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Words Are A Leaky Abstraction

sonicrocketman16 Feb 2026 22:20 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

(brianschrader.com)

Correlation Does in Fact Imply Causation

KaseyMarkel16 Feb 2026 21:17 UTC

5 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Sealed Predictions—A Solution.

george_is_thinking16 Feb 2026 20:59 UTC

11 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Memory Decoding Journal Club: The Songbird as a Model for the Generation and Learning of Complex Sequential Behaviors

Devin Ward16 Feb 2026 20:46 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Contra Caplan on higher education

Richard_Ngo16 Feb 2026 20:43 UTC

55 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

Will reward-seekers respond to distant incentives?

Alex Mallen16 Feb 2026 19:35 UTC

57 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What’s Your P(WEIRD)?

RogerDearnaley16 Feb 2026 18:19 UTC

27 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Estimating METR Time Horizons for Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex (xhigh)

CharlesD16 Feb 2026 18:14 UTC

33 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Charlatan Labyrinth

niplav16 Feb 2026 17:56 UTC

16 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Jailbreaking is Empirical Evidence for Inner Misalignment and Against Alignment by Default

Jérémy Andréoletti16 Feb 2026 17:49 UTC

51 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Break Stasis

Oldmanrahul16 Feb 2026 17:33 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(oldmanrahul.com)

LLM Self-Expression Through Music Videos

Josh Snider16 Feb 2026 17:09 UTC

14 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Towards A Happy Future With AI Employers

Lukas Petersson16 Feb 2026 17:00 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(andonlabs.com)

Persona Parasitology

Raymond Douglas16 Feb 2026 16:22 UTC

177 points

38 comments11 min readLW link

On Dwarkesh Patel’s 2026 Podcast With Dario Amodei

Zvi16 Feb 2026 14:30 UTC

42 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

WeirdML Time Horizons

Håvard Tveit Ihle16 Feb 2026 10:25 UTC

90 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2025

jefftk16 Feb 2026 10:00 UTC

15 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

building sqlite with a small swarm

kian16 Feb 2026 5:33 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(kiankyars.github.io)

My experience of the 2025 CFAR Workshop

Cookie penguin16 Feb 2026 3:33 UTC

83 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Cultivating Gardens

jenn and jas.

16 Feb 2026 1:40 UTC

28 points

1 comment22 min readLW link

The World Keeps Getting Saved and You Don’t Notice

Bogoed16 Feb 2026 1:01 UTC

210 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Most Observers Are Alone: The Fermi Paradox as Default

SE Gyges16 Feb 2026 0:52 UTC

29 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(segyges.leaflet.pub)

Aligning to Virtues

Richard_Ngo16 Feb 2026 0:37 UTC

93 points

36 comments4 min readLW link

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

18 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

32 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