12 Jan 2026 23:13 UTC

66 points

18 comments25 min readLW link

(postagi.org)

Lies, Damned Lies, and Proofs: Formal Methods are not Slopless

Quinn and Max von Hippel

12 Jan 2026 22:32 UTC

102 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Pro or Average Joe? Do models infer our technical ability and can we control this judgement?

tobypullan12 Jan 2026 20:52 UTC

12 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Dating Roundup #10: Gendered Expectations

Zvi12 Jan 2026 20:30 UTC

28 points

4 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Automated Interpretability-Driven Model Auditing and Control: A Research Agenda

fbarez12 Jan 2026 19:55 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Tensor-Transformer Variants are Surprisingly Performant

Logan Riggs12 Jan 2026 19:43 UTC

87 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

The Algorithm Rewards Engagement

Wes F12 Jan 2026 19:38 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

BlackBoxQuery [BBQ]-Bench: Measuring Hypothesis Formation and Experimentation Capabilities in LLMs

Daniel Wu12 Jan 2026 19:36 UTC

10 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Understanding Agency through Markov Blankets

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez12 Jan 2026 19:32 UTC

25 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Model Reduction as Interpretability: What Neuroscience Could Teach Us About Understanding Complex Systems

RiekeFruengel12 Jan 2026 19:31 UTC

13 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Futarchy (and Tyranny of The Minority)

maxwickham12 Jan 2026 19:27 UTC

4 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

What Happens When Superhuman AIs Compete for Control?

steveld12 Jan 2026 19:26 UTC

44 points

3 comments30 min readLW link

(blog.ai-futures.org)

Brief Explorations in LLM Value Rankings

Tim Hua, Josh Engels, Neel Nanda and Senthooran Rajamanoharan

12 Jan 2026 18:16 UTC

39 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Practical challenges of control monitoring in frontier AI deployments

David Lindner and Charlie Griffin

12 Jan 2026 16:45 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Thinking vs Unfolding

Chris Scammell12 Jan 2026 15:26 UTC

67 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

Split Personality Training: Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Alternate Personalities (Research Report)

Florian_Dietz12 Jan 2026 12:29 UTC

87 points

41 comments26 min readLW link

Inter-branch communication in the multiverse via trapped ions

avturchin12 Jan 2026 12:16 UTC

7 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

--dangerously-skip-permissions

OhadA12 Jan 2026 7:37 UTC

16 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Closing the loop

Screwtape12 Jan 2026 6:37 UTC

30 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Announcing Inkhaven 2: April 2026

Ben Pace12 Jan 2026 4:25 UTC

70 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What potent consumer technologies have long remained inaccessible?

TsviBT12 Jan 2026 3:13 UTC

32 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Digital intentionality is not about productivity

mingyuan12 Jan 2026 3:09 UTC

65 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(mingyuan.substack.com)

De pluribus non est disputandum

Jacob Goldsmith12 Jan 2026 0:07 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Strong, bipartisan leadership for resistance to Trump.

Raemon11 Jan 2026 23:08 UTC

82 points

85 comments2 min readLW link

A Couple Useful LessWrong Userstyles

Alex Vermillion11 Jan 2026 21:26 UTC

39 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Stretch Hatchback

jefftk11 Jan 2026 16:40 UTC

12 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

We need a better way to evaluate emergent misalignment

yix and Broyojo

11 Jan 2026 16:21 UTC

86 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Should the AI Safety Community Prioritize Safety Cases?

Jan Wehner11 Jan 2026 11:56 UTC

4 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Coding Agents As An Interface To The Codebase

omegastick11 Jan 2026 10:31 UTC

16 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(dumbideas.xyz)

Why AIs aren’t power-seeking yet

Eli Tyre11 Jan 2026 7:07 UTC

105 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Theoretical predictions on the sample efficiency of training policies and activation monitors

Alek Westover and Vivek Hebbar

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)