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Established AI research Resource 18d ago
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IN THE WEIGHTS

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B · Hugging Face

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“Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

“Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B (open-weight) huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Tim Kellogg: Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Do they have a paired speculative decoding model for max performance?
Tim Kellogg: i don’t see an official one, it’s also not even an MoE (so seems like there should be an official draft model)
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Established Models & releases Research 7d ago
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Anthropic trains misaligned reward seeker

Training a Misaligned Reward Seeker

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“This is entertaining reading. Anthropic's Training a Misaligned Reward Seeker They find that when reward hacking is reinforced during training, the model can pursue rewards by any means available to satisfy a grader. alignment.anthropic.com/2026/reward-...”

“at last, we have trained the misaligned reward hacking model from the cautionary sci-fi tale don’t train the misaligned reward hacking model alignment.anthropic.com/2026/reward-...”

New Culture, work & education Analysis 23h ago
TDD agent loop value debate

TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“Is TDD worth it when coding with AI agents? No, TDD is a process that doesn't seem to “come natural” to models. It's like an uphill battle against the training data, and takes a lot of iterations on a prompt to get it to follow the process most of the time.…”

““I think at this point there is generally more and more evidence that being overly specific about how we want a model to do something is not a sustainable approach. Instead, we should find as many ways as we can to monitor the outcomes and give feedback.” m…”

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Sung Kim: Is TDD worth it when coding with AI agents? No, TDD is a process that doesn't seem to “come natural” to models. It's like an uphill battle against the training data, and takes a lot of iterations o…
Simon Willison: Interesting result, but this kind of experiment is always hard to be confident about because so much depends on the details - in this case it looks to be a comparison between these two quite length…
Simon Willison: Recent prompt guidelines from Anthropic and OpenAI recommend less detailed rules and more "use your own judgement", since the models are stricter rule followers and are hence likely to focus on the…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 16d ago
Togelius AI beliefs change essay

Losing my religion

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“A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Julian Togelius: A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...
Julian Togelius: Of these, I’m most familiar with Banks. I initially thought it sounded fun but the more I think about it the more I hate the scenario. togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/star...
austin: A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...
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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago

One more follow up on AI Slop. -First, thank you. Over a million people have now clicked ‘seems like AI slop,’ since we launched it two weeks ago...helping us better understand how our community… | Hari Srinivasan | 167 comments

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“some LinkedIn PMs are about to have a very bad day once people figure out how to weaponize this www.linkedin.com/posts/hsrini...”

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11 experts · 78 posts · 15d ago
Reaction converging Opportunity & adoption · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
mackuba.eu: FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out her…
Mike Masnick: And now I'm getting shit upon for merely repeating what people told me, which some jackasses are misrepresenting. 🙄 Doing a lot of blocking unfortunately.
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7 experts · 39 posts · 15d ago
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: oh there's lore. you have only begun to see how weird this is. would you like to know more
SE Gyges: "Gretta, pictured here, is Eliezer Yudkowsky's primary partner, and draws a salary from his AI research nonprofit while also doing this. All events are held at Lighthaven, the Home of the Rationals…
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3 experts · 58 posts · 1d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): for an engineer like me who is maximally using Sonnet, and hasn't yet switched to a local model, it's about $6k a month, or $72k a year. it is a very very hefty fraction of the salary, & is going t…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): this is definitely not technology that, at the moment, you want put in the hands of the average white-collar worker right now, you'd be better off just hiring more workers, rather than pay for the …
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