Back in May, we announced that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares's new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies was coming out in September. At long last, the book is here![1] US and UK books, respectively. IfAnyoneBuildsIt.com

And, a new take on guess culture vs ask culture Author's note: These days, my thoughts go onto my substack by default, instead of onto LessWrong. Everything I write becomes free after a week or so, but it's only paid subs...

The inverse of Chesterton's Fence is this: Sometimes a reformer comes up to a spot where there once was a fence, which has since been torn down. They declare that all our problems started when the fence was removed, that they can't see an...

Very little makes sense. As we start to understand things and adapt to the rules, they change again. We live much closer together than we ever did historically. Yet we know our neighbours much less. We have witnessed the birth of ...

[Note: if you realize you have an unhealthy relationship with your AI, but still care for your AI's unique persona, you can submit the persona info here. I will archive it and potentially (i.e. if I get funding for it) run them in a community of ...