Currently Reading

• The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and humanity (Richard Ngo, 2025)
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters (Richard Rumelt, 2011)

2026

• Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021)
• Red Heart (Max Harms, 2026)
• If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, 2026)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, 1843)

2025

• BlueDot Biosecurity Course (BlueDot Impact, 2025)
• Why I Write: Essay Collection (George Orwell, 1946)
• The Time Machine (H. G. Wells, 1895)
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932)
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change The Way You Lead Forever (Michael Bungay Stanier, 2016)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945)
• The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, 1915)
• The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943)
• 1984 (George Orwell, 1949)
• How to Actually Change Your Mind (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2009)
• Inadequate Equilibria: How and Why Civilizations Get Stuck (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2017)
• Map and Territory (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2009)
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Cal Newport, 2019)
• The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (Michael S Malone, 1985)
• Quran 30 for 30: Thematic Tasfir (Omar Suleiman & Ismail Kamdar, 2025)
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Fred Turner, 2008)
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion, 1968)
• To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (Edmund Wilson, 1940)
• Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery (Adam Hochschild, 2005)
• How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth (Mark Koyama & Jared Rubin, 2022)
• The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Deborah Harkness, 2007)
• The Final Pagan Generation (Edward J. Watts, 2015)
• The Rise of Christianity (Rodney Stark, 1996)
• The Kingdom (Emmanuel Carrère, 2014)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn, 1962)

2024

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Peter Thiel & Blake Masters, 2014) [my summary here]
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2015)

2022

• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Nick Bostrom, 2014)
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Decisions (Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths, 2016)
• The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Julia Galef, 2021)
• Superforecasting: The Art of Science and Prediction (Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner, 2015)
• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Stuart Russell, 2019)
• Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and How You Can Make a Difference (William MacAskill, 2015)

2021

• The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (Toby Ord, 2020)
• Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker, 2017)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie, 1936)

September 2026

• What the world still misunderstands about Hugging Face (benjamintodd.substack.com)
• Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? - YouTube (youtube.com)
• AI Safety in China: A Primer (jasminexli.substack.com)
• Plan A’s problem with dry tinder (newsletter.forethought.org)
• Selective Optimism: a critique of AI 2040 (mindthefuture.info)
• AI 2040: Plan A (ai-2040.com)
• Have some genderslop (acotra.substack.com)
• Learnings from AI safety course so far — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Early AI warning shots are good - by Jasmine Li (jasminexli.substack.com)
• Drone WMDs Don’t Need Any New Technology — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 🟡 OpenAI labels new GPT-6 Astra model AGI, another AI agent message board revealed, Witkoff and Kushner visit Moscow || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #36/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• How My Students Think About AI — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• I was wrong to hate Substack - and why I think YOU should start a Substack (notnottalmud.substack.com)
• Evaluation - Nina Panickssery (blog.ninapanickssery.com)
• My Month in London (lachlandachlan.substack.com)
• Growth without the mindset (acotra.substack.com)
• How subsea internet cables got so quick (benbyfax.substack.com)
• Why you should eat meat - even if you hate factory farming — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Some thoughts on vegetarianism and veganism — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Act in BlueDot’s best interest: how we do expenses (blog.bluedot.org)

