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• LLessWrong2026-10-15✓ Read

  Predictor and picker – convergent architectural features of intelligent agents

  Both your brain and an LLM first evaluate options and then pick one. Could this be a universal formula for agency?Note: While this post was not written for the LessWrong audience, I believe it might be of value to people here, and that it meets the quality bar even though my writing is not strictly lesswrongian.

  
• LLessWrong2026-10-15✓ Read

  Children of the Cloud: Noah’s Ark as an Alignment Song

  This week’s Torah portion is Noach, so I made a music video retelling the flood as an AI story, with cameos from the usual cast.

  
• LLessWrong2026-10-15✓ Read

  Linkpost: Neural Networks Are Already Clean

  This is an extremely lengthy post by Nick Cammarata. Author's summary on twitter: interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots.

  
• LLessWrong2026-10-15✓ Read

  Preface to the Computational Agent Theory and ASI Alignment Sequence

  The idea of “artificial superintelligence [1] ” (ASI) has recently crossed from the realm of science fiction (in the mainstream perception) to the realm of near-term technological goals openly pursued by most leading commercial organizations in the field of AI. Unfortunately, ASI poses a grave existential risk to the human species. This was argued by Eliezer Yudkowsky since 2001 [2] , and by many others (see e.g., Omohundro 2009, Bostrom 2014, Armstrong 2014, Russell 2019, Bengio et al. 2024 (25 authors), Bengio et al.

  
• LLessWrong2026-10-15✓ Read

  The user in the LLM might be a moral patient too (a strange implication of the PSM and simulators)

  Thanks to Christopher Ackerman, Margot Stakenborg, Darion Cassel, Andy Han, and Ariana Azarbal for feedback and/or valuable discussions on these topics.

  
• LLessWrong2026-10-15✓ Read

  Reciprocity — LessWrong

  This is a follow-up to a previous post, In My Misanthropy Era. In 2025, after getting my intellectual rocks off largely at hardcore rationality meetups for the entirety of the 2020s, I went to a casual philosophy meetup and it ~turned me evil. I wrote a post about this experience, because I thought it was interesting how a thoughtfully facilitated, pleasantly intellectual night out for most well-adjusted people was somehow my own personal hell. Also, that was objectively kind of a funny thing to have happened to me.

  

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