Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Leverage, Exit Costs, and Anger: Re-examining Why We Explode at Home, Not at Work” by at_the_zoo
Let's cut through the comforting narratives and examine a common behavioral pattern with a sharper lens: the stark difference between how anger is m…
1 year ago
“PauseAI and E/Acc Should Switch Sides” by WillPetillo
In the debate over AI development, two movements stand as opposites: PauseAI calls for slowing down AI progress, and e/acc (effective accelerationis…
1 year ago
“VDT: a solution to decision theory” by L Rudolf L
Introduction
Decision theory is about how to behave rationally under conditions of uncertainty, especially if this uncertainty involves being acausa…
1 year ago
“LessWrong has been acquired by EA” by habryka
Dear LessWrong community,
It is with a sense of... considerable cognitive dissonance that I announce a significant development regarding the future …
1 year ago
“We’re not prepared for an AI market crash” by Remmelt
Our community is not prepared for an AI crash. We're good at tracking new capability developments, but not as much the company financials. Currently…
1 year ago
“Conceptual Rounding Errors” by Jan_Kulveit
Epistemic status: Reasonably confident in the basic mechanism.
Have you noticed that you keep encountering the same ideas over and over? You read an…
1 year ago
“Tracing the Thoughts of a Large Language Model” by Adam Jermyn
[This is our blog post on the papers, which can be found at https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html and https://transf…
1 year ago
“Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit” by lc
About nine months ago, I and three friends decided that AI had gotten good enough to monitor large codebases autonomously for security problems. We …
1 year ago
“AI for AI safety” by Joe Carlsmith
(Audio version here (read by the author), or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.
This is the fourth essay in a series that I’m call…
1 year ago
“Policy for LLM Writing on LessWrong” by jimrandomh
LessWrong has been receiving an increasing number of posts and contents that look like they might be LLM-written or partially-LLM-written, so we're …
1 year ago