10 Jan 2026 23:50 UTC

18 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

If AI alignment is only as hard as building the steam engine, then we likely still die

MichaelDickens10 Jan 2026 23:10 UTC

35 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

How Humanity Wins

Wes R10 Jan 2026 21:55 UTC

−20 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Possible Principles of Superagency

Mariven10 Jan 2026 21:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(mariven.substack.com)

The Case Against Continuous Chain-of-Thought (Neuralese)

RobinHa10 Jan 2026 20:32 UTC

11 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

The false confidence theorem and Bayesian reasoning

viking_math10 Jan 2026 17:14 UTC

24 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

A Proposal for a Better ARENA: Shifting from Teaching to Research Sprints

TheManxLoiner10 Jan 2026 16:56 UTC

28 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Moral-Epistemic Scrupulosity: A Cross-Framework Failure Mode of Truth-Seeking

Tamara Sofía Falcone10 Jan 2026 2:24 UTC

17 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Finding high signal people—applying PageRank to Twitter

jfguan10 Jan 2026 2:21 UTC

27 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(thefourierproject.org)

AI Incident Forecasting

cluebbers10 Jan 2026 2:17 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(cluebbers.github.io)

6’7” Is Not Random

Martin Lichstam10 Jan 2026 2:13 UTC

−10 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

What do we mean by “impossible”?

Sniffnoy10 Jan 2026 0:01 UTC

23 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Where’s the $100k iPhone?

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)9 Jan 2026 23:48 UTC

33 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

(boydkane.com)

Taking LLMs Seriously (As Language Models)

abramdemski9 Jan 2026 23:23 UTC

57 points

9 comments17 min readLW link

FirstPrinciples Talks: Science in the Age of AI

Carly Turini9 Jan 2026 21:18 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Objective Questions

JenniferRM9 Jan 2026 21:09 UTC

23 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

FirstPrinciples Talks: Shallow Recurrent Decoders for the Automated Discovery of Physical Models

Carly Turini9 Jan 2026 21:06 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Cancer-Selective, Pan-Essential Targets from DepMap

sarahconstantin9 Jan 2026 20:50 UTC

21 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Understanding complex conjugates in quantum mechanics

jessicata9 Jan 2026 20:45 UTC

17 points

8 comments12 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

[Linkpost] On the Origins of Algorithmic Progress in AI

alex_fogelson9 Jan 2026 18:41 UTC

47 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Claude Codes

Zvi9 Jan 2026 17:10 UTC

75 points

7 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Leo in me

Rudaiba9 Jan 2026 15:55 UTC

−1 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Another Cost Disease? We are all capitalists now

Oliver Sourbut9 Jan 2026 13:07 UTC

16 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment Faking is a Linear Feature in Anthropic’s Hughes Model (Edited 1/11/26)

James Hoffend9 Jan 2026 12:03 UTC

34 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

What do people mean by “recursive self-improvement”?

Expertium9 Jan 2026 11:15 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Parameters of Metacognition—The Anesthesia Patient

Gunnar_Zarncke9 Jan 2026 1:20 UTC

21 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

I dream every night now

Declan Molony9 Jan 2026 0:34 UTC

34 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

The Economics of Transformative AI

Jan_Kulveit, David Duvenaud and Raymond Douglas

8 Jan 2026 22:22 UTC

64 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

(post-agi.org)

The Hunger Strike To Stop The AI Race

Michaël Trazzi8 Jan 2026 21:05 UTC

37 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Skepticism about Introspection in LLMs

derek shiller8 Jan 2026 20:07 UTC

11 points

7 comments36 min readLW link

On rationality skills

dominicq8 Jan 2026 19:23 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(sundaystopwatch.eu)

Self-Help Tactics That Are Working For Me

sarahconstantin8 Jan 2026 18:00 UTC

54 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Distinguishing Sensory Qualia Using Neural Structure

Shiva's Right Foot8 Jan 2026 16:45 UTC

4 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Why LLMs Aren’t Scientists Yet.

Dhruv Trehan8 Jan 2026 16:06 UTC

39 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Can We Make AI Alignment Framing Less Wrong?

Anurag 8 Jan 2026 15:20 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

AI #150: While Claude Codes

Zvi8 Jan 2026 15:00 UTC

42 points

3 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Saying What You Want

omegastick8 Jan 2026 14:12 UTC

17 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(dumbideas.xyz)

Small Steps Towards Proving Stochastic → Deterministic Natural Latent

Alfred Harwood and Jeremy Gillen

8 Jan 2026 12:27 UTC

57 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

Using Anki to memorise the names of the MATS 9 cohort

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)8 Jan 2026 4:41 UTC

5 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(boydkane.com)

Rents Are High, But Not Skyrocketing

jefftk8 Jan 2026 2:40 UTC

29 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The AI Infrastructure Security Shortlist

Abbey Chaver8 Jan 2026 2:26 UTC

21 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

HIA and X-risk part 2: Why it hurts

TsviBT8 Jan 2026 1:19 UTC

63 points

13 comments21 min readLW link

Beliefs and position going into 2026

RussellThor8 Jan 2026 1:11 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Lumina Probiotic worked for me!

Eye You8 Jan 2026 0:34 UTC

46 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Taiwan Trip Report

nomagicpill7 Jan 2026 23:40 UTC

11 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(nomagicpill.substack.com)

Public intellectuals need to say what they actually believe

Aaron Bergman7 Jan 2026 21:22 UTC

79 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

(www.aaronbergman.net)

Two Aspects of Situational Awareness: World Modelling & Indexical Information

David Scott Krueger7 Jan 2026 20:24 UTC

40 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Advancements In Self-Driving Cars

Zvi7 Jan 2026 19:50 UTC

30 points

2 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two ways non-U.S. folks can contribute to AI going well

Joe Rogero7 Jan 2026 19:37 UTC

21 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(subatomicarticles.com)

Everything is Political Now, or, A Review of “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock”

Gordon Seidoh Worley7 Jan 2026 17:00 UTC

13 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.uncertainupdates.com)