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No silver bullet: Lessons about how to create safety from the history of fire

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2026 22:18 UTC

28 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Listing the virtues from Claude’s “Constitution”

David Gross26 Jan 2026 22:16 UTC

20 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

A Rational Proposal

Archie Chaudhury26 Jan 2026 20:22 UTC

−2 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Dario Amodei – The Adolescence of Technology

habryka26 Jan 2026 19:10 UTC

152 points

62 comments73 min readLW link

(www.darioamodei.com)

Dialogue: Is there a Natural Abstraction of Good?

davidad and Gabriel Alfour

26 Jan 2026 18:40 UTC

76 points

12 comments29 min readLW link

AlgZoo: uninterpreted models with fewer than 1,500 parameters

Jacob_Hilton26 Jan 2026 17:30 UTC

181 points

10 comments10 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Aerodrop: far-UVC lamp giveaway

Austin Chen26 Jan 2026 17:03 UTC

34 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(aerodrop.org)

Claude’s Constitutional Structure

Zvi26 Jan 2026 15:40 UTC

56 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What actually matters in neurotech startups (and what doesn’t)

Abhishaike Mahajan26 Jan 2026 15:19 UTC

37 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

Reasoning Long Jump: Why we shouldn’t rely on CoT monitoring for interpretability

tobypullan26 Jan 2026 10:10 UTC

9 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Eons of Utopia

ceselder26 Jan 2026 9:26 UTC

18 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(ceselder.substack.com)

Sunnyvale EA/LW/ACX meetup

wolverdude26 Jan 2026 7:16 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The ‘People Pleaser’ Problem in LLMs

Kinsey Kappler26 Jan 2026 5:06 UTC

−7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Futarchy is Parasitic on What It Tries to Govern

Nicolas Rasmont26 Jan 2026 5:05 UTC

11 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance

Martin Sustrik26 Jan 2026 4:40 UTC

316 points

22 comments13 min readLW link

(www.250bpm.com)

I (well, mostly claude code) simulated proportional representation methods.

Charlie Steiner26 Jan 2026 4:23 UTC

11 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

How to do a digital declutter

mingyuan26 Jan 2026 4:12 UTC

22 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(mingyuan.substack.com)

Can you just vibe vulnerabilities?

Max von Hippel26 Jan 2026 3:07 UTC

19 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Upcoming Dovetail fellow talks & discussion

Alex_Altair26 Jan 2026 2:39 UTC

29 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Channelguessr: A Discord game

Brendan Long25 Jan 2026 23:17 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

[Question] How accurate a model of the refrigeration cycle is this doodle?

Optimization Process25 Jan 2026 22:09 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Possessed Machines (summary)

L Rudolf L25 Jan 2026 20:47 UTC

128 points

31 comments9 min readLW link

(possessedmachines.com)

Notable Progress Has Been Made in Whole Brain Emulation

Dom Polsinelli25 Jan 2026 19:07 UTC

104 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

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

simeon_c25 Jan 2026 18:50 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Canada Lost Its Measles Elimination Status Because We Don’t Have Enough Nurses Who Speak Low German

jenn25 Jan 2026 18:33 UTC

335 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jenn.site)

To be well-calibrated is to be punctual

moridinamael25 Jan 2026 18:10 UTC

97 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

A tale of three theories: sparsity, frustration, and statistical field theory

Dmitry Vaintrob25 Jan 2026 18:09 UTC

63 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Reinventing the wheel

dr_s25 Jan 2026 11:56 UTC

29 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Critique of machine unlearning

myyycroft25 Jan 2026 10:50 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Towards Sub-agent Dynamics and Conflict

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez25 Jan 2026 5:27 UTC

13 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

The Virtual Mother-in-Law

Priyanka Bharadwaj25 Jan 2026 5:14 UTC

16 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Declining Marginal Costs of Alienation

KellerScholl25 Jan 2026 4:40 UTC

18 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(keller.substack.com)

Structure and function of the hippocampal CA3 module

Devin Ward25 Jan 2026 1:57 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What’s a good methodology for “is Trump unusual about executive overreach / institution erosion / corruption?”

Raemon and Elizabeth

25 Jan 2026 1:35 UTC

53 points

60 comments3 min readLW link

Clawed Abode: Claude Code is Too Cloudy

Brendan Long25 Jan 2026 0:15 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Skill: cognitive black box flight recorder

TsviBT24 Jan 2026 22:54 UTC

33 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

In Defense of Memorization

David Goodman24 Jan 2026 22:49 UTC

24 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

Thinking from the Other Side: Should I Wash My Hair with Shampoo?

R0sberg24 Jan 2026 22:47 UTC

6 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Small language models hallucinate knowing something’s off.

Toheed24 Jan 2026 22:46 UTC

12 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

IABIED Book Review: Core Arguments and Counterarguments

Stephen McAleese24 Jan 2026 14:25 UTC

95 points

39 comments25 min readLW link

The Global AI Dataset (GAID) Project: From Closing Research Gaps to Building Responsible and Trustworthy AI

Jason Hung24 Jan 2026 3:23 UTC

8 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

A Black Box Made Less Opaque (part 1)

Matthew McDonnell24 Jan 2026 3:20 UTC

12 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

A Simple Method for Accelerating Grokking

Joshua Fonseca Rivera24 Jan 2026 3:19 UTC

14 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Who is choosing your preferences- You or your Mind?

shanzson24 Jan 2026 3:17 UTC

0 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

How I Used Methodable to Have a Nice Tuesday

dnsosebee24 Jan 2026 2:57 UTC

4 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

AI X-Risk Bottleneck = Advocacy?

fortytwo24 Jan 2026 2:52 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Every Benchmark is Broken

Jonathan Gabor24 Jan 2026 2:42 UTC

102 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(jonathanpgabor.substack.com)

Thousand Year Old Advice on Relinquishing Control to AI

Dom Polsinelli24 Jan 2026 2:20 UTC

−3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(dompols.substack.com)

AI Must Learn to Police Itself

savant23 Jan 2026 22:39 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Condensation & Relevance

abramdemski23 Jan 2026 22:21 UTC

39 points

0 comments5 min readLW link