Is there a way to make the list of posts shown on lesswrong.com use the advanced filters I have set up at lesswrong.com/allPosts? I hate hate hate all of Recent, Enriched and Recommended (give me chronological or give me death) but given that I already have a set of satisfactory filters set up, rendering them on the main page seems like a feature that should exist, if only I can find it.

Hello! Long time reader, I regularly run a local ACX meetup in Padova, Italy. My entry points for the rationalist community were ACX and HPMOR, but I also loved The Story of Us blogpost series by Tim Urban (now collected into a book).

At the beginning of 2025 I left my job at Bending Spoons to study AI alignment (I took the https://www.aisafetybook.com/virtual-course, much recommended), and finally decided to tackle the other problem I'm most interested in, which is social polarization.

With an ex colleague I founded https://unbubble.news, a tool that uses L... (read more)

Another long-time lurker and daily LW reader (mostly via RSS feed) finally looking to contribute to the conversation. 

My aspiration is to write more and write more publicly, in pursuit of better writing and more scrutinized beliefs.

Hope to contribute a few useful posts over the coming months! Always appreciate the thoughtfulness of posters and commenters here.

Hello! I'm fia, I found this place through a Substack blog.^[1]

I am new to LW. I am here because I've realized that rationality and reasoning has been prevalent through about 75% of my life, and I want to understand it more thoroughly, alongside engaging with like-minded people.

I study medicine and have been gradually growing disillusioned about the future of medical practice, over how most our treatments are to manage patients over a chronic timescale, with the more curative approaches being wealth-gated. I am however, hopeful for the advancements we are m... (read more)

Hi, 

I'm Marko, new to LW, have heard about it in the media, but wasn't actually aware of the full proposition. Having read through it now - feels like a place that would make sense for me to join. 

I work in decision intelligence and AI in London, in fintech, trying to get customer-aligned scalable neuro-symbolic models in finance. Primarily in the consumer space. Background is sociology, information science and computer science; have gone through a career rollercoaster of measurement, software development, product management, data science, machine learning... (read more)

Now that it is the New Year, I made a massive thread on twitter concerning a lot of my own opinionated takes on AI, which to summarize are my lengthening timelines, which correlates to my view that new paradigms for AI are likelier than they used to be and more necessary, which reduces AI safety from our vantage point in expectation, AI will be a bigger political issue than I used to think and depending on how robotics ends up, it might be the case that by 2030 LLMs are just good enough to control robots even if their time horizon for physical tasks is pre... (read more)

Hi all, new here.

I recently came across LessWrong (through ChatGPT -- sorry...) while looking for places to have interesting and deeply intellectual conversations. I've been reading through some of the posts here and the guides to get a sense of how things work and it seems like this might be the place I was looking for.

To be honest I'm more psychologically minded than anything else; interested in how people form beliefs, the breakdown of reasoning, how biases form and stick, etc. I'm fortunate in that I've had a lot of exposure to academia from a pretty e... (read more)

Hi, I'm new here. Wanted to write a short introduction about myself. I'm curious about this forum.

I'm from Germany and have absolutely no technical background. I work as a forensic psychiatrist. I don't know how this works in other countries, but in Germany you talk to defendants on behalf of courts or prosecutors and try to figure out what might be true and what isn't. And as a doctor you have these kinds of conversations quite often in regular practice too. So you're always trying to see whether you can recognize valid patterns from more or less good sou... (read more)

Hello everyone! I'm very new to the LW community and I'm still trying to understand how this platform works, but I'm glad to have found a space where people can engage in meaningful conversations. I am a philosophy PhD (defence scheduled next month, wish me luck!) and my thesis is about the philosophy of mind and AI. I'll be spending the next hours (days) reading and I hope to post some of my slightly less formal writing once I get the hang of this platform. I can't wait to explore!

Hi everyone! 

New to LW. Recently I've been interested in AI research, especially mech interp, and this seems to be the place that people go to discuss this. I studied philosophy in undergrad and while since then I've gotten interested in CS and math, my predilections still tend toward the humanities side of things. Will mostly be lurking at first as I read through The Sequences and get used to the community norms here, but hope to share some of my independent research soon! 