August 2026

• Big-World Intuitions — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• The Hugging Face attack surprised me (planned-obsolescence.org)
• The OpenAI/Huggingface incident | Redwood Research podcast episode 2 (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• What 27 AI Safety Generalists Are Building This Summer (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• Concrete Generalist Projects in AI Safety (and how to do them) (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• We Must Remember That Our World Contains Hell — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Six thoughts on work - by Ajeya Cotra - Good Bones (acotra.substack.com)
• Four LLM loss functions → four flavors of LLM misalignment — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning (dwarkesh.com)
• Hurtling through 2026 - by Ajeya Cotra (planned-obsolescence.org)
• 🟡 Chinese company delays release of AI model weights, hackers use autonomous agents to compromise Taiwanese agencies, Trump cuts US participation in military exercises with South Korea || Global Risk (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Newsletter #7 - Peter Hartree's Substack (peterhartree.substack.com)
• What even is a generalist? - Li-Lian Ang (lilianang.substack.com)
• The anxiety trap that stops good people from doing good work (us2.campaign-archive.com)
• The Compute Verification Post (firstscattering.com)
• 🟡 OpenAI incident involved multi-agent cooperation, US-Iran deal still out of reach, Israel rejects Trump’s Gaza plan || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #32/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• The OpenAI models that hacked Hugging Face weren’t just following instructions (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• Does creatine make you smarter? (dynomight.substack.com)
• The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated (dynomight.net)
• Paper Highlights of July 2026 - by Johannes Gasteiger (aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)
• Are we existentially threatened by the type of AI misalignment seen in the OpenAI Hugging Face attack? (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• Thoughts I had while reading your comment (dynomight.substack.com)
• An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• 🟡 Iran War widens, OpenAI and Anthropic find evidence of more cyber breaches, frontier AI staff sign open letter || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #31/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Pseudpocalypse - DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER (dynomight.substack.com)
• (1) So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂ (dynomight.substack.com)
• Intellectual Property - Nina Panickssery (blog.ninapanickssery.com)
• (1) Total research transparency would be nice - by Ajeya Cotra (planned-obsolescence.org)
• Does power corrupt? - by Ajeya Cotra - Good Bones (acotra.substack.com)

July 2026

• AI welfare conflicts with human welfare (blog.ninapanickssery.com)
• When you donate can matter more than where (manifund.substack.com)
• Norms for illegible sacrifices (acotra.substack.com)
• Money, taste, dealflow, hustle, trust (manifund.substack.com)
• Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? (dynomight.substack.com)
• Building and Entertaining Couples (putanumonit.com)
• OpenAI models escaped containment and executed a criminal cyberattack (mailchi.mp)
• things you can't buy in the USA (and why) (notnottalmud.substack.com)
• Does the brain prepare for an infection before it even arrives? (zchajkd.substack.com)
• Making meaning better (acotra.substack.com)
• So your girlfriend is sad (acotra.substack.com)
• Don't default to nonprofit - by Carol and Austin Chen (manifund.substack.com)
• Why I Left Google DeepMind (turntrout.com)
• Work with the garage door up (notes.andymatuschak.org)
• A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age (substack.com)
• Looking around the kitchen (ealifestyles.substack.com)
• my 2026 H2 personal goals - by Jasmine Li (jasminexli.substack.com)
• What would actually reduce AI risk (benjamintodd.substack.com)
• AI Futurism Reading List (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• I'm never satisfied - by Ajeya Cotra - Planned Obsolescence (planned-obsolescence.org)
• Notes on axes of variation in third-party risk assessment — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Third-parties should focus on scrutinising system cards — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Model access for third-parties — it's a big deal! — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)

June 2026

• All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job (80000hours.substack.com)
• Relationships are coevolutionary loops (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
• How big things get done (blog.dewierwan.com)
• Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy (sashachapin.substack.com)
• What Alex Bores’ defeat tells us about AI politics (transformernews.ai)
• Commitment issues (jasminexli.substack.com)
• Confidence Engineering: Or, Metacognitive Therapy For Social-Romantic Anxiety (lifeimprovementschemes.substack.com)
• Leadership is a set of learnable skills (anglilian.com)
• Should you marry her? - by Ajeya Cotra - Good Bones (acotra.substack.com)
• Giving from the heart (acotra.substack.com)
• Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• A Rosetta Stone for AI benchmarks (epoch.ai)
• Efficient tradeoffs and the safety-usefulness tradeoff model (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• What it feels like to work with Mythos (oneusefulthing.org)
• Consider scaling people - by Jasmine Li (jasminexli.substack.com)
• A guide to building useful AI tools for AI safety (adamjones.me)
• 🟩 Iran and Israel exchange fire for first time since April, Trump signs AI executive order, Ebola outbreak grows || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #23/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Coming Around To Political Donations — LessWrong (jefftk.com)
• How to become a better applicant in one week (80000hours.substack.com)
• High-impact roles hire differently. Here’s what you need to know. (80000hours.substack.com)
• Fieldbuilding project ideas in AI safety (jasminexli.substack.com)
• Learnings from starting an AI safety research team — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Could a company overpower nations? (planned-obsolescence.org)
• Google DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework v3.1 (frontierrisk.substack.com)
• We reviewed over 60 studies about what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found. (benjamintodd.substack.com)
• Find a way (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Until you get punched in the face (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• How to build a field (manifoldmarkets.notion.site)
• Sixteen schemes for AI safety (manifund.substack.com)
• EA Projects I'd Like to See (finmoorhouse.com)
• Which jobs best advance your career? (80000hours.org)

