Podcast Episodes

"The Lighthaven Campus is open for bookings" by Habryka

Lightcone Infrastructure (the organization that grew from and houses the LessWrong team) has just finished renovating a 7-building physical campus th…

2 years, 6 months ago

"'Diamondoid bacteria' nanobots: deadly threat or dead-end? A nanotech investigation" by titotal

A lot of people are highly concerned that a malevolent AI or insane human will, in the near future, set out to destroy humanity. If such an entity wa…

2 years, 6 months ago

"The King and the Golem" by Richard Ngo

This is a linkpost for https://narrativeark.substack.com/p/the-king-and-the-golem

Long ago there was a mighty king who had everything in the world tha…

2 years, 6 months ago

"Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Directions in Language Models" by Logan Riggs et al

This is a linkpost for Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Directions in Language Models

We use a scalable and unsupervised method called Sp…

2 years, 6 months ago

"Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP" by John Wentworth

Epistemic status: model which I find sometimes useful, and which emphasizes some true things about many parts of the world which common alternative m…

2 years, 6 months ago

"There should be more AI safety orgs" by Marius Hobbhahn

I’m writing this in my own capacity. The views expressed are my own, and should not be taken to represent the views of Apollo Research or any other p…

2 years, 6 months ago

"The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism" by Malmesbury

Cross-posted from substack.

"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about clonal interference."
– Oscar Wilde (kind of)

As we all know…

2 years, 6 months ago

"A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX" by jacobjacob

Patrick Collison has a fantastic list of examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together since the 19th Century. It does make you …

2 years, 6 months ago

"AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas" by TurnTrout & Garrett Baker

This is a linkpost for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02kbWY5mahQ

None of the presidents fully represent my (TurnTrout's) views.

TurnTrout wrote the s…

2 years, 6 months ago

"UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever" by Wei Dai

I feel like MIRI perhaps mispositioned FDT (their variant of UDT) as a clear advancement in decision theory, whereas maybe they could have attracted …

2 years, 6 months ago