fluxxrider — LessWrong

Where Do Young Rationalists Go?

There has never been more need for young people to get together and talk. Young people, 16-20, are facing the highest-leverage decisions of their lives; university, research, who to network with. And they're mostly doing it alone. A friend I met literally had nobody to talk about philosophy and alignment...

Jun 1612

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Jun 103

Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 [Linkpost]

This is a linkpost for https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

Jun 942

When AI Builds Itself (Anthropic Institute Linkpost)

This is a linkpost to https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

Jun 426

We need Git for AI Timelines

I was recently reading the AI Futures' Q1 2026 timelines update and noted their quarterly updates (the last one being in December, with the release of the AI Futures Model) are struggling to keep pace with the thing they're trying to track. The pace of AI development is incredibly fast...

Apr 1330

Demands Are All You Need: Prompt Imperativeness Drastically Reduces Hedging In LLMs (n=900, Cohen's d = 2.67)

Foreword If you've ever noticed LLMs hedging considerably more when you ask them subjective questions, it's not a fluke. I ran a 3x2x3 factorial experiment (n=900) to quantify how much prompt phrasing (alongside question type and model type) shifts hedging across differing imperativeness levels. The effect sizes were larger than...

Feb 66