Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
If you've never read the LessWrong Sequences (which I read through the book-length compilation Ratio
Follow-up to: 2023 in AI predictions. Here I collect some AI predictions made in 2024. It's not very
United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd was a fighter pilot military strategist who developed seve
We celebrated New Year's Eve at my dad's, including a fire in the fireplace. I was curious how muc
(some plot spoilers) There's something distinctly uncomfortable about reading Greg Egan in the 2020s
Recently, 2 Chinese military aircraft were seen flying for the first time. Some people wanted to rea
Previous: My AGI safety research—2022 review, ’23 plans. (I guess I skipped it last year.)“Our great
What should we make of DeepSeek v3? DeepSeek v3 seems to clearly be the best open model, the best mo
This post is a follow-up to The Plan - 2023 Version. There's also The Plan - 2022 Update and The Pla
OpenAI presented o3 on the Friday before Thanksgiving, at the tail end of the 12 Days of Shipmas. I
Thanks to Stag Lynn, Anna Salmon, CFAR, Alex Zhu, Brian Toomey, Kaj Sotala, Damon Sasi, and lots mor
Tl;dr I've decided to shift my research from mechanistic interpretability to more empirical ("prosai
Related to: On green; Hierarchical agency; Why The Focus on Expected Utility Maximisers?Sometimes LL
Follow up to: Could orcas be smarter than humans?(For speed of writing, I mostly don't cite referenc
2024 is drawing to a close, which means it's an opportune time to make predictions about 2025. It's
To many people, the land value tax (LVT) has earned the reputation of being the "perfect tax." In th
from aisafety.world The following is a list of live agendas in technical AI safety, updating our pos
Two years ago, I noted that we had clearly entered the era of general intelligence, but that it was
In The Mystery Of Internet Survey IQs, Scott revises his estimate of the average LessWrong IQ from 1
I've heard many people say something like "money won't matter post-AGI". This has always struck me a
