Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
Response to Discursive Games, Discursive WarfareThe discursive distortions you discuss serve two fun
TL;DR: Making claims or demands about/into other people's internal states, rather than about your st
SPOILER WARNING: Extensive spoilers for XX.XX was recommended by one of the comments on my Sci-Fi mi
There's a conventional narrative by which the pre-20th century aristocracy was the “old corruption”
The Sun is the most nutritious thing that's reasonably close. It's only 8 light-minutes away, yet co
This post reflects my personal opinion and not necessarily that of other members of Apollo Research
tl;dr: LLMs rapidly improving at software engineering and math means lots of projects are better off
TL;DR: There may be a fundamental problem with interpretability work that attempts to understand neu
A while back I gave a talk about doing AI safety as a YC startup. I wrote a blog post about it and t
Our research is centered on empirical research with LLMs. So if you are doing something similar, the
"Is this…enlightenment?" I asked. "We use the word 'Awakening'," said the Zen Master, kindly. "Now w
This is an interim research report on role embeddings, an approach to make language models more robu
(Both characters are fictional, loosely inspired by various traits from various real people. Be care
IntroductionI’ll write a series of posts in which I'll introduce alternative cancer care. I’ll expl
This week, Altman offers a post called Reflections, and he has an interview in Bloomberg. There's a
Epistemic Status: This post is an attempt to condense some ideas I've been thinking about for quite
Related: On the 2nd CWT with Jonathan Haidt, The Kids are Not Okay, Full Access to Smartphones is No
There is a simple behavioral test that would provide significant evidence about whether AIs with a g
You would like to go to the beach tomorrow if it's sunny, but aren't sure whether it will rain; if i
(Cross-post from https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/p/are-we-on-the-brink-of-agi, lightly edited fo
