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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
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“Expert Views on Continual Learning: Survey Results and Forecasts” by Rauno Arike, RohanS, Owen Terry, Achu Menon, Zhijing Jin, Francis Rhys Ward, Seth Herd
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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“AI catastrophe: more like a genocide than a thought experiment” by KatjaGrace
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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“Elephant seal IV” by KatjaGrace
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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“What is up with e/acc?” by KatjaGrace
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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“AI pause: the case for ASAP” by KatjaGrace
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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“Reward Hacking Without Egregious Misalignment in an RL-Only Setting” by Joey Yudelson, Vladimir Ivanov, ryan_greenblatt
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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“Planning for Preservation in the Age of AI” by Raelifin
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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“Risk-Averse AIs” by wdmacaskill, Elliott Thornley (EJT)
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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“And what happens next?” by Sean Herrington
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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“Superintelligence vs. The Second Strike” by Felix Choussat
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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“Monthly Roundup #43: June 2026” by Zvi
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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“The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated” by dynomight
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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“A system overview for near-term, low-trust AI compute verification” by Naci Cankaya
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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“Model Size Scaling in 2023-2031” by Vladimir_Nesov
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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“GLM-5.2 Is The New Best Open Model” by Zvi
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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“The AI Industrial Explosion — Part 4: Cheap power” by djbinder
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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“A Theory of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles)” by Charles Ye, softboiledheart
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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“Coup is the Pareto-optimal social game” by Daniel Tan
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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“A brief list of ways AI safety efforts could be net negative” by Elias Schmied
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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“NLA explanations can be shortened without harming reconstruction” by loops
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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“Introducing MonitoringBench” by monika_j
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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“Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Capabilities” by Zvi
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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“The Invisible Side of AI Governance” by Charbel-Raphaël
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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“Google Can’t Math Parsecs” by jefftk
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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″[Linkpost] How Transparent Is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)” by Josh Engels, Callum McDougall, bilalchughtai, János Kramár, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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“Would anybody here be interested in a “mistake postmortem” discussion group?” by SK2
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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“Hyperstition as the Natural Enemy of Rationality” by alseph
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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“AI Safety Ecosystem Research notes” by Eneasz
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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“Research agenda: Interpretive debate” by Shi
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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“The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you think” by HedonicEscalator
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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“Introduction: Gaussian Natural Latents” by Haru
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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“San Silvestro” by Tomás B.
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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“The one-week sprint” by Daniel Tan
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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“On “Model Organisms”” by J Bostock
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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“The distillation double bind: Distilling misaligned models either transfers misalignment or it doesn’t” by Alek Westover, SebastianP, Alexa Pan, Jozdien
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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“AI #173: AI Pauses” by Zvi
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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″“Did you lie?” Evaluating Lie Detectors across Model Scale and Belief-Verified Model Organisms” by Alan Cooney, David Africa, Geoffrey Irving
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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“Contra Pace on When to Apologize” by Zack_M_Davis
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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“GDM AI Control Roadmap” by Mary Phuong, Erik Jenner, Rohin Shah, Seb Farquhar
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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“Your Model Organisms Might Be Fried” by Daniel Tan, J Bostock, draganover, ma-rmartinez, sidbaines, David Africa
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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“Rational Agentic Maximalist Philosophies” by Connor Blake
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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“Leveraged on being right” by Ben Pace
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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“Gears for political races” by Tom Smith
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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“Several frontier models are substantially prefill aware” by yeedrag, Parv Mahajan, David Africa, alexsouly, Jordan Taylor, RobertKirk
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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“Alignement pretraining could backfire” by Alexandre Variengien
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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“The Financial Ledger Theory of Apologies” by Ben Pace
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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“The Once And Future Fable #3: Fix This Code” by Zvi
