Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
IntroductionH5N1 is a looming threat, making regular headlines. The CDC has identified 66 U.S. huma
I mostly work on risks from scheming (that is, misaligned, power-seeking AIs that plot against their
This is a link post.We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understoo
Audio note: this article contains 94 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to
Civilization is an inherited game shaped by those before you. You start this game as a product of pr
I am about to start working on a frontier lab safety team. This post presents a varied set of perspe
As someone who writes for fun, I don't need to get people onto my site: If I write a pos
Crossposted from my personal blog. I was inspired to cross-post this here given the discussion that
The anonymous review of The Anti-Politics Machine published on Astral Codex X focuses on a case stud
TL;DR: We ran a human subject study on whether language models can successfully spear-phish people.
“Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome.” – Charlie MungerEconomists are used to model
We’re releasing Squiggle AI, a tool that generates probabilistic models using the Squiggle language
Audio note: this article contains 108 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to
This is a quick announcement/commitment post:I've been working at the PIBBSS Horizon Scanning team (
AI risk discussions often focus on malfunctions, misuse, and misalignment. But this often misses oth
The PuzzleThere's a simple Monty Hall adjacent probability puzzle that goes like this:Puzzle 1 I ha
The Rationalist Project was our last best hope for peace. An epistemic world 50 million words long,
You asked why people who "believe in" avoiding nonmarital sex so frequently engage in and report bad
Audio note: this article contains 55 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to
This is a low-effort post. I mostly want to get other people's takes and express concern about the l
