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Is It Reasoning or Just a Fixed Bias?

Sriram Kiron16 Jan 2026 21:43 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(ramaway.com)

Future-as-Label: Scalable Supervision from Real-World Outcomes

Ben Turtel16 Jan 2026 21:21 UTC

−1 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Comparing yourself to other people

dominicq16 Jan 2026 20:31 UTC

10 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(sundaystopwatch.eu)

Eliciting Frontier Model Character Training

avikrishna16 Jan 2026 20:15 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

Precedents for the Unprecedented: Historical Analogies for Thirteen Artificial Superintelligence Risks

James_Miller16 Jan 2026 18:43 UTC

165 points

15 comments63 min readLW link

Why falling labor share ≠ falling employment

Lydia Nottingham16 Jan 2026 17:27 UTC

−5 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(lydianottingham.substack.com)

Digital Minds: A Quickstart Guide

Avi Parrack and Štěpán Los

16 Jan 2026 17:15 UTC

10 points

1 comment22 min readLW link

(aviparrack.substack.com)

The culture and design of human-AI interactions

zef16 Jan 2026 17:11 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(bloodsteel.substack.com)

Confession: I pranked Inkhaven to make sure no one fails

Mikhail Samin16 Jan 2026 16:03 UTC

52 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Monthly Roundup #38: January 2026

Zvi16 Jan 2026 15:10 UTC

22 points

3 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Scaling Laws for Economic Impacts: Experimental Evidence from 500 Professionals and 13 LLMs

Ali Merali16 Jan 2026 13:40 UTC

21 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

[Pre-print] Building safe AGI as an ergonomics problem

ricardotkcl and paris.lalousis@kcl.ac.uk

16 Jan 2026 13:18 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(doi.org)

Powerful misaligned AIs may be extremely persuasive, especially absent mitigations

Cody Rushing16 Jan 2026 8:08 UTC

68 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

How to Use Foam Earplugs Correctly

Morpheus16 Jan 2026 7:47 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.tassiloneubauer.com)

Should control down-weight negative net-sabotage-value threats?

Fabien Roger16 Jan 2026 4:18 UTC

35 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

The Default Contra Dance Weekend Deal

jefftk16 Jan 2026 0:50 UTC

12 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Total utilitarianism is fine

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir16 Jan 2026 0:32 UTC

4 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Test your interpretability techniques by de-censoring Chinese models

Khoi Tran, aryaj, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

15 Jan 2026 16:33 UTC

91 points

14 comments20 min readLW link

Reflections on TA-ing Harvard’s first AI safety course

Roy Rinberg15 Jan 2026 16:28 UTC

79 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

I Made a Judgment Calibration Game for Beginners (Calibrate)

Luise Woehlke15 Jan 2026 15:04 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI #151: While Claude Coworks

Zvi15 Jan 2026 14:30 UTC

38 points

5 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Corrigibility Scales To Value Alignment

PeterMcCluskey15 Jan 2026 0:05 UTC

13 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Deeper Reviews for the top 15 (of the 2024 Review)

Raemon14 Jan 2026 23:59 UTC

45 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

If we get primary cruxes right, secondary cruxes will be solved automatically

Jordan Arel14 Jan 2026 22:44 UTC

1 point

1 comment4 min readLW link

Boltzmann Tulpas

Mariven14 Jan 2026 21:45 UTC

21 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

(mariven.substack.com)

Status In A Tribe Of One

J Bostock14 Jan 2026 20:44 UTC

27 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Quantifying Love and Hatred

RobinHa14 Jan 2026 20:40 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Why we are excited about confession!

Boaz Barak, Gabriel Wu and Manas Joglekar

14 Jan 2026 20:37 UTC

138 points

32 comments9 min readLW link

(alignment.openai.com)

Why Motivated Reasoning?

johnswentworth14 Jan 2026 19:55 UTC

78 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

When Will They Take Our Jobs?

Zvi14 Jan 2026 19:40 UTC

39 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Many Ways of Knowing

Gordon Seidoh Worley14 Jan 2026 17:00 UTC

18 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(www.uncertainupdates.com)

GD Roundup #4 - inference, monopolies, and AI Jesus

Raymond Douglas14 Jan 2026 15:43 UTC

38 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights of December 2025

gasteigerjo14 Jan 2026 14:29 UTC

16 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Backyard cat fight shows Schelling points preexist language

jchan14 Jan 2026 14:10 UTC

172 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Parameters Are Like Pixels

omegastick14 Jan 2026 13:45 UTC

15 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(dumbideas.xyz)

[Closed] Apply to Vanessa’s mentorship at PIBBSS

Vanessa Kosoy14 Jan 2026 9:15 UTC

40 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Lit review of some international organisations

rosehadshar14 Jan 2026 7:52 UTC

6 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

If researchers shared their #1 idea daily, we’d navigate existential challenges far more effectively

Jordan Arel14 Jan 2026 6:25 UTC

5 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

The Eternal Labyrinth

Bridgett Kay14 Jan 2026 3:19 UTC

11 points

4 comments15 min readLW link

(dxmrevealed.wordpress.com)

How Much of AI Labs’ Research Is Safety?

Lennart Finke14 Jan 2026 1:40 UTC

13 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

We need to make ourselves people the models can come to with problems

Lydia Nottingham14 Jan 2026 0:43 UTC

21 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(lydianottingham.substack.com)

A different take on the “Off-switch” problem: Existential Logic as a safety net

kosi thu13 Jan 2026 21:22 UTC

−5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Analysing CoT alignment in thinking LLMs with low-dimensional steering

edoinni13 Jan 2026 20:45 UTC

6 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Global CoT Analysis: Initial attempts to uncover patterns across many chains of thought

Riya Tyagi, daria, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

13 Jan 2026 20:40 UTC

52 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Playing Dumb: Detecting Sandbagging in Frontier LLMs via Consistency Checks

James Sullivan13 Jan 2026 19:28 UTC

11 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Claude Coworks

Zvi13 Jan 2026 19:00 UTC

39 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Language models resemble more than just language cortex, show neuroscientists

Mordechai Rorvig13 Jan 2026 18:05 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.foommagazine.org)

Schelling Coordination in LLMs: A Review

Callum-Luis Kindred13 Jan 2026 16:25 UTC

10 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

A tale of two doormen: a bizarre AI incident on Christmas

Rebecca Dai13 Jan 2026 15:42 UTC

31 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

(rebeccadai.substack.com)

Fixed Buckets Can’t (Phenomenally) Bind

algekalipso13 Jan 2026 15:30 UTC

14 points

8 comments21 min readLW link