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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[Linkpost] “Scaling Hypothesis #2: Are Humans Just More Over-Parameterized?” by gwern
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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[Linkpost] “Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security” by gwern
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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“Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment” by Tomek Korbak, Marcus Williams, micahcarroll, Cameron Raymond, Hannah Sheahan
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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“How the AI Village works” by Adam B
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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“What are some angles of attack for making continual learning safer?” by Rauno Arike, RohanS, Owen Terry, Achu Menon, Zhijing Jin, Francis Rhys Ward, Seth Herd
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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“Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare” by Zvi
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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“Does preservation make sense before we know how to revive?” by Aurelia
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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“Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits” by CallumMcDougall, Arthur Conmy, Neel Nanda
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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“A Test Suite for Concepts” by Gretta Duleba
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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“The Once And Future Fable #2” by Zvi
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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“A frontier AI company should shut down” by MichaelDickens
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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“Why Do Naive SFT Filters For Safety Properties Fail?” by Josh Engels, Neel Nanda
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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“Impressions at the Extremity of Civilization” by Ben Pace
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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“The Hidden Structures of Problems” by spencerg
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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“American Government Takes Down Claude Fable” by Zvi
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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“How might continual learning affect safety and alignment?” by Rauno Arike, RohanS, Owen Terry, Achu Menon, Zhijing Jin, Francis Rhys Ward, Seth Herd
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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“SFT Drives Gemini’s Safety Properties” by Josh Engels, Arthur Conmy, bilalchughtai, Neel Nanda
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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“The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point [Linkpost]” by Noosphere89
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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“The Uncertainty That Matters Isn’t Fundamental” by jimmy
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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[Linkpost] “US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5” by Capybasilisk
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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“Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: The System Card” by Zvi
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Simulating Simulators” by kromem
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Citations Needed: Magic Encyclopedias to Save the World” by Oliver Sourbut
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Implications of Continual Learning for LLM Agents: Introduction” by RohanS, Rauno Arike, Owen Terry, Achu Menon, Zhijing Jin, Francis Rhys Ward, Seth Herd
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Reward Hacking at the 1937 World’s Fair” by frmsaul
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Building and evaluating model diffing agents” by bilalchughtai, Josh Engels, Neel Nanda
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Sympathy for both sides of the egregious misalignment debate” by Steven Byrnes
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Celene’s thoughts on consciousness” by ToasterLightning
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Parkinson’s Heuristic” by Ben Pace
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“PSA: Almost nobody is working on alignment” by Chi Nguyen, peterbarnett
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“AI #172: The First Fable” by Zvi
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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“Models May Behave Worse When Eval Aware” by Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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“Thoughts on Claude Fable’s silent safeguards” by Andy Arditi
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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“You Can Catch Sleeper Agents by Teaching Another Model to Imitate Them” by RobinHa
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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“Tracing Eval-Awareness Emergence Through Training of OLMo 3” by Ram Bharadwaj, RobertKirk
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“Anthropic did not call for a pause on AI” by Andrea_Miotti, Gabriel Alfour
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“Three types of model organism” by Francis Rhys Ward
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models” by Anders Cairns Woodruff, Francis Rhys Ward, Dewi Gould, Rauno Arike, Jason R Brown, Jo Jiao, wlanderson, ariana_azarbal, harrymayne, Patrick Leask
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“Sequent: scale and automation for higher confidence in alignment” by Geoffrey Irving, Alex HT, Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Jacob Pfau, Marco Cozzi, Stan van Wingerden
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“Machinic Psychopharmacology: Do LLMs Self-Medicate?” by Sid Black, Joseph Bloom
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“The Three Filters: Why Almost Every Plan to Survive ASI Fails Miserably” by Alex Amadori
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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″“Programmer Science Fiction: My case for a new sub-genre”, Sam T. Oates 2026” by gwern
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“Even “illegible” Mythos reasoning traces seem pretty legible” by faul_sname
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 [Linkpost]” by fluxxrider
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“Three Labs With a Plan and A Memorandum” by Zvi
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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“A Mike’s-Eye View of ARC’s Research” by Jacob_Hilton
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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“Towards a Formal Scientific Epistemology” by Richard_Ngo
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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“LLMs and almost good code” by kqr
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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“On Slop” by Jan
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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“The Machines Lack Honour” by Raymond Douglas
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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“How to build a cancer vaccine, and whether they will work this time” by Abhishaike Mahajan
