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  1. HACE 3 H

    “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.

    9 min

  2. HACE 12 H

    “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.

    18 min

  3. HACE 15 H

    “Beliefs about formal methods and AI safety” by Quinn

    I appreciate Theodore Ehrenborg's comments. As a wee lad, I heard about mathematical certainty of computer programs. Let's go over what I currently believe and don’t believe. First: what is formal verification  Sometimes you get pwned because of the spec-implementation gap. The computer did not do what it should’ve done. Other times, you get pwned by the world-spec gap. The computer wasn’t wrong, your “shoulds” were. Expanding the domain of compiletime knowledge A compiler tells you the problem with your code when it is, in some sense, “wrong”. When you can define the sense in which your code can be “wrong”, you have circumscribed some domain of compiletime knowledge. In other words, you’ve characterized the kinds of things you can know at compiletime. The less you know at compiletime, the more you find out at runtime. The less you can afford to wait till [...] --- Outline: (00:25) First: what is formal verification (00:44) Expanding the domain of compiletime knowledge (01:29) Isolating the bug surface to the world-spec gap, or sidechannels (02:10) Exploiting inductive structure (03:50) What I do not say (04:00) Specify what you want (04:42) Prove that the AI is correct (05:56) TLDR, this whole genre of point the formal methods at the learned component itself is viewed by me as a nonstarter. (06:13) What I do say (06:20) Swiss cheese! (07:24) Infrastructure hardening! (08:30) Boxing/interfaces! (09:29) Conclusion The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 23rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CCT7Qc8rSeRs7r5GL/beliefs-about-formal-methods-and-ai-safety --- 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 min

  4. HACE 15 H

    “Reminder: Morality is unsolved” by Jesper L.

    Here is a game you can play with yourself, or others: a) You have to decide on a moral framework that can be explained in detail, to anyone. b) It will be implemented worldwide tomorrow. c) Tomorrow, every single person on Earth, including you and everyone you know, will also have their lives randomly swapped with someone else. This means that you are operating under the veil of ignorance. You should make sure that the morality you decide on is beneficial whoever you are, once it takes effect. Multiplayer: The one to first convince all other players, wins. Single player: If you play alone, you just need to convince yourself. Good luck! Morality is unsolved Let me put this another way: Did your mom ever tell you to be a good person? Do you ever feel that sometimes you fail that task? Yes? To your [...] --- Outline: (00:54) Morality is unsolved (02:37) Implications for AI (03:36) Alignment focus on metaethics --- First published: October 23rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/M9iHzo2oFRKvdtRrM/reminder-morality-is-unsolved --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    5 min

  5. HACE 16 H

    [Linkpost] “AI Timelines and Points of no return” by Gabriel Alfour

    This is a link post. In this essay, I introduce two Points of No Return (PNR): The Hard PNR. The moment where we have AI systems powerful and intelligent enough that they can prevent humanity from turning them off. The Soft PNR. The moment where we have AI systems that we will not want to turn off. For instance, because they are too intertwined with the economy, military systems, geopolitics, or romantic relationships. I believe the Soft PNR is underrated (especially in rationalist communities). I also believe that it is roughly as irrecoverable as the Hard PNR, and that it is quite likely to come first. Cheers! --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iASwSJHoP9ovWpBLd/ai-timelines-and-points-of-no-return Linkpost URL:https://cognition.cafe/p/ai-timelines-and-points-of-no-return --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    1 min

  6. HACE 1 DÍA

    “Musings on Reported Cost of Compute (Oct 2025)” by Vladimir_Nesov

    There are many ways in which costs of compute get reported. A 1 GW datacenter site costs $10-15bn in the infrastructure (buildings, cooling, power), plus $30-35bn in compute hardware (servers, networking, labor), assuming Nvidia GPUs. Useful life of the infrastructure is about 10-15 years, and with debt financing a developer only needs to ensure it's paid off over those 10-15 years, which comes out at $1-2bn per year. For the compute hardware, the useful life is taken as about 5 years, which gives $6-7bn per year. Operational expenses (electricity, maintenance) are about $2.0-2.5bn per year. In total, 1 GW of compute costs about $9-11bn per year, but whoever paid the compute hardware capex needs to ensure the payments continue for 5 years, so a contract for 1 GW of compute will be 5 years long, which makes it a single contract for at least $45-55bn, which might become [...] --- Outline: (02:22) Non-Nvidia Hardware (03:29) Model Sizes in 2026 --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oPWB7SBn5j6Nw8RSX/musings-on-reported-cost-of-compute-oct-2025 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    5 min

  7. HACE 1 DÍA

    [Linkpost] “LW Reacts pack for Discord/Slack/etc” by plex

    This is a link post. Ever wanted to say Scout Mindset to someone on a chat platform, but didn't want to have to type 13 characters? Or wanted your server to have magically better epistemics because of a few images? The LW Reactions Pack is here to help! With 63 images (or 37 for the cut down budget set of good ones if you're limited), we guarantee you will have more reaction options than you started with. Full Pack (63) Important only (37) --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eq2gYhZvuDrMpuhSc/lw-reacts-pack-for-discord-slack-etc Linkpost URL:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NhEtVqHYnN-oHCwUzgVFMiXwsvQ_pySy?usp=sharing --- 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.

    1 min

  8. HACE 1 DÍA

    “Regardless of X, you can still just sign superintelligence-statement.org if you agree” by Ishual

    TL;DR: you can still just sign this statement if you agree with it. It still matters, and you can clarify your position in a statement of support (600 characters) next to your name, and you can clarify your actual full position on LW and/or elsewhere. Regardless of X, you can still just sign. (for various values of X...) X= whether you agree with me that safety researchers have a duty to take a public stance. If you agree with the statement and you are working at a lab where some of your coworkers signed, please consider that signing make it less personally costly for them to have signed. X= whether you agreed with signing a more detailed longer statement that included many more things lots of folks agree on. Indeed, for many specific reasons I tried to address in the past post, seems like https://superintelligence-statement.org/ addresses those [...] --- Outline: (00:29) Regardless of X, you can still just sign. (for various values of X...) (02:22) Examples of statements of support: (05:35) You can still just sign The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oYmcHhEFZm3WPa7j5/regardless-of-x-you-can-still-just-sign-superintelligence --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    6 min
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