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A multi-level postmortem of how our whole house got badly poisoned

Published on February 14, 2026 4:11 PM GMT

Taking reasonable choices is not enough. You need to fight death at every possible point of intervention.

Two weeks ago, my flatmates and I published Basics of How Not to Die, to celebrate t...


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LLMs struggle to verbalize their internal reasoning

Published on February 14, 2026 3:32 PM GMT

Thanks to Adam Karvonen, Arjun Khandelwal, Arun Jose, Fabien Roger, James Chua, Nic Kruus, & Sukrit Sumant for helpful feedback and discussion.

Thanks to Claude Opus 4.5 for help with designing and implementing the experiments.

Introduction

We study to what extent LLMs can verbalize their internal reasoni...


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Deliberate Epistemic Uncertainty: An Automated Experiment on AI Self-Reporting

Published on February 14, 2026 3:13 PM GMTA Note by a Human

This article is the result of automated alignment research. I described an idea to Claude Code and asked it for feedback, options, alternatives, etc.

We discussed the research agenda in a text file, to ensure that no information gets lost during compaction, and details are retrievable later without hallucination...


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LessWrong Is Sleeping On Internet Culture Analysis – And So Is The Rest Of The Web

Published on February 14, 2026 2:58 PM GMT

Internet culture is one of my favourite topics to research, but I feel that most of the coverage surrounding Internet culture is not reaching its full potential.

Most of these YouTubers and writers that cover Internet phenomena do it in a way that is explanatory, not exploratory. They usually don’t bother providing any original ...


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Beloved by Chatbots

Published on February 14, 2026 12:12 PM GMT

Around 2017

My friend's new girlfriend worked on what she called “chatbots”. I was surprised, I remember people wasting time in school computer lessons in the early 2000’s by playing with online chatbots that threw out lines from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy more or less at random. Say something, get something back. Lik...


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