Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated” by nostalgebraist
[Meta note: quickly written, unpolished. Also, it's possible that there's some more convincing work on this topic that I'm unaware of – if so, let me…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Cryonics is free” by Mati_Roy
I've been wanting to write a nice post for a few months, but should probably just write a one sooner instead. This is a top-level post not because it…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Stanislav Petrov Quarterly Performance Review” by Ricki Heicklen
Quarterly Performance Review, Autumn 1983
Colonel Yuri Kuznetsov looked out the window anxiously. The endless gray landscape did little to soothe his…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Laziness death spirals” by PatrickDFarley
I’ve claimed that Willpower compounds and that small wins in the present make it easier to get bigger wins in the future. Unfortunately, procrastinat…
1 year, 5 months ago
“‘Slow’ takeoff is a terrible term for ‘maybe even faster takeoff, actually’” by Raemon
For a long time, when I heard "slow takeoff", I assumed it meant "takeoff that takes longer calendar time than fast takeoff." (i.e. what is now refer…
1 year, 5 months ago
“ASIs will not leave just a little sunlight for Earth ” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
A common claim among e/accs is that, since the solar system is big, Earth will be left alone by superintelligences. A simple rejoinder is that just b…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Skills from a year of Purposeful Rationality Practice ” by Raemon
A year ago, I started trying to deliberate practice skills that would "help people figure out the answers to confusing, important questions." I exper…
1 year, 5 months ago
“How I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy ” by zhukeepa
After the release of Ben Pace's extended interview with me about my views on religion, I felt inspired to publish more of my thinking about religion …
1 year, 5 months ago
“Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding? ” by Isaac King
There's a popular story that goes like this: Christopher Hitchens used to be in favor of the US waterboarding terrorists because he though it's wasn'…
1 year, 5 months ago
“The Great Data Integration Schlep ” by sarahconstantin
Midjourney, “Fourth Industrial Revolution Digital Transformation”This is a little rant I like to give, because it's something I learned on the job th…
1 year, 5 months ago