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Back to Search“The Federal AI Policy Framework: An Improvement, But My Offer Is (Still Almost) Nothing” by Zvi
The Federal AI Policy Framework has been released. Well, it is a four page outline. Mostly it just reiterates existing such outlines. But that is fou…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
“Some things I noticed while LARPing as a grantmaker” by Zach Stein-Perlman
Written to a new grantmaker.
Most value comes from finding/creating projects many times your bar, rather than discriminating between opportunities …4 weeks, 1 day ago
“Understanding when and why agents scheme” by Mia Hopman, Jannes Elstner, Maria Avramidou, Amritanshu Prasad, David Lindner
TL;DR
To understanding the conditions under which LLM agents engage in scheming behavior, we develop a framework that decomposes the decision to sc…4 weeks, 1 day ago
“Attend the 2026 Reproductive Frontiers Summit, June 16–18, Berkeley” by TsviBT, K Richards
We’ll be hosting the 2026 Reproductive Frontiers Summit at Lighthaven in Berkeley, CA, on June 16—18. Come join us if you want to learn, connect, th…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
“Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?” by Benquo
A 2022 LessWrong post on orexin and the quest for more waking hours argues that orexin agonists could safely reduce human sleep needs, pointing to s…
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“My Most Costly Delusion” by Ihor Kendiukhov
Suppose there is a fire in a nearby house. Suppose there are competent firefighters in your town: fast, professional, well-equipped. They are expect…
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“China declares AGI development to be a part of 5-year plan” by Darmani
The CCP writes in its 15th 5-year plan that it will.
Encourage innovation in multimodal, agentic, embodied, and swarm intelligence technologies, a…
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“Pre-Review of Toy Story 5” by Raemon
I am the second most spoiler-averse person I know. (Maybe tied for 2nd with a couple other people?).
I once was considering going to an immersive e…
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“Does Hebrew Have Verbs?” by Benquo
Spinoza's Compendium of Hebrew Grammar (1677, posthumous, unfinished) contains a claim that scholars have been misreading for centuries. He says tha…
1 month ago
“Untrusted Monitoring is Default; Trusted Monitoring is not” by J Bostock
These views are my own and not necessarily representative of those of any colleagues with whom I have worked on AI control.
TL;DR: It's much cheaper…
1 month ago