This was produced as a part of the AI Safety Camp 2026 "Assumptions of the Doom Debate" project, led by Sean Herrington, who was also the lead author on this post. The other participants have equal contributions and are listed in no particular order. It is the first in a...
I've been following chess grandmaster Avetik Grigoryan for his chess improvement tips for a while . He has a tonne of great stuff on his website. The following is an extract from an article I think would be interesting to a bunch of people on LessWrong. The chess improvement formula...
I apologise to all of you who have to scroll through yet another person reminiscing about sitting in one place for 30 days writing about things nobody cares about, but I have official word from resident Frenchwoman Lucie Philippon that "Inkhaven retrospectives are not inkslop," so here we go. I...
There's a knock at the door of General Wolpeding's office. “Enter!” The head of the Artificial Superintelligence Service comes in. “Ah, Klappenhosen, what's up with ASS now?”. “Well General, it's been a shaky few days.” “What's happened this time?” “Well, we finished the training of our latest model a few...
I wasn't exactly intending to shove myself in a street with a herd of charging bulls, but peer pressure has a funny way of making one do things like that. It turns out my ego was such that I could not, in fact, turn down the opportunity to participate in...
A few days ago, I released a list of the top bloggers from the Inkhaven writing residency. Since then, more posts have been released, and I have also spent some time figuring out bugs in the code - people are uploading their blogs to any number of different websites, each...
Intro Many people seem to have a binary perspective on the outcome of developing superintelligence: either we solve alignment and everything is perfect, or we don't and everyone dies. I have criticised this perspective before, arguing that we should think about multiple categories of endgames, rather than just the 2....