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Back to Search"Gyre" by vgel
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Why am …
2 weeks, 1 day 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 …
2 weeks, 1 day 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…
2 weeks, 4 days 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…
2 weeks, 4 days 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…
2 weeks, 4 days 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…
2 weeks, 6 days 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…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
"Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?" by Benquo
A 2022 LessWrong post on orexin and the quest for more waking hours argues that orexin agonists could safely reduce human sleep needs, pointing to s…
3 weeks ago
"You can’t imitation-learn how to continual-learn" by Steven Byrnes
In this post, I’m trying to put forward a narrow, pedagogical point, one that comes up mainly when I’m arguing in favor of LLMs having limitations t…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
"Nullius in Verba" by Aurelia
Independent verification by the Brain Preservation Foundation and the Survival and Flourishing Fund — the results so far
Cultivating independent ver…
3 weeks, 2 days ago