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When I am curious, I often read academic papers.

Rather than just following along,

I propose better alternatives to the limitations or directions presented in the papers.

LLMs are Capable of Misaligned Behavior Under Explicit Prohibition and Surveillance

Paper Review: 2025-2 Title: <h1>LLMs are Capable of Misaligned Behavior Under Explicit Prohibition and Surveillance</h1> <h3>Paper Info</h3><ul><li><strong>Author:</strong> <a href="https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Ivanov,+I" rel="nofollow">Igor Ivanov</a></li><li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02977">arXiv:2507.02977</a></li><li><em>Submitted on 30 Jun 2025</em></li></ul> </p><h3>Abstract</h3><p style="padding-left: 40px;">In this paper, LLMs are tasked with completing...

Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation

Paper Review: 2025-1 Title: Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation Paper Info Author: Bowen Baker, Joost Huizinga, Leo Gao, Zehao Dou, Melody Y. Guan, Aleksander Madry, Wojciech Zaremba, Jakub Pachocki...

Thoughts

My philosophy is not something I have learned,
but something etched into my life by experience itself.

Does Competition Erase Parental Love, or Reallocate It?

Thoughts: 2026-4 Does Competition Erase Parental Love, or Reallocate It? <h5>Recently, I came across a news article introducing the following paper:</h5>Rogers, F.D., Kim, S., Mereby, S.A. et al. Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal...

What are the initial design requirements of a system that is not overly constrained by its era?

Thoughts: 2026-3 What are the initial design requirements of a system that is not overly constrained by its era? <h5>These six principles imply that a system reduces dependence on era-specific constraints not by escaping constraints...

Microscopic reversibility: is it truly reversible?

Thoughts: 2026-2 Microscopic reversibility: is it truly reversible? <h4>Today I had several doubts.</h4><p>In contemporary physics, topology transitions are often treated as reversible at the microscopic level under Hamiltonian dynamics, while macroscopic irreversibility is discussed via...

Environment-Modulated Reproductive Regulation

Thoughts: 2026-1 Environment-Modulated Reproductive Regulation <h4>A hypothesis sketch on sex-ratio shifts, reproductive withdrawal, and a maternal “weighted-coin” layer</h4><blockquote><h6><strong>Disclaimer.</strong> <br />This is a reasoning sketch, not a settled claim. I use “sex-ratio modulation” operationally: small population-level...

The Relationship Between the Pareto Principle and Paradigms

Thoughts: 2025-4 The Relationship Between the Pareto Principle and Paradigms <h4><strong>1. About the Pareto Principle</strong></h4>The Pareto Principle, also known as the <strong>80/20 rule</strong>, explains the phenomenon where 80% of outcomes arise from 20% of causes...