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Say­ing Goodbye

sapphire3 Aug 2025 23:52 UTC
66 points
74 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Avatar’s Dirty Se­cret: Na­ture Is Just Fancy Infrastructure

AlphaAndOmega3 Aug 2025 19:37 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

[Question] How to tol­er­ate bore­dom?

tryhard10003 Aug 2025 17:16 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Per­sona Vec­tors—An­thropic Paper

Stephen Martin3 Aug 2025 16:11 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

Al­co­hol is so bad for so­ciety that you should prob­a­bly stop drinking

KatWoods3 Aug 2025 15:31 UTC
38 points
29 comments8 min readLW link

Ex­plo­sive growth from sub­sti­tu­tion: the case of the In­dus­trial Revolution

ParrotRobot3 Aug 2025 7:52 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Emo­tions Make Sense

DaystarEld3 Aug 2025 7:03 UTC
207 points
40 comments21 min readLW link
(daystareld.com)

Creative writ­ing with LLMs, part 2: Co-writ­ing techniques

Kaj_Sotala3 Aug 2025 6:44 UTC
1 point
0 comments18 min readLW link

The Ethics of Copy­ing Con­scious States and the Many-Wor­lds In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Quan­tum Mechanics

TobyC2 Aug 2025 22:48 UTC
15 points
6 comments27 min readLW link

Astro­nom­i­cal Waste & Con­scien­tious Objection

Lydia Nottingham2 Aug 2025 22:37 UTC
8 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

The Inkhaven Residency

Ben Pace2 Aug 2025 18:51 UTC
134 points
35 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Feed­back re­quest: `eval-crypt` a sim­ple util­ity to miti­gate eval con­tam­i­na­tion.

Matan Shtepel, Justin Olive and Daniel Polatajko
2 Aug 2025 17:04 UTC
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The Ob­server Effect for be­lief measurement

Roman Malov2 Aug 2025 13:57 UTC
8 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Many pre­dic­tion mar­kets would be bet­ter off as batched auctions

William Howard2 Aug 2025 12:04 UTC
173 points
21 comments5 min readLW link
(antidiluvian.substack.com)

2025 ACX Grants pro­ject pitches

duck_master2 Aug 2025 5:04 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The deep his­tory of intelligence

Dan MacKinlay2 Aug 2025 4:04 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(danmackinlay.name)

How many species has hu­man­ity driven ex­tinct?

Raemon2 Aug 2025 2:50 UTC
42 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] At what point do you aban­don ship?

Gesild Muka2 Aug 2025 1:13 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Three Quotes on Trans­for­ma­tive Technology

Chris_Leong1 Aug 2025 22:57 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

SB-1047 Doc­u­men­tary: The Post-Mortem

Michaël Trazzi1 Aug 2025 21:42 UTC
130 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Per­sona vec­tors: mon­i­tor­ing and con­trol­ling char­ac­ter traits in lan­guage models

RunjinChen and Andy Arditi
1 Aug 2025 21:19 UTC
25 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Boots the­ory and Wikipedia

philh1 Aug 2025 20:30 UTC
8 points
12 comments12 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Pod­cast: Lin­coln Quirk from Wave

Elizabeth1 Aug 2025 19:00 UTC
40 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

AI in a vat: Fun­da­men­tal limits of effi­cient world mod­el­ling for safe agent sandboxing

Fernando Rosas1 Aug 2025 18:37 UTC
34 points
3 comments15 min readLW link

The Dark Arts As A Scaf­fold­ing Skill For Rationality

Screwtape1 Aug 2025 17:12 UTC
82 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

Steve Petersen seek­ing funding

abramdemski1 Aug 2025 17:03 UTC
87 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Week in AI Governance

Zvi1 Aug 2025 12:20 UTC
18 points
1 comment24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­search Areas in AI Con­trol (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Julian Stastny, Tomek Korbak, Mojmir, Buck and Alan Cooney
1 Aug 2025 10:27 UTC
25 points
0 comments18 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in Meth­ods for Post-train­ing and Elic­i­ta­tion (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Jacob Pfau and Benjamin Hilton
1 Aug 2025 10:27 UTC
12 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in Bench­mark De­sign and Eval­u­a­tion (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Jacob Pfau and Benjamin Hilton
1 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC
10 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in In­ter­pretabil­ity (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Joseph Bloom1 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC
14 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in Cog­ni­tive Science (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Geoffrey Irving1 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC
12 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in Learn­ing The­ory (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

David Africa and Edmund Lau
1 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC
15 points
0 comments24 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in Prob­a­bil­is­tic Meth­ods (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Jacob Pfau and Benjamin Hilton
1 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in Eco­nomic The­ory and Game The­ory (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Cecilia Wood1 Aug 2025 10:25 UTC
4 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity The­ory (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Simon Marshall1 Aug 2025 10:25 UTC
6 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Re­search Areas in In­for­ma­tion The­ory and Cryp­tog­ra­phy (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Simon Marshall1 Aug 2025 10:25 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Self-Align­ment: Ex­plor­ing the per­spec­tive of An­a­lyt­i­cal Psychology

JakeArgent1 Aug 2025 10:17 UTC
4 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Re­search Areas in Eval­u­a­tion and Guaran­tees in Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing (The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI)

Jacob Pfau and Benjamin Hilton
1 Aug 2025 9:53 UTC
14 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

The Align­ment Pro­ject by UK AISI

Mojmir, Benjamin Hilton, Jacob Pfau, Geoffrey Irving, Joseph Bloom, Tomek Korbak, David Africa and Edmund Lau
1 Aug 2025 9:52 UTC
29 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk)

Pro­lific.com sur­vey on AI pause

samuelshadrach1 Aug 2025 8:33 UTC
9 points
3 comments7 min readLW link
(samuelshadrach.com)

Some mis­takes in think­ing about AGI evolu­tion and control

Remmelt1 Aug 2025 8:08 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Op­po­nent shap­ing” as a model for ma­nipu­la­tion and cooperation

Dan MacKinlay1 Aug 2025 7:50 UTC
9 points
0 comments17 min readLW link
(danmackinlay.name)

Two Kinds of Do Overs

jefftk1 Aug 2025 2:30 UTC
65 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Call on AI Com­pa­nies: Pub­lish Your Whistle­blow­ing Policies

karl31 Jul 2025 22:04 UTC
20 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Do Not Ren­der Your Counterfactuals

AlphaAndOmega31 Jul 2025 21:35 UTC
110 points
19 comments5 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Emer­gence Is Beau­tiful—beauty and mean­ing in an en­tropic universe

James Stephen Brown31 Jul 2025 19:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Sharp­en­ing the Shears: 8 Les­sons from Gar­den Leave

Jordan Rubin31 Jul 2025 18:57 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(jordanmrubin.substack.com)

AISN #60: The AI Ac­tion Plan

Corin Katzke and Dan H
31 Jul 2025 18:20 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Ap­prox­i­mat­ing Hu­man Prefer­ences Us­ing a Multi-Judge Learned System

JoseFaustino, eitan sprejer, Fernando Avalos and Augusto Bernardi
31 Jul 2025 18:01 UTC
19 points
0 comments13 min readLW link