How Go Play­ers Disem­power Them­selves to AI

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez1 May 2026 23:24 UTC
700 points
77 comments8 min readLW link

Early-stage em­piri­cal work on “spillway mo­ti­va­tions”

1 May 2026 21:29 UTC
26 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Ex­plo­ra­tion Hack­ing: Can LLMs Learn to Re­sist RL Train­ing?

1 May 2026 20:54 UTC
24 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Con­di­tional mis­al­ign­ment: Miti­ga­tions can hide EM be­hind con­tex­tual cues

1 May 2026 20:09 UTC
67 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

Am­bi­tious Mech In­terp w/​ Ten­sor-trans­form­ers on toy lan­guages [Pro­ject Pro­posal]

Logan Riggs1 May 2026 19:17 UTC
21 points
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Risk from fit­ness-seek­ing AIs: mechanisms and mitigations

Alex Mallen1 May 2026 17:42 UTC
107 points
0 comments32 min readLW link

Your four-di­men­sional body

PatrickDFarley1 May 2026 17:22 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Hous­ing Roundup #14: You Can’t Build That

Zvi1 May 2026 16:50 UTC
25 points
1 comment23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What do Rus­sian olympiad win­ners think of HPMOR? Our data

Mikhail Samin1 May 2026 13:28 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Hous­ing Roundup #13: More Dakka

Zvi1 May 2026 13:00 UTC
13 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Qualia are in­ter­nal vari­ables but they are taken from differ­ent realm

avturchin1 May 2026 10:43 UTC
9 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Open strate­gic ques­tions for digi­tal minds

lucius1 May 2026 9:56 UTC
26 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(outpaced.substack.com)

Juriscrip­tion: find­ing the medicines miss­ing somewhere

technicalities1 May 2026 9:55 UTC
29 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Self driv­ing interview

KatjaGrace1 May 2026 8:30 UTC
16 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

11 ways to be less deferential

KatjaGrace1 May 2026 8:00 UTC
22 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

San­ity-check­ing “In­com­press­ible Knowl­edge Probes”

1 May 2026 6:52 UTC
60 points
12 comments16 min readLW link

Inkhaven, the 548th metapost

Sean Herrington1 May 2026 6:49 UTC
1 point
1 comment3 min readLW link

Au­tomat­ing In­ter­pretabil­ity with Agents

1 May 2026 2:59 UTC
10 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Against In-Duct UV

jefftk1 May 2026 2:40 UTC
23 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Win­ners of the Man­i­fund Es­say Prize

Austin Chen1 May 2026 2:21 UTC
6 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(manifund.substack.com)

Reflec­tions on InkHaven

David Scott Krueger1 May 2026 0:50 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(therealartificialintelligence.substack.com)

Volition

evans-tim1 May 2026 0:20 UTC
−3 points
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AI risk was not in­vented by AI CEOs to hype their companies

KatjaGrace30 Apr 2026 23:10 UTC
60 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

How much should the ideal per­son cry wolf?

KatjaGrace30 Apr 2026 23:10 UTC
37 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Cam­bridge: the kettle

KatjaGrace30 Apr 2026 23:10 UTC
19 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

AI un­em­ploy­ment and AI ex­tinc­tion are of­ten the same

KatjaGrace30 Apr 2026 23:10 UTC
61 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

San Fran­cisco: self driving

KatjaGrace30 Apr 2026 23:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

SFF’s HSEE grant round; hu­man in­tel­li­gence am­plifi­ca­tion pro­jects I’d like to see

TsviBT30 Apr 2026 21:41 UTC
33 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

To what ex­tent is Qwen3-32B pre­dict­ing its per­sona?

30 Apr 2026 21:09 UTC
85 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

Pro­jects that might help ac­cel­er­ate strong reprogenetics

TsviBT30 Apr 2026 20:55 UTC
22 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing the ca­pa­bil­ities spike with METR’s time hori­zon data: no clear signal

Ben_Snodin30 Apr 2026 20:54 UTC
19 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bensnodin.com)

Align­ment Fak­ing in Deep­Seek V4

Amina Keldibek30 Apr 2026 20:23 UTC
23 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Up­com­ing Work­shop on Post-AGI Civ­i­liza­tional Equil­ibria

30 Apr 2026 19:51 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cy­borg evals

30 Apr 2026 17:31 UTC
33 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

AI #166: Google Sells Out

Zvi30 Apr 2026 15:40 UTC
33 points
2 comments55 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Copy­cat Inkhaven 2 retrospective

Dentosal30 Apr 2026 13:33 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Open in­tern­ship po­si­tion + call for col­lab­o­ra­tions on threat model-de­pen­dent al­ign­ment, gov­er­nance, and offense/​defense balance

otto.barten30 Apr 2026 12:40 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Maybe I was too harsh on deep learn­ing the­ory (three days ago)

LawrenceC30 Apr 2026 6:57 UTC
109 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

On to­day’s panel with Bernie Sanders

David Scott Krueger30 Apr 2026 5:00 UTC
199 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(therealartificialintelligence.substack.com)

Red vs blue: The parable of the feud within a feud

Joe Rogero30 Apr 2026 4:01 UTC
25 points
22 comments5 min readLW link
(subatomicarticles.com)

Scaf­fold­ing vs Re­in­force­ment Fine­tun­ing for AI Forecasting

Ram Potham30 Apr 2026 2:51 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

What Do You Mean by a Two-Year AGI Timeline?

Koby Lewis30 Apr 2026 1:58 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

No Strong Orthog­o­nal­ity From Selec­tion Pressure

lumpenspace30 Apr 2026 1:56 UTC
55 points
192 comments10 min readLW link

Com­pu­ta­tion in Su­per­po­si­tion: Two Hand­crafted Models

30 Apr 2026 0:58 UTC
17 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Re­search Sab­o­tage in ML Codebases

30 Apr 2026 0:26 UTC
62 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

The fall of the the­o­rem econ­omy (David Bes­sis)

Caleb Biddulph29 Apr 2026 19:35 UTC
32 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
(davidbessis.substack.com)

Probe-Based Data At­tri­bu­tion: Sur­fac­ing and Miti­gat­ing Un­de­sir­able Be­hav­iors in LLM Post-Training

29 Apr 2026 19:30 UTC
16 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Book re­view: The In­finity Machine

PeterMcCluskey29 Apr 2026 18:59 UTC
24 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Lorxus Does Bud­get Inkhaven Again: 04/​22~04/​28

Lorxus29 Apr 2026 17:07 UTC
6 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(tiled-with-pentagons.blogspot.com)

Poi­son­ing Fine-tun­ing Datasets of Con­sti­tu­tional Classifiers

29 Apr 2026 17:04 UTC
28 points
2 comments11 min readLW link
(alignment.anthropic.com)