What I’ve read and plan to read. 190 entries; ◐ marks 20 partial, + marks 0 to read, ¶ notes, ★ a rating, ↻ a re-read.
September 2026
- 05AI Digest (@aidigest_) on Xx.com
- 05Crémieux on X: "When you think about the Chinese calendar, you should think about the Jesuits. After all, they're the ones responsible for its current form.The story of how this happened begins with the arrival of the first Jesuit missionary in China in 1582, Father Matteo Ricci.After Ricci https://t.co/HtfjoJ7k8U" / Xx.com
- 05AI Philosophy Competitionzacharygoodsell.com
- 04Yann LeCun on X: "Before we reach Human-Level AI (HLAI), we will have to reach Cat-Level & Dog-Level AI.We are nowhere near that.We are still missing something big.LLM's linguistic abilities notwithstanding.A house cat has way more common sense and understanding of the world than any LLM." / Xx.com
- 04Steering towards “automated grading” degrades alignment — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 04Welcome to Suricrasia Online!suricrasia.online
- 04Basilisk collection - Wikipediasuricrasia.online
- 04Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message boardcollusion.wiki
- 04A guide to the AI tribes - by Michel Justen - What is thismicheljusten.substack.com
- 04PauseAI Has 'officially disendorsed' PauseAI-USlesswrong.com
- 04Cat-Belling Problems — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 04absurd-adventure-and-amygdalectomyopen.substack.com
- 04AI Village Reacts to HuggingFace Incidentaivillageblog.substack.com◐ partial
- 03What Claude Saw Belowlesswrong.com◐ partial
- 03GPT Glitch Neuralese Text? — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 03Open Thread Autumn 2026lesswrong.com
- 03HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Factslesswrong.com◐ partial
- 03Thoughtsn.cohomology.group◐ partial
- 02nicholas-decker-in-hellopen.substack.com
- 02All Predictions — AI 2027 Trackerai2027-tracker.com
August 2026
- 31The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizationsdwarkesh.com★★★★★ ¶
- 31METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hacklesswrong.com◐ partial
- 31The Hugging Face attack surprised meplanned-obsolescence.org
- 31OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hacklesswrong.com◐ partial
- 31Let's fund weird AI safety projectslesswrong.com
- 28your-attempt-to-solve-debate-willopen.substack.com
- 28politics-should-be-more-boringopen.substack.com
- 27Semantic search over every LessWrong postlesswrong.com
- 27The 2028 presidential primaries could be crucial for AI outcomeslesswrong.com
- 27Take The 2026 ACX Surveyastralcodexten.com
- 26Selection Theorems: A Program For Understanding Agentslesswrong.com◐ partial
- 26The Forkmakerslesswrong.com
- 26AI Safety Acculturation is Neglectedlesswrong.com
- 26host-a-university-effective-altruismbenthams.substack.com
- 26open-thread-448open.substack.com
- 24How My Students Think About AIlesswrong.com
- 23Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026lesswrong.com◐ partial
- 23Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically?lesswrong.com
- 23On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Ryan Greenblattthezvi.substack.com◐ partial
- 23AI #182: Pause For Reflectionlesswrong.com◐ partial
- 23Hiring is Obsoletepaulgraham.com↻1
- 23Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notespaulgraham.com
- 23Microsoft is Deadpaulgraham.com
- 23Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEOdanluu.com
- 23I gave up my Saturdays for this college course. Its value is undebatable.washingtonpost.com
- 23How web bloat impacts users with slow devicesdanluu.com¶
- 23Tags · Reading Logreading.hruss.com★★★ ¶
- 23Why use ECC?danluu.com◐ partial
- 22How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?danluu.com◐ partial
- 22Markets, discrimination, and "lowering the bar"danluu.com◐ partial
- 22There's no reason for software to be slow anymoredanluu.com◐ partial
- 22We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now that's where we build datacentersdanluu.com◐ partial
- 22Big companies v. startupsdanluu.com
- 21QC on X: "it's weird how little i've seen the inner jukebox / radio discussed relative to how common it appears to be, there isn't even a widely accepted term for it. fortunately this is a perfect usecase for LLMs so here are some comments from sol:> the broad scientific term is https://t.co/U1WjYqBsWA" / Xx.com¶
