Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Dying with Whimsy” by NickyP
To me it feels pretty emotionally clear we are nearing the end-times with AI. That in 1-4 years[1] things will be radically transformed, that at lea…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
“AI for AI for Epistemics” by owencb, Lukas Finnveden
We feel conscious that rapid AI progress could transform all sorts of cause areas. But we haven’t previously analysed what this means for AI for epi…
3 weeks ago
“Announcing Doublehaven with Reflections on Humour” by J Bostock
Inkhaven is a writers’ retreat, well, really it's a bloggers’ retreat. In the Lighthaven campus, Berkeley, a couple dozen bloggers get together to c…
3 weeks ago
“Save the Sun Shrimp!” by Jack
The supposition that we live in a "goldilocks zone" is frankly just nonsense built up by an anthropocentric need to feel self-important, like Copern…
3 weeks ago
“Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust” by Zvi
Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
The changes involved include abandoning many previous commitments, including one not to…
3 weeks ago
“LIMBO: Who We Are, What We Do, and an Exciting High-Impact Funding Opportunity” by faul_sname
We are excited to publicly introduce the Laboratory for Importance-sampled Measure and Bayesian Observation (LIMBO), a small research group working …
3 weeks ago
“Chat, is this sus?” by Tyler Tracy
A large assumption we have made in AI control is that humans will be perfect at auditing, that is, being shown a transcript and determining if the A…
3 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…
3 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 …
3 weeks ago
“The Claude Code Source Leak” by Error
(mods: I assume this is blowing up twitter and so discussing it here won't do additional damage -- and there are already a thousand github forks -- …
3 weeks ago