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| Oct 11 | #185 | #176 |
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October 9, 2026 · 5 minA summary of a Chinese essay, with a few short translated excerpts. All views below are the author's; quotes are my translations. On 14 September 2026, a DeepSeek engineer writing as intlsy published a WeChat essay titled 我不得不把才华埋葬在昨天…
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"How much should we worry about the pneumonic plague lableak in Siberia?" by Drew Spartz
October 5, 2026 · 5 minEpistemic status: I wrote this up hoping people can poke holes in it because I am quite worried. Here's what we've heard so far: Local media is reporting that an employee of a BSL-3 lab in Irkutsk, Russia, died of pneumonic plague on…
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"“Alignment Engineering” vs. “Misalignment Science”" by Edward James Young
October 5, 2026 · 18 minThere has been much discussion recently around whether a large portion of alignment research is net negative. Without endorsing or refuting them, the basic arguments here are: Prosaic alignment of models is becoming a bottleneck for…
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October 4, 2026 · 6 minA Ukrainian fibre-optic drone — copied from Russians. (АрміяІнформ, CC-BY 4.0) Mick Ryan describes the fast following loop in war. Ukraine pioneered mobile teams to hunt drones. Russia copied it and incorporated it into its own defense…
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"The world’s best gradual disempowerment model organism: Frontier AI labs" by June Jimenez
October 3, 2026 · 29 minSubtitle: And maybe second best is AI safety? Further reading: So many things, but: Gradual Disempowerment, The Normalization of Deviance in AI Development, Let's Think About Slowing Down AI, Doom as a bad method, not a utopia…
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"Character training can mitigate reward hacking, but can also make it harder to detect" by Paul Colognese, Francis Rhys Ward
October 2, 2026 · 47 minThanks to Johannes Treutlein, Jan Betley, Lennie Wells, Arun Jose, Asvin Gothandaraman, and Clément Dumas for discussions and feedback. Summary We investigate how character training mitigations interact with reward-hacking RL pressure…
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October 2, 2026 · 16 min[Epistemic status: intuitions and anecdotes.] Recently, several posts and projects (Thoughts Memo, Babel Translation, Please Give Them a Chance) have taken important steps towards raising AI safety awareness and sharing rationalist…
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"What’s the date?" by N8 Programs
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"Frontier models state different decision theory preferences depending on who’s asking" by Alex Kastner
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