How to Answer a Question Without Answering The Question

Kabir Kumar13 Aug 2026 17:06 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

How My Students Think About AI

dvd13 Aug 2026 16:56 UTC

22 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Automated alignment runs are hard to study!

Alejandro Aristizabal, draganover, Aleksandr Bowkis and Cameron Holmes

13 Aug 2026 15:04 UTC

36 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Longtermism Seems Like A Religion

James Brobin13 Aug 2026 14:43 UTC

−4 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Defense Against the Deceptive Arts

Kabir Kumar13 Aug 2026 14:21 UTC

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Some problems in decision theory incorrectly precondition on policy.

Canaletto13 Aug 2026 12:04 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Patterns and problems in emerging multiagent systems (Anthropic, Frontier Red Team)

Julian Bradshaw13 Aug 2026 4:10 UTC

40 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

The Descenders and the Absorbers: Two Perspectives on Deep Learning

larry-dial13 Aug 2026 4:02 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Free will is like temperature

Optimization Process12 Aug 2026 23:32 UTC

34 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Every reward-hacked policy I tested triggered the OPE alarm — and so did my best honest one

JulesRoussel0112 Aug 2026 22:51 UTC

−5 points

0 comments48 min readLW link

Unblocking AI’s Continual Learning: Hints From How Humans Learn

nimakeivan12 Aug 2026 18:28 UTC

12 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

Finding the Seams of Perception

jimmy12 Aug 2026 17:33 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(beneathpsychology.com)

Introducing the Conceptual Reasoning Index

Chi Nguyen, Emery Cooper, Caspar Oesterheld, Alex Kastner and Joe Benton

12 Aug 2026 17:08 UTC

72 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

One attention head carries knight forks in a chess transformer, and here’s a new toolkit that found it.

dl2712 Aug 2026 16:48 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

The Psychology of Cope: Rationality Is Not Reversed Irrationality

Chris_Leong12 Aug 2026 12:20 UTC

25 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Demon Safety

Ben Pace12 Aug 2026 11:55 UTC

47 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The Closure of the Internet (Research Linkpost)

Dean Valentine (lc)12 Aug 2026 8:22 UTC

22 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(arctotherium.substack.com)

AI swarms are starting to pose indirect takeover risk

oakhu and Alex Mallen

12 Aug 2026 5:05 UTC

116 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

Did the alignment community underestimate its power?

StanislavKrym12 Aug 2026 2:56 UTC

18 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

The Age of Pluribus: One Consultant for Everyone

Dorothy Gale12 Aug 2026 1:39 UTC

9 points

0 comments4 min readLW link