Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
The Dead Biologist Suppose you're a biologist working with a bacterium. It's a nasty little bug, so
Throughout the first half of 2025 I did a blinded experiment to see how low to moderate melatonin i
This is a link post. Abstract: We propose a new variant of online learning that we call "ambiguous o
This is more speculative and confusing than my typical posts and I also think the content of this p
Crosspost from my blog. Regime change Conjecture: when there is regime change, the default outcom
There was what everyone agrees was a high quality critique of the timelines component of AI 2027, b
TLDR: I think that AI developers will and should attempt to reduce scheming by explicitly training
I think the AI Village should be funded much more than it currently is; I’d wildly guess that the AI
Nathan Delisle, University of Chicago tl;dr: Many critiques of *Situational Awareness* have been pu
Audio note: this article contains 113 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to
People keep saying "AI isn't magic, it's just maths" like this is some kind of gotcha. Turning lead
2.1 Summary & Table of contents This is the second of a two-post series on foom (previous post)
1.1 Series summary and Table of Contents This is a two-post series on AI “foom” (this post) and “doo
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the relationship between AI control and traditional compute
As many folks in AI safety have observed, even if well-intentioned actors succeed at intent-aligning
Note: This is a linkpost from my personal substack. This is on a culture war topic, which is not no
John Wentworth recently posted a discussion-inducing piece about how the willingness to be vulnerab
I'll explain my reasoning in a second, but I'll start with the conclusion: I think it'd be healthy
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PDF version. berkeleygenomics.org. x.com. bluesky. YouTube. Introduction We, the free world, as a
