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Can we rely on law? — LessWrong
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (1312+ words) Virtually every plan to avert AI-catastrophe assumes legal regulation will remain a reliable tool. Plan A in AI 2040; slowdown in AI 2027, and severa…...
Woke nonsense in competitive debate. — LessWrong
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (652+ words) I had no prior LD experience before going to camp, so I’m likely only acquainted with a fraction of the nonsense that is taken seriously by competitive debaters. The most popular form of argumentation seems to be Kritiks, or critical…...
Occam’s razor is about using the past to predict the future — LessWrong
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (315+ words) Occam’s razor is both intuitive and counter-intuitive. It seems obvious that a simpler explanation is probably better; but it’s not clear why simplicity is raised to such a level of philosophical importance. My take is that, if you neglect simplicity,…...
The Warring States Period: Frontier Labs Edition — LessWrong
10+ hour, 42+ min ago (139+ words) This post was originally posted my Substack. I can be reached on LinkedIn and X. …...
How Brussels can avoid becoming a digital vassal to US Big Tech — LessWrong
13+ hour, 30+ min ago (384+ words) An export-control order in June exposed the real problem—and why Europe's regulatory toolkit can't fix it. [1] Washington at least maintains some amount of leverage over these firms—the export-control ban, the administration’s semi-successful attempts to limit NVIDIA chip sales…...
Capability didn't fix my avoidance; it made the avoidance more sophisticated — LessWrong
20+ hour, 9+ min ago (339+ words) I spent the last month running a persistent personal-AI system on top of Claude Code. This is a field note, not a benchmark, and the hypothesis it left me with is uncomfortable: greater capability did not reduce my avoidance of…...
Your Brain Has an Attack Surface part 2 — LessWrong
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (425+ words) This is a continuation of the post Your Brain Has an Attack Surface. If you haven’t read it, here is the short version: there is a covert channel. Al…...
What if we actually want to solve the "hard problem of phenomenological consciousness" — LessWrong
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (676+ words) Namely, he describes a stratification into Camp 1, people for whom neither the notion of qualia nor the claims that the Hard Problem of Consciousness is exceptionally difficult make much sense, and Camp 2, people for whom the notion of qualia is…...
What if AI Safety employees unionised? — LessWrong
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (962+ words) American bald eagle caws angrily in the distance Whoa whoa whoa, just hear me out. Unions aren’t usually a good answer for free-market loving libertarians, but one particular AI safety problem is awfully union-shaped: Repeatedly, companies have started out being…...
Why frontier labs are scaling-pilled — LessWrong
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (739+ words) This is a crosspost from my substack. • What would it take to make progress towards general intelligence, where general stands for any problem that m…...