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LessOnline 2026

nomagicpill9 Jun 2026 23:24 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(nomagicpill.substack.com)

“Programmer Science Fiction: My case for a new sub-genre”, Sam T. Oates 2026

gwern9 Jun 2026 23:23 UTC

47 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(stoates.substack.com)

The Disutility of FDT: on Utility Functions and Voting, Insights from Behavioral Economics and Decision Theory

DanielW9 Jun 2026 23:13 UTC

5 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Three Labs With a Plan and A Memorandum

Zvi9 Jun 2026 22:40 UTC

45 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Harmfulness Directions in OLMo

Daniele Pace, Bryan Maruyama and LorenzoPacchiardi

9 Jun 2026 22:31 UTC

20 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

“Self-Control” Is A (Neurological) Type Error

Elliot Callender9 Jun 2026 21:34 UTC

−6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Towards a Formal Scientific Epistemology

Richard_Ngo9 Jun 2026 20:31 UTC

75 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

Some Interesting Papers on RLVR

CarolusRenniusVitellius9 Jun 2026 19:00 UTC

20 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

A Mike’s-Eye View of ARC’s Research

Mikewins9 Jun 2026 18:30 UTC

64 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

An LLM Flagged My Paper About LLMs Flagging Things.

Failfinder709 Jun 2026 18:00 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Skeptic, the Bayesian, Empiricism and Claims to Know:

DanielW9 Jun 2026 17:52 UTC

4 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 [Linkpost]

fluxxrider9 Jun 2026 17:19 UTC

42 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

5 Things I Learned About People From Doing Stand-Up Comedy

Luise Woehlke9 Jun 2026 15:52 UTC

−4 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

The Machines Lack Honour

Raymond Douglas9 Jun 2026 15:30 UTC

169 points

21 comments12 min readLW link

High Dynamic Range DIY Air Testing

jefftk9 Jun 2026 15:00 UTC

13 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AI Super PAC tracker

Mikhail Samin9 Jun 2026 14:57 UTC

26 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(electhumans.com)

[Linkpost] Evals for “SPI-incompatible” behavior & reasoning: Guide to initial research

Anthony DiGiovanni9 Jun 2026 13:44 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Subversion-Resistance for Free from Formal Verification

Adam Chlipala9 Jun 2026 12:01 UTC

7 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

LLMs and almost good code

kqr9 Jun 2026 7:21 UTC

33 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

(entropicthoughts.com)

On Slop

Jan9 Jun 2026 1:08 UTC

32 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

How to build a cancer vaccine, and whether they will work this time

Abhishaike Mahajan8 Jun 2026 20:45 UTC

58 points

9 comments25 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

Efficient tradeoffs and the safety-usefulness tradeoff model

Buck8 Jun 2026 20:28 UTC

42 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Accelerated Skill Learning via Dream Engineering and Biofeedback

Elliot Callender8 Jun 2026 20:08 UTC

5 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

How valuable are weak AI safety regulations?

MichaelDickens8 Jun 2026 18:24 UTC

28 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

How to reduce capability degradation from off-model SFT

Dylan Xu, SebastianP and Alek Westover

8 Jun 2026 16:24 UTC

21 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Next Swan: Frank Ramsey, Variable Hypotheticals, and the Bet on Induction

Ramseyian8 Jun 2026 12:01 UTC

4 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Coverage-driven alignment—What ‘Teaching Claude Why’ can borrow from AV verification

Yoav Hollander8 Jun 2026 11:42 UTC

16 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

(blog.foretellix.com)

Bun’s Migration from Zig to Rust as a Potential Case Study for Gradual Disempowerment

Sayhan Yalvaçer8 Jun 2026 7:06 UTC

96 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Contra Dance at LessOnline

jefftk8 Jun 2026 5:50 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Honking is good

PossiblyElaine8 Jun 2026 4:36 UTC

9 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

The CIA believes everything

volpe8 Jun 2026 0:43 UTC

22 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(volpe.envs.net)

How do people stop spiraling about Roko’s Basilisk & acausal extortion?

anon2028 Jun 2026 0:39 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Contextual Identity Laundering: How Claude’s Image Refusal Can Be Routed Through Web Search

Failfinder708 Jun 2026 0:39 UTC

7 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Mental causation is not load-bearing

jessicata7 Jun 2026 20:43 UTC

38 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

How Far Apart Does a Model Think Its Tokens Are?

Brendan Long7 Jun 2026 20:20 UTC

47 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Autopilot Thinking

XelaP7 Jun 2026 20:20 UTC

10 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Secret Loyalties Likely Raise Remote-Influenceability

Kaustubh Kislay7 Jun 2026 17:51 UTC

13 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

From One Piece to One Pace - Vision and mission in coordination of agents

a unemployed pastor- de S Brito7 Jun 2026 17:07 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Neglected Basics of AI Alignment

Quirinus_Quirrell7 Jun 2026 9:02 UTC

28 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

The Hats of LessOnline

AprilSR7 Jun 2026 8:57 UTC

15 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(aprilsr.substack.com)

Can activation verbalizers surface an internal chain of thought?

oakhu and ryan_greenblatt

7 Jun 2026 4:24 UTC

122 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

Frontier Models Still Lag Behind Humans at Robust Belief-State Tracking

Lukas Frei6 Jun 2026 23:54 UTC

13 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Coming Around To Political Donations

jefftk6 Jun 2026 21:30 UTC

59 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Analysis of Metastable States in the Transformer Activation Space

Zach Baker6 Jun 2026 21:30 UTC

10 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

The Diamond Lemma

Isaac Newton6 Jun 2026 21:15 UTC

21 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(archimedeanmonoid.substack.com)

Iliad is Hiring

Peter Jean6 Jun 2026 21:08 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Against Corrigibility

peralice6 Jun 2026 20:28 UTC

66 points

17 comments12 min readLW link

The Residual Stream Has a Geometry of Time

Fodenthal6 Jun 2026 19:57 UTC

23 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Exponential Solitude

PeterMaui6 Jun 2026 19:49 UTC

5 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Freud heard a rumor that Science existed, and had a wonderful dream

Bruce Middleton6 Jun 2026 14:47 UTC

8 points

8 comments6 min readLW link