lc

Karma: 9,962

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit

lcMar 24, 2025, 7:28 PM

311 points

77 comments8 min readLW link

(zeropath.com)

Virtue signaling, and the “humans-are-wonderful” bias, as a trust exercise

lcFeb 13, 2025, 6:59 AM

44 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

My simple AGI investment & insurance strategy

lcMar 31, 2024, 2:51 AM

131 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

Aligned AI is dual use technology

lcJan 27, 2024, 6:50 AM

58 points

31 comments2 min readLW link

You can just spontaneously call people you haven’t met in years

lcNov 13, 2023, 5:21 AM

166 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does bulemia work?

lcNov 6, 2023, 5:58 PM

5 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should people build productizations of open source AI models?

lcNov 2, 2023, 1:26 AM

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Bariatric surgery seems like a no-brainer for most morbidly obese people

lcSep 27, 2023, 1:05 AM

12 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Bring back the Colosseums

lcSep 8, 2023, 12:09 AM

18 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Diet Experiment Preregistration: Long-term water fasting + seed oil removal

lcAug 23, 2023, 10:08 PM

56 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

The U.S. is becoming less stable

lcAug 18, 2023, 9:13 PM

147 points

68 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the most effective anti-tyranny charity?

lcAug 15, 2023, 3:26 PM

20 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Michael Shellenberger: US Has 12 Or More Alien Spacecraft, Say Military And Intelligence Contractors

lcJun 9, 2023, 4:11 PM

11 points

31 comments3 min readLW link

(public.substack.com)

Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin

lcJun 6, 2023, 3:54 AM

33 points

151 comments1 min readLW link

(thedebrief.org)

[Question] What is the literature on long term water fasts?

lcMay 16, 2023, 3:23 AM

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

“Do X because decision theory” ~= “Do X because bayes theorem”

lcApr 14, 2023, 8:57 PM

39 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

St. Patty’s Day LA meetup

lcMar 18, 2023, 12:00 AM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Will 2023 be the last year you can write short stories and receive most of the intellectual credit for writing them?

lcMar 16, 2023, 9:36 PM

20 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] When will computer programming become an unskilled job (if ever)?

lcMar 16, 2023, 5:46 PM

36 points

55 comments1 min readLW link

POC || GTFO culture as partial antidote to alignment wordcelism

lcMar 15, 2023, 10:21 AM

155 points

13 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews