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When There Are No Experts

J Bostock25 Aug 2026 22:47 UTC

51 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Integrated Strategic Forecasting: A New RAND x Metaculus Methodology

Molly and Metaculus

25 Aug 2026 20:05 UTC

22 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Sampura Research: Human-AI Complementarity for Alignment

Rishub Jain and Josh Jacob

25 Aug 2026 18:45 UTC

17 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(sampura.org)

On Writing #3

Zvi25 Aug 2026 17:50 UTC

98 points

11 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Reified Referent: How the Saturation View Values the Taste of Someone Who Does Not Exist

Ronen Bar25 Aug 2026 15:26 UTC

0 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

AI Alignment at Which Abstraction Level?

Adam Chlipala25 Aug 2026 12:37 UTC

5 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

The Forkmakers

Mikewins25 Aug 2026 1:23 UTC

95 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

An AI4Chemist’s perspective on biosecurity

Ana Leonescu25 Aug 2026 1:07 UTC

13 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(substack.com)

Magazine Fundraising

Elan Kluger25 Aug 2026 1:06 UTC

24 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Rogue AI Agents: Is Surface-Level Monitoring Enough?

Hariom Tatsat25 Aug 2026 1:05 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Dual-Layer Approach to Mitigating AI-Generated Biological Threats

greeshma ranjeev25 Aug 2026 1:02 UTC

7 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Your Evaluation’s Fake names Should Be Unclaimable ,Not Merely Used

Jaswanth Alkur25 Aug 2026 1:01 UTC

26 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

My AI Syllabus Policy

Vaughn Papenhausen24 Aug 2026 21:36 UTC

26 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(vaughnpapenhausen.substack.com)

PSA: We can do better

hersheys and Kaustubh Kislay

24 Aug 2026 21:05 UTC

127 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Distillation of the AI2040 Alignment Roadmap

Towards_Keeperhood24 Aug 2026 18:20 UTC

24 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

The American People Really Hate Data Centers

Zvi24 Aug 2026 18:10 UTC

31 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Where have organoids actually been useful?

Abhishaike Mahajan24 Aug 2026 18:01 UTC

32 points

0 comments19 min readLW link

AI Safety Acculturation is Neglected

jenn24 Aug 2026 15:08 UTC

250 points

61 comments5 min readLW link

Endorsing Burhan Azeem for State Senate

jefftk24 Aug 2026 12:10 UTC

23 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

beyarkay (Boyd Kane)24 Aug 2026 9:45 UTC

72 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(boydkane.com)

I Can Still Hear You Sayin’

LoopGameScrollMonkey24 Aug 2026 5:21 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

What just happened? Pragmatism and Pessimization

Richard_Ngo24 Aug 2026 2:03 UTC

472 points

176 comments27 min readLW link

In search of natural features

Dmitry Vaintrob23 Aug 2026 22:15 UTC

54 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

PSA: There’s a third option in the “measure problem”

Elias Schmied23 Aug 2026 16:41 UTC

48 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

Utilities as Legendre duals of probabilities

Fernando Rosas23 Aug 2026 16:26 UTC

69 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

Twenty Years from RSI to Takeoff: Slow Learning, Scaling Slowdown, Industrial Explosion

Vladimir_Nesov23 Aug 2026 12:55 UTC

158 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

How to overhaul the broken review system

RobinHa23 Aug 2026 9:14 UTC

19 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

A Generalist Thinks in Terms of Problems, Not Job Descriptions

Roman Ross23 Aug 2026 7:53 UTC

13 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Prompt Sufficiency: A Missive for the Managerial Class

KAP23 Aug 2026 3:08 UTC

6 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

When does an LLM’s model of you affect its behaviour?

Cat McGee23 Aug 2026 2:45 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Claude and Performative Uncertainty

Stephen Martin22 Aug 2026 19:43 UTC

15 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

When would you leave Anthropic? Notes from a chat with a capabilities researcher

TheManxLoiner22 Aug 2026 18:00 UTC

23 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(lovkush.substack.com)

Study 2 Registration: Exploring representational counterparts of welfare-relevant indicators under post-training quantization

ashesfall22 Aug 2026 18:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

“Farm strength” vs “breath awareness”

jimmy22 Aug 2026 17:30 UTC

54 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(beneathpsychology.com)

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

Luise Woehlke22 Aug 2026 15:45 UTC

19 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

The Instrumental Convergence of Crowds

julius vidal22 Aug 2026 13:20 UTC

11 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Humans Are Alignment Generators

James Stephen Brown22 Aug 2026 4:07 UTC

8 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Selection for Selectability: Inductive Biases in Evolution and in Neural Networks

CarolusRenniusVitellius22 Aug 2026 4:02 UTC

42 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

(charlesr-w.github.io)

Rogue Scalpel: Activation steering breaks refusal, even with benign directions

Alexey Dontsov21 Aug 2026 23:46 UTC

14 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

How the Sausage is Made—Why we Hate Slop

daniel_chernowitz21 Aug 2026 23:46 UTC

0 points

20 comments7 min readLW link

Content-based privilege: transformer residual streams stratify by proximity to the model’s own prediction

Nelson Guda21 Aug 2026 23:15 UTC

9 points

0 comments21 min readLW link

A J-Space-Based Metric for Model Valence: Defining the Metric, Testing, and Comparisons to Self-Reports

Arjun Rao21 Aug 2026 21:21 UTC

8 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Alignment fine-tuning induces conditional misalignment in Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct

Rhea Srivats21 Aug 2026 20:40 UTC

12 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

When is Unlimited Optimization Catastrophic?

Winter Cross21 Aug 2026 20:08 UTC

34 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good

Zvi21 Aug 2026 19:30 UTC

54 points

22 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Evaluating Explanations of LLM Behavior In The Wild with Counterfactual Experiments

Adam Karvonen, Euan Ong, Subhash Kantamneni and Sam Marks

21 Aug 2026 19:09 UTC

73 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

In Defense of ASI Socialism

cguth721 Aug 2026 18:40 UTC

8 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Misaligned AI in the Bronze Age

frmsaul21 Aug 2026 16:51 UTC

56 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

The imposters among us: function vectors that ace every check and do the wrong task (in search of circularity)

star2vec21 Aug 2026 15:54 UTC

7 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

When Models Identify as a Swarm

julius vidal21 Aug 2026 11:49 UTC

68 points

5 comments5 min readLW link