Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma.If you
Effective altruism prides itself on truthseeking. That pride is justified in the sense that EA is be
This is a linkpost for https://narrativeark.substack.com/p/the-king-and-the-golemLong ago there was
This is a linkpost for Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Directions in Language ModelsWe
Epistemic status: model which I find sometimes useful, and which emphasizes some true things about m
I’m writing this in my own capacity. The views expressed are my own, and should not be taken to repr
Cross-posted from substack."Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about clon
Patrick Collison has a fantastic list of examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things t
This is a linkpost for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02kbWY5mahQNone of the presidents fully repre
I feel like MIRI perhaps mispositioned FDT (their variant of UDT) as a clear advancement in decision
How do you affect something far away, a lot, without anyone noticing?(Note: you can safely skip sect
This is a linkpost for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TsYkDYtV6BKiCN9PAOirRAy3TrNDu2XncUZ5UZfaA
Context: I sometimes find myself referring back to this tweet and wanted to give it a more permanent
About how much information are we keeping in working memory at a given moment?"Miller's La
Added (11th Sept): Nonlinear have commented that they intend to write a response, have written a sho
Until about five years ago, I unironically parroted the slogan All Cops Are Bastards (ACAB) and earn
In which: I list 9 projects that I would work on if I wasn’t busy working on safety standards at ARC
To quickly recap my main intellectual journey so far (omitting a lengthy side trip into cryptography
We focus so much on arguing over who is at fault in this country that I think sometimes we fail to a
In Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations" (Perez et al 2022), the
I keep seeing advice on ambition, aimed at people in college or early in their career, that would ha
