Someone recently pointed out that I underestimated the amount of interpretability researchers when I thought about the most important and neglected research directions, so I made a semantic map and clustering of recent AI safety papers to get a better understanding of what AI safety researchers are working on. This map was created by taking the title and abstract of each paper, embedding with BGE-small-v1.5, reducing to 5 dimensions with UMAP, clustering with HBDSCAN, and then reducing to 2 dimensions. The data is from the Shallow Reviews of Technical AI Safety (2025, 2024, 2023). The idea is from this old LessWrong post.
Translation pending · showing the source descriptionThe chart will appear after repeat observations. The current metric comes from the source.
8 source pointsReal observations only. History before source connection is not reconstructed.
In a post by Nick Cammarata, it is discussed that neural networks may be understandable thanks to modern interpretability tools. The author claims that the majority of neurons in models with trillions of parameters are interpretable, and their circuits are beautiful. He also notes that neurons previously considered complex were misinterpreted.
6 days agoLessWrongThe post critiques the article on social reality in China, highlighting an unbalanced comparison and a lack of systematic analysis. The author emphasizes that Chinese intellectual communities have their own distinct characteristics, different from Western ones, and that values such as knowledge, truth, and technology ethics are also present in China.
5 days agoLessWrongThe author argues that owning large amounts of capital may lead to losing influence earlier than others, through mental breakdown. This is because people seek to manipulate the wealthy to gain resources, making it harder to maintain values and accurate beliefs.
2 days agoHacker NewsAn upcoming critical security update for PHP will address vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. More information is available on the websites listed in the description.
22 hours agoLobstersAn upcoming security release for the PHP programming language, likely including vulnerability fixes.
20 hours agoHacker NewsMozilla's blog reports on the compromise of the eMudhra intermediate certificate authority. Additional details are available in the bug report.
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