Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma.If you
Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile inform
I'm not writing this to alarm anyone, but it would be irresponsible not to report on something
Remember: There is no such thing as a pink elephant. Recently, I was made aware that my “infohazard
Let's cut through the comforting narratives and examine a common behavioral pattern with a sha
In the debate over AI development, two movements stand as opposites: PauseAI calls for slowing down
Introduction Decision theory is about how to behave rationally under conditions of uncertainty, esp
Dear LessWrong community, It is with a sense of... considerable cognitive dissonance that I announc
Our community is not prepared for an AI crash. We're good at tracking new capability developme
Epistemic status: Reasonably confident in the basic mechanism. Have you noticed that you keep encou
[This is our blog post on the papers, which can be found at https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/a
About nine months ago, I and three friends decided that AI had gotten good enough to monitor large
(Audio version here (read by the author), or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podc
LessWrong has been receiving an increasing number of posts and contents that look like they might b
Thanks to Jesse Richardson for discussion. Polymarket asks: will Jesus Christ return in 2025? In t
TL;DR Having a good research track record is some evidence of good big-picture takes, but it's
When my son was three, we enrolled him in a study of a vision condition that runs in my family. The
I’m releasing a new paper “Superintelligence Strategy” alongside Eric Schmidt (formerly Google), and
This is a link post. Summary: We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the length of tasks AI
I have, over the last year, become fairly well-known in a small corner of the internet tangentially
Note: this is a research note based on observations from evaluating Claude Sonnet 3.7. We’re sharing
