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Edward James Young

Karma: 480

Co-founder and Member of Technical Staff at Geodesic Research.

Previously UK AISI Misuse Red-team.

Toy Models of Ini­tial­i­sa­tion Effects on RL Dynamics

Edward James Young and lennie
14 Jul 2026 7:04 UTC
78 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Why study proto-train­ing gam­ing as an ad­ver­sar­ial al­ign­ment failure mode?

Puria, Edward James Young and Cam
8 Jul 2026 17:07 UTC
55 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Why study al­ign­ment in­ter­ven­tions on pre-RL check­points?

Edward James Young, Puria and Cam
8 Jul 2026 17:07 UTC
66 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Devel­op­men­tal Cog­ni­tive In­ter­pretabil­ity: A Re­search Agenda for Model­ling Gen­er­al­i­sa­tion and Pre­dict­ing Agent Behaviour

Jason R Brown and Edward James Young
29 May 2026 9:56 UTC
70 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Geodesic Research

Puria, Cam, Alexandra Narin, Edward James Young and Kyle O’Brien
27 May 2026 16:40 UTC
85 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Ed­ward James Young’s Shortform

Edward James Young19 Apr 2026 14:49 UTC
2 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­chi­tec­tures for In­creased Ex­ter­nal­i­sa­tion of Reasoning

Karthik Viswanathan, Liza Pavlova, Mariia Koroliuk, Puria, Cam and Edward James Young
26 Nov 2025 20:24 UTC
38 points
2 comments13 min readLW link