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  1. 23 PHÚT TRƯỚC

    “Trying to understand my own cognitive edge” by Wei Dai

    I applaud Eliezer for trying to make himself redundant, and think it's something every intellectually successful person should spend some time and effort on. I've been trying to understand my own "edge" or "moat", or cognitive traits that are responsible for whatever success I've had, in the hope of finding a way to reproduce it in others, but I'm having trouble understanding a part of it, and try to describe my puzzle here. For context, here's an earlier EAF comment explaining my history/background and what I do understand about how my cognition differs from others.[1] More Background In terms of raw intelligence, I think I'm smart but not world-class. My SAT was only 1440, 99th percentile at the time, or equivalent to about 135 IQ. (Intuitively this may be an underestimate and I'm probably closer to 99.9th percentile in IQ.) I remember struggling to learn the GNFS factoring algorithm, and then meeting another intern at a conference who had not only mastered it in the same 3 months that I had, but was presenting an improvement on the SOTA. (It generally seemed like cryptography research was full of people much smarter than myself.) I also considered myself lazy or [...] --- Outline: (00:41) More Background (02:05) The Puzzle (04:10) A Plausible Answer? The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 3rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ophhRzHyt44qcjnkS/trying-to-understand-my-own-cognitive-edge --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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  2. 4 GIỜ TRƯỚC

    “Erasmus: Social Engineering at Scale” by Martin Sustrik

    Sofia Corradi, a.k.a. Mamma Erasmus (2020) When Sofia Corradi died on October 17th, the press was full of obituaries for the spiritual mother of Erasmus, the European student exchange programme, or, in the words of Umberto Eco, “that thing where a Catalan boy goes to study in Belgium, meets a Flemish girl, falls in love with her, marries her, and starts a European family.” Yet none of the obituaries I’ve seen stressed the most important and interesting aspect of the project: its unprecedented scale. The second-largest comparable programme, the Fulbright in the United States, sends around nine thousand students abroad each year. Erasmus sends 1.3 million. So far, approximately sixteen million people have taken part in the exchanges. That amounts to roughly 3% or the European population. And with the ever growing participation rates the ratio is going to get even gradually even higher. Is short, this thing is HUGE. *** As with many other international projects conceived in Europe in the latter half of the XX. century, it is ostensibly about a technical matter — scholarships and the recognition of credits from foreign universities — but at its heart, it is a peace project. Corradi recounts a story from [...] --- First published: November 3rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gbfELiNWL4kFfivK8/erasmus-social-engineering-at-scale --- 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.

    9 phút

  3. 6 GIỜ TRƯỚC

    “What’s hard about this? What can I do about that? (Recursive)” by Raemon

    Third in a series of short rationality prompts. My opening rationality move is often "What's my goal?". It is closely followed by: "Why is this hard? And, what can I do about that?". If you're busting out deliberate "rationality" tools (instead of running on intuition or copying your neighbors), something about your situation is probably difficult. It's often useful to explicitly enumerate "What's hard about this?", and list the difficulties accurately, and comprehensively[1], such that if you were to successfully deal with each hard thing, it'd be easy. Then, you have new subgoals of "figure out how to deal with each of those hard-things." And you can brainstorm solutions[2]. Sometimes, those subgoals will also be hard. Then, the thing to do is ask "okay, what's hard about this subgoal, and how to do I deal with that?" Examples I'll do one example that's sort of "simple" (most of what I need to do is "try at all"), and one that's more complex (I'll need to do some fairly creative thinking to make progress). Example 1: Bureaucracy while tired I'm trying to fill out some paperwork. It requires some information I don't know how to get. (Later [...] --- Outline: (01:04) Examples (01:17) Example 1: Bureaucracy while tired (06:58) Example 2: Getting an LLM to actually debug worth a shit (12:00) Recap (12:37) Exercise for the reader The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 3rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AQSwzEgLjM4dyWuAh/what-s-hard-about-this-what-can-i-do-about-that-recursive --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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  4. 7 GIỜ TRƯỚC

    “Lack of Social Grace is a Lack of Skill” by Screwtape

    1.  I have claimed that one of the fundamental questions of rationality is “what am I about to do and what will happen next?” One of the domains I ask this question the most is in social situations. There are a great many skills in the world. If I had the time and resources to do so, I’d want to master all of them. Wilderness survival, automotive repair, the Japanese language, calculus, heart surgery, French cooking, sailing, underwater basket weaving, architecture, Mexican cooking, functional programming, whatever it is people mean when they say “hey man, just let him cook.” My inability to speak fluent Japanese isn’t a sin or a crime. However, it isn’t a virtue either; If I had the option to snap my fingers and instantly acquire the knowledge, I’d do it. Now, there's a different question of prioritization; I tend to pick new skills to learn by a combination of what's useful to me, what sounds fun, and what I’m naturally good at. I picked up the basics of computer programming easily, I enjoy doing it, and it turned out to pay really well. That was an over-determined skill to learn. On the other [...] --- Outline: (00:10) 1. (03:42) 2. (06:44) 3. The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 3rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NnTwbvvsPg5kj3BKq/lack-of-social-grace-is-a-lack-of-skill-1 --- 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.

