Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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 …
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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 …
1 year 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…
1 year ago
[Linkpost] “MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech” by Remmelt
This is a link post. Excerpts on AI
Geoffrey Miller was handed the mic and started berating one of the panelists: Shyam Sankar, the chief technology …
1 year ago