Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
Capitalism is a force that has lifted billions out of poverty, where even poor remote villagers enjo
Take a stereotypical fantasy novel, a textbook on mathematical logic, and Fifty Shades of Grey. Mix
The year in models certainly finished off with a bang. In this penultimate week, we get o3, which pu
For the past few months I've been working on an AI generated alternate solstice remix album. It's no
A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has
This post offers an accessible model of psychology of character-trained LLMs like Claude. Epistemic
I've heard repeatedly from many people that the highest-value part of conferences is not the talks o
This is a link post.This is a link to the latest Bayesian Conspiracy episode. Oliver tells us how Le
This post goes over the important and excellent new paper from Anthropic and Redwood Research, with
Once I talked to a person who said they were asexual. They were also heavily depressed and thought a
I'm seeing a lot of people on LW saying that they have very short timelines (say, five years or less
Of the posts I've delayed writing for years, I maybe regret this one the most.I think more people (x
A lot happened this week. We’re seeing release after release after upgrade. It's easy to lose sight
In a variety of conversations about AI misalignment risks, I find that it is important to be able to
I used to think that all generic strategy advice was pointless. After all, the point of a strategy i
2.5 years ago Scott Alexander made a bet that by June of 2025, image gen should have more or less so
Funding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on Fro
Note: below is a hypothetical future written in strong terms and does not track my actual probabilit
My median expectation is that AGI[1] will be created 3 years from now. This has implications on how
Last week, a report was released on the potential risks of mirror biology - that is, biological syst
