Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 months ago
“Contra papers claiming superhuman AI forecasting ” by nikos, Peter Mühlbacher, Lawrence Phillips, dschwarz
[Conflict of interest disclaimer: We are FutureSearch, a company working on AI-powered forecasting and other types of quantitative reasoning. If thin…
1 year, 7 months ago
“OpenAI o1 ” by Zach Stein-Perlman
This is a link post. ---
First published:
September 12th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bhY5a…
1 year, 7 months ago
“The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay ” by J Bostock
Epistemic status: these are my own opinions on AI risk communication, based primarily on my own instincts on the subject and discussions with people …
1 year, 7 months ago