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Overview of (Some) Biotech-Based Adult Intelligence Amplification Approaches
Published on August 25, 2025 8:00 AM GMTDefinitionsBy "biotech-based", I mean approaches relying on life science knowledge and tools, so brain-computer interfaces, mind uploading, exocortexes, software, psychology, institutions and things...
The Best Resources To Build Any Intuition
Published on August 24, 2025 7:12 PM GMTMany textbooks, tutorials or ... tapes leave out the ways people actually think about a subject, abandoning you to fumble your way to...
The Best Materials To Build Any Intuition
Published on August 24, 2025 7:12 PM GMTMany textbooks, tutorials or ... tapes leave out the ways people actually think about a subject, abandoning you to fumble your way to...
Was LessWrong always meant as a gradient descent pun?
Published on August 24, 2025 6:53 PM GMTDid Eliezer (or whoever coined the name) intentionally choose it as an implicit machine learning reference? Or is this just a case of...
Evolution favors the ability to change subjective probabilities in MWI + Experimental test
Published on August 24, 2025 2:58 PM GMTEpistemic status: interesting theory, not sure if trueTL;DR: Natural selection would favor the capability to change subjective probabilities in MWI as it significantly...
Legal Personhood - Intellectual Property
Published on August 24, 2025 6:05 AM GMTThis is part 14 of a series I am posting on LW. Here you can find parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,...
Non-Dual Language is Enlightenment
Published on August 24, 2025 4:56 AM GMTAbstract This whitepaper proposes a radical thesis regarding the nature of spiritual awakening or enlightenment: the stable, consistent adoption of a Non-Dual Language...
Kids and Cleaning
Published on August 24, 2025 3:30 AM GMT Before having kids I thought teaching them to clean up would be similar to the rest of parenting: once they're physically able...
Shorter Tokens Are More Likely
Published on August 24, 2025 12:22 AM GMTI was thinking about LLM tokenization (as one does) and had a thought: We select the next output token for an LLM based...
Thoughts About how RLHF and Related "Prosaic" Approaches Could be Used to Create Robustly Aligned AIs.
Published on August 23, 2025 9:05 PM GMTMany people take it for granted that this is extremely unlikely to work. The central worry is that, given a loss-function and a...
On the Function of Faith in A Probably-Simulated Universe
Published on August 23, 2025 8:28 PM GMTA SummaryPeople who believe in science and rationality often state that their beliefs are formed from sound foundations of observation, experimentation, and reasoning....
How a Non-Dual Language Could Redefine AI Safety
Published on August 23, 2025 4:40 PM GMTThe existential threat posed by Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is arguably the most critical challenge facing humanity. The argument, compellingly summarized in the LessWrong...
The Data Scaling Hypothesis
Published on August 23, 2025 6:18 PM GMTThis idea is already implicit in most people's thinking, but I wanted something I could link to. I propose we use the data...
The Case For an AI Safety Political Party in the US
Published on August 23, 2025 5:21 PM GMTIntroduction:Artificial Intelligence is advancing rapidly, raising significant concerns about its safe development and deployment. Despite widespread public concern about AI, there is a...
The Startup Jungle
Published on August 23, 2025 2:59 PM GMTWhat if your biggest blind spot is how you’re looking I: Many paths throughIn a long conversation with a friend, we started pitching...
Futility Illusions
Published on August 23, 2025 10:54 AM GMT…or the it doesn’t make a difference anyway fallacy. Improving Productivity is FutileI once had a coaching call on some generic productivity topic...
About Enlightenment – AMA
Published on August 23, 2025 9:02 AM GMTThe Enlightenment AMA appeared, and answers began flowing in response to its questions. Some of those answers are shared here. Q: Suppose someone...
Legal Personhood - Corporate Ownership & Formation
Published on August 23, 2025 5:45 AM GMTThis is part 13 of a series I am posting on LW. Here you can find parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,...
AI 2027 Response Followup
Published on August 23, 2025 4:41 AM GMTThis is taken from a comment I wrote because it ended up being very long, and it addressed objections I have heard from...
AGI 2027 Response Followup
Published on August 23, 2025 4:41 AM GMTThis is taken from a comment I wrote because it ended up being very long, and it addressed objections I have heard from...