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Information throughput of biological humans and frontier LLMs

benwrFeb 22, 2025, 7:15 AM

12 points

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Biological humans collectively exert at most 400 gigabits/s of control over the world.

benwrFeb 20, 2025, 11:44 PM

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Not all capabilities will be created equal: focus on strategically superhuman agents

benwrFeb 13, 2025, 1:24 AM

59 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Bounty for Evidence on Some of Palisade Research’s Beliefs

benwr and Jeffrey Ladish

Sep 23, 2024, 8:01 PM

46 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

11 diceware words is enough

DanielFilan and benwr

Feb 15, 2024, 12:13 AM

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

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[Question] What policies have most thoroughly crippled (otherwise-promising) industries or technologies?

benwrDec 27, 2022, 2:25 AM

40 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

A Litany Missing from the Canon

benwrJun 17, 2022, 1:39 AM

39 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

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Sneaking Suspicion

benwrMay 27, 2022, 7:17 PM

17 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Entropy isn’t sufficient to measure password strength

benwrJan 17, 2022, 6:41 AM

36 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

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[Question] Do you do weekly or daily reviews? What are they like?

benwrAug 5, 2019, 1:23 AM

23 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

benwr’s unpolished thoughts

benwrJul 29, 2019, 2:18 AM

4 points

48 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’ve started using NoScript

benwrMay 15, 2019, 9:32 PM

17 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Usernames in RSS feeds

benwrFeb 19, 2018, 2:22 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

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