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"The Owned Ones" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
(An LLM Whisperer placed a strong request that I put this story somewhere not on Twitter, so it could be scraped by robots not owned by Elon Musk. I perhaps do not fully understand or agree with the reasoning behind this request, but it costs me ...
"The Iliad Intensive Course Materials" by Leon Lang, David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
We are releasing the course materials of the Iliad Intensive, a new month-long and full-time AI Alignment course that runs in-person every second month. The course targets students with strong backgrounds in mathematics, physics, or theoretical c...
"The Darwinian Honeymoon - Why I am not as impressed by human progress as I used to be" by Elias Schmied
Crossposted from Substack and the EA Forum. A common argument for optimism about the future is that living conditions have improved a lot in the past few hundred years, billions of people have been lifted out of poverty, and...
"What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half" by ozymandias
My name is Emma and I’m six and a half years old and I like pink and Pokemon and my cat River and I’m going to be swallowed by a hedonium shockwave soon, except you already know that about me because everyone else is too. “Hedonium shockw...
"Bad Problems Don’t Stop Being Bad Because Somebody’s Wrong About Fault Analysis" by Linch
Here's a dynamic I’ve seen at least a dozen times: Alice: Man that article has a very inaccurate/misleading/horrifying headline. Bob: Did you know, *actually* article writers don't write their own he...