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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.

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There once was a post on LessWrong asking why so many bans? The OP of that post complained of, among

The sunlight hitting even a small portion of the United States has enough energy to power the whole

“Alderaan” by lsusr

2025/2/2

Obi-Wan Kenobi bought passage from a scumbag with a confusing name. Luke couldn't tell whether Han's

Common Law AI worked better than anyone expected.Dr. Sarah Chen was skeptical from the start. "You'r

Over the past year and half, I've had numerous conversations about the risks we describe in Gradual

I go to a lot of rationalist meetups. I quite enjoy them, and it's often because of the people who g

A friend of mine recently recommended that I read through articles from the journal International Se

As reactions continue, the word in Washington, and out of OpenAI, is distillation. They’re accusing

This is the best sociological account of the AI x-risk reduction efforts of the last ~decade that I'

I (and co-authors) recently put out "Alignment Faking in Large Language Models" where we show that w

This is a personal post and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of other members of Apollo Rese

In this post, I discuss a number of critiques of Guaranteed Safe AI (GSAI) approaches I’ve encounter

The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues. We are not yet spending more than a few hours at a time in

Midjourney, “synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, bioengineered microbes”Not too long ago, synthetic

This is a link post.Coauthored with Mark KurzejaA while back, we explored the “BiDPO” method for tra

In case you have not heard, there have been some recent and not-so-recent killings allegedly by peop

Many thinkers worth reading wrote in past centuries: 1600s: Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke

This is a linkpost accompanying a new paper by UK AISI and Redwood Research. Please see the full pap

This is a link post."If China can't get millions of chips, we'll (at least temporarily) live in a un