Probing the loss-band sparsity assumption in Scientist AI

·LessWrong··

Epistemic status: ~1 hour of compute on a T4. Note that I just tried with one model, and one subspace. The volume finding seems solid; the curvature finding is suggestive and I checked whether it generalises (it doesn't clearly). I think the methodology is the main interesting idea, and the specific numbers are a starting point. Notebook here. Feedback very welcome. What this is about Bengio et al. (2026), "Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor", propose a predictor (Scientist AI, ...

Read full article →

Related Articles

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
exceptione · Hacker News · 10h ago
Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
heydenberk · Hacker News · 8h ago
Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
cwwc · Hacker News · 1d ago
Go 1.27
database64128 · Hacker News · 3h ago
Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
zX41ZdbW · Hacker News · 22h ago