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Back to Search"dark ilan" by ozymandias
The second time Vellam uncovers the conspiracy underlying all of society, he approaches a Keeper.
Some of the difference is convenience. Since Vella…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"Dispatch from Anthropic v. Department of War Preliminary Injunction Motion Hearing" by Zack_M_Davis
Dateline SAN FRANCISCO, Ca., 24 March 2026— A hearing was held on a motion for a preliminary injunction in the case of Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Departm…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"The Corner-Stone" by Benquo
Is the US a ruthless cognitive meritocracy that reliably promotes outlier talent? VB Knives defended that claim in a Twitter argument against Living…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"The Practical Guide to Superbabies" by GeneSmith
It's Summer of 2025. I’m standing in a grass covered field on the longest day of the year. A friend of mine walks towards me, holding his newborn so…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"Anthropic’s Pause is the Most Expensive Alarm in Corporate History" by Ruby
Imagine Apple halting iPhone production because studies linked smartphones to teen suicide rates. Imagine Pfizer proactively pulling Lipitor because…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
"“You Have Not Been a Good User” (LessWrong’s second album)" by habryka
tldr: The Fooming Shoggoths are releasing their second album "You Have Not Been a Good User"! Available on Spotify, Youtube Music and (hopefully wit…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
"Lesswrong Liberated" by Ronny Fernandez
A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of LLMism.
The history of all hitherto existing forums is the history of clashing design tastes.
For …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
"Product Alignment is not Superintelligence Alignment (and we need the latter to survive)" by plex
tl;dr: progress on making Claude friendly[1] is not the same as progress on making it safe to build godlike superintelligence. solving the former do…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
"Gyre" by vgel
! 30s Heartbeat trigger. Read heartbeat instructions in /mnt/mission/HEARTBEAT.md and continue.
.oO Thinking...
Heartbeat triggered? Ok. Ok.
Why am …
2 months ago
"Some things I noticed while LARPing as a grantmaker" by Zach Stein-Perlman
Written to a new grantmaker.
Most value comes from finding/creating projects many times your bar, rather than discriminating between opportunities …
2 months ago