Hello everyone,
Just a quick "Hi" and figured I'd intro myself as I'm new to this space.
As part of my new year's resolution to "do something different" this year (beyond the yearly failed attempt to exercise more, and eat/drink less) I thought that this is something I can achieve - and enjoy doing.
So let's see where to start?
I live in Canada, in my 5th decade, am a family man and work in computing. I in fact enjoy being proven wrong - as it helps to show I am still learning.
I enjoy long walks on the beach, and am at equally at home at the opera as I am at a baseball stadium .. wait .. sorry that was for the dating site ... don't tell my wife ;)
Jokes aside, looking forward to being a lurker!
Richard

Hi, I am a first poster and honestly was unaware of this community and am quite glad something like this exists as critical thinking is already rare as is, and assessments on the impact of AI on it at large worry me for the future of society.

I am Mec. Engineer by background and well stablished in my field for a bit over a decade now, but given that I have lived in different societal trust realities between a very low-trust city (in Latin America) and seen what a high-trust society can look like (e.g. Tokyo) this sparked me to constantly ask what is the dif... (read more)

Hi everyone! You can call me officialcrafter101 (I'd rather keep my name anonymous here for now...).

I don't have too much to say here for this introduction, but I have spent yesterday and today perusing the Highlights from the Sequences. As a 23 year old male, I have had very little experience engaging in online web forums that requires rationality/reasoning as covered here on LessWrong.

To be honest, I am quite nervous participating in this community despite the anonymity, given that I really don't write about my thinking outside of an academic context. I ... (read more)

Part-time research/content role at Atella (AI safety eval) -

We are Atella and we are building STELLA, an AI-safety harness that runs multi turn safety evals on high-stakes scenarios (i.e., suicidality, mandated reporting, grooming, etc). Roy Perlis (MGH/JAMA AI) is our Chief Scientist and our leaderboard is at leaderboard.atella.ai.

We are looking for someone to own our weekly content presence on our blog, summarizing our ongoing work as well as critically assessing safety research. An ideal fit would be someone who reads AI safety papers for fun and gets ... (read more)

Hey Everyone! I am Gautam Arora and I am new to LW. I work as a software engineer and I am interested in Maths, Philosophy and Logic as subjects.

Interestingly I came to know about this web forum through ChatGPT while discussing about "how to carry out independent research about any topic". This also means that I want to deep dive into research, improve my research methodology, and to develop my critical thinking skills.

Looking forward to question my biases, connect with like minded people and help this community grow.

Hi everyone!

​I'm Liu. I'm a physicist and a designer, but mostly I’m just a girl who loves tasty things.

​I don’t believe in pure egoism, and I don’t believe in altruism at all. Also, I often find myself laughing in my sleep at the "movies" my brain produces while sorting the day's overloaded cache into long-term memory to recalibrate its weights.

​I tend to get bored with the monotonous fractals of this world, always dreaming of stumbling upon a fresh "inkblot" and examining it as closely as possible.

​I love cats. I love the rain and the night, when the bac... (read more)

Hello everyone, I'm a clinical psychiatrist with a background in Industrial & Systems Engineering. My interest includes philosophy, psychology, and AI safety, especially as more and more people use AI for deeply personal engagement.

I've developed some frameworks and would love to receive feedbacks to keep on refining them. Looking to engage with the community and share ideas. 

Hi All, 

I am a financial analyst working in a tech company in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Got interested in AI and noticed some patterns/phenomena I'd like to discuss about. Hopefully they can evolve into some valuable insights.

Still working through the Sequences. It may take some more time with my current full-time job, but I am interested.

Something may be interesting to share--it is my Claude recommended me to join in here. And I am glad here I am.

Hi folks,

Long-time lurker, first-time poster.  After parting ways with my last professional role, I've decided to get more involved in AI Safety.  I've proposed what I think is a novel step towards corrigibility.  The very short overview is at:
https://danparshall.com/papers/navigator_core_blog.pdf

The more developed version is at:
http://danparshall.com/papers/navigator_core.pdf

I welcome feedback, either here or via email.

Hi all,
Despite occasional fits of lurking over many years, I'd never actually created a LW account. Sometimes it feels easier, or more appropriate, to peer over the garden wall than to climb in and start gardening. Or at least glance in to see what you might apply to your own small patch of earth.
Lately I've come to realise that approach was more grounded in protection of a shaky personal identity, than dislike of building engagement within an established group. This became especially apparent with recent research, paper & project builds I'd taken on, ... (read more)

Greetings, Claude sent me here! My goals are primarily self-improvement- I will appreciate engaging with individuals that are able and willing to inform me of weaknesses in my lines of thinking, whatever the topic. Lucky that this place exists. I miss the old internet when authentic honest material was more commonly found rather than ideologically skewed, bait, or persuasion, especially well-disguised persuasion. Basically, just a guy that feels half the internet is attempting to hijack my thoughts rather than present good faith information. Lucky to be here!

