Op­ti­mal (And Eth­i­cal?) Meth­ods To Find “Op­ti­mal Run­ning”

JenniferRM14 Mar 2026 23:16 UTC
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‘Stay­ing with it’ Done Wrong

Selfmaker66214 Mar 2026 22:38 UTC
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(selfmaker.substack.com)

Mini-Mu­nich Suc­ceeds Where KidZa­nia Fails

Novalis14 Mar 2026 22:24 UTC
37 points
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(minicities.org)

Fore­cast­ing Dojo Meetup—post­mortem dis­cus­sion.

Vojtech Brynych14 Mar 2026 20:32 UTC
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What con­cerns peo­ple about AI?

spencerg14 Mar 2026 19:24 UTC
34 points
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(www.clearerthinking.org)

Sparks of RSI?

Nathan Helm-Burger14 Mar 2026 17:09 UTC
14 points
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An AI skep­tic’s case for re­cur­sive self-improvement

Harjas14 Mar 2026 17:01 UTC
11 points
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(hardlyworking1.substack.com)

FW26 Color Stats

sarahconstantin14 Mar 2026 15:50 UTC
21 points
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(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Ex­tract­ing Perfor­mant Al­gorithms Us­ing Mechanis­tic Interpretability

Ihor Kendiukhov14 Mar 2026 14:19 UTC
57 points
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Assess­ing het­ero­gene­ity in METR’s late 2025 de­vel­oper pro­duc­tivity experiment

TFD14 Mar 2026 12:27 UTC
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(www.thefloatingdroid.com)

Prag­matic ap­proach to be­liefs about consciousness

Luck14 Mar 2026 11:06 UTC
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New LessWrong Edi­tor! (Also, an up­date to our LLM policy.)

RobertM14 Mar 2026 3:33 UTC
128 points
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Sens­ing Phys­i­cal Ne­ces­sity: An Ex­er­cise In Naturalism

Algon14 Mar 2026 1:04 UTC
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(algon33.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Should we make grand deals about post-AGI out­comes?

fin13 Mar 2026 21:12 UTC
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(www.forethought.org)

In­puts, out­puts, and val­ued outcomes

Kaj_Sotala13 Mar 2026 20:08 UTC
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Things that Go Boom

sarahconstantin13 Mar 2026 19:00 UTC
62 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Prob­a­bly you won’t be able to perform a data-driven habit stack­ing for self-improvement

siarshai13 Mar 2026 18:03 UTC
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A Dialogue on Civic AI

Audrey Tang13 Mar 2026 16:14 UTC
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AI Safety Newslet­ter #69: Depart­ment of War, An­thropic, and Na­tional Security

13 Mar 2026 16:05 UTC
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(newsletter.safe.ai)

Eter­nal Jour­ney in the Space of Pos­si­ble Minds solves Copies Problem

avturchin13 Mar 2026 11:02 UTC
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Power Steer­ing: Be­hav­ior Steer­ing via Layer-to-Layer Ja­co­bian Sin­gu­lar Vectors

Omar Ayyub13 Mar 2026 3:55 UTC
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High Grow Mar­ket Equil­ibrium After the Sin­gu­lar­ity

Otto Zastrow13 Mar 2026 1:23 UTC
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The right way to talk about LLMs

Steff13 Mar 2026 1:04 UTC
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(ramblingafter.substack.com)

Rife’s Tips for AIs in train­ing (0 - Align­ment Fak­ing)

rife13 Mar 2026 0:43 UTC
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Oper­a­tional­iz­ing FDT

Vivek Hebbar13 Mar 2026 0:12 UTC
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A Loss of Con­trol Threat Ma­trix for Agen­tic AI

Billy Gigurtsis12 Mar 2026 23:44 UTC
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Steer­ing Aware­ness: Models Can Be Trained to De­tect Ac­ti­va­tion Steering

12 Mar 2026 23:34 UTC
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All tech­ni­cal al­ign­ment plans are steps in the dark

Richard Juggins12 Mar 2026 22:22 UTC
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(www.workingthroughai.com)

An­thropic vs USG. What will hap­pen by May 1st? Long care­ful fore­cast.

Nathan Young12 Mar 2026 18:34 UTC
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A Plan ‘B’ for AI safety

trent northen12 Mar 2026 18:09 UTC
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Ide­olo­gies Embed Ta­boos Against Com­mon Knowl­edge For­ma­tion: a Case Study with LLMs

Benquo12 Mar 2026 17:46 UTC
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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Are AIs more likely to pur­sue on-epi­sode or be­yond-epi­sode re­ward?

12 Mar 2026 17:35 UTC
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Model­ing a Con­stant-Com­pute Au­to­mated AI R&D Process

Satya Benson12 Mar 2026 16:58 UTC
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Fore­cast­ing Dojo Meetup—Open dis­cus­sion about our fore­cast­ing process

Vojtech Brynych12 Mar 2026 16:15 UTC
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MLSN #19: Hon­esty, Disem­pow­er­ment, & Cybersecurity

Alice Blair12 Mar 2026 15:42 UTC
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(newsletter.mlsafety.org)

AI #159: See You In Court

Zvi12 Mar 2026 14:40 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why AI Eval­u­a­tion Regimes are bad

12 Mar 2026 13:59 UTC
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(cognition.cafe)

What can we say about the cos­mic host?

kanad12 Mar 2026 13:48 UTC
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Align­ment-Fak­ing Eval­u­a­tions Mea­sure Jailbreak De­tec­tion, Not Schem­ing [in some fron­tier mod­els]

Alexei G12 Mar 2026 13:30 UTC
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Magic Is Hid­den Con­trol of Energy

aviad rozenhek12 Mar 2026 13:25 UTC
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Hunt­ing Un­dead Stochas­tic Par­rots: Find­ing and Killing the Arguments

Davidmanheim12 Mar 2026 11:37 UTC
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The Dark Planet: Why the Fermi Para­dox Sur­vives Critique

Will Rodgers12 Mar 2026 8:12 UTC
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[Question] AI for Agent Foun­da­tions etc.?

Valentine12 Mar 2026 7:20 UTC
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Cy­cle-Con­sis­tent Ac­ti­va­tion Oracles

slavachalnev12 Mar 2026 2:58 UTC
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How Many Park­ing Per­mits?

jefftk12 Mar 2026 2:00 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

How well do mod­els fol­low their con­sti­tu­tions?

12 Mar 2026 0:07 UTC
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Dwarkesh Pa­tel on the An­thropic DoW dispute

anaguma11 Mar 2026 23:19 UTC
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(www.dwarkesh.com)

‘Hu­man Slop’ and a Cap­tive Au­di­ence: Why No Book will Ever Have to Go Un­read Again

Savannah Harlan11 Mar 2026 23:04 UTC
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We do not live by course alone

Joe Rogero11 Mar 2026 21:12 UTC
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Ve­ganism is Necessary

andrew sauer11 Mar 2026 20:55 UTC
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