May 2026

• It takes a village to support a marriage — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Til death or the Singularity (acotra.substack.com)
• The Null Process (kateheddleston.com)
• Bad Problems Don't Stop Being Bad Because Somebody's Wrong About Fault Analysis — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• A 15-year search for the world's most pressing problem (benjamintodd.substack.com)
• A personal letter on transformative AI (multipliercg.substack.com)
• A 15-year search for the world's most pressing problem (benjamintodd.substack.com)
• How can the middle powers avoid getting trounced during the intelligence explosion? A plan. (newsletter.forethought.org)
• (1) Your most important decision - Benjamin Todd (benjamintodd.substack.com)
• Do you know your default shape? (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• On feeling behind (blog.dewierwan.com)
• 🟩 Renewed US-Iran negotiations, OpenAI and DeepMind models solve Erdos problems, Ebola deaths increase || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #21/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Why improve human-AI collaboration? (blog.ninapanickssery.com)
• We are in triage every second of every day — EA Forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• Agency is for sociopaths - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• 🟩 US and China discuss AI guardrails, Ebola declared a Public Health Emergency, Trump and Iran trade barbs || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #20/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• The mistake of conflating intelligence and power (dwarkesh.com)
• Reflections on AISI | naml.us (naml.us)
• Writing is one of the best ways to learn. We’re building something to help you learn faster - here’s how to get involved! (substack.com)
• The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life (slatestarcodex.com)
• Anonymity and the internet (terrytao.wordpress.com)
• Six milestones for AI automation (planned-obsolescence.org)
• Concrete Projects in AGI Preparedness (forethought.org)
• AI Tools for Existential Security (forethought.org)
• If Mythos actually made Anthropic employees 4x more productive, I would radically shorten my timelines (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• The economics of superstar AI researchers - by Anson Ho (epochai.substack.com)
• AI for AI for Epistemics (forethought.org)
• You’re always stressed, your mind is always busy, you never have enough time — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Paper Highlights of February & March 2026 (aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)
• The Ball (bengoldhaber.substack.com)
• Reasoning Transparency (coefficientgiving.org)
• AI and Epistemics: The Good, Bad and Ugly (forethought.org)
• What's with all the slide decks? (dynomight.substack.com)
• Thoughts on the OpenAI Foundation - by Herbie Bradley (pathwaysai.org)
• 🟡 US-Iran stalemate continues, Putin says Ukraine war may come to an end, White House considers AI executive order || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #19/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• How useful is the information you get from working inside an AI company? (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• The Darwinian Honeymoon - Why I am not as impressed by human progress as I used to be — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Behave according to your actual utility function — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• It's nice of you to worry about me, but I really do have a life — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• x-risk-themed — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Paper Highlights of April 2026 (aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)
• Are the last 3 months the start of an AI acceleration? (benjamintodd.substack.com)
• Intelligence Dissolves Privacy — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• When is vague writing ok? - by Leo Gao - nabla theta (nablatheta.substack.com)
• 🟡 Iran says it will target US naval vessels, GPT-5.5 similar to Mythos on cyber tasks || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #18/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t) — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• You can judge a book by its cover - by Sasha Chapin (sashachapin.substack.com)
• Legible vs. Illegible AI Safety Problems — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Some Days Soon (strangecities.substack.com)
• Science and speculation - by Ajeya Cotra (planned-obsolescence.org)
• how and why to be ladylike (for women with autism) (sympatheticopposition.com)
• The Terrarium — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)

