Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Having OCD is like living in North Korea (Here’s how I escaped)" by Declan Molony
[Author's note: this post is the narrative version that explains my journey with OCD and how I treated it. The short version provides quick, actiona…
1 month, 1 week ago
"There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical" by habryka
Epistemic status: Completely schizo galaxy-brained theory
Lightcone[1] operates on a "generalist" philosophy. Most of our full-time staff have the t…
1 month, 1 week ago
"Meaningful Questions Have Return Types" by Drake Morrison
One way intellectual progress stalls is when you are asking the Wrong Questions. Your question is nonsensical, or cuts against the way reality works…
1 month, 1 week ago
"Carpathia Day" by Drake Morrison
(The better telling is here. Seriously you should go read it. I've heard this story told in rationalist circles, but there wasn't a post on LessWron…
1 month, 1 week ago
"Let goodness conquer all that it can defend" by habryka
Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post, so today we are re-inventing modernism.
In my post ye…
1 month, 1 week ago
"Do not conquer what you cannot defend" by habryka
Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post. So today we are re-inventing federalism.
Once upon a …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
"Nectome: All That I Know" by Raelifin
TLDR: I flew to Oregon to investigate Nectome, a brain preservation startup, and talk to their entire team. They’re an ambitious company, looking to…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
"Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me" by ryan_greenblatt
Many people—especially AI company employees [1] —believe current AI systems are well-aligned in the sense of genuinely trying to do what they're sup…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
"Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them" by Raemon
Here are two beliefs that are sort of haunting me right now:
Folk who try to push people to uphold principles (whether established ones or novel one…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
"Morale" by J Bostock
One particularly pernicious condition is low morale. Morale is, roughly, "the belief that if you work hard, your conditions will improve." If your m…
1 month, 2 weeks ago