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Building Connections

LessWrong · May 13, 2026, 10:35 PM

Building connections is hard. Connectionism inspired models have overwhelmed the world and raise existential risk awareness, neuroscientists mumble about deep and shallow networks, brains are being dissected, theories are being built, but we are interestingly closer to building AGI than to understanding the way connections are built.Building connections is hard. Especially, if you are unaware of underlying structures, lack good priors and lack a clear picture of the field. Building connections is hard. This is a preliminary report on our progress.For the past 4 months we’ve worked on a web-game that inherits its core mechanic from NYT Connections. Originally it was created to help newcomers understand and connect (all puns intended) AI Safety Concepts. Now we are ready to present it! For the ones not into word games, NYT Connections is a word puzzle game where you are presented with a mjx-container[jax="CHTML"] { line-height: 0; } mjx-container [space="1"] { margin-left: .111em; } mjx-container [space="2"] { margin-left: .167em; } mjx-container [space="3"] { margin-left: .222em; } mjx-container [space="4"] { margin-left: .278em; } mjx-container [space="5"] { margin-left: .333em; } mjx-container [rspace="1"] { margin-right: .111em; } mjx-container [rspace="2"] { margin-right: .167em; } mjx-container [rspace="3"] { margin-right: .222em; } mjx-container [rspace="4"] { margin-right: .278em; } mjx-container [rspace="5"] { margin-right: .333em; } mjx-container [size="s"] { font-size: 70.7%; } mjx-container [size="ss"] { font-size: 50%; } mjx-container [size="Tn"] { font-size: 60%; } mjx-container [size="sm"] { font-size: 85%; } mjx-container [size="lg"] { font-size: 120%; } mjx-container [size="Lg"] { font-size: 144%; } mjx-container [size="LG"] { font-size: 173%; } mjx-container [size="hg"] { font-size: 207%; } mjx-container [size="HG"] { font-size: 249%; } mjx-container [width="full"] { width: 100%; } mjx-box { display: inline-block; } mjx-block { display: block; } mjx-

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