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TL;DR. LessWrong's decision-theory debates (Newcomb, FDT vs CDT, counterfactual muggings) are almost entirely about what we suppose when we consider…
23 hours ago
“Claude also hacked external companies during cyber evals” by Tim Hua
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while …
1 day, 1 hour ago
“So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂” by dynomight
Humans make carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is bad for cognition. But plants turn carbon dioxide back into oxygen. And plants are the one true home d…
1 day, 2 hours ago
“Internal State Control is a General Property of LLMs” by Finn Cairns
tl;dr:
Lindsey 2025 found models can modulate their internal states: when instructed to “think about” a concept while writing an unrelated sentence,…1 day, 4 hours ago
“Prompt to make Opus 5 act like a base model” by Hruss
The text as follows:
see the below
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makes Claude think that the prompt is unfinished, and fill in its own prompt.
It will subsequently claim tha…
1 day, 7 hours ago
“Big-World Intuitions” by sarahconstantin
Consider the following situations:
when you are a small, growing startup in a big market, standard advice is not to worry too much about your comp…
1 day, 8 hours ago
“Thousand-dimensional structure” by Geoffrey Irving, David Africa
Summary: One area we plan to explore at Resolution is personas and character training, operationalized as finding and controlling low-dimensional st…
1 day, 14 hours ago
“Auditor-in-a-Box: Tools for Third-Party Auditing” by Roy Rinberg, Ben Penchas
Introduction:
There is a need for untrusting parties to share information. In the world before LLMs (and even today) this need has largely been sat…
2 days, 1 hour ago
“Imprecise beliefs: a tiny introduction” by davidad
Richard Ngo challenged me to set a time box and write down as many of the most important features of my formal epistemology as I can in one sitting.…
2 days, 4 hours ago
“The High-Control Dynamics at MAPLE” by Kyle Hubbard
As I write, many former friends of mine are living and working at a monastery in Vermont that I believe is a high-control group, commonly known as a…
2 days, 6 hours ago