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Advice (2)

Common advice #3: Asking why one more time
LessWrong Curated · Apr 04, 05:25

Written quickly as part of the Inkhaven Residency . At a high level, research feedback I give to more junior research collaborators tends to fall into one of three categories: Doing quick sanity checks Saying precisely what you want to say Asking why one more time In each case, I

Advice for economics graduate students (and faculty?) vis-a-vis AI
Marginal Revolution · Apr 04, 07:03

From Isiah Andrews, via Emily Oster and the excellent Samir Varma. A good piece, though I think it needs to more explicitly consider the most likely case, namely that the models are better at all intellectual tasks, including “taste,” or whatever else might be knockin’ around in

March (2)

The March of Life
David Gumpert · Apr 03, 23:52

My blog is back! It doesn’t have an official name beyond davidgumpert.com; the title for this post is “The March of Life,” which may or may not stick for a name. Anyway, an update: I’ve been off doing “genealogy” research the last year-and-a-half. Genealogy is the study of family

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights of February & March 2026
LessWrong Curated · Apr 04, 14:58

tl;dr Paper of the month: A benchmark of 56 model organisms with hidden behaviors finds that auditing-tool rankings depend heavily on how the organism was trained — and the investigator agent, not the tools, is the bottleneck. Research highlights: Linear “emotion vectors” in Clau