Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Morale” by J Bostock
One particularly pernicious condition is low morale. Morale is, roughly, "the belief that if you work hard, your conditions will improve." If your m…
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“Your Mom is a Chimera” by michaelwaves
And so are you!
When you were a fetus, you were sending millions of your cells through the placenta into your mom. And she was sending her cells int…
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“The Blast Radius Principle” by Martin Sustrik
In April 2024, a salvo of cruise missiles destroyed the Trypilska thermal power plant, the largest in the Kyiv region, in under an hour. In June 202…
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“How to make good tea” by RobertM
If you're starting from a baseline of drinking relatively cheap mass-market teabags, the easiest way to marginally improve your tea quality is by ma…
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“Catching illicit distributed training operations during an AI pause” by Robi Rahman
Last year, my colleagues on MIRI's Technical Governance Team proposed an international agreement to halt risky development of superhuman artificial …
1 week, 3 days ago
[Linkpost] “Scott Alexander gentrified my meetup” by dominicq
This is a link post.
On 10 April 2026, I organized an ACX/LW/rationality meetup.
Initially, I intended for it to be just our regular meetup, and “reg…
1 week, 3 days ago
“Pausing AI Is the Best Answer to Post-Alignment Problems” by MichaelDickens
Even if we solve the AI alignment problem, we still face post-alignment problems, which are all the other existential problems [1] that AI may brin…
1 week, 3 days ago
“Some thoughts on Nectome’s risk and resilience” by Aurelia
One of the best ways to reduce Nectome's long-term risk is to show that preservation is a thing people want by buying one yourself; this is a critic…
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“Chocolate Sloths, Tinder, and Moral Backstops” by J Bostock
My grandma has a poor understanding of moral hazard, when it comes to buying me 155g chocolate sloths.
Moral hazard is a concept in political econom…
1 week, 3 days ago
“Dario probably doesn’t believe in superintelligence” by RobertM
Epistemic status: I think this is true but don't think this post is a very strong argument for the case, or particularly interesting to read. But I …
1 week, 4 days ago