping. A quick draft of an essay, a mockup of a website, a demo of a video game, concept art or trailer for a movie, or the core argument of a proof - each now takes one…...
On using crises to shift political will for AI — LessWrong
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (201+ words) TL;DR: We’ll probably be getting more AI safety incidents, so amplify the ones that would justify or highlight the urgency of your preferred policy solutions even from a non-technical skeptic concerned with national security’s perspective, as these will be…...
Canadian Nuclear Emancipation: Canada's role amidst global dreams of energy security and nuclear development — LessWrong
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (228+ words) Energy for the Future The so-called “global nuclear order” is commonly viewed as states balancing awesome atomic arsenals and strategic restraint, characterized by norms of US-led cooperation and age-old deterrence norms such as mutually assured destruction. Yet, the scope of…...