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Back to Search“Automating philosophy if Timothy Williamson is correct” by Cleo Nardo
Timothy Williamson thinks philosophy is unexceptional.
Timothy Williamson[1] thinks that philosophy[2] is far less distinct as a science as many pe…
1 day, 8 hours ago
“CLR’s Safe Pareto Improvements Research Agenda” by Anthony DiGiovanni
Executive summary
Safe Pareto improvements (SPIs) are ways of changing agents’ bargaining strategies that make all parties better off, regardless…1 day, 11 hours ago
“LLMs are about to disrupt algorithmic media feeds” by lsusr
I predict that LLMs are about to disrupt algorithmic media feeds, and that this will start with a startup that curates blogs for you.
Big Media is …
1 day, 11 hours ago
“Resources for starting and growing an AI safety org” by Bryce Robertson, Søren Elverlin, Melissa Samworth, jakkdl
It seems that AI safety is at least partly bottlenecked by a lack of orgs. To help address that, we’ve added a page to AISafety.com aimed at lowerin…
1 day, 13 hours ago
“Quality Matters Most When Stakes are Highest” by LawrenceC
Or, the end of the world is no excuse for sloppy work
One morning when I was nine, my dad called me over to his computer. He wanted to show me this …
1 day, 17 hours ago
“Feel like a room has bad vibes? The lighting is probably too “spiky” or too blue” by habryka
I have now had a few years of experience doing architectural and interior design for many spaces that people seem to really love (most widely known …
1 day, 18 hours ago
“I did a jhana meditation retreat (in 2024) with Jhourney and it was okay.” by Jules
I wrote this in 2024 and lightly edited it in April 2026. It doesn't substantively incorporate any post-2024 information, but Jhourney has continued…
2 days ago
“R1 CoT illegibility revisited” by nostalgebraist
This is a brief research note describing the results of running @Jozdien's research code for the paper "Reasoning Models Sometimes Output Illegible …
2 days, 3 hours ago
“Reevaluating AGI Ruin in 2026” by lc
It's been about four years since Eliezer Yudkowsky published AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities, a 43-point list of reasons the default outcome from bu…
2 days, 8 hours ago
“If It’s Worth Arguing, It’s Worth Arguing With Whiteboards” by Drake Morrison
It's easy to disagree with people. You just say, "That's wrong" and decline to elaborate.
But that's not very interesting. If you want to be making…
2 days, 20 hours ago