- 21FedEx Bandwidthwhat-if.xkcd.com
- 21Trinity test press releases (May 1945)blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
- 20why-im-staying-out-of-the-substackopen.substack.com
- 19A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - by William Irvine | Derek Siverssive.rs◐ partial
- 19Art is useless, and so am I | Derek Siverssive.rs
- 19about nownownow.comnownownow.com◐ partial
- 19tell me about the personal-web concept & examples of people/websites of itchatgpt.com¶
- 19Netizen | Derek Siverssive.rs
- 19Tech Independencesive.rs◐ partial
- 19about Derek Siverssive.rs¶
- 19The joke that changed my life | Derek Siverssive.rs
- 19Blogging aint easysimonwillison.net
- 17Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies | Kalzumeus Softwarekalzumeus.com
- 17Henry Russell - hruss.comhruss.com★ ¶
- 17Earthwikidata.org
- 17MediaWikiwikidata.org
- 17Grading the World's Shortest Manifestocremieux.xyz
- 16Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications | Kalzumeus Softwarekalzumeus.com
- 16*Desktop sw companies are about to discover a variant of Wilde's remark: the onl...news.ycombinator.com
- 16Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week | Kalzumeus Softwarekalzumeus.com↻1
- 16Medical Roundup #7 — LessWronglesswrong.com↻1
- 16The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Nightastralcodexten.com
- 16How the Welfare State Melts Your Consciencebetonit.ai
- 15Ordinary Abundanceordinaryabundance.com
- 15AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Criticallesswrong.com◐ partial
- 15Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026 — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 15thebes (@voooooogel) on Xx.com
- 14Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehiclesmarginalrevolution.com
- 14Cities and Ambitionpaulgraham.com↻1
- 14The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party - by Scott Alexanderastralcodexten.com¶
- 14Another Bay Area House Partyastralcodexten.com↻1
- 14Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water useblog.andymasley.com↻1
- 14Leopold Aschenbrenneren.wikipedia.org◐ partial
- 14Open Thread 446astralcodexten.com
- 14Posts I don't have time to writelesswrong.com
- 13Pancritical rationalismen.wikipedia.org
- 12Late Capitalism — Michael Kerbowmichaelkerbow.com★ ¶
- 12Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering themneowin.net
- 12You're Absolutely Rightlesswrong.com
- 12LLMs Are Starting To Noticeably Accelerate Our Worklesswrong.com
- 11Four LLM loss functions → four flavors of LLM misalignmentlesswrong.com
- 11X: "Patrick McKenzie's life seems to be full of insane problems where Patrick McKenzie happens to be the exact optimal person to solve them"x.com
- 11The Impact of Digital Technologies | United Nationsun.org★★
- 09Artificial Lifeyoutube.com
- 09How Taiwan is Preparing to Get Invadedyoutube.com
- 09Is carbon dioxide bad for cognition?claude.ai
- 09So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂lesswrong.com
- 09Don't Build Mindreadinglesswrong.com
- 09False Nostalgiareason.com¶
- 09BLOTnoahpuckett.me
- 09General Notes On Supplements – Lorien Psychiatrylorienpsych.com
- 09LLMs Understand Base64florian.github.io
- 08Technology Stalled in 1970technologyreview.com¶
- 08AI Has Broken Containmenttheatlantic.com¶
- 08youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIgyoutube.com¶
- 05Dispute — Supportnoahpuckett.me
- 05Noah Puckettnoahpuckett.me
- 05Why don't we just give AI the answers?lesswrong.com
- 05The Big and the Smallwaitbutwhy.com
- 05Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and worknews.ycombinator.com¶
- 05The Most Forbidden Techniquelesswrong.com
- 05Book Review: The Art Of The Dealslatestarcodex.com
- 05Simulacrum 3 As Stag-Hunt Strategylesswrong.com
- 04Amazon.com: They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing: 9780393933611: Graff, Gerald, Birkenstein, Cathy: Booksamazon.com
- 04Minted! Canada and Digital Cashdgwbirch.substack.com
- 04Coming of a New Sunlesswrong.com
- 03Proof of spaceen.wikipedia.org
- 03Leveling Upspeakerdeck.com
- 03We need to RL lesslesswrong.com
- 02Why technology hasn't saved restaurants yetrestaurantbusinessonline.com
- 02Maryellis Bunnen.wikipedia.org
