Sid Black

Karma: 1,174

Machinic Psychopharmacology: Do LLMs Self-Medicate?

Sid Black and Joseph Bloom

10 Jun 2026 14:15 UTC

120 points

7 comments23 min readLW link

vLLM-Lens: Fast Interpretability Tooling That Scales to Trillion-Parameter Models

Alan Cooney and Sid Black

23 Apr 2026 19:13 UTC

75 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(Some) Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Non-Production RL

7vik, Sid Black and Joseph Bloom

30 Mar 2026 10:56 UTC

126 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

Do LLMs know what they’re capable of? Why this matters for AI safety, and initial findings

Casey Barkan, Sid Black and Oliver Sourbut

13 Jul 2025 19:54 UTC

53 points

5 comments18 min readLW link

White Box Control at UK AISI—Update on Sandbagging Investigations

Joseph Bloom, Jordan Taylor, Connor Kissane, Sid Black, merizian, alexdzm, jacoba, Ben Millwood and Alan Cooney

10 Jul 2025 13:37 UTC

81 points

10 comments18 min readLW link

The Singular Value Decompositions of Transformer Weight Matrices are Highly Interpretable

beren and Sid Black

28 Nov 2022 12:54 UTC

200 points

34 comments31 min readLW link

Conjecture Second Hiring Round

Connor Leahy, Sid Black, Gabriel Alfour and Chris Scammell

23 Nov 2022 17:11 UTC

92 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Conjecture: a retrospective after 8 months of work

Connor Leahy, Sid Black, Gabriel Alfour and Chris Scammell

23 Nov 2022 17:10 UTC

180 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

Current themes in mechanistic interpretability research

Lee Sharkey, Sid Black and beren

16 Nov 2022 14:14 UTC

89 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Interpreting Neural Networks through the Polytope Lens

Sid Black, Lee Sharkey, Connor Leahy, beren, CRG, merizian, Eric Winsor and Dan Braun

23 Sep 2022 17:58 UTC

149 points

29 comments33 min readLW link

Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy

Connor Leahy, Sid Black, Chris Scammell and Andrea_Miotti

29 Jul 2022 19:07 UTC

130 points

6 comments19 min readLW link