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Run-time Steering Can Surpass Post-Training: Reasoning Task Performance

Tommy Xie10 Aug 2025 23:52 UTC

5 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(www.tutke.org)

Sturdier and Lighter Pedalboard

jefftk10 Aug 2025 23:50 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Unjournal evaluation of “Towards best practices in AGI safety & governance” (2023), quick take

david reinstein10 Aug 2025 22:28 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(unjournal.pubpub.org)

My Least Libertarian Opinion: Ban Exclusivity Deals*

Brendan Long10 Aug 2025 21:41 UTC

78 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Motivated Reasoning as Bias

oleg10 Aug 2025 21:15 UTC

6 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: The dendritic engram

Devin Ward10 Aug 2025 20:56 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

LLMs play prisoner’s Dilemma

parthh0110 Aug 2025 20:36 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day: Bremen (Oct 10)

marta_k and benjaminalt

10 Aug 2025 19:09 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Coding Theorem — A Link between Complexity and Probability

Leon Lang10 Aug 2025 15:34 UTC

32 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, July ’25

gasteigerjo10 Aug 2025 12:49 UTC

7 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

From Oragnized Shelves to Layered Catalogs: Architectural Explorations for Sparse Autoencoders—Crosscoders & Ladder SAEs Towards Hierarchical Data Structure

Yuxiao10 Aug 2025 10:12 UTC

2 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Legal Personhood for Digital Minds—Introduction

Stephen Martin10 Aug 2025 9:29 UTC

5 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Tyranny: How Psychological Wounds Shape History

Dawn Drescher10 Aug 2025 8:46 UTC

42 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

Having children is not the most effective way to improve the world. Have them because you want them, not “for impact”.

KatWoods10 Aug 2025 6:54 UTC

12 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A Self-Dialogue on The Value Proposition of Romantic Relationships

johnswentworth10 Aug 2025 1:28 UTC

35 points

71 comments8 min readLW link

GPT-5 writing a Singularity scenario

Trevor Cappallo10 Aug 2025 0:56 UTC

25 points

7 comments34 min readLW link

[Question] Linkable images in the editor?

Brendan Long10 Aug 2025 0:34 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Four places where you can put LLM monitoring

Fabien Roger and Buck

9 Aug 2025 23:10 UTC

48 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Output and CoE Monitoring of Customer Service Representatives Shows Default Alignment

Brendan Long9 Aug 2025 21:31 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Live by the Claude, Die by the Claude

Brendan McCord9 Aug 2025 20:23 UTC

0 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(blog.cosmos-institute.org)

GPT-5 vs AI Alignment

Donatas Lučiūnas9 Aug 2025 20:05 UTC

−8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Saidi, My Friend—what do we owe to each other?

James Stephen Brown9 Aug 2025 19:41 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Самовопрошание

Vadim Golub9 Aug 2025 19:18 UTC

−6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Testing the Authoritarian Bias of LLMs

Zhijing Jin, Irene Strauss, David Guzman Piedrahita and Keenan Samway

9 Aug 2025 18:09 UTC

9 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI

Annapurna9 Aug 2025 16:20 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

If worker coops are so productive, why aren’t they everywhere?

B Jacobs9 Aug 2025 14:47 UTC

35 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

(bobjacobs.substack.com)

Steganography via internal activations is already possible in small language models — a potential first step toward persistent hidden reasoning.

Ilia Shirokov and Ilya Nachevsky

9 Aug 2025 11:44 UTC

7 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Against functionalism: a self dialogue

Algon9 Aug 2025 11:19 UTC

13 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

With the Future of the World in Your Hands, Think for 6.77 Years!

Dawn Drescher9 Aug 2025 10:44 UTC

1 point

0 comments10 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

Poll on De/Accelerating AI

denkenberger9 Aug 2025 7:13 UTC

13 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

[Event] Building What the Future Needs: A curated conference in Berlin (Sep 6, 2025) for high-impact builders and researchers

Vasilii Kondyrev8 Aug 2025 23:08 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: The dendritic engram

Devin Ward8 Aug 2025 22:08 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Making Sense of Consciousness Part 4: States of Consciousness

sarahconstantin8 Aug 2025 21:21 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

What would a human pretending to be an AI say?

Brendan Long8 Aug 2025 18:56 UTC

53 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Will morally motivated actors steer us towards a near-best future?

wdmacaskill8 Aug 2025 18:32 UTC

22 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

How hard to achieve is eutopia?

wdmacaskill8 Aug 2025 16:16 UTC

22 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

OpenAI’s GPT-OSS Is Already Old News

Zvi8 Aug 2025 12:20 UTC

39 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Extract-and-Evaluate Monitoring Can Significantly Enhance CoT Monitor Performance (Research Note)

Rauno Arike, RohanS and Shubhorup Biswas

8 Aug 2025 10:41 UTC

51 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

The Tortoise and the Language Model (A Fable After Hofstadter)

mwatkins8 Aug 2025 10:39 UTC

54 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Closed Mouth, Open Oppurtunities

CstineSublime8 Aug 2025 10:32 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

How anticipatory cover-ups go wrong

Kaj_Sotala8 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC

295 points

25 comments6 min readLW link

Strategic Moderation Goals (a Plan B to AI alignment)

Jim Buhler8 Aug 2025 8:08 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

METR’s Evaluation of GPT-5

GradientDissenter7 Aug 2025 22:17 UTC

141 points

15 comments20 min readLW link

(metr.github.io)

ChatGPT is the Daguerreotype of AI

Alex_Altair7 Aug 2025 22:14 UTC

42 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Principles of AI Uncontrollability

WillPetillo7 Aug 2025 21:10 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

Third-order cognition as a model of superintelligence (ironically: Meta® metacognition)

soycarts7 Aug 2025 20:56 UTC

2 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

Yes, Rationalism is a Cult

James Camacho7 Aug 2025 20:43 UTC

−14 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

GPT-5 is out

david reinstein7 Aug 2025 20:33 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

OpenAI Releases GPT-5

anaguma7 Aug 2025 18:41 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Balancing exploration and resistance to memetic threats after AGI

Eric Neyman7 Aug 2025 18:03 UTC

26 points

5 comments5 min readLW link