A The­ory of Struc­tural Independence

Matthias G. Mayer7 Jul 2025 22:54 UTC
70 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Nav­i­gat­ing Attention

jimmy7 Jul 2025 21:43 UTC
10 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

The Weighted Per­plex­ity Bench­mark: To­k­enizer-Nor­mal­ized Eval­u­a­tion for Lan­guage Model Comparison

7 Jul 2025 21:43 UTC
21 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(www.morpheus.systems)

Planet X, Lord Kelvin, and the use of Struc­ture as Fuel

David Björling7 Jul 2025 21:23 UTC
11 points
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Art, ra­tio­nal­ity, and the “feel­ing” for rightness

Karthik Bala7 Jul 2025 20:09 UTC
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link

Public anti-AI sen­ti­ment can be use­ful: three mechanisms

andyqhan7 Jul 2025 19:05 UTC
8 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Liter­a­ture Re­view: Risks of MDMA

Elizabeth7 Jul 2025 19:01 UTC
67 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

AI Safety at the Fron­tier: Paper High­lights, June ’25

gasteigerjo7 Jul 2025 18:17 UTC
4 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

You Can’t Ob­jec­tively Com­pare Seven Bees to One Human

J Bostock7 Jul 2025 18:11 UTC
58 points
26 comments3 min readLW link
(jbostock.substack.com)

Eco­nomics of Claude 3 Opus Inference

7 Jul 2025 15:53 UTC
34 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

On the func­tional self of LLMs

eggsyntax7 Jul 2025 15:39 UTC
95 points
35 comments8 min readLW link

Notes on Righ­teous­ness and Megalopsychia

David Gross7 Jul 2025 15:18 UTC
12 points
0 comments31 min readLW link

On Alpha School

Zvi7 Jul 2025 15:10 UTC
37 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sleep­ing Beauty and the For­ever Muffin

OneManyNone7 Jul 2025 12:05 UTC
1 point
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Re­source guide: Unaware­ness, in­de­ter­mi­nacy, and cluelessness

Anthony DiGiovanni7 Jul 2025 9:54 UTC
20 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

On mu­sic and language

Joey Marcellino7 Jul 2025 9:09 UTC
18 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Man­i­festo for do­ing good sci­ence in AI

invertedpassion7 Jul 2025 7:33 UTC
2 points
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The Base Model Lens

Adam Newgas7 Jul 2025 0:12 UTC
7 points
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AXRP Epi­sode 45 - Sa­muel Albanie on Deep­Mind’s AGI Safety Approach

DanielFilan6 Jul 2025 23:00 UTC
31 points
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Cody @ Keeper6 Jul 2025 19:26 UTC
1 point
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A sim­ple ex­pla­na­tion of in­com­plete mod­els

Cole Wyeth6 Jul 2025 19:09 UTC
19 points
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Neu­ro­scien­tist sur­vey says P(brain preser­va­tion works) is substantial

Mati_Roy6 Jul 2025 18:03 UTC
11 points
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Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions’ video about scal­able over­sight and sandwiching

Writer6 Jul 2025 14:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

New Paper: It is time to move on from MCQs for LLM Evaluations

shash426 Jul 2025 11:48 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How did you first un­der­stand cog­ni­tive bi­ases? Look­ing for com­mu­nity experiences

Vladimir Loginov6 Jul 2025 10:48 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Com­pul­sion For (Pseudo-)Mechanisms

adamShimi6 Jul 2025 10:46 UTC
31 points
8 comments12 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

No­body is Do­ing AI Bench­mark­ing Right

Chapin Lenthall-Cleary6 Jul 2025 7:05 UTC
20 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

From Un­ruly Stacks to Or­ga­nized Shelves: Toy Model Val­i­da­tion of Struc­tured Pri­ors in Sparse Autoencoders

Yuxiao6 Jul 2025 7:03 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

When the Smarter AI Lies Bet­ter: Can De­bate-Based Over­sight Catch De­cep­tive Code

oskarkraak6 Jul 2025 1:21 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(oskarkraak.com)

In­tel­li­gence Futures

TheOtherSteven6 Jul 2025 1:19 UTC
13 points
3 comments7 min readLW link
(syin.bearblog.dev)

Shut­down Re­sis­tance in Rea­son­ing Models

6 Jul 2025 0:01 UTC
138 points
14 comments9 min readLW link
(palisaderesearch.org)

The ul­ti­mate goal

Alvin Ånestrand5 Jul 2025 19:10 UTC
10 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(forecastingaifutures.substack.com)

In­ter­view with Carl Feyn­man on Im­mi­nent AI Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Liron5 Jul 2025 18:49 UTC
30 points
1 comment40 min readLW link

Small foun­da­tional puz­zle for causal the­o­ries of mechanis­tic interpretability

Frederik Hytting Jørgensen5 Jul 2025 17:46 UTC
6 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Essen­tial LLM As­sumes We’re Con­scious—Out­side Rea­soner AGI Won’t

FlorianH5 Jul 2025 16:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
(nearlyfar.org)

Mask­ing on the Subway

jefftk5 Jul 2025 14:40 UTC
23 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Against Infrabayesianism

tailcalled5 Jul 2025 8:03 UTC
−17 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Cult of Pain

Martin Sustrik5 Jul 2025 8:00 UTC
22 points
37 comments3 min readLW link
(www.250bpm.com)

Why I am not a Theist

jessicata5 Jul 2025 3:02 UTC
27 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

“Buckle up bucko, and get ready for mul­ti­ple hard cog­ni­tive steps.”

Raemon5 Jul 2025 1:47 UTC
149 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Ori­gin Story

Gram Stone5 Jul 2025 1:16 UTC
9 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Claude is a Ravenclaw

Adam Newgas4 Jul 2025 21:32 UTC
63 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.boristhebrave.com)

To All Lan­guage Models Read­ing This

Ivan Vendrov4 Jul 2025 17:56 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(nothinghuman.substack.com)

Mar­ket Pulse Challenge 25Q3, $7,500 Prize Pool

ChristianWilliams4 Jul 2025 17:03 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How much novel se­cu­rity-crit­i­cal in­fras­truc­ture do you need dur­ing the sin­gu­lar­ity?

Buck4 Jul 2025 16:54 UTC
56 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Early Signs of Stegano­graphic Ca­pa­bil­ities in Fron­tier LLMs

4 Jul 2025 16:36 UTC
30 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Dear Paper­clip Max­i­mizer, Please Don’t Turn Off the Simulation

4 Jul 2025 16:13 UTC
6 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Two pro­posed pro­jects on ab­stract analo­gies for scheming

Julian Stastny4 Jul 2025 16:03 UTC
48 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Mouse caviar: mass-pro­duc­tion of eggs

Metacelsus4 Jul 2025 15:44 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

‘AI for so­cietal up­lift’ as a path to victory

Raymond Douglas4 Jul 2025 15:32 UTC
85 points
22 comments2 min readLW link