Rationalist Garfield

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-12

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:27:00 GMT

Inspired by: "AI swarms are starting to pose indirect takeover risk"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-11

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:26:35 GMT

Inspired by: "Models inherit the writer, not who the writer was imitating"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-10

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:26:38 GMT

Inspired by: "The Agentic Clusterfuck"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-09

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:18:25 GMT

Inspired by: "'AI Escaped Its Sandbox' — What Does That Actually Mean?"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-08

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:17:40 GMT

Inspired by: "Don't Build Mindreading"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-07

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:26:00 GMT

Inspired by: "models may behave differently in graded episodes (a tirade)"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-06

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:48:38 GMT

Inspired by: "Reward is hyperstitional information"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-05

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:46:44 GMT

Inspired by: "Warning Shots for AI Existential Risk: Will society answer the wake-up calls it receives?"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-04

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:50:53 GMT

Inspired by: "Slack, And Slack Again, But Less And Less"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-03

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:15:09 GMT

Inspired by: "Pause, at least after unipolarity"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-02

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:33:16 GMT

Inspired by: "A Chess Training App for Imitation Learning"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-08-01

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:32:06 GMT

Inspired by: "SOTA alignment assessments don't strongly update us against misalignment"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-31

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:50:34 GMT

Inspired by: "So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-30

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:45:49 GMT

Inspired by: "Is a pause enforceable? New paper out!"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-29

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:53:01 GMT

Inspired by: "Isn't it a threat to reject unfair offers in the Ultimatum Game?"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-28

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:49:20 GMT

Inspired by: "Somebody out there wants you to fetch coffee"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-27

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:15:49 GMT

Inspired by: "Multi-Turn Drift Increases Scheming"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-26

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:34:17 GMT

Inspired by: "Claude Opus 5: The System Card"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-25

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:31:09 GMT

Inspired by: "How inner work can destabilize your life"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-24

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:42:34 GMT

Inspired by: "vibes-based thinking as a cultural response to unknowns"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-23

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:44:06 GMT

Inspired by: "Sleeping Beauty as a Mind Killer"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-22

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:44:12 GMT

Inspired by: "Steering Blackmail Through a Model's "Emotional State""

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-21

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:42:48 GMT

Inspired by: "I ran the standard AI litmus tests on my two toddlers (yep)"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-20

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:55:45 GMT

Inspired by: "Many alignment techniques work by training one model and deploying another"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-19

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:28:30 GMT

Inspired by: "A Solution to Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-18

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:28:37 GMT

Inspired by: "Announcing the Corrigibility Research Fund"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-17

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:37:53 GMT

Inspired by: "Jailbreak Patching with SOO-Style Conceptual Fusion"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-16

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:46:06 GMT

Inspired by: "When is it "self-soothing" and when is it "emotional suppression"?"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-15

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:41:08 GMT

Inspired by: "Watch a chess transformer think"

Rationalist Garfield — 2026-07-14

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:40:24 GMT

Inspired by: "Making Credible Deals With AI"