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  1. 2 小時前

    “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 分鐘

  2. 3 小時前

    “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 分鐘

  3. 5 小時前

    “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 分鐘

  4. 8 小時前

    [Linkpost] “FTL travel and scientific realism” by Adam Scherlis

    This is a link post. Some thoughts on what it means to trust a scientific theory --- First published: November 2nd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9q3p2XJdFEB6sMyBZ/ftl-travel-and-scientific-realism Linkpost URL:https://adam.scherl.is/blog/ftl-travel/ --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    1 分鐘

  5. 8 小時前

    “Reflections on 4 years of meta-honesty” by GradientDissenter

    Honesty is quite powerful in many cases -- if you have a reputation for being honest, people will trust you more and your words will have more weight (or so the argument goes). Unfortunately, being extremely honest all the time is also pretty difficult -- what happens when the Nazis come knocking and ask if you have jews in the basement? Or when your girlfriend asks you if this dress makes her look fat? (Or so the argument goes) Meta-honesty is a proposed solution to these problems. The gist is you act very honestly, but can lie when it's very important to do so. The catch is you have to always be completely honest about what kinds of situations you’d lie in. In theory this lets you have all the benefits of being very honest without the worst of the drawbacks (some of the “drawbacks” are irreducible errors of course -- you can’t betray or trick people as easily when you’re honest and that's the point). But the arguments for meta-honesty are largely theoretical. I started trying to rigorously abide by meta-honesty a little over four years ago. Here are some musings on the benefits and drawbacks I’ve observed [...] --- Outline: (01:19) The good (01:22) 1: I've become a more honest person. (01:56) 2: I've become much more honest and clear about things to myself. (02:46) 3: It's a (credible?) signal about the kind of person I am. (03:14) 4: On rare occasions, the system straightforwardly works. (04:36) The bad (04:39) Mental overhead (04:56) Sounding weird (05:19) Its easy to mess up (07:00) I err conservative in ways that can make it harder to say anything about when Id lie (07:27) Observations (07:31) I have almost never been asked questions about which situations I'd lie in. (09:04) I have never really felt bottlenecked on people trusting my honesty/integrity (09:42) I've never found meta-honesty very useful for interacting with people outside my weird bay-area bubble (10:27) Conclusions --- First published: November 2nd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ySFj6PiyHhjyaspvo/reflections-on-4-years-of-meta-honesty --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    11 分鐘

  6. 1 天前

    “Why Is Printing So Bad?” by johnswentworth

    Last time I printed a document, I wrote down the whole process: Open settings and look at list of printers; David tells me which printer I should use. Go to print dialogue; don’t see the relevant printer. Go back to settings and hit buttons which sound vaguely like they’ll add/install something. Go back to print dialogue, realize the printer I wanted had probably been there already and I hadn’t been looking in the right place. Hit print button. David brings me to where the printer was a few days ago. It is not there. Ask Lauren where it is. It's in room 1A1. Briefly go the wrong direction because we’re not sure where that room is. Find the room, and the printer. A stack of things has printed, including two pages of my thing. The printer is out of paper. Go look in the basement where the printer paper was a few days ago. … that has also moved. Follow Alina to the new location of the paper. Spend a minute looking for the paper in that room before finding it. Bring back the paper. Person in the room with printer has already found more paper somehow else [...] --- First published: November 1st, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BKkoTFq7Tk6LG9N2E/why-is-printing-so-bad --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    4 分鐘

  7. 1 天前

    [Linkpost] “You’re always stressed, your mind is always busy, you never have enough time” by mingyuan

    This is a link post. You have things you want to do, but there's just never time. Maybe you want to find someone to have kids with, or maybe you want to spend more or higher-quality time with the family you already have. Maybe it's a work project. Maybe you have a musical instrument or some sports equipment gathering dust in a closet, or there's something you loved doing when you were younger that you want to get back into. Whatever it is, you can’t find the time for it. And yet you somehow find thousands of hours a year to watch YouTube, check Twitter and Instagram, listen to podcasts, binge Netflix shows, and read blogs and news articles. You can’t focus. You haven’t read a physical book in years, and the time you tried it was boring and you felt itchy and you think maybe books are outdated when there's so much to read on the internet anyway. You’re talking with a friend, but then your phone buzzes and you look at the notification and you open it, and your girlfriend has messaged you and that's nice, and then your friend says “Did you hear what I just said?” [...] --- First published: November 1st, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6p4kv8uxYvLcimGGi/you-re-always-stressed-your-mind-is-always-busy-you-never Linkpost URL:https://mingyuan.substack.com/p/youre-always-stressed-your-mind-is --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    4 分鐘

  8. 1 天前

    “Post title: Why I Transitioned: A Case Study” by Fiora Sunshine

    An Overture Famously, trans people tend not to have great introspective clarity into their own motivations for transition. Intuitively, they tend to be quite aware of what they do and don't like about inhabiting their chosen bodies and gender roles. But when it comes to explaining the origins and intensity of those preferences, they almost universally to come up short. I've even seen several smart, thoughtful trans people, such as Natalie Wynn, making statements to the effect that it's impossible to develop a satisfying theory of aberrant gender identities. (She may have been exaggerating for effect, but it was clear she'd given up on solving the puzzle herself.) I'm trans myself, but even I can admit that this lack of introspective clarity is a reason to be wary of transgenderism as a phenomenon. After all, there are two main explanations for trans people's failure to thoroughly explain their own existence. One is that transgenderism is the result of an obscenely complex and arcane neuro-psychological phenomenon, which we have no hope of unraveling through normal introspective methods. The other is that trans people are lying about something, including to themselves. Now, a priori, both of these do seem like real [...] --- Outline: (00:12) An Overture (04:55) In the Case of Fiora Starlight (16:51) Was it worth it? The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 1st, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gEETjfjm3eCkJKesz/post-title-why-i-transitioned-a-case-study --- 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.

    17 分鐘
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