Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

gwern17 Jun 2026 3:21 UTC

157 points

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(gwern.net)

Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models

Anders Cairns Woodruff, Francis Rhys Ward, Dewi Gould, Rauno Arike, Jason R Brown, Jo Jiao, wlanderson, ariana_azarbal, harrymayne, Patrick Leask, Twm Stone, Josh Hills, Ida Caspary, Shubhorup Biswas and Julian Stastny

10 Jun 2026 17:58 UTC

265 points

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Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety

Zephaniah Roe29 May 2026 4:08 UTC

261 points

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Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes

Brinedew28 May 2026 22:16 UTC

346 points

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Models finding software vulnerabilities is not the primary source of cybersecurity risk

lc14 May 2026 3:39 UTC

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Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology)

Steven Byrnes11 May 2026 17:48 UTC

188 points

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Bad Problems Don’t Stop Being Bad Because Somebody’s Wrong About Fault Analysis

Linch9 May 2026 1:30 UTC

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x-risk-themed

kave6 May 2026 15:16 UTC

246 points

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(kaverennedy.substack.com)

Irretrievability; or, Murphy’s Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 May 2026 22:11 UTC

367 points

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How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI

Ashe Vazquez Nuñez1 May 2026 23:24 UTC

708 points

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llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)

nostalgebraist29 Apr 2026 3:53 UTC

345 points

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Do not conquer what you cannot defend

habryka16 Apr 2026 4:13 UTC

424 points

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Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me

ryan_greenblatt15 Apr 2026 15:14 UTC

710 points

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Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them

Raemon13 Apr 2026 17:35 UTC

306 points

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What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half

ozymandias13 Apr 2026 16:47 UTC

445 points

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(ozybrennan.substack.com)

Morale

J Bostock12 Apr 2026 20:15 UTC

312 points

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The Practical Guide to Superbabies

GeneSmith2 Apr 2026 17:02 UTC

214 points

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Intelligence Dissolves Privacy

Vaniver2 Apr 2026 3:50 UTC

164 points

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My hobby: running deranged surveys

leogao27 Mar 2026 0:41 UTC

312 points

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The Terrarium

Caleb Biddulph26 Mar 2026 18:08 UTC

585 points

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