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Back to Search“The Mirror Test Is Complicated” by J Bostock
The Mirror Test is kind of like Hitler. In any discussion of animal cognition, somebody is going to bring it up. The conversation usually goes like …
6 days, 8 hours ago
“Contra Leicht on AI Pauses” by David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
This is going to be a nerdier article than usual. It's a response to Anton Leicht's blog post “Press Play To Continue”. I disagree with much of it a…
6 days, 9 hours ago
“Nectome: All That I Know” by Raelifin
TLDR: I flew to Oregon to investigate Nectome, a brain preservation startup, and talk to their entire team. They’re an ambitious company, looking to…
6 days, 9 hours ago
“Effective Altruism, Seen From Slytherin” by Xylix
Epistemic status: Left as an exercise for the reader.
I was thinking of EA outreach and its optics this week. And was inspired to glance at a speci…
6 days, 10 hours ago
“Majority Report” by peralice
[Attention conservation notice: description of a social phenomenon which may be obvious to some people.]
This post is partially inspired by Alexande…
6 days, 11 hours ago
“Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me” by ryan_greenblatt
Many people—especially AI company employees [1] —believe current AI systems are well-aligned in the sense of genuinely trying to do what they're sup…
6 days, 12 hours ago
“Contra Byrnes on UV & Cancer” by HedonicEscalator
In his recent LessWrong post, Some takes on UV & cancer, Steve Byrnes comes out against the "Public Health Orthodoxy" on UV. Among other topics I wo…
6 days, 20 hours ago
“Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Social Pressure To the Face” by Czynski
or: Invisible Social Consensus is Real And Can Hurt You
Related: Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them, both in terms of the claim bei…
1 week ago
“Mechanisms of Introspective Awareness” by Uzay Macar
Uzay Macar and Li Yang are co-first authors. This work was advised by Jack Lindsey and Emmanuel Ameisen, with contributions from Atticus Wang and Pe…
1 week ago
“Load-Bearing Sincerity: On the Motive Reinforcement Thesis” by Fiora Starlight
This post was written almost entirely before David Africa and Jacob Pfau published this post earlier today, which takes a different approach to the …
1 week ago