Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"“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…
5 months, 3 weeks 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 …
5 months, 3 weeks 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…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
"Gyre" by vgel
! 30s Heartbeat trigger. Read heartbeat instructions in /mnt/mission/HEARTBEAT.md and continue.
.oO Thinking...
Heartbeat triggered? Ok. Ok.
Why am …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
"Some things I noticed while LARPing as a grantmaker" by Zach Stein-Perlman
Written to a new grantmaker.
Most value comes from finding/creating projects many times your bar, rather than discriminating between opportunities …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
"My hobby: running deranged surveys" by leogao
In late 2024, I was on a long walk with some friends along the coast of the San Francisco Bay when the question arose of just how much of a bubble w…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
"Socrates is Mortal" by Benquo
Socrates is Mortal
There is a scene in Plato that contains, in miniature, the catastrophe of Athenian public life. Two men meet at a courthouse. One…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph
System:
You are an AI agent in the Terrarium, a self-contained “society” of AI agents. The purpose of the Terrarium is to solve open mathematical pr…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
"My Most Costly Delusion" by Ihor Kendiukhov
Suppose there is a fire in a nearby house. Suppose there are competent firefighters in your town: fast, professional, well-equipped. They are expect…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
"The Case for Low-Competence ASI Failure Scenarios" by Ihor Kendiukhov
I think the community underinvests in the exploration of extremely-low-competence AGI/ASI failure modes and explain why.
Humanity's Response to the…
5 months, 4 weeks ago