Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
SummaryAs some of you may already know, it's been ten years since Harry Potter and the Method of Ra
(Audio version here (read by the author), or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.Th
This is a link post.This is a linkpost for a new paper called Preparing for the Intelligence Explosi
Epistemic status: Speculative pattern-matching based on public information. In 2023, Gwern published
Epistemic status: The following isn't an airtight argument, but mostly a guess how things play out.
TL;DR: We provide some evidence that Claude 3.7 Sonnet doesn’t encode hidden reasoning in its scratc
You learn the rules as soon as you’re old enough to speak. Don’t talk to jabberjays. You recite them
Note: This post is intended to be the first in a broader series of posts about the difficult tradeof
While at core there is ‘not much to see,’ it is, in two ways, a sign of things to come. Over the wee
Exciting Update: OpenAI has released this blog post and paper which makes me very happy. It's basica
OpenAI has released this blog post and paper which makes me very happy. It's basically the first ste
[Crossposted from: https://www.catalyze-impact.org/blog] We are excited to introduce the eleven org
After years of clumsily trying to pick up neuroscience by osmosis from papers, I finally got myself
This video provides a lot of background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4 and is also ver
Preserving the memory, and the cells, of the best cat everThis story begins in May 2007. The Iraq W
I'm in a coworking space on the 25th floor of a building in the bay. In the corner of my eyes, the r
This complication of tales from the world of school isn’t all negative. I don’t want to overstate th
This was GPT-4.5 week. That model is not so fast, and isn’t that much progress, but it definitely ha
I have lots of thoughts about software engineering, some popular, some unpopular, and sometimes abou
