$250 bounties for the best short stories set in our near future world & Brooklyn event to select them
Published on October 4, 2025 10:49 PM GMTFollowing an April event (LessWrong announcement post) where…
Category: Opinion
How the NanoGPT Speedrun WR dropped by 20% in 3 months
Published on October 5, 2025 1:05 AM GMTIn early 2024 Andrej Karpathy stood up an…
a quick thought about AI alignment
Published on October 5, 2025 12:51 AM GMTEpistemic status: I am new to AI alignment…
Making Your Pain Worse can Get You What You Want
Published on October 5, 2025 12:19 AM GMTI remember going to church w/ my mom…
Markets in Democracy: What happens when you can sell your vote?
Published on October 4, 2025 11:59 PM GMTSo, about 25 years ago, I had the…
What I’ve Learnt About How to Sleep
Published on October 4, 2025 8:52 PM GMTSleeping too much can tire me out as…
The ‘Magic’ of LLMs: The Function of Language
Published on October 4, 2025 5:45 PM GMTFrom Universal Function Approximators to Theory of MindThis…
Goodness is harder to achieve than competence
Published on October 3, 2025 9:32 PM GMTThis post is part of the sequence Against…
Good is a smaller target than smart
Published on October 3, 2025 9:04 PM GMTThis post is part of the sequence Against…
Making Sense of Consciousness Part 6: Perceptions of Disembodiment
Published on October 3, 2025 8:40 PM GMTMidjourney, “out-of-body experience, doppelganger, disembodiment, depersonalization, ipseity disturbance,…