3+ hour, 16+ min ago  (321+ words) This is a weekly round-up of things I've posted in the last week. So now you get to catch up! You can even be selective if you prefer:) Contra Leicht on AI Pauses takes apart Anton Leicht's piece arguing we…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (566+ words) Once, I went to talk about "curiosity" with @Logan Strohl. They noted "it seems like you have a good handle on 'active curiosity', but you don't really do much diffuse 'open curiosity.'" The convo went on for awhile, and felt…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1480+ words) Here is a thing nobody else in the east quarter seems to have noticed, and Tham has tried to work out why, and his best theory is that it isn't the adding. Everyone can add. It's that nobody around here…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (933+ words) Having become frustrated with the vaguely expressed utopian timelines on Twitter, I've decided to write out a specific timeline for how I think achieving utopia happens. In short, I believe this is what a good transition from now to utopia…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1861+ words) Hello, Less Wrong. This is a personal introduction diary-ish post and it does not have a thesis. I apologise if this isn't a good fit for the website; I just needed to unload my brain somewhere and this seemed like…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1805+ words) Build more housing where people want to live. The rest is commentary. If there is enough housing, it will be affordable, people will afford more house, and people will be able to live where they want to live. It's always…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (352+ words) A few years ago, I stumbled upon a highly disturbing Psych Forums thread on a mental health recovery message board. I usually don't require content warnings, but I found the responses in this thread to be profoundly distressing, so please…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (479+ words) So what can actually be done? As a toy example[5]: let's say I currently think there is a 40% chance AI eventually goes extraordinarily bad for humanity. I could either: If I want to figure out how to have the most…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (552+ words) In this post I have decided to name these creatures Sun Shrimp (Solis caridea), as this is a more cuddly visual that counterweights our own bias towards Earth organisms. We shall define a Sun Shrimp as a self-replicating magnetohydrodynamic structure…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1791+ words) Last night, Anthropic was given its preliminary injunction, with a stay of seven days. Emil Michael is a very angry person right now. So is the Honorable Judge Lin. We were worried we would draw a judge that had no…...