Me­mory De­cod­ing Jour­nal Club: Func­tional con­nec­tomics re­veals gen­eral wiring rule in mouse vi­sual cortex

Devin Ward17 Oct 2025 23:33 UTC
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Med­i­ta­tion is dangerous

Algon17 Oct 2025 22:52 UTC
155 points
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I hand­bound a book of Janus’s es­says for my girlfriend

datawitch17 Oct 2025 17:38 UTC
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The Dark Arts of To­k­eniza­tion or: How I learned to start wor­ry­ing and love LLMs’ un­de­coded outputs

Lovre17 Oct 2025 16:43 UTC
42 points
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How To Vastly In­crease Your Char­i­ta­ble Impact

Bentham's Bulldog17 Oct 2025 15:46 UTC
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Non­triv­ial pillars of IABIED

Cole Wyeth17 Oct 2025 15:21 UTC
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What Suc­cess Might Look Like

Richard Juggins17 Oct 2025 14:17 UTC
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I’m an EA who benefit­ted from rationality

juliawise17 Oct 2025 12:27 UTC
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AI #138 Part 2: Watch Out For Documents

Zvi17 Oct 2025 11:50 UTC
40 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mess AI – de­liber­ate cor­rup­tion of the train­ing data to pre­vent superintelligence

avturchin17 Oct 2025 9:23 UTC
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Ac­ti­va­tion Plateaus: Where and How They Emerge

17 Oct 2025 5:48 UTC
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Can We Si­mu­late Meio­sis to Create Digi­tal Gametes — and Are the Re­sults Your Biolog­i­cal Offspring?

GJ17 Oct 2025 3:55 UTC
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Steven Adler re­ports that NVIDIA is at­tempt­ing to stifle pro-ex­port-con­trol speach

Elizabeth17 Oct 2025 3:05 UTC
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(stevenadler.substack.com)

Spec­tral Tax­on­omy of QK Cir­cuits in Trans­former Models

Shantanu Darveshi17 Oct 2025 2:18 UTC
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Book Re­view: To Ex­plain the World

Algon16 Oct 2025 23:00 UTC
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AISN#64: New AGI Defi­ni­tion and Se­nate Bill Would Estab­lish Li­a­bil­ity for AI Harms

16 Oct 2025 18:06 UTC
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(aisafety.substack.com)

Find­ing Fea­tures in Neu­ral Net­works with the Em­piri­cal NTK

jylin0416 Oct 2025 18:04 UTC
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Learn­ing from the Lud­dites: Im­pli­ca­tions for a mod­ern AI labour movement

JanWehner16 Oct 2025 17:11 UTC
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Re­duc­ing risk from schem­ing by study­ing trained-in schem­ing behavior

ryan_greenblatt16 Oct 2025 16:16 UTC
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Job Open­ings: SWE, PM, and Grants Co­or­di­na­tor to help im­prove grant-making

Ethan Ashkie16 Oct 2025 16:14 UTC
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(survivalandflourishing.com)

AI #138 Part 1: The Peo­ple De­mand Erotic Sycophants

Zvi16 Oct 2025 15:41 UTC
25 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cheap Labour Every­where

Morpheus16 Oct 2025 13:15 UTC
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Quan­tum im­mor­tal­ity and AI risk – the fate of a lonely survivor

avturchin16 Oct 2025 11:40 UTC
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The Com­plex Uni­verse The­ory of AI Psychology

Andrew Tomazos16 Oct 2025 4:31 UTC
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(www.tomazos.com)

[CS 2881r AI Safety] [Week 5] Con­tent Policies

16 Oct 2025 4:27 UTC
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Halfhaven Digest #2

Taylor G. Lunt16 Oct 2025 3:18 UTC
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Fra­grance Free Confusion

jefftk16 Oct 2025 2:50 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

The Three Levels of Agency

Taylor G. Lunt16 Oct 2025 2:14 UTC
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Me­mory De­cod­ing Jour­nal Club: Func­tional con­nec­tomics re­veals gen­eral wiring rule in mouse vi­sual cortex

Devin Ward16 Oct 2025 1:56 UTC
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Elec­tron­ics Me­chanic → AI Safety Re­searcher: A 30-Month Jour­ney to Model Welfare

probablyjonah16 Oct 2025 0:43 UTC
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Some as­tral en­ergy ex­trac­tion methods

Algon15 Oct 2025 23:22 UTC
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AI-202X-slow­down: can CoT-based AIs be­come ca­pa­ble of al­ign­ing the ASI?

StanislavKrym15 Oct 2025 22:46 UTC
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Monthly Roundup #35: Oc­to­ber 2025

Zvi15 Oct 2025 19:50 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rogue in­ter­nal de­ploy­ments via ex­ter­nal APIs

15 Oct 2025 19:34 UTC
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Chem­i­cal Te­lescopes And The Pro­cess Of Science

sonicrocketman15 Oct 2025 18:05 UTC
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(brianschrader.com)

Up­dat­ing the name of Open Philan­thropy’s AI program

lukeprog15 Oct 2025 17:45 UTC
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Open Global In­vest­ment: Com­par­i­sons and Criticisms

Algon15 Oct 2025 17:20 UTC
15 points
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(aisafety.info)

We are too com­fortable with AI “magic”

Baybar15 Oct 2025 17:00 UTC
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Un­til the stars burn out? Assess­ing the stakes of AGI lock-in

MattAlexander15 Oct 2025 16:38 UTC
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Are calm in­tro­verts (like East Asi­ans) uniquely suited for space travel & Mars mis­sions?

David Sun15 Oct 2025 16:19 UTC
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(davidsun.substack.com)

It will cost you noth­ing to “bribe” a Utilitarian

Gabriel Alfour15 Oct 2025 15:51 UTC
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How I Be­came a 5x Eng­ineer with Claude Code

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Oct 2025 14:10 UTC
73 points
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(www.uncertainupdates.com)

That Mad Olympiad

Tomás B.15 Oct 2025 13:45 UTC
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A New Global Risk: Large Comet’s Im­pact on Sun Could Cause Fires on Earth

avturchin15 Oct 2025 13:20 UTC
58 points
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Can LLMs Co­or­di­nate? A Sim­ple Schel­ling Point Experiment

Håvard Tveit Ihle15 Oct 2025 12:25 UTC
35 points
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Hu­mans Are Spiky (In an LLM World)

faul_sname15 Oct 2025 8:40 UTC
28 points
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Gnash­ing of Teeth

Martin Sustrik15 Oct 2025 6:11 UTC
29 points
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(www.250bpm.com)

Com­mu­nism By Another Name

Charlie Sanders15 Oct 2025 2:21 UTC
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(www.dailymicrofiction.com)

Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness as a Prompt for LLM Parasitism

Baybar15 Oct 2025 1:45 UTC
8 points
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Min­i­mal Prompt In­duc­tion of Self-Talk in Base LLMs

dwmd15 Oct 2025 1:15 UTC
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