Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Specialization is a Driver of Natural Ontology” by johnswentworth
Part of what makes a pencil a good object is that all its parts share approximately the same rotational velocity - i.e. it's a rigid body object. Pa…
4 days, 19 hours ago
“On Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang” by Zvi
Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level. This was one of those. So here we go.
As usual for …
4 days, 19 hours ago
[Linkpost] “You can only build safe ASI if ASI is globally banned” by Connor Leahy
This is a link post.
Sometimes people make various suggestions that we should simply build "safe" artificial Superintelligence (ASI), rather than the…
4 days, 19 hours 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…
4 days, 19 hours ago
“Beware of Well-Written Posts” by alseph
Beware of when a post is so well-written that you can't put it down. Be wary of posts that are more visually attractive than average. Beware of post…
5 days, 2 hours ago
“You Aren’t in Charge of the Overton Window; Politics Is Not Interior Design” by Davidmanheim
Sometimes, people don't say what they actually think, not because saying it would be rude or costly, but because they believe saying it now would be…
5 days, 14 hours 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…
5 days, 19 hours ago
“Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #7: Auto Mode” by Zvi
As we all try to figure out what Mythos means for us down the line, the world of practical agentic coding continues, with the latest array of upgrad…
5 days, 22 hours 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 …
5 days, 23 hours ago
“What is the Iliad Intensive?” by Leon Lang, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, David Udell
Almost two months ago, Iliad announced the Iliad Intensive and Iliad Fellowship. Fellowships are a well-understood unit, but what is an intensive? T…
6 days, 3 hours ago