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Attach Yourself to the Right Person, and You’ll Go Far (a nerdy poem about bugs)

Character#273615 Feb 2026 23:36 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Model multitasking: Can a model learn two different tasks simultaneously through Grokking?

arcee18315 Feb 2026 23:06 UTC

7 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Phantom Transfer and the Basic Science of Data Poisoning

draganover, Tolga H. Dur, Andi Bhongade and Mary Phuong

15 Feb 2026 19:51 UTC

82 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Should anyone’s “analysis” of extremely complex systems, such as geopolitics, be taken seriously? or, Does anyone take a 5 year old’s “analysis” of decently complex systems, like big city politics, seriously?

M. Y. Zuo15 Feb 2026 18:44 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Painless Activation Steering

Sasha Cui15 Feb 2026 17:49 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

PieArena: Language Agents Negotiating Against Yale MBAs

Sasha Cui15 Feb 2026 17:45 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

The Missing Sequence: Why Correct Analysis Makes Terrible Action Guides

Florian_Dietz15 Feb 2026 17:24 UTC

15 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

The Friendly Telepath Problems

Gunnar_Zarncke15 Feb 2026 15:08 UTC

31 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

Were witches infertile mentally ill women?

Yair Halberstadt15 Feb 2026 13:20 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Contra Alexander’s Half-Defence of Bio Anchors

J Bostock15 Feb 2026 13:08 UTC

38 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Realizability for Finite State Reactive Agents

Vardhan15 Feb 2026 11:38 UTC

10 points

4 comments28 min readLW link

Words That Belong to Someone

Wen Xing15 Feb 2026 5:53 UTC

17 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

It’s Not That Hard to Build Recursively Self-Improving AI

Charlie Sanders15 Feb 2026 4:35 UTC

11 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 48 - Guive Assadi on AI Property Rights

DanielFilan15 Feb 2026 2:20 UTC

22 points

0 comments75 min readLW link

Another short critique of the Anthropic “Hot Mess” paper

i_am_nuts15 Feb 2026 1:38 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(iamnuts.substack.com)

Inoculation Prompting: Open Questions and My Research Priorities

henryc15 Feb 2026 0:16 UTC

12 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

sunsbeams

Jared M.14 Feb 2026 21:19 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Immortality: A Beginner’s Guide (Part 1)

MarkelKori14 Feb 2026 21:17 UTC

17 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

The Worthy Inheritor

Bridgett Kay14 Feb 2026 19:10 UTC

−1 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(dxmrevealed.wordpress.com)

A multi-level postmortem of how our whole house got badly poisoned

Lucie Philippon14 Feb 2026 16:11 UTC

76 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(aelerinya.substack.com)

LLMs struggle to verbalize their internal reasoning

Emil Ryd14 Feb 2026 15:32 UTC

50 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Deliberate Epistemic Uncertainty: An Automated Experiment on AI Self-Reporting

Florian_Dietz14 Feb 2026 15:13 UTC

13 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

LessWrong Is Sleeping On Internet Culture Analysis – And So Is The Rest Of The Web

Bowl of Cereal14 Feb 2026 14:58 UTC

−3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Beloved by Chatbots

Ben14 Feb 2026 12:12 UTC

22 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse

Martin Sustrik14 Feb 2026 6:30 UTC

289 points

52 comments8 min readLW link

(www.250bpm.com)

Ads, Incentives, and Destiny

Against Moloch14 Feb 2026 5:41 UTC

31 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(againstmoloch.com)

Why I’m Worried About Job Loss + Thoughts on Comparative Advantage

claywren13 Feb 2026 23:36 UTC

62 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

METR Time Horizons: Now 10x/Year

johncrox13 Feb 2026 23:01 UTC

28 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Use more text than one token to avoid neuralese

Jude Stiel13 Feb 2026 21:09 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information

Zack_M_Davis13 Feb 2026 18:51 UTC

56 points

11 comments12 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

OpenClaw Newsletter

Jacobson13 Feb 2026 17:59 UTC

2 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

ChatGPT-5.3-Codex Is Also Good At Coding

Zvi13 Feb 2026 16:20 UTC

45 points

2 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Replication of Koorndijk (2025): Differential Compliance May Reflect Prompt Sensitivity Rather Than Strategic Reasoning

Chijioke Ugwuanyi and TerryJCZhang

13 Feb 2026 16:12 UTC

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Towards an objective test of Compassion—Turning an abstract test into a collection of nuances

tailcalled13 Feb 2026 15:03 UTC

12 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(Updated) METR’s data can’t distinguish between trajectories (and 80% horizons are an order of magnitude off)

Jonas Moss13 Feb 2026 14:05 UTC

28 points

10 comments10 min readLW link

We Die Because it’s a Computational Necessity

E.G. Blee-Goldman13 Feb 2026 13:16 UTC

2 points

3 comments22 min readLW link

Hazardous States and Accidents

kqr13 Feb 2026 13:02 UTC

4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(entropicthoughts.com)

Systemic Risks and Where to Find Them

Jonas Hallgren13 Feb 2026 10:51 UTC

14 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(equilibria1.substack.com)

Nick Bostrom: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence

Julian Bradshaw13 Feb 2026 7:33 UTC

8 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(nickbostrom.com)

Why You Don’t Believe in Xhosa Prophecies

Jan_Kulveit13 Feb 2026 2:25 UTC

265 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Gemini’s Hypothetical Present

jefftk13 Feb 2026 2:20 UTC

101 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

I Tried to Trick Myself into Being a Better Planner & Problem Solver

CstineSublime13 Feb 2026 0:25 UTC

7 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Grading AI 2027′s 2025 Predictions

Daniel Kokotajlo and elifland

13 Feb 2026 0:18 UTC

64 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

(blog.ai-futures.org)

Long-term risks from ideological fanaticism

David Althaus, Jamie_Harris, Vanessa Sarre, Clare and _will_

12 Feb 2026 23:26 UTC

99 points

12 comments84 min readLW link

(Re)Discovering Natural Laws

Margot12 Feb 2026 21:45 UTC

13 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

An Ontology of Representations: Limits of Universality

Margot12 Feb 2026 21:43 UTC

23 points

1 comment39 min readLW link

A Closer Look at the “Societies of Thought” Paper

Against Moloch12 Feb 2026 21:38 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(againstmoloch.com)

models have some pretty funny attractor states

aryaj, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

12 Feb 2026 21:14 UTC

275 points

38 comments18 min readLW link

Stay in your human loop

benjamin ar12 Feb 2026 21:05 UTC

22 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(bjar.substack.com)

The case for industrial evals

Andre Assis and Monte M

12 Feb 2026 20:45 UTC

16 points

0 comments23 min readLW link