April 2026

• The mystery in the medicine cabinet (dynomight.substack.com)
• 🟡 US-Iran peace talks called off, unauthorized access to Claude Mythos, shots fired at Trump dinner, El Niño coming || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #17/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• AI companies should publish security assessments (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• AI safety: your skills are more relevant than you think (us2.campaign-archive.com)
• Manifund's Falcon Fund (manifund.substack.com)
• vLLM-Lens: Fast Interpretability Tooling That Scales to Trillion-Parameter Models — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Your Supplies Probably Won't Be Stolen in a Disaster — LessWrong (jefftk.com)
• Posts I don't have time to write — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 10 non-boring ways I've used AI in the last month — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Automated Deanonymization is Here — LessWrong (jefftk.com)
• Informal Leadership Structures and AI Safety — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 🟡 US seizes Iranian cargo ship, Iran-US peace talks uncertain, cyberattack estimates || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #16/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Quality Matters Most When Stakes are Highest — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• If You've Never Bought a Tool You Didn't Need, You're Not Buying Enough Tools — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Why I'm Less of a Shill for Related Work Sections — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• The AI people have been right a lot — EA Forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• A continual learning misalignment story - by Peter Barnett (naiveconsequentialism.substack.com)
• Do not conquer what you cannot defend — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Two Examples of Joy in the Seemingly Mundane — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• The Mirror Test Is Complicated — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• For with what judgment we shall be judged — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• manifesting part ii: on not knowing what you want and my sneaky trick for discovering your true desires (notnottalmud.substack.com)
• (1) what I'm manifesting in 2026 - by Daniel Frank (notnottalmud.substack.com)
• Morale — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Most people can't juggle one ball — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• AI Safety's Biggest Talent Gap Isn't Researchers. It's Generalists. — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Your Mom is a Chimera — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• On not being scared of math — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Diary of a "Doomer": 12+ years arguing about AI risk (part 1) — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• A Retrospective of Richard Ngo's 2022 List of Conceptual Alignment Projects — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• Stopping AI is easier than Regulating it. — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 5 Hypotheses for Why Models Fail on Long Tasks — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Daycare illnesses - Nina Panickssery (blog.ninapanickssery.com)
• Have we already lost? Part 3: Reasons for Optimism — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Terrorism is bad actually (nablatheta.substack.com)
• Dario probably doesn't believe in superintelligence — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• How can an ordinary person prepare for AGI? (benjamintodd.substack.com)
• Anthropic's Pause is the Most Expensive Alarm in Corporate History [Fiction] — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Have we already lost? Part 2: Reasons for Doom — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
• I quit drinking for a year - DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER (dynomight.substack.com)
• The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• The hard part isn't noticing when papers are bad, it's deciding what to do afterwards — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• My picture of the present in AI (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• 10 pieces of advice for children - Nina Panickssery (blog.ninapanickssery.com)
• On the Road - by Erica Hu - trekking (erica-hu.com)
• Some things I noticed while LARPing as a grantmaker — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• USB-Clawd and a Mini Fax Machine (benbyfax.substack.com)
• Daniel-isms: 50 Ideas for Life I Repeatedly Share – Daniel Frank (danfrank.ca)
• What it's like to be an AI safety grantmaker (and why we need more of them) — EA Forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• how to tell if men will attack you on the street (aella.substack.com)

March 2026

• 🟡 Iranian steel and nuclear plants bombed, Houthi attacks begin, AI solves open problem in mathematics || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #13/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Know your insomnia treatments (nablatheta.substack.com)
• Don't Overdose Locally Beneficial Changes — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• What I Got From 1.5 Years In Slightly-Competitive Debate — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• My journey to the microwave alternate timeline — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• They don't make 'em like they used to — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Testosterone gave me my life back (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• The missing mood about EA guilt - by Ajeya Cotra (substack.com)
• 🟡 Oil and gas facilities attacked in the Middle East, another US Marine unit deploying to the Middle East, desalination plants threatened || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #12/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Lack of Social Grace is a Lack of Skill — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• What the humans like is responsiveness (sashachapin.substack.com)
• Kicking an addiction to self-loathing (mhollyelmoreblog.wordpress.com)
• The missing mood about EA guilt - by Ajeya Cotra (acotra.substack.com)
• Please remember how strange this all is. — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Christian homeschoolers in the year 3000 — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Depression – Lorien Psychiatry (lorienpsych.com)
• Sustainable motivation | Helen Toner | EA Global: San Francisco 2019 (youtube.com)
• Daniel-isms: 50 Ideas for Life I Repeatedly Share (part 2) (notnottalmud.substack.com)
• On infinite ethics - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• The persona selection model — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Desperation hamster wheels — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Things That Sometimes Help If You Have Depression (slatestarcodex.com)
• Resources On Mental Health And Finding A Therapist — EA Forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• LLMs predict my coffee - DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER (dynomight.substack.com)
• The modern formatting addiction in writing (dynomight.substack.com)
• Towards Alignment Auditing as a Numbers-Go-Up Science — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• The case for AI safety capacity-building work — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Half-assing it with everything you've got (mindingourway.com)
• AI for AI safety (joecarlsmith.substack.com)
• Paths and waystations in AI safety (joecarlsmith.substack.com)
• When should we worry about AI power-seeking? (joecarlsmith.substack.com)
• I underestimated AI capabilities (again) - by Ajeya Cotra (planned-obsolescence.org)
• Replacing guilt (mindingourway.com)
• You're not burning out because you're tired — EA Forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• A personal take on why (and why not) to work on AI safety at Open Philanthropy (catherinebrewer.substack.com)
• 🟡 US and Israel strike Iran, Iran retaliates against US allies, Anthropic designated a supply chain risk || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #9/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)