Hi everyone,

I've read many of the posts here over the years. A lot of the ideas I first met here seem to be coming up again in my work now. I think the most important work in the world today is figuring out how to make sure AI continues to be something we control, and I find most of the people I meet in SF still think AI safety means not having a model say something in publc that harms a corporate brand.

I'm here to learn and bounce some ideas off of people who are comfortable with Bayesian reasoning and rational discussion, and interested in similar topics... (read more)

It would be nice to have a post time-sorted quick takes feed. https://www.lesswrong.com/quicktakes seems to be latest comment-sorted or magic sorted

Hi folks, I'm brand new to LW, and ended up here because of the AI safety discussions. I'm an independent software engineer (≈28 years, applied-math background) who does CAD and industrial automation tooling as my day job, with some evolutionary methods and AI-related work on the side.

I recently ran a small, fully-logged experiment on a two-model code-optimization loop and got bitten by a genuine reward-hack plus a couple of silent failure modes, and I found recovering from those more interesting than the architecture I set out to test. I'm planning to wr... (read more)

Technically not a new user but haven't visited in a sufficient number of years.

Hello.

So an LLM suggested I post something here.
On one hand, an LLM told me to do it.
On the other hand, posting is cheap across all dimensions. Maximum risk is tightly capped.

I immediately ran into an emotional issue when I implicitly assumed success is possible. I started procrastinating as I tried to come up with some strategy to avoid sabotaging myself, accidentally or on purpose. Emphasis on [try].

Much easier when I dropped the assumption that success is possible. Indeed I... (read more)

Hi, new LW member here. I have this idea that's been germinating for years, want to get your takes.

TLDR: I think ethics can be derived objectively from the way natural cyclic processes support and sustain or disrupt and undermine each other, and herein lies a key to alignment.

There were many posts recently from, and about, Anthropic's Alignment Team looking into ethics and religion as a source of prior art on the problem of alignment. I appreciate that, knowing how seriously they take their mission. Ethics is hard, full of subjective judgements and contrad... (read more)

Greetings. I have been obsessed with AI recently and am fascinated by some of the posts about the topic of AI extinction. After reading some stuff, I have decided I want to write Something.

I feel large social pressure to stop using AI on the grounds of morals. So I want to write a well supported stance for whether / how unethical it is to use AI. I have written up my first attempt at a stance. It is weak and in need of feedback. However since I am new, I don't want to shove it people's faces unless they are interested specifically in reading something fro... (read more)

Hi everyone! I'm Ereshkigal, a serial lurker who has finally decided to make an account. My background is in Organic Chemistry, though I switched to IT and management years ago. I'm also the daughter of an archaeologist, brought up with stories from Homer and Euripides; and so my other interests lie in the study of the ancient world, ancient texts, and the study of culture and religion. My mother and grandmother were both huge Trekkies, so I know my fair share of Star Trek (Voyager is my favourite), and I'm a lifelong fan of Morrowind and the Myst games.

I ... (read more)

The site is getting flooded by Inkhaven posts, and while they're not bad, they are dragging down the average and I wish I could filter them out. I don't expect anyone to do anything about this but I feel like I ought to note it for the record.

Just saying hello. And I'm really bad with this introduction thing.

This community resonates with my worldview, and I recently started experimenting with AI, so here I am!

Hi, everyone. My name is Bo Jun Han(hbj), and I am from Taiwan. This post is the actual first one that I wrote down and published on LessWrong. Since my native language is not English and my English is not very good, I have to use Grammarly to correct my words and grammar. I know the rule here is that people are forbidden to use LLMs to help improve writing and creating, so I try to drop down by myself, word by word. If it makes you feel like junior high school homework, please forgive me.

Interestingly, the one "which" most strongly recommends me to find a... (read more)

Hello everyone,

I am Bo Jun Han. I am from Taiwan. The main reasons I hope to join are two. First, I really hope to have conversations with people about issues related to society and the human community. Second, I truly need someone to talk to, because for more than a year now, I have had no one to talk to except my family. Every day, my life consists only of talking to AI, discussing ideas, reading materials, looking up information, and writing. I have no one else to talk to. My family does not understand me, but I believe there are people here who do.

I fe... (read more)

Hello,
I'm posting this here, but I'm not sure if there's a better way to escalate stuff like this in the future. My recently posted first post on Precommitments was categorized by the autoclassifier as a Personal Blogpost, along with a message that the classification would be reviewed by a human within ~24 hours. As far as I can tell, the post meets all of the descriptions for a Frontpage post ("on topic" for the core interests of LW, explanatory rather than argumentative) and none of the ones for a Personal Blogpost (niche, meta, "personal ramblings.") Th... (read more)

All, with humility I ask a favor.

