The Long (Self-)Correction

Wei Dai24 Jul 2026 21:01 UTC
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Why PauseAI UK ac­cepts anony­mous donations

24 Jul 2026 20:37 UTC
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Seek­ing Men­tees for the Sen­tient Fu­tures Pro­ject Incubator

BrodyM24 Jul 2026 19:52 UTC
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In­tent Is All You Need.

Not Sure24 Jul 2026 19:52 UTC
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Congress Moves at Tech Pace: The FRONTIER Act

dan.parshall24 Jul 2026 19:34 UTC
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Stable Sys­tems Have Stable Outputs

Deixis24 Jul 2026 19:21 UTC
5 points
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The AI In­dus­trial Ex­plo­sion — Part 5: Given AGI, au­tomat­ing phys­i­cal pro­duc­tion is prob­a­bly not that hard

djbinder24 Jul 2026 19:15 UTC
29 points
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(defensesindepth.bio)

Where does hint-fol­low­ing and con­ceal­ment arise? A case study on OLMo-3 checkpoints

24 Jul 2026 19:14 UTC
24 points
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In­tro­duc­ing Light­cone Commons

Zvi24 Jul 2026 17:21 UTC
35 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Should we be wor­ried about how good AI is get­ting at cod­ing au­tonomous drones?

Lukas Petersson24 Jul 2026 16:44 UTC
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Coeffi­cient Giv­ing just gave GiveWell $1 billion. Where should other donors give now?

jackultraphil24 Jul 2026 15:40 UTC
4 points
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(fundinganthropalypse.com)

LLMs are (still) mostly pow­ered by imi­ta­tive learn­ing, not RL

Steven Byrnes24 Jul 2026 14:26 UTC
239 points
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Democ­racy isn’t ready for the AI revolution

Sophia Gore24 Jul 2026 14:17 UTC
25 points
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Does dis­till­ing Claude carry the per­sona with it?

24 Jul 2026 12:31 UTC
43 points
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Ge­or­gia Tech AI Safety Ini­ti­a­tive Ret­ro­spec­tive 2025-2026

24 Jul 2026 11:55 UTC
61 points
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[Linkpost] Thoughts on the Re­cent OpenAI Hack

Linch24 Jul 2026 1:51 UTC
19 points
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Should OpenAI’s rogue agent be pun­ished?

groblegark24 Jul 2026 1:20 UTC
1 point
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Eval­u­at­ing Red Team and Blue Team Ca­pa­bil­ity for AI Con­trol Research

Ram Potham24 Jul 2026 1:11 UTC
11 points
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(dearfutureais.substack.com)

Fix­ing re­wards for NLA to re­duce confabulation

SEONG PYO HONG24 Jul 2026 0:55 UTC
8 points
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An­thropic’s J-Lens: A Re­search Eng­ineer’s Analysis

willkn24 Jul 2026 0:54 UTC
8 points
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Pul­ling the Fire Alarm

nem23 Jul 2026 23:14 UTC
86 points
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Con­tra Ge­orge Hotz on “AI 2040 and the Cult of In­tel­li­gence”

Matthew Tromp23 Jul 2026 22:43 UTC
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(substack.com)

The Model Or­ganism Lot­tery: Model Or­ganism In­ter­pretabil­ity Strongly Depends on Train­ing Methodology

23 Jul 2026 22:37 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

vibes-based think­ing as a cul­tural re­sponse to un­knowns

madelineberzak23 Jul 2026 22:35 UTC
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Why an LLM can­not ac­cu­mu­late concepts

Zenya23 Jul 2026 21:40 UTC
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Red-team­ing LLM un­learn­ing: LUNAR’s “for­got­ten” knowl­edge is still recoverable

Diksha Gupta23 Jul 2026 21:39 UTC
10 points
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In­cep­tion in Diffu­sionGemma—Jailbreak­ing a Diffu­sion Lan­guage Model by Pin­ning To­kens Any­where on the Canvas

23 Jul 2026 21:39 UTC
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ACX At­lanta Au­gust Meetup

Steve French23 Jul 2026 21:31 UTC
2 points
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Not Pin­ning Your OpenRouter Provider Might In­val­i­date Your Research

Matthew Khoriaty23 Jul 2026 20:17 UTC
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Pseudpocalypse

dynomight23 Jul 2026 20:09 UTC
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Es­ti­mat­ing LLM Train­ing FLOPs on the Nvidia Jet­son Orin Nano

William Fowler23 Jul 2026 19:52 UTC
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Light­cone Commons

habryka23 Jul 2026 18:35 UTC
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Challenge: Hand cod­ing weights for effi­cient se­quence memorisation

23 Jul 2026 18:05 UTC
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AI Re­searchers Don’t Un­der­stand the State

Alex Amadori23 Jul 2026 17:58 UTC
3 points
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(x.com)

The OpenAI/​Hug­ging­face in­ci­dent | Red­wood Re­search pod­cast epi­sode 2

23 Jul 2026 17:56 UTC
85 points
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V&V takes on OpenAI’s long-hori­zon incidents

Yoav Hollander23 Jul 2026 16:51 UTC
22 points
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(blog.foretellix.com)

Duane Arnold

Tomás B.23 Jul 2026 16:17 UTC
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In­tro­duc­ing Im­pact List: a rank­ing of peo­ple by the ex­pected value of their donations

Elliot_Olds23 Jul 2026 15:27 UTC
12 points
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Want­ing Crooked Lines

Davey Morse23 Jul 2026 14:33 UTC
13 points
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(3/​3) The Dangers of ASI

Eigenbraid23 Jul 2026 13:32 UTC
10 points
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AI #178: A Fire Alarm For Gen­eral Intelligence

Zvi23 Jul 2026 13:21 UTC
41 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Math­e­mat­i­ci­ans are Feel­ing the Doom

alkjash23 Jul 2026 13:16 UTC
192 points
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Sleep­ing Beauty as a Mind Killer

avturchin23 Jul 2026 11:04 UTC
9 points
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Get You a Model: If You’re Not Pay­ing, You’re Miss­ing 90% Of Improvements

Czynski23 Jul 2026 4:16 UTC
7 points
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(dangeroussincerity.substack.com)

Are we ex­is­ten­tially threat­ened by the type of AI mis­al­ign­ment seen in the OpenAI Hug­ging Face at­tack?

23 Jul 2026 3:40 UTC
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Ne­ces­sity Pro­tects Chain of Thought Mon­i­tor­ing by Preven­tion, Not Disclosure

Ankit Sanjyal23 Jul 2026 2:51 UTC
7 points
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After 3000 hours of med­i­ta­tion I’m con­vinced multi-agent mod­els of mind are just true

Arram Sabeti23 Jul 2026 2:50 UTC
2 points
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(arram.substack.com)

LLMOSES

Davey Morse23 Jul 2026 2:35 UTC
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Read­ing Dudley and Jac­queline’s Barn Dance Book

jefftk23 Jul 2026 2:21 UTC
12 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

A Multi-Agent Ex­ten­sion for Petri

carissacullen22 Jul 2026 21:51 UTC
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