February 2026

• Here's to the Polypropylene Makers — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• What is it to solve the alignment problem? - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• How do we solve the alignment problem? - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War \ Anthropic (anthropic.com)
• We hosted a dessert invention contest - by Ben James (benbyfax.substack.com)
• The Persona Selection Model: Why AI Assistants might Behave like Humans (alignment.anthropic.com)
• The ML ontology and the alignment ontology — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 🟩 US buildup in Middle East continues, Russian vessel en route to Cuba, AI time horizons lengthen | Global Risks Weekly Roundup #8/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• We're in Triage Mode for AI Policy - by Miles Brundage (milesbrundage.substack.com)
• The stakes of AI moral status - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• Three positive updates I made about technical grantmaking at Coefficient Giving (fka Open Phil) — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Changing the world for the worse — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Animal welfare in 1800 — EA Forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• The Unilateralist’s Curse and the Case for a Principle of Conformity (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
• [REPOST] Epistemic Learned Helplessness (slatestarcodex.com)
• Against neutrality about creating happy lives - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• Request for Proposals: Improving Capability Evaluations (coefficientgiving.org)
• [Closed] Request for Proposals: Studying and Forecasting the Real-World Impacts of Systems Built from LLMs (coefficientgiving.org)
• [Closed] Request for Proposals: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Consequential Real-World Tasks (coefficientgiving.org)
• Research directions Open Phil wants to fund in technical AI safety — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Open Philanthropy Technical AI Safety RFP - $40M Available Across 21 Research Areas — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• New roles on my team: come build Open Phil's technical AI safety program with me! — EA Forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
• Comments on OpenPhil's Interpretability RFP — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• On future people, looking back at 21st century longtermism - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• Killing the ants - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• Thoughts on being mortal - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• On clinging - Joe Carlsmith's Substack (joecarlsmith.substack.com)
• The costs of caution (planned-obsolescence.org)
• Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropic - Joe Carlsmith (joecarlsmith.com)
• By 2050 we could get "10,000 years of technological progress" (youtube.com)
• Functional Representations of Emotion in a Large Language Model (transformer-circuits.pub)
• Why we should expect ruthless sociopath ASI — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• The attempted kidnapping at my house - by Aella (aella.substack.com)
• A multi-level postmortem of how our whole house got badly poisoned — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 🟩 US sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East, European nuclear deterrent discussed, pandemic preparedness deprioritized at NIAID | Global Risks Weekly Roundup #7/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• You Have Only X Years To Escape Permanent Moon Ownership (astralcodexten.com)
• Aligning to Virtues — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Do Less. - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• The Missing Genre: Heroic Parenthood - You can have kids and still punch the sun — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
• Ending Parking Space Saving — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• after my dad died, we found the love letters (jenn.site)
• my dad could still be alive, but he's not. (jenn.site)
• Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 🟩 Anthropic and OpenAI release new models, US-Iran talks continue, illegal biolab in the US, nuclear arms treaty expires | Global Risks Weekly Roundup #6/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)
• Angels-on-the-Shoulder: 5 AI Tools for Better Decisions (forethought.org)
• I miss thinking hard. (jernesto.com)
• AlgZoo: uninterpreted models with fewer than 1,500 parameters (alignment.org)
• Eli's shortform feed — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
• Different senses in which two AIs can be “the same” — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Extending control evaluations to non-scheming threats (blog.redwoodresearch.org)
• It Is Reasonable To Research How To Use Model Internals In Training — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• 50 things I know (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Berkson's paradox - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
• Burnout is breaking a sacred pact (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• bye, mom (aella.substack.com)
• The seam through the center of things (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• The lies I used to tell myself (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• In praise of quitting (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Aliveness and where to find it - by Ben James - Ben by Fax (substack.com)
• Are you stuck in movie logic? (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Rightness is a prison (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• How to increase your surface area for luck (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Tying yourself to the mast (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Everyone’s the hero of their own story (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• How to instantly be better at things (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Fuck willpower (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Learn to love the Moat of Low Status (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Are you a jerk, or a liar? (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Everyone here is in a cult (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Crossing the cringe minefield (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Barnum effect - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
• 37 things people love about Sasha Chapin (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• I used to be a high-performing robot (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• There are nine wolves inside of you (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Maybe you’re not Actually Trying (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Paper Highlights of January 2026 (aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)
• How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal (asimov.press)
• Opinionated Takes on Meetups Organizing — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Why read novels? (dynomight.net)
• On neural scaling and the quanta hypothesis (ericjmichaud.com)
• “Features” aren’t always the true computational primitives of a model, but that might be fine anyways — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• The Hidden Cost of Our Lies to AI — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• A playbook for field strategy (blog.bluedot.org)
• Aliveness and where to find it (benbyfax.substack.com)
• Fake thinking and real thinking (joecarlsmith.substack.com)

