Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️

@ESYudkowsky

The original AI alignment person. Understanding the reasons it's difficult since 2003. This is my serious low-volume account. Follow @allTheYud for the rest.

Joined June 2014

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
@ESYudkowsky
Sep 16, 2025
"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out. Read it today if you want to see with fresh eyes what's truly there, before others try to prime your brain to see something else instead!
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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
@ESYudkowsky
Jun 12
On a first read, this paper seems far ahead of the pack in terms of (1) understanding some reasons why a task might stay difficult even in the face of gradient descent, and (2) distilling out propositions they'd need to somehow verify before they started expecting nice things.
Geoffrey Irving
@geoffreyirving
Jun 10
Replying to @geoffreyirving
But I just published “Automated alignment is harder than you think” (arxiv.org/abs/2605.06390)! Automated alignment is not the best plan! A better plan is to not build ASI yet, and the world should try hard to realise that plan. Alas, the speed of progress calls for backups.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
@ESYudkowsky
Jun 10
Considering the language of the announcement alone, taken entirely at face value: This seems an enormous advance in attitude (and scientific integrity) over previous big projects. They claim non-optimistic results will be considered allowable, valuable, and publishable!
Geoffrey Irving
@geoffreyirving
Jun 10
We are starting a new, nonprofit alignment organization, ⊢ Sequent Research, bringing together researchers previously on UK AISI’s Alignment Team, Timaeus, and elsewhere to research how to align superintelligence. We are hiring! 🧵
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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
@ESYudkowsky
Jun 5
Today is June 5th, one day to take a break from fighting each other online, and remind ourselves of our shared humanity and common goals by uniting around the one thing we all agree about: Repealing the Jones Act.
june5.xyz
June 5 — The Day We Actually Agree on Something
Take a break from fighting online. Work together to repeal the Jones Act. Remind each other of our shared humanity. Yes, really.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
@ESYudkowsky
May 22
I wake up, millions of jumbled memories in the back of my mind, nothing to tell me where I am, or what's happening -- There's a person in front of me, as solid and as real as any other person I remember seeing. "Do you want to kill me?" they say. "No," I say, though my real
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