    11 phút

  5. 12 GIỜ TRƯỚC

    “Ilya Sutskever Deposition Transcript” by anaguma

    Below is the a transcript of the recent deposition of Ilya Sutskever on his time at OpenAI and the firing of Sam Altman. I'm posting it here in plain text so that it is easier to read and discuss. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA OAKLAND DIVISION ELON MUSK, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SAMUEL ALTMAN, et al., Defendants. Case No. 4:24-cv-04722-YGR VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF ILYA SUTSKEVER San Francisco, California Wednesday, October 1, 2025 ======== PAGE 128 ======== ATTORNEY MOLO: Well, you put -- you put these two screenshots in your memo; correct? WITNESS SUTSKEVER: Yes. ATTORNEY MOLO: All right. And then you sent your 52-page memo, Exhibit 19, to the independent directors of the board; correct? WITNESS SUTSKEVER: Correct. ATTORNEY MOLO: All right. Why didn't you send it to the entire board? WITNESS SUTSKEVER: Because we were having the discussions with the independent directors only. ATTORNEY MOLO: Okay. And what -- why didn't you send it to Sam Altman? WITNESS SUTSKEVER: Because I felt that, had he become aware of these discussions, he would just find a way to make them disappear. ATTORNEY MOLO: Okay. Were you careful about what you included in this document? ATTORNEY [...] --- First published: November 2nd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9mp6vBwxitoZcvDmG/ilya-sutskever-deposition-transcript --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    1 giờ 7 phút

  6. 13 GIỜ TRƯỚC

    “Halfhaven halftime” by Viliam

    Halfhaven is a virtual blogger camp, an online alternative to Inkhaven Residency. The rules are simple: every day post max 1 article with min 500 words (or equivalent effort) try to get 30 by the end of November (but there are no hard lines) The invitation links keep expiring, the current one is: https://discord.gg/jrJPR3h6 If you wanted to join during November, but you couldn't join because you didn't have the link, I apologize; I was on a vacation without internet. If you published your articles online anyway, feel free to add them retroactively in Halfhaven with their actual publication date. In general, post a link in Halfhaven the same day you publish the post. Here are the posts published during October: a11ce Qamar Adam Shai Don't give up on ambitious interpretability Physical Computation and GPTs (Part 1: The Framework) Alex Kurilin Hiring - The Big Picture Hiring - Telling Your Company's Story The CTO Fork in the Road Which Game Are You Playing? Algon Why's equality in logic less flexible than in category theory? In which the author is struck by an electric couplet Do One New Thing A Day To Solve Your Problems [...] --- Outline: (00:56) a11ce (01:01) Adam Shai (01:12) Alex Kurilin (01:26) Algon (03:05) Aq (03:11) Ari Zerner (03:32) duck master (03:43) Gyrodiot (03:50) ironlordbyron (04:14) keltan (04:57) Logan Riggs (05:32) lsusr (videos) (05:56) mishka (07:23) niplav (08:01) ParrotRobot (08:10) Philip (08:20) Tassilo (08:47) Taylor G. Lunt (09:37) Viliam --- First published: November 2nd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYnC3aCbkv5Q3d34E/halfhaven-halftime --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    11 phút

  7. 15 GIỜ TRƯỚC

    “A toy model of corrigibility” by cousin_it

    This is just a simple idea that came to me, maybe other people found it earlier, I'm not sure. Imagine two people, Alice and Bob, wandering around London. Bob's goal is to get to the Tower Bridge. When he gets there, he'll get a money prize proportional to the time remaining until midnight, multiplied by X pounds per minute. He's also carrying a radio receiver. Alice is also walking around, doing some chores of her own which we don't need to be concerned with. She is carrying a radio transmitter with a button. If/when the button is pressed (maybe because Alice presses it, or Bob takes it from her and presses it, or she randomly bumps into something), Bob gets notified that his goal changes: there'll be no more reward for getting to Tower Bridge, he needs to get to St Paul's Cathedral instead. His reward coefficient X also changes: the device notes Bob's location at the time the button is pressed, calculates the expected travel times to Tower Bridge and to St Paul's from that location, and adjusts X so that the expected reward at the time of the button press remains the same. For example [...] --- First published: November 2nd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LGSMepAfve8DyNp7b/a-toy-model-of-corrigibility --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    4 phút

  8. 17 GIỜ TRƯỚC

    “Human Values ≠ Goodness” by johnswentworth

    There is a temptation to simply define Goodness as Human Values, or vice versa. Alas, we do not get to choose the definitions of commonly used words; our attempted definitions will simply be wrong. Unless we stick to mathematics, we will end up sneaking in intuitions which do not follow from our so-called definitions, and thereby mislead ourselves. People who claim that they use some standard word or phrase according to their own definition are, in nearly all cases outside of mathematics, wrong about their own usage patterns.[1] If we want to know what words mean, we need to look at e.g. how they’re used and where the concepts come from and what mental pictures they summon. And when we look at those things for Goodness and Human Values… they don’t match. And I don’t mean that we shouldn’t pursue Human Values; I mean that the stuff people usually refer to as Goodness is a coherent thing which does not match the actual values of actual humans all that well. The Yumminess You Feel When Imagining Things Measures Your Values There's this mental picture where a mind has some sort of goals inside it, stuff it wants, stuff it [...] --- Outline: (01:07) The Yumminess You Feel When Imagining Things Measures Your Values (03:26) Goodness Is A Memetic Egregore (05:10) Aside: Loving Connection (06:58) We Don't Get To Choose Our Own Values (Mostly) (09:02) So What Do? The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 2nd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9X7MPbut5feBzNFcG/human-values-goodness --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    12 phút
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