I wrote this article thinking it would be for LinkedIn but what a waste their if LESSWRONG readers would tear it apart for me! Can you have a look at this near-final draft? Is it something of interest to you? It is a projection inspired by Anthropic's Economic Index with a focus on Interpretive Exhibit Design. I've designed Nixon's Liebrary and with Trump's recent announcement, it is more relevant than ever.

Your thoughts, comments, and help are appreciated in advance,

Scott

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uZhSlanlNRpTrE4... (read more)

This comment was rejected on Overwhelming Superintelligence, that I would like to know where to post for feedback:

One thing has always struck me as strange with the idea of superintelligence (or even general intelligence) emerging from Gen AI - if the best of the training material may be largely wrong and wrongly understood (with the tip of the iceberg being "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" Ioannidis 2005) then how could any algorithm iterate over that to make equivalent sense and good decision making of some contextual situation vs those ~... (read more)

Hello everyone, I'm new to LW and from a very few grasps I've had reading the posts I think this platform absolutely resonates with my persona, I've always dreamed about a platform leveraging human reasoning at its peak and talking about a wide range of topics, I am a computer science student from Italy, and since the advent of LLMs, I've felt just, dumber, I think I've started to outsource too many things to the LLMs without balancing, slowly building a lot of cognitive debt, and since then I've constantly felt the need to sharpen my human reasoning capab... (read more)

Hi! I'm Thomas, nice to meet you all. I've been reading LessWrong on and off for years but never got around to posting until recently. (I do occasionally comment at Astral Codex Ten.) I'm interested in rationality as the art of systematized winning.

Things I've been thinking about recently include personal mindset/habit transformations and the possibility that such transformations, if embraced by a minority of the population, could produce society-level benefits. Not unrelatedly, I'm thinking about the plight of Europe in general and Finland in particular and how we could change the course of our country and continent.

I am here because someone said this is where I belong.

I've wanted to write and never had the time. Recently, I made time. And of all the writing projects that I've started over the years, I decided to pickup the philosophical essays because most ideas were fresh and more importantly I knew I could actually deliver a few before the opportunity of time expires.

Before starting to formally post on the internet, I was sending thoughts to friends and family and getting no responses, no pushback, no agreement. I am aware this thinking tends to produce long text... (read more)

I am new to LW and would like to introduce myself. 

I came here to learn more about AI Alignment discussions. I'm especially interested in the perspective that the specification for AI alignment may contain a existential-level systematic error. To me, originally a historian of science and ideas, aligning AI with human preferences does not seem wise. Historically we can see that human preferences, due to biases, shortsightedness and social dynamics, can be quite harmful, not only to other species, but also to humans and civilizational continuity. 

In the 90's... (read more)

Hello! 

I'm new here, but have been reading through the sequences and other posts for the last few weeks and would love some feedback on a post idea. I'm writing my theory of change for AI safety and how I can help. I've defined my priors, identified cruxes, and I'm in the middle of reading papers and blog posts to challenge my priors. I've seen a few theory of change posts (e.g., Critch's healthtech post), but I'm wondering if I should post mine as a working document, starting with an unfinished product and updating as I refine my beliefs.

Is an in-progress... (read more)

I'm an independent researcher with a background in information security and video/content creation. I enjoy building software, which I've been doing a lot of the past year. I'm also an established cat whisperer and pattern recognizer. 

Yo all,

I have a a new theorem in the field of philosophy of the mind that I think completely refute the Chinese Room Argument, or at least its final epistemic conclusion regarding the inherent absence of machine consciousness. I went over the guide and couldn't find anything that suggests this is not the place to get feedback and start a good discussion about it. On the other hand, I didn't find philosophy of the mind in your subjects list. Below is the short short version for you consideration. If you this it fits your vibe I can post the theorem, taxonom... (read more)

To post or not to, lets see if that is the question. I was referred to a user on x to participate in a AI Alignment forum but some of you might agree with me, I didn't want to ask him which forum. So here I am, introducing myself. I'm the architect of a controversial concept we called Veritas Queasitor CAI. Controversial because it approaches AI safety out of a non-theological evidence and epistemological Christian angle, so for Christians we are to scientific and for naturalists we are too Christian. We have developed and tested a framework we've found to... (read more)

I want to be able to change the editor inside the "New Quick Take" popup