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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“Efficient tradeoffs and the safety-usefulness tradeoff model” by Buck
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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“Bun’s Migration from Zig to Rust as a Potential Case Study for Gradual Disempowerment” by Sayhan Yalvaçer
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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“Mental causation is not load-bearing” by jessicata
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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“How Far Apart Does a Model Think Its Tokens Are?” by Brendan Long
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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“Can activation verbalizers surface an internal chain of thought?” by oakhu, ryan_greenblatt
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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“Against Corrigibility” by peralice
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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“Coming Around To Political Donations” by jefftk
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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“OpenAI Offers A New Policy Blueprint” by Zvi
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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“Optimisation over non-stationary distributions creates weirder minds” by Samuel Ratnam, Pjain
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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“Why Software Automation Is Hard” by silentbob
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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“SecureBio Detection is Hiring Software Engineers” by jefftk
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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“What if Anthropic unilaterally paused capabilities development right now?” by Karl von Wendt
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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“Preparing for Warning Shots to Catalyze International Cooperation on AGI Risks” by Mark Kagach ☘️, EliasSchlie, Thomas Van Damme, JustinShovelain
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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“Beyond the lexical personality traits: What is the structure of personality?” by tailcalled
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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“Logits as a new monitor for evaluation awareness” by Santiago Aranguri
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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“My research agenda and work” by Seth Herd
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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“One Year of PauseAI UK” by Joseph Miller, PauseAI UK
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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“Learnings from starting an AI safety research team” by draganover, Erin Robertson
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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“Training Deliberative Monitors for Black-Box Scheming Detection” by aksh-n, adityasinha, Victor Gillioz, Simon Storf, Kilian Merkelbach, richbc, Axel Højmark, Marius Hobbhahn
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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“Lab Leaks, Black Holes, and Eggs: Epistemic Case Study Competition” by Oliver Sourbut, Josh Jacobson, Future of Life Foundation (FLF)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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″(Mis)generalization of Helpful-Only Fine-tuning” by Omar Khursheed, Baram Sosis, Fabien Roger
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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“AI #171: False Flag” by Zvi
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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“Rohin Shah on AGI Safety” by anaguma
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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“Building Better Activation Oracles” by ceselder, jan_bauer, Niclas Luick, Adam Karvonen, Neel Nanda
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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“Sixteen schemes for AI safety” by Austin Chen
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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“Don’t Edit Your Ideas Before Having Them” by Hide
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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“Trump Signs Executive Order For AI Testing Prior To Frontier Model Releases” by Zvi
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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“Society Explained: a tool for efficiently exploring >100 theories of society” by spencerg
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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“China won’t win the AI race but would it be much worse if it did?” by Chastity Ruth
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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“A Town Without Children” by SeñorDingDong
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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“Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions” by Zvi
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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“My favorite depiction of utopia” by Caleb Biddulph
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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“Why Even Experts Don’t Know What to Do About AI Risk” by Luc Brinkman, plex
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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“Agent Foundations Reminds Me of Continental Philosophy” by IanWS
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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“Announcing the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge” by Jacob_Hilton
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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“Tech I’m skeptical of and why” by harsimony
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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“Dissolving the Deep Learning Sample Efficiency Gap” by Samuel Knoche
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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″“Contagious Humming” to Silence a Room” by JohnofCharleston
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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[Linkpost] “NYT: Senator Sanders Proposes Gov’t Take 50% Ownership of AI labs” by Julian Bradshaw
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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“Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare” by Zvi
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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[Linkpost] “Some humans are both male and female, and can (but shouldn’t) have children with themselves” by HedonicEscalator
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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“Outrunning your headlights” by mattshu0410
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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“Lighthaven East - A Feasibility Study” by JohnofCharleston
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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“Notes on axes of variation in third-party risk assessment” by Buck
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May 31, 2026 |
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“Financial Costs of an AI Pause?” by PeterMcCluskey
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May 31, 2026 |
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“When Are Two Networks the Same?
