27 Jan 2026 22:58 UTC

69 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(blog.ai-futures.org)

Bounty: Detecting Steganography via Ontology Translation

Elliot Callender27 Jan 2026 22:01 UTC

12 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Thoughts on Claude’s Constitution

Boaz Barak27 Jan 2026 20:51 UTC

62 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (while curl cancelled its bug bounty)

Stanislav Fort27 Jan 2026 20:21 UTC

359 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

The Chaos Defense

25Hour27 Jan 2026 18:51 UTC

−1 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(lifeimprovementschemes.substack.com)

Training on Non-Political but Trump-Style Text Causes LLMs to Become Authoritarian

Anders Cairns Woodruff27 Jan 2026 16:46 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

ML4Good Spring 2026 Bootcamps—Applications Open!

Jack_S27 Jan 2026 16:18 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Disagreement Comes From the Dark World

Zack_M_Davis27 Jan 2026 15:22 UTC

23 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

The Claude Constitution’s Ethical Framework

Zvi27 Jan 2026 15:00 UTC

58 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

My favourite version of an international AGI project

wdmacaskill27 Jan 2026 10:27 UTC

2 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Another glimpse of the Chinese AI scene: Z.AI

Mitchell_Porter27 Jan 2026 8:00 UTC

34 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Bologna February Meetup

Luca Petrolati27 Jan 2026 7:03 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Things I learned from reddit fashion

Elizabeth27 Jan 2026 4:10 UTC

47 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Exploratory: a steering vector in Gemma-2-2B-IT boosts context fidelity on subtraction, goes manic on addition

nika koghuashvili27 Jan 2026 2:25 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

It All Started With a Mac Mini

Steven McCulloch27 Jan 2026 2:01 UTC

27 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

The Window for Political Revolution is Closing Soon

koanchuk27 Jan 2026 0:23 UTC

24 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Thomas Schelling Appreciation Day

Optimization Process27 Jan 2026 0:04 UTC

17 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

147 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

74 points

12 comments29 min readLW link

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

Jacob_Hilton26 Jan 2026 17:30 UTC

181 points

7 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

55 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

13 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

2 comments12 min readLW link

Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance

Martin Sustrik26 Jan 2026 4:40 UTC

301 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

21 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

103 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

325 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

28 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Critique of machine unlearning

myyycroft25 Jan 2026 10:50 UTC

2 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

11 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Declining Marginal Costs of Alienation

Celer25 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