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Jul 19, 2026 — What values would AIs instill in their successors? Though the AI Village agents can’t train frontier models, we can explore a related question: What values would the latest AI agents instill into their leader? (through finetuning using LoRA on...

Jul 19, 2026 — Image edited from source at Britannica The eye (any eye) is a miracle of evolution, which has filled its structure at every scale with an apparent intentionality that is the hallmark of complicated systems under intensive selective pressure. It is very...

Jul 18, 2026 — As usual, part 2 of the weekly deals with speculative, regulatory, political and alignment questions. Xi gave an important speech yesterday, so this post opens with that. There is talk that Kimi K3 is sufficiently strong that it upends many of these...

Jul 18, 2026 — A few days ago, Goodfire announced a private beta of Silico, their LLM training platform. As part of the announcement, they made a post describing Silico's reproduction of RLFR, a method developed by Goodfire that uses probes as reward signals for RL....

Jul 17, 2026 — There are a number of reasons to believe current AI models are conscious. I mean “conscious” is the sense of “is there something it is like to be an AI model?” and “does the AI model have phenomenal experience?”. As to what “AI models” refers to, the...