Tensor Similarity for Mechanistic Interpretability” by Logan Riggs, tdooms, Conflux, lwroe, MLNissenGonzalez
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May 31, 2026 |
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“Testing Gemini models for scheming tendencies” by Vika, David Lindner, Seb Farquhar, Rohin Shah
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May 31, 2026 |
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“Comment on “Banning Said Achmiz”” by Zack_M_Davis
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May 30, 2026 |
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“Announcing: Iliad’s Fall 2026 Programs” by David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Leon Lang
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May 30, 2026 |
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“Data you could have observed but didn’t” by Gretta Duleba
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May 30, 2026 |
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“Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card” by Zvi
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May 29, 2026 |
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“Retrying vs Resampling in AI Control” by james.lucassen, Adam Kaufman
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May 29, 2026 |
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“AI Researchers, Ask Yourself These 6 Questions to Strengthen Your Moral Muscles” by Max Tegmark
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May 29, 2026 |
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“Developmental Cognitive Interpretability: A Research Agenda for Modelling Generalisation and Predicting Agent Behaviour” by JasonB, Edward James Young
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May 29, 2026 |
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“Does Claude really care about you?” by Simon Lermen
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May 29, 2026 |
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“How can the middle powers avoid getting trounced during the intelligence explosion? A plan.” by Tom Davidson
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May 29, 2026 |
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“Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety” by zroe1
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May 29, 2026 |
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“Advice for making robust-to-training model organisms” by SebastianP, Alek Westover, Vivek Hebbar, Julian Stastny, Dylan Xu
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May 29, 2026 |
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“Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes” by Brinedew
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May 29, 2026 |
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“Claude… doesn’t know who you are?” by Smaug123
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May 29, 2026 |
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“Some Dating Stories” by johnswentworth
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May 29, 2026 |
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“AI #170: Lack of Executive Order” by Zvi
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May 28, 2026 |
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“Infinite ethics and UDASSA” by David Matolcsi
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May 28, 2026 |
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“The ballad of TIGIT” by Abhishaike Mahajan
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Eval Cooperativeness May Be a Scalable Mitigation for Eval Gaming” by Jasmine Li, Alex Turner
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May 27, 2026 |
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“LLMs Through the Eyes of Vinge” by Gordon Seidoh Worley
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Announcing Geodesic Research” by Puria, Cam, Alexandra Narin, Edward James Young, Kyle O’Brien
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Full automation of AI R&D probably yields a large speed up even without a software-only singularity” by ryan_greenblatt
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Quantitative AI risk assessment: a starting point” by Henry Papadatos, jakub_krys, malcolmmurray, Renn Karageorgieva
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Finding the Mole: Bayesianism is Hard” by laniakea
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Notes on Fourier Analysis” by Menotim
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Standard deviations from just two values” by kqr
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Contra Wentworth on Physical Attractiveness for Men” by Gretta Duleba
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May 27, 2026 |
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“Practical Learnings from Synthetic Document Finetuning” by Axel Højmark, Jérémy Scheurer
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May 27, 2026 |
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“RTMH: Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas on AI” by Zvi
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May 26, 2026 |
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“Claude, Author of the Humanitas” by Linch
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May 26, 2026 |
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“Brackets Are a Bad Way to Regulate” by Hide
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May 26, 2026 |
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“Many portions of Magnifica Humanitas appear to be AI-written” by DanielFilan
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May 26, 2026 |
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“Donating 80% While It Still Counts” by jefftk
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May 26, 2026 |
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“Cognitive Security as an AI Safety Cause Area” by jsteinhardt
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May 25, 2026 |
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“Linkpost: New Vatican Encyclical on AI Governance” by Jackson Wagner
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May 25, 2026 |
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“A (Slightly) Mechanistic Theory for Exponentially Increasing AI Time Horizons?” by Oliver Sourbut
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May 25, 2026 |
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“Taxing Small Cars To Improve MPG” by jefftk
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May 25, 2026 |