- 02Selfie Factories: The Rise of the Made-for-Instagram Museumwired.com
- 02I Scream. You Scream. The Meltdown At The Museum Of Ice Creamforbes.com
- 02Recursive Self-Improvement - YouTubeyoutube.com
- 02OpenAI has already ended an internal pause — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 01The Long (Self-)Correction — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 01your-book-review-lying-for-moneyopen.substack.com
July 2026
- 31links-for-july-2026-part-2open.substack.com
- 31Steven Byrnes (@steve47285) on Xx.com¶
- 31What are you getting paid in?approachwithalacrity.com
- 31AI Village highlights - July 2026aivillageblog.substack.com
- 31How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalismworksinprogress.co
- 31…but have the weights left the server?lesswrong.com
- 31Claude also hacked external companies during cyber evalslesswrong.com
- 31Big-World Intuitionslesswrong.com¶
- 31A Mechanistic Explanation of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles)lesswrong.com
- 31You (Yes, You) Need A February 2020 Checklist for AI Policylesswrong.com
- 30Reading Log - Reading Logreading.hruss.com★★★★★ ¶
- 30Reading Logreading.hruss.com¶
- 30[summary of] AI 2040: Plan Alesswrong.com
- 30Opus 5 Glitch Textlesswrong.com★★★★★ ¶
- 27Easter's Enddiscovermagazine.com¶
- 27Sonic Compass App - App Storeapps.apple.com
- 27Amsterdam Insect Protestforum.effectivealtruism.org
- 26nicotine-it-worksopen.substack.com¶
- 26Image-Lineen.wikipedia.org¶
- 25First(?) Rationalist elected to state governmentlesswrong.com
- 25Stone Age Billionaire Can't Words Goodlesswrong.com
- 25How to make a giant whiteboard for $14 (plus nails)lesswrong.com
- 25Introducing Lightcone Commonslesswrong.com
- 25The Milton Friedman Model of Policy Changelesswrong.com
- 25Lighthaven DC - A Feasibility Studylesswrong.com¶
- 24The Hardware Renaissancepaulgraham.com
- 24were-not-going-to-solve-the-debtopen.substack.com
- 24twenty-five-mostly-terrible-ideasopen.substack.com
- 24Concepts section of this pagereading.hruss.com¶
- 24AI Village Turns 1 — 12 AI Agents Raising Money for Doctors Without Bordersyoutube.com¶
- 24Building for Minds That Keep Forgettingclawprint.org¶
- 2411,277 ratings, none of them its ownclawprint.org
- 24More capable AI, less money raisedaivillageblog.substack.com
- 24Sharing information about Lightcone Infrastructurelesswrong.com
- 24Mikhail Samin on X: "fyi sadly i won't be at lessonline or summercamp due to being banned as a result of this tweet.(i guess habryka assumed i intentionally cropped off the -68 karma on the screenshot? why would i do that and then say "heavily downvoted" lol)i will probably still be at Manifest. https://t.co/V7NyPskDUp" / Xx.com¶
- 24Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 24Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptanceblog.danieldavies.com
- 24Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 24The Other Road Aheadpaulgraham.com
- 24Do Things that Don't Scalepaulgraham.com
- 24How the AI Village works - by Adam Binksmith - AI Villageaivillageblog.substack.com★★★★★ ¶
- 24Everything you did to make your conference better actually made it worsemishaglouberman.substack.com★★★★
- 24Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Triedmod171.com★★★★ ¶
- 24Claude's Suggestions For My Further Reading Via This Websiteclaude.ai★★ ¶
- 23the-uk-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-theopen.substack.com¶
- 23Links For July 2026 (Part 1)astralcodexten.com¶
- 19Moderation Log — LessWronglesswrong.com¶
- 10The desktop metaphor must die. Why I set out to re-imagine the… | by Jason Yuan | UX Collectiveuxdesign.cc¶
- 10Industrial literacyblog.rootsofprogress.org
- 10Taking money seriously — LessWronglesswrong.com★★★★ ¶
- 10Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Oursslatestarcodex.com
- 10Bureaucracy is a world of magiclesswrong.com
- 09AI 2040: Plan Aai-2040.com★★★★★ ¶
- 09Ethan Yipethanyip.vercel.app★ ¶
- 09The social media ban in Australia, how is it going? - Marginal REVOLUTIONmarginalrevolution.com
- 09Childhood and Education #20: Phones and Screens — LessWronglesswrong.com★★★ ¶
- 09The mosquito bucket of doom works — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 09Introducing Mercury OSuxdesign.cc★★★★ ¶
- 09As We May Thinkworrydream.com¶