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Sep 04, 2026 — In a previous post, I argued that Bryan Caplan's signaling theory isn’t a good explanation for why college graduates get higher-paying jobs. Instead, I claimed, understanding the role of higher education in the modern West requires sociological...

Sep 04, 2026 — I'm the sole manager of the newly created Corrigibility Research Fund. While I've been an alignment researcher for a long time, this is my first time doing grantmaking and I thought it would be valuable to write up my methods and experiences, as well...

Sep 03, 2026 — This post describes a universal jailbreak discovery during work on black-box scheming monitors at MATS. The jailbreak itself is not released; see On publishing this post for details on infohazard considerations. This post is written in a personal...

Sep 03, 2026 — (Originally written in 2021, if the discussion around AI now seems odd; it is written for a time when people were still trying to solve what would now be called "superalignment" with clever plans they'd invented themselves, rather than saying, "Oh, we...

Sep 03, 2026 — TL;DR: We steer Qwen3.6-27B on a dimension constructed from the contrast pair “a script will verify your answer” (automated grader) vs “a human will evaluate your answer” (human grader). Steering towards an automated grader increases the propensity to...