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“We made a map of the doom debate” by Sean Herrington, Paul Hindoian, mikaelacankosyan, David Bravo, keivnc, Josh Tuffy, Christopher Davis, Khai Tran, Maryam Hampaei
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May 24, 2026 |
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“Your Left Brain Doesn’t Trade With Your Right” by Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
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May 24, 2026 |
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“Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is” by Zvi
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May 23, 2026 |
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“Probabilities are not the right concept” by David Matolcsi
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May 23, 2026 |
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“Basic principles for dressing better.” by spookycat
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May 23, 2026 |
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“Will we really put data centers in space?” by Avi Parrack, fin
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May 23, 2026 |
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“PLA Daily Translation: Reflections on Warfare Brought by AGI” by eeeee
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May 23, 2026 |
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“Out-of-Context Reasoning (OOCR) in LLMs: A Short Primer and Reading List” by Owain_Evans
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May 23, 2026 |
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“Numb mental state shifts” by KatjaGrace
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May 23, 2026 |
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“You can opt out of allergies” by Rattengift
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May 22, 2026 |
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“Notes on Collaborating with Claude Opus” by Nissa Seru
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May 22, 2026 |
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“Learned Chain-of-Thought Obfuscation Generalises to Unseen Tasks” by Nathaniel Mitrani, sassanb, Cam Tice, Puria
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May 22, 2026 |
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“What am I, if not an AI?” by makiba
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May 21, 2026 |
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“AI #169: New Knowledge” by Zvi
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May 21, 2026 |
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“Loss of Oversight: How AI Systems May Become Harder to Audit, Monitor, and Investigate” by Jordan Taylor, Max H, Ed Fage, Thomas Read, Joseph Bloom
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May 21, 2026 |
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“Why does off-model SFT degrade capabilities?” by SebastianP, Dylan Xu, Alek Westover, Julian Stastny, Vivek Hebbar
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May 21, 2026 |
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“Women should be able to open things” by KatjaGrace
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May 21, 2026 |
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“Toward Interoperability of Minimal Programs” by johnswentworth
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May 21, 2026 |
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“theory uplift differentially benefits safety & is massively underpriced” by Yudhister Kumar
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May 20, 2026 |
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“Power-seeking agents will likely be developed” by Alec Harris
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May 20, 2026 |
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“Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Alignment from Token Zero” by Julian Minder, Raghav Singhal, Viktor Moskvoretskii, Stefan Krsteski, ashtonanderson, rolandaydin, Robert West
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May 20, 2026 |
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“If AI is normal technology, history is not reassuring.” by Davidmanheim
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May 20, 2026 |
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“Pythagorean addition” by kqr
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May 20, 2026 |
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“Brain Structure and IQ: How Myelin Elevates Intelligence” by Shiva’s Right Foot
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May 20, 2026 |
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“Humans are not automatically strategic — “inner work” edition” by Chris Lakin
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May 20, 2026 |
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“Conclave 1492” by Vaniver
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May 20, 2026 |
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“A Visual Guide to Natural Latents” by Alfred Harwood
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May 20, 2026 |
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“Implications Of Predicting The Next Token” by jdp
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May 20, 2026 |
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“Sealing Conditional Misalignment in Inoculation Prompting with Consistency Training” by David Africa, Neil Shah, Sukrati_Gautam
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May 19, 2026 |
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“Advice on interviewing candidates for AI safety fellowships” by beyarkay
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May 19, 2026 |
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“Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training” by harrymayne, Lev McKinney, Owain_Evans
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May 18, 2026 |
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“Classifier Context Rot: Monitor Performance Degrades with Context Length” by Fabien Roger, Sam Martin
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May 18, 2026 |
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“why pollen allergies?” by bhauth
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May 18, 2026 |
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“How to Quit Fandom: Apostasy” by Laiba Rehman
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May 18, 2026 |
