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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.

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I'm cross-posting my guest post on Epoch's Gradient Updates newsletter, in which I describe some ne

Programmers have traditionally been contemptuous of management: if you're not writing code

This is a link post. There's this popular idea that socially anxious folks are just dying to be like

We should probably try to understand the failure modes of the alignment schemes that AGI developers

The system prompt being modified by an unauthorized person in pursuit of a ham-fisted political poin

Language models are not particularly good at generating funny jokes. Asked for their funniest jokes

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is the title of the new book coming September 16 from Eliezer Yu

People often say to “write like you talk.” Paul Graham has a post titled “Write Like You Talk” wher

SlimeMoldTimeMold (SMTM) recently finished a 13-part series on psychology, “The Mind in the Wheel”,

This concept and terminology was spawned out of a conversation a few years ago with my friend Skyle

Audio note: this article contains 59 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to

Our government is determined to lose the AI race in the name of winning the AI race. The least we

Eliezer and I wrote a book. It's titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Unlike a lot of other w

Introduction The Best Textbooks on Every Subject is the Schelling point for the best textbooks on e

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Audio note: this article contains 154 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to

This is a link post. Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism --- First published:

It was a cold and cloudy San Francisco Sunday. My wife and I were having lunch with friends at a Ko

Being a coherent and persistent agent with persistent goals is a prerequisite for long-horizon powe

I’m reading George Eliot's Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)—so far a snoozer compared to her