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The Strange Science of Interpretability: Recent Papers and a Reading List for the Philosophy of Interpretability

Kola Ayonrinde17 Aug 2025 23:38 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The parable of the underdog

Said Achmiz17 Aug 2025 22:39 UTC

25 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.datasecretslox.com)

Underdog bias rules everything around me

Richard_Ngo17 Aug 2025 19:21 UTC

159 points

53 comments7 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

Apply for the 2025 Dovetail fellowship

Alex_Altair and Alfred Harwood

17 Aug 2025 19:09 UTC

42 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Writing Out My Tunes

jefftk17 Aug 2025 17:00 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Plan E for AI Doom

Ihor Kendiukhov17 Aug 2025 15:26 UTC

67 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Meaning in life—should I have it? How did you find yours?

Aprillion17 Aug 2025 9:49 UTC

13 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

Legal Personhood—Types of Consequences

Stephen Martin17 Aug 2025 6:52 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Agent foundations: not really math, not really science

Alex_Altair17 Aug 2025 5:48 UTC

114 points

25 comments5 min readLW link

Why Latter-day Saints Have Strong Communities

Jeffrey Heninger17 Aug 2025 4:20 UTC

102 points

29 comments9 min readLW link

Immortalism—A Rational Case for Solving Death

vampiretooth17 Aug 2025 3:56 UTC

11 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Lighthaven

Zack_M_Davis17 Aug 2025 2:30 UTC

151 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

On Pessimization

Richard_Ngo17 Aug 2025 1:10 UTC

61 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

Debugging for Mid Coders

Raemon16 Aug 2025 22:32 UTC

82 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus

Elizabeth16 Aug 2025 19:40 UTC

226 points

23 comments16 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

35 Thoughts About AGI and 1 About GPT-5

snewman16 Aug 2025 19:20 UTC

21 points

20 comments16 min readLW link

(secondthoughts.ai)

keyMetas — If training an AI requires vectorizing the hidden, why not try it with our goals?

P. João16 Aug 2025 18:07 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Comprehensive Case Against Trump

Bentham's Bulldog16 Aug 2025 17:30 UTC

−14 points

34 comments26 min readLW link

The Collider Bias Theory of (Not Quite) Everything

Jack_S16 Aug 2025 16:53 UTC

82 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

How we hacked business school

Logan Kieller and Michael Samoilov

16 Aug 2025 15:22 UTC

17 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(agenticconjectures.substack.com)

[Question] Why did interest in “AI risk” and “AI safety” spike in June and July 2025? (Google Trends)

WilliamKiely16 Aug 2025 15:22 UTC

32 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Four types of approaches for your emotional problems

Kaj_Sotala16 Aug 2025 13:59 UTC

43 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

‘Just Tax Land’ - what’s the point?

Hruss16 Aug 2025 12:37 UTC

−3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Mind Conditioning

Gabriel Alfour16 Aug 2025 11:20 UTC

−1 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Anthropic Lets Claude Opus 4 & 4.1 End Conversations

Stephen Martin16 Aug 2025 5:01 UTC

53 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

The Inheritors: a book review

Alex_Altair16 Aug 2025 2:47 UTC

73 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

BIDA Masking and Attendance

jefftk16 Aug 2025 1:50 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Rights & Liberties—are opposites

James Stephen Brown16 Aug 2025 0:20 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

N Dimensional Interactive Scatter Plot (ndisp)

TristanTrim15 Aug 2025 23:08 UTC

10 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

SE Gyges’ response to AI-2027

StanislavKrym15 Aug 2025 21:54 UTC

29 points

13 comments46 min readLW link

(www.verysane.ai)

Towards data-centric interpretability with sparse autoencoders

Nick Jiang, lilysun004, lewis smith and Neel Nanda

15 Aug 2025 20:10 UTC

53 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

Music taste is (also) a next token prediction

eamag15 Aug 2025 17:49 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(eamag.me)

Theory of culture as waste.

Laureana Bonaparte15 Aug 2025 17:34 UTC

−3 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Spending Too Much Time At Airports

Zvi15 Aug 2025 16:10 UTC

57 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to make the future better (other than by reducing extinction risk)

wdmacaskill15 Aug 2025 15:40 UTC

19 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Should you start a for-profit AI safety org?

KatWoods15 Aug 2025 13:52 UTC

8 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

How to get ChatGPT to really thoroughly research something

KatWoods15 Aug 2025 12:54 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Gradual Disempowerment

Tom Davidson15 Aug 2025 11:56 UTC

62 points

32 comments19 min readLW link

Misalignment classifiers: Why they’re hard to evaluate adversarially, and why we’re studying them anyway

charlie_griffin, ollie, oliverfm, Rogan Inglis and Alan Cooney

15 Aug 2025 11:48 UTC

59 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

A Phylogeny of Agents

Jonas Hallgren and markov

15 Aug 2025 10:47 UTC

40 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(substack.com)

My kids won’t be workers

Gauraventh15 Aug 2025 7:06 UTC

3 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(y1d2.com)

European Links (15.08.25)

Martin Sustrik15 Aug 2025 4:20 UTC

21 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.250bpm.com)

Legal Personhood—Three Prong Bundle Theory

Stephen Martin15 Aug 2025 4:13 UTC

13 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Mental Gymnastics.

Laureana Bonaparte15 Aug 2025 4:08 UTC

3 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Rare AI and the Fermi Paradox

dawnstrata15 Aug 2025 4:05 UTC

11 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Tristan’s Projects

TristanTrim15 Aug 2025 3:46 UTC

6 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Trialing Far UVC and Glycol Vapors at BIDA

jefftk15 Aug 2025 2:20 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A philosophical kernel: biting analytic bullets

jessicata15 Aug 2025 1:35 UTC

64 points

21 comments13 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

A letter to Kyle Fish on the Retirement of Claude 3 Sonnet

bridgebot15 Aug 2025 1:08 UTC

−4 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Conceptual Rhyme and Metaphor

Jordan Rubin15 Aug 2025 0:05 UTC

2 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(jordanmrubin.substack.com)