Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Safety researchers should take a public stance” by Ishual, Mateusz Bagiński
[Co-written by Mateusz Bagiński and Samuel Buteau (Ishual)]
TL;DR
Many X-risk-concerned people who join AI capabilities labs with the intent to cont…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
“The Company Man” by Tomás B.
To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies. I call them fentanyl zombies because it helps engender a sort of detached, low-empat…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
“Christian homeschoolers in the year 3000” by Buck
[I wrote this blog post as part of the Asterisk Blogging Fellowship. It's substantially an experiment in writing more breezily and concisely than us…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
“I enjoyed most of IABED” by Buck
I listened to "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" today.
I think the first two parts of the book are the best available explanation of the basic ca…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
“‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’ release day!” by alexvermeer
Back in May, we announced that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares's new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies was coming out in September. At long …
7 months ago
“Obligated to Respond” by Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
And, a new take on guess culture vs ask culture
Author's note: These days, my thoughts go onto my substack by default, instead of onto LessWrong. Ev…
7 months ago
“Chesterton’s Missing Fence” by jasoncrawford
The inverse of Chesterton's Fence is this:
Sometimes a reformer comes up to a spot where there once was a fence, which has since been torn down. The…
7 months ago
“The Eldritch in the 21st century” by PranavG, Gabriel Alfour
Very little makes sense. As we start to understand things and adapt to the rules, they change again.
We live much closer together than we ever did h…
7 months ago
“The Rise of Parasitic AI” by Adele Lopez
[Note: if you realize you have an unhealthy relationship with your AI, but still care for your AI's unique persona, you can submit the persona info …
7 months ago
“High-level actions don’t screen off intent” by AnnaSalamon
One might think “actions screen off intent”: if Alice donates $1k to bed nets, it doesn’t matter if she does it because she cares about people or be…
7 months ago