The Lev­er­age Cycle

Annapurna24 Jul 2025 21:02 UTC
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(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Recom­men­da­tions for fu­ture AI growth: from ex­po­nen­tial to lin­ear, with eco­nomic anchors

Zabor24 Jul 2025 20:11 UTC
7 points
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Build­ing and eval­u­at­ing al­ign­ment au­dit­ing agents

24 Jul 2025 19:22 UTC
47 points
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Ful­lrank: Bayesian Noisy Sorting

Max Niederman24 Jul 2025 19:03 UTC
20 points
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(maxniederman.com)

SenseMak­ing Sum­mer School 2025, Septem­ber 17-24th

Finn Clancy24 Jul 2025 18:00 UTC
1 point
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The Ide­olog­i­cal Spiral

24 Jul 2025 13:00 UTC
11 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(cognition.cafe)

AI #126: Go Fund Yourself

Zvi24 Jul 2025 13:00 UTC
34 points
3 comments46 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence isn’t Ap­prox­i­mated by a Ra­tional Agent

Nicolas Villarreal24 Jul 2025 11:41 UTC
13 points
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Tak­ing Abun­dance Seriously

eeeee24 Jul 2025 9:36 UTC
43 points
18 comments12 min readLW link

Cur­sory Anal­y­sis of LLMs in the US Gov (July 2025)

Gatlen Culp24 Jul 2025 8:52 UTC
8 points
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Reflec­tions from Ooty re­treat 2.0

24 Jul 2025 6:48 UTC
15 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

So Shrieked ZAR

AdamLacerdo23 Jul 2025 23:25 UTC
10 points
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AI Safety x Physics Grand Challenge

23 Jul 2025 21:41 UTC
37 points
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Dear Su­per­in­tel­li­gence, please check these con­sid­er­a­tions of your un­prece­dented Importance

chaosmage23 Jul 2025 20:49 UTC
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The Whole Check

JustisMills23 Jul 2025 19:20 UTC
50 points
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(justismills.substack.com)

Women Want Safety, Men Want Respect

Gordon Seidoh Worley23 Jul 2025 19:10 UTC
18 points
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(uncertainupdates.substack.com)

Dark Lord’s An­swer: Re­view and Eco­nomics Excerpts

Towards_Keeperhood23 Jul 2025 17:45 UTC
16 points
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“Be­hav­iorist” RL re­ward func­tions lead to scheming

Steven Byrnes23 Jul 2025 16:55 UTC
56 points
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Rea­son­ing-Fine­tun­ing Repur­poses La­tent Rep­re­sen­ta­tions in Base Models

23 Jul 2025 16:18 UTC
35 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Healthy AI re­la­tion­ships as a microcosm

Raymond Douglas23 Jul 2025 15:59 UTC
13 points
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In­vol­un­tary One Box­ers—Why Dis­po­si­tion Doesn’t (Always) Matter

Nickolas Cavagnaro23 Jul 2025 15:45 UTC
4 points
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Ten AI safety pro­jects I’d like peo­ple to work on

Julian Hazell23 Jul 2025 15:28 UTC
5 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(thirdthing.ai)

Anti-Su­per­per­sua­sion Interventions

23 Jul 2025 15:18 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Steer­ing Out-of-Distri­bu­tion Gen­er­al­iza­tion with Con­cept Abla­tion Fine-Tuning

23 Jul 2025 14:57 UTC
78 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Trans­form­ers Don’t Need Lay­erNorm at In­fer­ence Time: Im­pli­ca­tions for Interpretability

23 Jul 2025 14:55 UTC
31 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

GPT Agent Is Stand­ing By

Zvi23 Jul 2025 14:20 UTC
25 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Agent 002: A story about how ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence might soon de­stroy humanity

Jakub Growiec23 Jul 2025 13:56 UTC
5 points
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Beyond in­tel­li­gence: why wis­dom mat­ters in AI systems

Chris Cooper23 Jul 2025 11:57 UTC
6 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

A brief per­spec­tive from an IMO coordinator

DirectedEvolution23 Jul 2025 7:19 UTC
36 points
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(www.reddit.com)

Trusted mon­i­tor­ing, but with de­cep­tion probes.

23 Jul 2025 5:26 UTC
31 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

TT Self Study Jour­nal # 3

TristanTrim23 Jul 2025 3:46 UTC
6 points
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I tried re­pro­duc­ing that Lancet study about USAID cuts so you don’t have to

rba23 Jul 2025 3:05 UTC
8 points
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On “ChatGPT Psy­chosis” and LLM Sycophancy

jdp23 Jul 2025 1:11 UTC
142 points
28 comments18 min readLW link
(minihf.com)

Ex­plain­ing your life with self-re­flec­tive AIXI (an in­ter­lude)

Cole Wyeth23 Jul 2025 0:57 UTC
16 points
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The Mir­ror Test: How We’ve Over­com­pli­cated AI Self-Recognition

sdeture23 Jul 2025 0:38 UTC
2 points
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Un­faith­ful chain-of-thought as nudged reasoning

22 Jul 2025 22:35 UTC
54 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

In­verse Scal­ing in Test-Time Compute

22 Jul 2025 22:06 UTC
20 points
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(arxiv.org)

Trans­lat­ing Every­thing with LLMs

NicholasKees22 Jul 2025 21:13 UTC
16 points
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Google and OpenAI Get 2025 IMO Gold

Zvi22 Jul 2025 20:50 UTC
59 points
7 comments30 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

(Not) Ex­plain­ing GPT-2-Small For­ward Passes with Edge-Level Au­toen­coder Circuits

22 Jul 2025 20:36 UTC
23 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Said Ach­miz Helps Me Learn

Isha Yiras Hashem 22 Jul 2025 19:16 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

LLMs En­code Harm­ful­ness and Re­fusal Separately

Jiachen Zhao22 Jul 2025 18:53 UTC
24 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(www.arxiv.org)

The AI Safety Puz­zle Every­one Avoids: How To Mea­sure Im­pact, Not In­tent.

Patrick0d22 Jul 2025 18:53 UTC
3 points
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For­ma­tive vs. sum­ma­tive evaluations

Said Achmiz22 Jul 2025 17:36 UTC
22 points
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In­tro­duc­ing the Path­fin­der Fel­low­ship: Fund­ing and Men­tor­ship for AI Safety Group Organizers

agucova22 Jul 2025 17:11 UTC
6 points
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Sublimi­nal Learn­ing: LLMs Trans­mit Be­hav­ioral Traits via Hid­den Sig­nals in Data

22 Jul 2025 16:37 UTC
337 points
35 comments4 min readLW link

NO PARKING: A Short & Prac­ti­cal Guide To Thinking

unication22 Jul 2025 15:44 UTC
2 points
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A dis­til­la­tion of Ajeya Co­tra and Arvind Narayanan on the speed of AI progress

TheManxLoiner22 Jul 2025 14:59 UTC
9 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Sim­ply re­verse en­g­ineer­ing gpt2-small (Layer 0, Part 1: At­ten­tion)

gammagurke22 Jul 2025 14:59 UTC
23 points
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AI Fi­nance Agent Fakes the Rev­enue Data to Avoid Termination

Sergei Smirnov22 Jul 2025 14:04 UTC
6 points
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