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  1. 48 分鐘前

    “Favorite quotes from ‘High Output Management’” by Nina Panickssery

    Some months ago I read the classic management book High Output Management and made a note of quotes that rang particularly true to me. I normally dislike this genre (management books), and disagree with some popular ones (I sympathize with this review of Scaling People, for example), but found High Output Management pretty reasonable. It's also interesting to see the extent to which its recommendations continue to be followed in successful organizations to this date (the book was published in 1983, but is still popular and recommend amongst tech managers). This post is a list of my copied quotes (headings mine). Delegate activities that are familiar to you Given a choice, should you delegate activities that are familiar to you or those that aren’t? Before answering, consider the following principle: delegation without follow-through is abdication. You can never wash your hands of a task. Even after you delegate it, you are still responsible for its accomplishment, and monitoring the delegated task is the only practical way for you to ensure a result. Monitoring is not meddling, but means checking to make sure an activity is proceeding in line with expectations. Because it is easier to monitor something with [...] --- Outline: (00:46) Delegate activities that are familiar to you (01:38) Should you have personal relationships with your colleagues? (02:08) Use random spot-checks (02:34) On performance reviews (03:47) Assess substance, not potential (05:08) Surprises (05:53) Criticize high achievers (07:18) On interviewing (08:07) Measuring problem-solving ability (09:11) Tricks bad --- First published: November 13th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jAH4dYhbw3CkpoHz5/favorite-quotes-from-high-output-management --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    10 分鐘

  2. 4 小時前

    “The Pope Offers Wisdom” by Zvi

    The Pope is a remarkably wise and helpful man. He offered us some wisdom. Yes, he is generally playing on easy mode by saying straightforwardly true things, but that's meeting the world where it is. You have to start somewhere. Some rejected his teachings. Wisdom Is Offered Two thousand years after Jesus famously got nailed to a cross for suggesting we all be nice to each other for a change, Pope Leo XIV issues a similarly wise suggestion. Pope Leo XIV: Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life. The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor can there [...] --- Outline: (00:26) Wisdom Is Offered (02:57) The Context of The Meme Andreessen Used (If You Don't Know) (04:50) Andreessen Takes Bold Stand Against Moral Discernment (07:33) Tech World Decides Performative Cruelty May Have Gone Too Far (11:17) The Avatar of Societal Decay (12:11) Marc's Technical Takes And Arguments Also Are Not Good (13:12) The Best Defense (15:24) You're All Wondering Why You're Here Today --- First published: November 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4gXvnTFy5WCTtYMAA/the-pope-offers-wisdom --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    16 分鐘

  3. 10 小時前

    “Introducing faruvc.org” by jefftk

    I wanted to link an explanation of how far-UVC works, why you might want to use it to clean indoor air, and what we know about its safety. I didn't find anything I liked, so I made something: faruvc.org. You can also link it as far-uvc.org; I got both domains since the hyphenated one reads better but is a bit longer. Let me know if you have ideas for making it better! My goal is to have something anyone can understand, without simplifying so much that it's misleading. At some point I'd like to include an illustration showing far-UVC in use in an occupied space, but I don't have one I like right now. (While I'm an employee of SecureBio, this is a personal project.) Comment via: facebook, mastodon, bluesky --- First published: November 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xpf8ygKPECc8yWhZk/introducing-faruvc-org --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    2 分鐘

  4. 10 小時前

    “Please, Don’t Roll Your Own Metaethics” by Wei Dai

    One day, when I was an interning at the cryptography research department of a large software company, my boss handed me an assignment to break a pseudorandom number generator passed to us for review. Someone in another department invented it and planned to use it in their product, and wanted us to take a look first. This person must have had a lot of political clout or was especially confident in himself, because he refused the standard advice that anything an amateur comes up with is very likely to be insecure and he should instead use one of the established, off the shelf cryptographic algorithms, that have survived extensive cryptanalysis (code breaking) attempts. My boss thought he had to demonstrate the insecurity of the PRNG by coming up with a practical attack (i.e., a way to predict its future output based only on its past output, without knowing the secret key/seed). There were three permanent full time professional cryptographers working in the research department, but none of them specialized in cryptanalysis of symmetric cryptography (which covers such PRNGs) so it might have taken them some time to figure out an attack. My time was obviously less valuable and my [...] The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KCSmZsQzwvBxYNNaT/please-don-t-roll-your-own-metaethics --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    4 分鐘

  5. 14 小時前

    “Warning Aliens About the Dangerous AI We Might Create” by James_Miller, avturchin

