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Jan Leike
Personal blog · aligned.substack.comaiphilosophy
Jan Leike writes Musings on the Alignment Problem, a personal blog at aligned.substack.com about ai and philosophy. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to this Substack as an inside-the-AI-labs view and list it among resources for a software engineer catching up on AI. It is not discussed beyond that recommendation.
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What Hacker News says?
Simon's blog is excellent for an SWE For a general audience - https://www.ai-supremacy.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium... Fromm inside the AI Labs - https://aligned.substack.com/ https://milesbrundage.substack.com/ for swe - https://artificialintelligencemadesimple.substack.com/
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on “Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI”Submitted Crisp and Fuzzy Tasks [in AI] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is a lot of potential in this. Not just for government democracy, but for also introducing democratic elements into tech/AI policy, when that tech has impact comparable to many governments. I worked in tech, and after some formative experiences, shifted to working on helping ensuring ensure that tech's impact on society can serve the public interest. But that leaves the question of what "what is the public int…
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on “Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections”Submitted Combining weak-to-strong generalization with scalable oversight as a story · 1 points
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