How Ar­tic­u­late Are the Whales?

rba28 Jan 2026 21:24 UTC
73 points
26 comments6 min readLW link
(goflaw.substack.com)

The Her­i­tage Foun­da­tion’s Every­thing Bagel

Alexander Turok28 Jan 2026 20:14 UTC
6 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

You Are Here: His­tor­i­cal Con­text for Un­prece­dented Times

Hazard28 Jan 2026 20:13 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Uncer­tain Up­dates: Jan­uary 2026

Gordon Seidoh Worley28 Jan 2026 18:10 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.uncertainupdates.com)

Made a game that tries to in­cen­tivize qual­ity think­ing & writ­ing, look­ing for feedback

sleno28 Jan 2026 18:02 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(argyu.fun)

Is the Gell-Mann effect over­rated?

tgb28 Jan 2026 15:58 UTC
16 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

My sim­ple ar­gu­ment for AI policy action

TFD28 Jan 2026 15:07 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(www.thefloatingdroid.com)

Open Prob­lems With Claude’s Constitution

Zvi28 Jan 2026 14:20 UTC
75 points
1 comment24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The State of Brain Emu­la­tion Re­port 2025 launched.

mschons28 Jan 2026 11:02 UTC
14 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Con­tra Sam Har­ris on Free Will

Julius28 Jan 2026 7:17 UTC
20 points
7 comments36 min readLW link
(thegreymatter.substack.com)

The Ar­gu­ment for Autonomy

Character#273628 Jan 2026 5:10 UTC
−4 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Gym-Like En­vi­ron­ment for LM Truth-Seeking

Tianyi (Alex) Qiu28 Jan 2026 4:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

Ano­ma­lous To­kens on Gem­ini 3.0 Pro

DirectedEvolution28 Jan 2026 1:43 UTC
55 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing how our AI timelines fore­casts have changed since AI 2027

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?

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)