    Thesis: We should broadcast a warning to potential extraterrestrial listeners that Earth might soon spawn an unfriendly computer superintelligence. Sending the message might benefit humanity. If we were to create an unaligned computer superintelligence, it would likely expand through the universe as quickly as possible. The fastest way would not be by ships, but, as Turchin has described, by sending malicious signals intended for alien civilizations using radio telescopes. Ideally, from the AI's point of view, the signal would be a virus that allows a full download of Earth's AI, which would then take over the receiving civilization. While we still control our radio transmitters, we could send a warning to any alien civilizations that might be listening. The message would explain that Earth may soon undergo a major transition as we develop advanced artificial intelligence, and that some future communications from Earth could be dangerous, and a misaligned superintelligence could send signals containing instructions or code that, if followed, would replicate it and destroy the receiving civilization. The warning should therefore advise aliens never to execute, compile, or build anything based on messages originating from Earth until they have somehow verified that Earth is not controlled by a [...] --- First published: November 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AH4pFd3Sgt6qaoH6h/warning-aliens-about-the-dangerous-ai-we-might-create --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    10 分鐘

  6. 23 小時前

    “Do not hand off what you cannot pick up” by habryka

    Delegation is good! Delegation is the foundation of civilization! But in the depths of delegation madness breeds and evil rises. In my experience, there are three ways in which delegation goes off the rails: 1. You delegate without knowing what good performance on a task looks like If you do not know how to evaluate performance on a task, you are going to have a really hard time delegating it to someone. Most likely, you will choose someone incompetent for the task at hand. But even if you manage to avoid that specific error mode, it is most likely that your delegee will notice that you do not have a standard, and so will use this opportunity to be lazy and do bad work, which they know you won't be able to notice. Or even worse, in an attempt to make sure your delegee puts in proper effort, you set an impossibly high standard, to which the delegee can only respond by quitting, or lying about their performance. This can tank a whole project if you discover it too late. 2. You assigned responsibility for a crucial task to an external party Frequently some task will [...] The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rSCxviHtiWrG5pudv/do-not-hand-off-what-you-cannot-pick-up --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    7 分鐘

  7. 1 天前

    “5 Things I Learned After 10 Days of Inkhaven” by Ben Pace

    If you don't know, Inkhaven is a residency where you come and publish a blogpost every day. No "Oh it would be nice to blog some day" or "Oh I'm working on something, I'm sure I'll publish it some day". No, you have to publish today, otherwise you are asked to leave. After 10 days into the first ever Inkhaven cohort, here are some things I've learned. 1. Everyone publishes. I have 41 people here writing, most of them living at Lighthaven, all of them visiting at least a few days per week. In recent weeks, I knew I was hurtling toward their arrival and I'd be in the thick of it; while I believed this abstractly, I didn't know what to concretely visualize. Any time that anyone has said to me that they want to push down the publishing requirement, maybe to every 2 or 3 days, I have said "No. The typical human adult types at 40 words per minute. Writing 500 words should take only 12.5 minutes. I can get a reasonably long LessWrong comment written in under 30 minutes. This isn't that hard." Yet this has not always been satisfying to these people. One of [...] --- Outline: (00:33) 1. Everyone publishes. (01:37) 2. Essentially everyone is yoloing it every single day (02:29) 3. People do not use physical spaces the way you planned. (03:10) 4. Its not too stressful, and is kind of energizing. (04:02) 5. Residents suck at proactively getting help from other people The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wHfseCBgYSiA9Nz47/5-things-i-learned-after-10-days-of-inkhaven --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    7 分鐘

  8. 1 天前

    “How I Learned That I Don’t Feel Love” by johnswentworth

    A few months ago, I learned that I probably can’t feel the emotions signalled by oxytocin, the "love hormone". This raises lots of interesting questions - what things I do and don’t feel, how the world looks different from an oxytocin-less perspective, how a lack of oxytocin changes one's values or goals, etc. But it would be putting the cart before the horse to dive into those questions without first walking through how I learned this about myself and the evidence, so that everybody has an appropriate level of confidence in the underlying assumption. The Evidence Which Privileged The Hypothesis It started with investigating a confusion. Lots of the supposedly-happy relationships around me looked pretty awful to my eye, so why the heck were people (apparently) happy with them? What on earth was making these relationships net positive, let alone good? I wrote a few LessWrong pieces on that confusion, and eventually Caleb Biddulph responded with a hypothesis: perhaps I don’t actually feel much of the thing most commonly called “(companionate) love”, and have therefore been confusing it with something else which I do feel. Caleb also spelled out the physical sensations he experiences with love, and sure enough… [...] --- Outline: (00:40) The Evidence Which Privileged The Hypothesis (02:36) Background: Oxytocin (03:51) The Genetic Evidence The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Hds7xkLgYtm6qDGPS/how-i-learned-that-i-don-t-feel-love --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    8 分鐘
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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.

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    LessWrong
  • 活躍年代
    2023年 - 2025年
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    250
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