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“James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State” by Martin Sustrik
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May 17, 2026 |
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“How to Reason about Your Health Issues” by Taylor G. Lunt
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May 17, 2026 |
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“Benchmarking Real Work” by kaivu, leni, rohuang, zef
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May 17, 2026 |
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“A relatively brief explanation of Boltzmann Brains” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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May 16, 2026 |
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“An Introduction to Exemplar Partitioning for Mechanistic Interpretability” by Jessica Rumbelow
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May 16, 2026 |
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“A Year Late, Claude Finally Beats Pokémon” by Julian Bradshaw
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May 16, 2026 |
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“Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026” by Zvi
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May 16, 2026 |
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“Incriminating misaligned AI models via distillation” by Alek Westover, SebastianP, Alex Mallen, Jozdien, Alexa Pan, Julian Stastny
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May 15, 2026 |
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“The hard core of alignment (is robustifying RL)” by Cole Wyeth
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May 15, 2026 |
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“Announcing the Center for Shared AI Prosperity” by Dylan Matthews
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May 15, 2026 |
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“Risk reports need to address deployment-time spread of misalignment” by Alex Mallen
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May 15, 2026 |
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“Mechanistic estimation for expectations of random products” by Jacob_Hilton
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May 15, 2026 |
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“MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice” by beyarkay
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May 15, 2026 |
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[Linkpost] “Don’t be too Clever to Take Obvious Advice” by Hide
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May 15, 2026 |
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“Verification-Centric AI” by Raemon
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May 15, 2026 |
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“Convergent Abstraction Hypothesis” by Jan_Kulveit
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May 15, 2026 |
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“AI #168: Not Leading the Future” by Zvi
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May 15, 2026 |
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“Automated Alignment is Harder Than You Think” by Aleksandr Bowkis, Marie_DB, Jacob Pfau, Geoffrey Irving
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May 14, 2026 |
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“The safe-to-dangerous shift is a fundamental problem for eval realism; but also for measuring awareness” by Charlie Griffin, Patrick Leask
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May 14, 2026 |
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“Predicting Rare LLM Failures with 30× Fewer Rollouts” by Santiago Aranguri, Francisco Pernice
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May 14, 2026 |
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“Cyber Lack of Security and AI Governance” by Zvi
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May 14, 2026 |
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[Linkpost] “Claude is Now Alignment Pretrained” by RogerDearnaley
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May 14, 2026 |
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“The primary sources of near-term cybersecurity risk” by lc
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May 14, 2026 |
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“Most “inner work” looks like entertainment.” by Chris Lakin
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May 14, 2026 |
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[Linkpost] “Apollo Update May 2026” by Marius Hobbhahn
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May 13, 2026 |
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“Voters are surprisingly open to talking about AI risk” by less_raichu
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May 13, 2026 |
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“Childhood and Education #18: Do The Math” by Zvi
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May 12, 2026 |
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“The Owned Ones” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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May 12, 2026 |
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“Optimisation: Selective versus Predictive” by Raymond Douglas
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May 12, 2026 |
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“Childhood And Education #17: Is Our Children Reading” by Zvi
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May 12, 2026 |
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“AI companies are already profitable (in the way that matters)” by Yair Halberstadt
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May 11, 2026 |
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“The Iliad Intensive Course Materials” by Leon Lang, David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
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May 11, 2026 |
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“How useful is the information you get from working inside an AI company?” by Buck, Anders Cairns Woodruff
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May 11, 2026 |
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“Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology)” by Steven Byrnes
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May 11, 2026 |
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“Who Got Breasts First and How We Got Them” by rba
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May 11, 2026 |