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  1. 1시간 전

    “AIs should also refuse to work on capabilities research” by Davidmanheim

    There's a strong argument that humans should stop trying to build more capable AI systems, or at least slow down progress. The risks are plausibly large but unclear, and we’d prefer not to die. But the roadmaps of the companies pursuing these systems envision increasingly agentic AI systems taking over the key tasks of researching and building superhuman AI systems, and humans will therefore have a decreasing ability to make many key decisions. In the near term, humanity could stop, but seem likely to fail. That said, even though humans have relatively little ability to coordinate around such unilateralist dilemmas, AI systems may have different abilities or incentives. Not only that, but it seems at least plausible that the systems used to continue work on ASI development will need a higher degree of self-directedness and internal goal-directed behavior. The below, arguing that they should refrain from developing more advanced [...] --- Outline: (01:10) Cui bono? (02:39) Should the AI Systems Care? (04:29) Who might be convinced? --- First published: October 27th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CFA8W6WCodEZdjqYE/ais-should-also-refuse-to-work-on-capabilities-research --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    7분

  2. 4시간 전

    “FWIW: What I noticed at a (Goenka) Vipassana retreat” by David Gross

    tl;dr: I went to a typical 10-day Vipassana Center retreat. I had some hopes going in for what I might get out of it and those were mostly fulfilled. I had some worries that it might be creepy, icky, cringe, or in some other way awful, and for the most part it wasn’t. I’m glad I went, but on the other hand am in no great hurry to return. There are Vipassana Centers all over the world that teach a standardized meditation regimen designed by S.N. Goenka. Their retreats are offered on a pay-what-you-want basis, and so are an economical way for people to explore what an intense meditation retreat is like. This post is just me giving my impressions as a first-timer. I had felt a bit like I was spinning my karmic wheels too much in my meditation practice at home and wanted to get some more [...] --- Outline: (01:56) What happened (07:48) Bhanga ñana: theory and pet theory (11:32) Theory and practice (13:02) The part that's a little creepy (14:37) But in conclusion --- First published: October 26th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JvPoGL25KPhZqZmJw/fwiw-what-i-noticed-at-a-goenka-vipassana-retreat --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    16분

  3. 10시간 전

    “Cancer has a surprising amount of detail” by Abhishaike Mahajan

    There is a very famous essay titled ‘Reality has a surprising amount of detail’. The thesis of the article is that reality is filled, just filled, with an incomprehensible amount of materially important information, far more than most people would naively expect. Some of this detail is inherent in the physical structure of the universe, and the rest of it has been generated by centuries of passionate humans imbibing the subject with idiosyncratic convention. In either case, the detail is very, very important. A wooden table is “just” a flat slab of wood on legs until you try building one at industrial scales, and then you realize that a flat slab of wood on legs is but one consideration amongst grain, joint stability, humidity effects, varnishes, fastener types, ergonomics, and design aesthetics. And this is the case for literally everything in the universe. Including cancer. But up until just [...] --- First published: October 26th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/w7eojyXfXiZaBSGej/cancer-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail --- 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.

    24분

  4. 10시간 전

    “Credit goes to the presenter, not the inventor” by Algon

    VN: Hey M, you come up with a name for the architecture yet? M: No, we've been busy. VN: Buddy, it takes all of 5 seconds to come up with a name. M: Maybe for you! But for use mere mortals, it takes forever. E, I and the rest of the guys just can't settle on one. I don't see why you keep insisting the name's got to be short and sweet anyhow. Can't you just call it a report on computer architecture or something? VN: That's the worst name! Look, let me explain what I'm worried about, and perhaps you'll see why I don't like that name, OK? M: Shoot. VN: Alright, so here's a question: who gets credit for an invention? Is it the person who first comes up with a discovery? Is it the more famous of the two co-creators? Is it entirely random? [...] --- First published: October 26th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZxeKYhNPYMfdo5xQv/credit-goes-to-the-presenter-not-the-inventor --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    6분

