Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life" by kman
epistemic status: confident in the overall picture, substantial quantitative uncertainty about the relative potency of caffeine and paraxanthine
tld…
6 days, 7 hours ago
"AIs can now often do massive easy-to-verify SWE tasks and I’ve updated towards shorter timelines" by ryan_greenblatt
I've recently updated towards substantially shorter AI timelines and much faster progress in some areas. [1] The largest updates I've made are (1) …
1 week, 1 day ago
"dark ilan" by ozymandias
The second time Vellam uncovers the conspiracy underlying all of society, he approaches a Keeper.
Some of the difference is convenience. Since Vella…
1 week, 2 days ago
"Dispatch from Anthropic v. Department of War Preliminary Injunction Motion Hearing" by Zack_M_Davis
Dateline SAN FRANCISCO, Ca., 24 March 2026— A hearing was held on a motion for a preliminary injunction in the case of Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Departm…
1 week, 2 days ago
"The Corner-Stone" by Benquo
Is the US a ruthless cognitive meritocracy that reliably promotes outlier talent? VB Knives defended that claim in a Twitter argument against Living…
1 week, 2 days ago
"The Practical Guide to Superbabies" by GeneSmith
It's Summer of 2025. I’m standing in a grass covered field on the longest day of the year. A friend of mine walks towards me, holding his newborn so…
1 week, 4 days ago
"Anthropic’s Pause is the Most Expensive Alarm in Corporate History" by Ruby
Imagine Apple halting iPhone production because studies linked smartphones to teen suicide rates. Imagine Pfizer proactively pulling Lipitor because…
1 week, 5 days ago
"“You Have Not Been a Good User” (LessWrong’s second album)" by habryka
tldr: The Fooming Shoggoths are releasing their second album "You Have Not Been a Good User"! Available on Spotify, Youtube Music and (hopefully wit…
1 week, 6 days ago
"Lesswrong Liberated" by Ronny Fernandez
A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of LLMism.
The history of all hitherto existing forums is the history of clashing design tastes.
For …
1 week, 6 days ago
"Product Alignment is not Superintelligence Alignment (and we need the latter to survive)" by plex
tl;dr: progress on making Claude friendly[1] is not the same as progress on making it safe to build godlike superintelligence. solving the former do…
1 week, 6 days ago