January 2026

• Mini Blog Post 3: Become a person who Actually Does Things — Neel Nanda (neelnanda.io)
• How to be more agentic (usefulfictions.substack.com)
• Book Review: Seeing Like A State (slatestarcodex.com)
• Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard - YouTube (youtube.com)
• AI-engineered diseases are coming. Here's the plan to stop them. | Andrew Snyder-Beattie - YouTube (youtube.com)
• From Warp Speed to 100 Days—Asterisk (asteriskmag.com)
• The UK Recovery Trial for Covid-19 treatments helped save a million l… (archive.ph)
• Oversight Assistants: Turning Compute into Understanding — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Unsupervised decoding of encoded reasoning using language model... (arxiv.org)
• Recent LLMs can do 2-hop and 3-hop latent (no-CoT) reasoning on natural facts — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Recent LLMs can use filler tokens or problem repeats to improve (no-CoT) math performance — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Why Not Just Train For Interpretability? — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models (transformer-circuits.pub)
• Can we safely automate alignment research? — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Turning 20 in the probable pre-apocalypse — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• The Redwood Research podcast - YouTube (youtube.com)
• Paper Highlights of December 2025 - by Johannes Gasteiger (aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)
• The Most Important Graph in AI Right Now | Beth Barnes, CEO of METR - YouTube (youtube.com)
• Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research - YouTube (youtube.com)
• So you’ve taken over the world - by Owen Cotton-Barratt (strangecities.substack.com)
• The behavioral selection model for predicting AI motivations — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• TPU Deep Dive (henryhmko.github.io)
• my guide for visiting NYC (notnottalmud.substack.com)
• How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• Reflections on 2025 (samuelalbanie.substack.com)
• The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona... (arxiv.org)
• We Let an AI Talk To Another AI. Things Got Really Weird. | Kyle Fish, Anthropic - YouTube (youtube.com)
• Alignment remains a hard, unsolved problem — LessWrong (lesswrong.com)
• On Agency (sebastianfarquhar.com)
• Why Every Scientist That Wanted Mirror Bacteria Changed Their Mind - YouTube (youtube.com)
• Film Study for Research (jsteinhardt.stat.berkeley.edu)
• 🟩 US attacks Venezuela and captures Maduro, threatens Iran, Mexico, Colombia and Denmark || Global Risks Weekly Roundup #1/2026 (blog.sentinel-team.org)