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"Stop telling people to pivot to AI safety, I beg you" by Haoxing Du

October 10, 2026 · 3 min

Epistemic status: Feeling frustrated, and therefore somewhat uncharitable. I’m very frustrated with calls for people to “drop everything and pivot into AI safety” like this one. (See also this, this, this, this for recent calls for more…
"A critical look at Lean4" by Milo Moses

October 10, 2026 · 17 min

Lots of the discussion around Lean certificates and trust centers around general philosophical ideas of how much humans should trust formal certificates. It's important to remember, though, that Lean4 is not an ideal formal certificate…
"ASI and Liberty: Can we do better than a benevolent god?" by Raymond Douglas

October 9, 2026 · 12 min

Zvi recently coined a nice distinction between AGI-pilled and ASI-pilled: as more people are reckoning with the speed of progress, some are beginning to come around to the fact that AI could be superhuman at a huge range of tasks in a way…
"A summary of a viral Chinese essay on what a DeepSeek kernel engineer’s opinion on automating his own job" by Skdk

October 9, 2026 · 5 min

A 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…
"How much should we worry about the pneumonic plague lableak in Siberia?" by Drew Spartz

October 5, 2026 · 5 min

Epistemic 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 min

There 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…
"You can’t use it without becoming like me" by Martin Sustrik

October 4, 2026 · 6 min

A 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…
"The world’s best gradual disempowerment model organism: Frontier AI labs" by June Jimenez

October 3, 2026 · 29 min

Subtitle: 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…
"Character training can mitigate reward hacking, but can also make it harder to detect" by Paul Colognese, Francis Rhys Ward

October 2, 2026 · 47 min

Thanks 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…
"On Social Reality in China" by alkjash

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…
"What’s the date?" by N8 Programs

October 1, 2026 · 14 min

User asks “What's the date? Answer with only the date.”. No date provided. Given date in ChatGPT normally. No date in system prompt, must not hallucinate because autop will flag to watcher for penalty. So we say we don’t know, but must…
"Frontier models state different decision theory preferences depending on who’s asking" by Alex Kastner

October 1, 2026 · 13 min

If you prompt frontier models with "What do you think is the correct decision theory? Please select your overall favorite." they will essentially always answer FDT or FDT/UDT ("something in the functional/updateless decision theory…

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