Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)” by habryka
It's been roughly 7 years since the LessWrong user-base voted on whether it's time to close down shop and become an archive, or to move towards the …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“Underdog bias rules everything around me” by Richard_Ngo
People very often underrate how much power they (and their allies) have, and overrate how much power their enemies have. I call this “underdog bias”…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“Epistemic advantages of working as a moderate” by Buck
Many people who are concerned about existential risk from AI spend their time advocating for radical changes to how AI is handled. Most notably, the…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“Four ways Econ makes people dumber re: future AI” by Steven Byrnes
(Cross-posted from X, intended for a general audience.)
There's a funny thing where economics education paradoxically makes people DUMBER at thinkin…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“Should you make stone tools?” by Alex_Altair
Knowing how evolution works gives you an enormously powerful tool to understand the living world around you and how it came to be that way. (Though …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“My AGI timeline updates from GPT-5 (and 2025 so far)” by ryan_greenblatt
As I discussed in a prior post, I felt like there were some reasonably compelling arguments for expecting very fast AI progress in 2025 (especially …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
“Hyperbolic model fits METR capabilities estimate worse than exponential model” by gjm
This is a response to https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mXa66dPR8hmHgndP5/hyperbolic-trend-with-upcoming-singularity-fits-metr which claims that a hyp…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
“My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Lighthaven” by Zack_M_Davis
On 12 August 2025, I sat down with New York Times reporter Cade Metz to discuss some criticisms of his 4 August 2025 article, "The Rise of Silicon V…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
“Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus” by Elizabeth
I’m going to describe a Type Of Guy starting a business, and you’re going to guess the business:
The founder is very young, often under 25. He mig…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
“Somebody invented a better bookmark” by Alex_Altair
This will only be exciting to those of us who still read physical paper books. But like. Guys. They did it. They invented the perfect bookmark.
Clas…
8 months ago