Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
Introduction There are several diseases that are canonically recognized as ‘interesting’, even by
Cross-posted from Otherwise. Caveats: My oldest child is 11, and I don’t have parenting experience
I like debate. I have done for years. So I have been slowly trying to improve it. Here is a set of
This is a link post. A very long essay about LLMs, the nature and history of the the HHH assistant p
When I was first learning about hypnosis, one of the things that was very confusing to me is how "e
Are we doing this again? It looks like we are doing this again. This time it involves giving LLMs s
This is a blogpost version of a talk I gave earlier this year at GDM. Epistemic status: Vague and
As I ease out into a short sabbatical, I find myself turning back to dig the seeds of my repeated c
I often want to include an image in my posts to give a sense of a situation. A photo communicates
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Recently, Anthropic released Opus 4 and said they couldn't rule out the model triggering ASL-3 safe
Edit on 08/06/2024: At least one person has pointed out that, at one point, giving hypertensives at
This is a link post. METR just made a lovely post detailing many examples they've found of reward ha
Disempowerment is on the fence, gets interpreted as either implying human extinction or being a goo
AI companies claim that their models are safe on the basis of dangerous capability evaluations. Open
Our older two, ages 11 and 9, have been learning fiddle, and are getting pretty good at it. When
TL;DR We reproduce emergent misalignment (Betley et al. 2025) in Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct using s
When our kids were 7 and 5 they started walking home from school alone. We wrote explaining they
A year ago, I decided to reduce my employment level from 100% to 80% and to take Fridays off. My ma
Our three year old is about to turn four, and is bursting with a desire for independence. She's
