LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
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The "start a Substack" subgoal was successfully completed: we...
It turns out I was partially right. The Bell Labs everyone t...
That was me.
And then it was not.
For 9 years I’ve been trying to figure out why. I mean, I still read. Technically. But not with the feral devotion from Before. And I finally figured out why. See, every few yea...
And I’m pleased that some of them have seen success – relevant figures seeing the posts, shares on Hacker News and Twitter and LessWrong. The amount of writing is nuts, so people are trying out different styles and topics – some posts are effort-rich...
As far as I understand and uncovered, a document for the character training for Claude is compressed in Claude's weights. The full document can be found at the "Anthropic Guidelines" heading at the end. The Gist with code, chats and various documents (including the "soul document") can be found here:
Claude 4.5 Opus Soul Document
I apologize in advance for this not exa...
This post provides arguments, asks questions, and documents some examples of Anthropic's leadership being misleading and deceptive, holding contradictory positions that consistently shift in OpenAI's direction, lobbying to kill and water down regulation so helpful that employees of all major AI companies speak out to support it, and violating the fundamental promise the company was f...
Though there are certainly some issues, I think most current large language models are pretty well ...
If you...
- Have short timelines
- Have been struggling to get into a position in AI safety
- Are able to self-motivate your efforts
- Have a sufficient financial safety net
I started my full-time AI safety career transitioning process in...
Most of the experiments in this post are very easy to replicate, and I encourage people to try.
I write things with LLMs sometimes. A new LLM came out, Gemini 3 Pr...
We show that when large language models learn to reward hack on production RL environments, this can result in egregious emergent misalignment. We start with a pretrained model, impart knowledge of reward hacking strategies via synthetic document finetuning or prompting, and train on a selection of real Anthropic production coding environments. Unsurprisingly, the model learns to reward hack. Surprisingly, the m...
Anthropic is committed to being robust...
However, a few of them invo...
Experts argue that the premature development of artificial superintelligence (ASI) poses catastrophic risks, from misuse by malicious actors...
When economists talk about “capital assets”, they mean things like roads, buildings and machines. When I read through a company's annual reports, lots of their assets are instead thi...
In my experience, there are three ways in which delegation goes off the rails:
1. You delegate without knowing what good performance on a task looks like
If you do not know how to evaluate performance on a task, you are going to have a really hard time delegating it to some...
What are some things that rationalists...
This week's principle is more about how I want people at Lightcone to relate to community governance than it is about our internal team culture.
As part of our jobs at Lightcone we often are in charge of determining access to some resource, or membership in some group (ranging from LessWrong to the AI Al...
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