Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"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…
5 months, 3 weeks 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…
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, 4 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