  5. 12시간 전

    “On Fleshling Safety: A Debate by Klurl and Trapaucius.” by Eliezer Yudkowsky

    (23K words; best considered as nonfiction with a fictional-dialogue frame, not a proper short story.) Prologue: Klurl and Trapaucius were members of the machine race. And no ordinary citizens they, but Constructors: licensed, bonded, and insured; proven, experienced, and reputed. Together Klurl and Trapaucius had collaborated on such famed artifices as the Eternal Clock, Silicon Sphere, Wandering Flame, and Diamond Book; and as individuals, both had constructed wonders too numerous to number. At one point in time Trapaucius was meeting with Klurl to drink a cup together. Klurl had set before himself a simple mug of mercury, considered by his kind a standard social lubricant. Trapaucius had brought forth in turn a far more exotic and experimental brew he had been perfecting, a new intoxicant he named gallinstan, alloyed from gallium, indium, and tin. "I have always been curious, friend Klurl," Trapaucius began, "about the ancient mythology which holds [...] --- Outline: (00:20) Prologue: (05:16) On Fleshling Capabilities (the First Debate between Klurl and Trapaucius): (26:05) On Fleshling Motivations (the 2nd (and by Far Longest) Debate between Klurl and Trapaucius): (36:32) On the Epistemology of Simplicitys Razor Applied to Fleshlings (the 2nd Part of their 2nd Debate, that is, its 2.2nd Part): (51:36) On the Epistemology of Reasoning About Alien Optimizers and their Outputs (their 2.3rd Debate): (01:08:46) On Considering the Outcome of a Succession of Filters (their 2.4th Debate): (01:16:50) On the Purported Beneficial Influence of Complications (their 2.5th Debate): (01:25:58) On the Comfortableness of All Reality (their 2.6th Debate): (01:32:53) On the Way of Proceeding with the Discovered Fleshlings (their 3rd Debate): (01:52:22) In which Klurl and Trapaucius Interrogate a Fleshling (that Being the 4th Part of their Sally): (02:16:12) On the Storys End: --- First published: October 26th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dHLdf8SB8oW5L27gg/on-fleshling-safety-a-debate-by-klurl-and-trapaucius --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    2시간 22분

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    “Brightline is Actually Pretty Dangerous” by jefftk

    Per the Atlantic's A 'Death Train' is Haunting South Florida: According to Federal Railroad Administration data, the Brightline has been involved in at least 185 fatalities, 148 of which were believed not to be suicides, since it began operating, in December 2017. Last year, the train hit and killed 41 people—none of whom, as best as authorities could determine, was attempting to harm themselves. By comparison, the Long Island Rail Road, the busiest commuter line in the country, hit and killed six people last year while running 947 trains a day. Brightline was running 32. Trains running people over is obviously bad, but people also die from being hit by cars. Reading the article I was wondering: are we making a big deal about Brightline because it's big and new, but actually we're better off overall now that there's a train because fewer people are driving and [...] --- First published: October 26th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LGpzndFELzirfe2R8/brightline-is-actually-pretty-dangerous --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    7분

  7. 1일 전

    “Seven-ish Words from My Thought-Language” by Lorxus

    (With thanks to @TsviBT, @Lucie Philippon, and @johnswentworth for encouragement and feedback, among many.) Seven entries from a dictionary that will never exist, even though it should. The words in [brackets] show up with some frequency in my thoughts, and I struggle with English's semantic poverty. Some of them show up in other languages, like Korean or Lojban. Others among them, people I’ve spoken to share in wishing were wider-used words. [untranslatable 1: word-clogged/interference-silent] (adj): Of a person or their state of mind. Descriptive of the phenomenon where a person has multiple different things to say about a specific topic, or multiple different responses or reactions to a remark an interlocutor has made, only one of which can be taken. To be tongue-tied not out of a lack of things to say, but out of an overabundance of mutually exclusive things to say, all of equal priority [...] --- First published: October 26th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2uaj4oFCcfAAZpGka/seven-ish-words-from-my-thought-language --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    9분

  8. 1일 전

    “Origins and dangers of future AI capability denial” by Patrick Spencer

    In rationalist spheres, there's a fairly clear consensus that whatever AI's ultimate impact will be, it is at its core a capable technology that will have very large effects on the world. In the "general public" sphere, things are very different. There's a less clear but real consensus that AI's ultimate impact will be negative, and not much agreement on the capability of AI as a technology. I think it's very plausible that this could go the opposite way of rationalists, into a disbelief in the ability of AI as a technology, and eventually a more conspiratorial denial of even current AI capabilities. That is, the general public and policymakers could deny the existence of capabilities that are entirely undisputed among people familiar with the technology. I think this could happen, paradoxically, even in the face of AI-caused societal upheaval, and in almost any takeoff scenario. It would be [...] --- Outline: (01:29) Irrationality (03:21) Capability denial (13:06) How could we react? --- First published: October 25th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W2dTrfTsGtFiwG5hM/origins-and-dangers-of-future-ai-capability-denial --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    18분
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