Chan­nelguessr: A Dis­cord game

Brendan Long25 Jan 2026 23:17 UTC
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[Question] How ac­cu­rate a model of the re­friger­a­tion cy­cle is this doo­dle?

Optimization Process25 Jan 2026 22:09 UTC
14 points
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The Possessed Machines (sum­mary)

L Rudolf L25 Jan 2026 20:47 UTC
128 points
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(possessedmachines.com)

Notable Progress Has Been Made in Whole Brain Emulation

Dom Polsinelli25 Jan 2026 19:07 UTC
103 points
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(open.substack.com)

[Question] Are There Effec­tive In­ter­ven­tions to In­crease Distress Tol­er­ance?

simeon_c25 Jan 2026 18:50 UTC
9 points
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Canada Lost Its Measles Elimi­na­tion Sta­tus Be­cause We Don’t Have Enough Nurses Who Speak Low German

jenn25 Jan 2026 18:33 UTC
325 points
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To be well-cal­ibrated is to be punctual

moridinamael25 Jan 2026 18:10 UTC
97 points
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A tale of three the­o­ries: spar­sity, frus­tra­tion, and statis­ti­cal field theory

Dmitry Vaintrob25 Jan 2026 18:09 UTC
63 points
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Rein­vent­ing the wheel

dr_s25 Jan 2026 11:56 UTC
28 points
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Cri­tique of ma­chine unlearning

myyycroft25 Jan 2026 10:50 UTC
2 points
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Towards Sub-agent Dy­nam­ics and Con­flict

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez25 Jan 2026 5:27 UTC
13 points
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The Vir­tual Mother-in-Law

Priyanka Bharadwaj25 Jan 2026 5:14 UTC
11 points
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De­clin­ing Marginal Costs of Alienation

Celer25 Jan 2026 4:40 UTC
18 points
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(keller.substack.com)

Struc­ture and func­tion of the hip­pocam­pal CA3 module

Devin Ward25 Jan 2026 1:57 UTC
4 points
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What’s a good method­ol­ogy for “is Trump un­usual about ex­ec­u­tive over­reach /​ in­sti­tu­tion ero­sion /​ cor­rup­tion?”

25 Jan 2026 1:35 UTC
53 points
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Clawed Abode: Claude Code is Too Cloudy

Brendan Long25 Jan 2026 0:15 UTC
13 points
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(www.brendanlong.com)

Skill: cog­ni­tive black box flight recorder

TsviBT24 Jan 2026 22:54 UTC
27 points
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In Defense of Memorization

David Goodman24 Jan 2026 22:49 UTC
24 points
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Think­ing from the Other Side: Should I Wash My Hair with Sham­poo?

R0sberg24 Jan 2026 22:47 UTC
6 points
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Small lan­guage mod­els hal­lu­ci­nate know­ing some­thing’s off.

Toheed24 Jan 2026 22:46 UTC
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IABIED Book Re­view: Core Ar­gu­ments and Counterarguments

Stephen McAleese24 Jan 2026 14:25 UTC
90 points
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The Global AI Dataset (GAID) Pro­ject: From Clos­ing Re­search Gaps to Build­ing Re­spon­si­ble and Trust­wor­thy AI

Jason Hung24 Jan 2026 3:23 UTC
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A Black Box Made Less Opaque (part 1)

Matthew McDonnell24 Jan 2026 3:20 UTC
6 points
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A Sim­ple Method for Ac­cel­er­at­ing Grokking

josh :)24 Jan 2026 3:19 UTC
14 points
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Who is choos­ing your prefer­ences- You or your Mind?

shanzson24 Jan 2026 3:17 UTC
0 points
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How I Used Method­able to Have a Nice Tuesday

dnsosebee24 Jan 2026 2:57 UTC
4 points
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AI X-Risk Bot­tle­neck = Ad­vo­cacy?

fortytwo24 Jan 2026 2:52 UTC
10 points
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Every Bench­mark is Broken

Jonathan Gabor24 Jan 2026 2:42 UTC
95 points
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Thou­sand Year Old Ad­vice on Relin­quish­ing Con­trol to AI

Dom Polsinelli24 Jan 2026 2:20 UTC
−3 points
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AI Must Learn to Po­lice Itself

savant23 Jan 2026 22:39 UTC
1 point
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Con­den­sa­tion & Relevance

abramdemski23 Jan 2026 22:21 UTC
38 points
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Pay­ing at­ten­tion to At­ten­tion Sinks

Mitali M23 Jan 2026 21:40 UTC
11 points
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Dat­ing Roundup #11: Go­ing Too Meta

Zvi23 Jan 2026 20:50 UTC
40 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Ar­tifi­cial Man

Jack Bradshaw23 Jan 2026 19:55 UTC
1 point
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The Long View Of History

sonicrocketman23 Jan 2026 19:30 UTC
10 points
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(brianschrader.com)

Emer­gency Re­sponse Mea­sures for Catas­trophic AI Risk

MKodama23 Jan 2026 18:18 UTC
27 points
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Elic­it­ing base mod­els with sim­ple un­su­per­vised techniques

23 Jan 2026 18:06 UTC
34 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

New ver­sion of “In­tro to Brain-Like-AGI Safety”

Steven Byrnes23 Jan 2026 16:21 UTC
63 points
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Au­to­mated Align­ment Re­search, Abductively

future_detective23 Jan 2026 16:14 UTC
2 points
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Digi­tal Con­scious­ness Model Re­sults and Key Takeaways

23 Jan 2026 15:58 UTC
15 points
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From Neu­rons to New­tons: What can the brain teach us about physics?

Carly Turini23 Jan 2026 15:20 UTC
1 point
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A Frame­work for Eval Awareness

LAThomson23 Jan 2026 10:16 UTC
38 points
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All Of The Good Things, None Of The Bad Things

omegastick23 Jan 2026 9:50 UTC
8 points
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(dumbideas.xyz)

Are Short AI Timelines Really Higher-Lev­er­age?

23 Jan 2026 7:28 UTC
25 points
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(www.forethought.org)

Prin­ci­ples for Meta-Science and AI Safety Replications

Zephaniah Roe23 Jan 2026 6:59 UTC
47 points
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Value Learn­ing Needs a Low-Di­men­sional Bottleneck

Gunnar_Zarncke23 Jan 2026 2:12 UTC
24 points
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A quick, el­e­gant deriva­tion of Bayes’ Theorem

RohanS23 Jan 2026 1:40 UTC
37 points
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The World Hasn’t Gone Mad

goldfine23 Jan 2026 0:01 UTC
19 points
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(itsnotgambling.substack.com)

Like night and day: Light glasses and dark ther­apy can treat non-24 (and SAD)

JennaS22 Jan 2026 23:23 UTC
30 points
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Does Pen­tagon Pizza The­ory Work?

rba22 Jan 2026 19:24 UTC
140 points
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(goflaw.substack.com)