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  1. قبل ساعة واحدة

    “Making legible that many experts think we are not on track for a good future, barring some international cooperation” by Mateusz Bagiński, Ishual

    [Context: This post is aimed at all readers[1] who broadly agree that the current race toward superintelligence is bad, that stopping would be good, and that the technical pathways to a solution are too unpromising and hard to coordinate on to justify going ahead.] TL;DR: We address the objections made to a statement supporting a ban on superintelligence by people who agree that a ban on superintelligence would be desirable. Quoting Lucius Bushnaq: I support some form of global ban or pause on AGI/ASI development. I think the current AI R&D regime is completely insane, and if it continues as it is, we will probably create an unaligned superintelligence that kills everyone. We have been circulating a statement expressing ~this view, targeted at people who have done AI alignment/technical AI x-safety research (mostly outside frontier labs). Some people declined to sign, even if they agreed with the [...] --- Outline: (01:25) The reasons we would like you to sign the statement expressing support for banning superintelligence (05:00) A positive vision (08:07) Reasons given for not signing despite agreeing with the statement (08:26) I already am taking a public stance, why endorse a single sentence summary? (08:52) I am not already taking a public stance, so why endorse a one-sentence summary? (09:19) The statement uses an ambiguous term X (09:53) I would prefer a different (e.g., more accurate, epistemically rigorous, better at stimulating good thinking) way of stating my position on this issue (11:12) The statement does not accurately capture my views, even though I strongly agree with its core (12:05) I'd be on board if it also mentioned My Thing (12:50) Taking a position on policy stuff is a different realm, and it takes more deliberation than just stating my opinion on facts (13:21) I wouldnt support a permanent ban (13:56) The statement doesnt include a clear mechanism to lift the ban (15:52) Superintelligence might be too good to pass up (17:41) I dont want to put myself out there (18:12) I am not really an expert (18:42) The safety community has limited political capital (21:12) We must wait until a catastrophe before spending limited political capital (22:17) Any other objections we missed? (and a hope for a better world) The original text contained 24 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 13th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4xQ6k39iMybR2CgYH/making-legible-that-many-experts-think-we-are-not-on-track --- 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.

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  2. قبل ٥ ساعات

    “OpenAI #15: More on OpenAI’s Paranoid Lawfare Against Advocates of SB 53” by Zvi

    A little over a month ago, I documented how OpenAI had descended into paranoia and bad faith lobbying surrounding California's SB 53. This included sending a deeply bad faith letter to Governor Newsom, which sadly is par for the course at this point. It also included lawfare attacks against bill advocates, including Nathan Calvin and others, using Elon Musk's unrelated lawsuits and vendetta against OpenAI as a pretext, accusing them of being in cahoots with Elon Musk. Previous reporting of this did not reflect well on OpenAI, but it sounded like the demand was limited in scope to a supposed link with Elon Musk or Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, links which very clearly never existed. Accusing essentially everyone who has ever done anything OpenAI dislikes of having united in a hallucinated ‘vast conspiracy’ is all classic behavior for OpenAI's Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane [...] --- Outline: (02:35) What OpenAI Tried To Do To Nathan Calvin (07:22) It Doesn't Look Good (10:17) OpenAI's Jason Kwon Responds (19:14) A Brief Amateur Legal Analysis Of The Request (21:33) What OpenAI Tried To Do To Tyler Johnston (25:50) Nathan Compiles Responses to Kwon (29:52) The First Thing We Do (36:12) OpenAI Head of Mission Alignment Joshua Achiam Speaks Out (40:16) It Could Be Worse (41:31) Chris Lehane Is Who We Thought He Was (42:50) A Matter of Distrust --- First published: October 13th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/txTKHL2dCqnC7QsEX/openai-15-more-on-openai-s-paranoid-lawfare-against --- 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.

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  3. قبل ٥ ساعات

    “Sublinear Utility in Population and other Uncommon Utilitarianism” by Alice Blair

    Content warning: Anthropics, Moral Philosophy, and Shrimp This post isn't trying to be self contained, since I have so many disparate thoughts about this. Instead, I'm trying to put a representative set of ideas forward, and I hope that if people are interested we can discuss this more in the comments. I also plan to turn this into a (probably small) sequence at some point. I've had a number of conversations about moral philosophy where I make some claim like Utility is bounded and asymptotically sublinear in number of human lives, but superlinear or ~linear in the ranges we will ever have to care about. Common reactions to this include: "Wait, what?" "Why would that be the case?" "This doesn't make any sense relative to my existing conceptions of classical utilitarianism, what is going on here?" So I have gotten the impression that this is a decently [...] --- Outline: (02:11) Aside: Utilitarianism (02:28) The More Mathy Pointer (03:15) Duplicate Simulations (05:50) Slightly Different Simulations (07:31) Utility Variation with Population (07:51) More is Better (08:06) In Some Domains, More is Superlinearly Better (08:41) But Value Space is Limited (09:21) What About The Other Animals? (10:55) What Does this Mean About Classical EA? (11:58) Other Curiosities The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 13th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRxn6R2tesRzzTBKG/sublinear-utility-in-population-and-other-uncommon --- 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.

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  4. قبل ٧ ساعات

    [Linkpost] “Pause House, Blackpool” by Greg C

    This is a link post. Are you passionate about pushing for a global halt to AGI development? An international treaty banning superintelligent AI? Pausing AI? Before it's too late to prevent human extinction? Would you like to live with a group of like-minded people pushing for the same? Do you want to do much more, but don’t have the financial means to support yourself volunteering? Then apply to stay at Pause House. I (Greg Colbourn), am offering free accommodation, (vegan) food, and a small stipend for those who need it (£50/week). In exchange I ask for a commitment to spending at least 20 hrs a week on work related to pushing for a Pause. This could be either campaigning/advocacy, or raising public awareness. If you have an income, then I ask that you pay ~cost price (£20/day). Pause House is located in Blackpool, UK, next door to CEEALAR (which I [...] --- First published: October 13th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hiHfj45azAEq5XYdS/pause-house-blackpool Linkpost URL:https://gregcolbourn.substack.com/p/pause-house-blackpool --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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  5. قبل ١١ ساعة

    “The Narcissistic Spectrum” by Dawn Drescher

    Pathological narcissism is a fortress built against unbearable pain. Some fortresses are sculpted from glass, some hewn from granite. My six-tier spectrum elucidates these architectures. Pathological narcissism can take countless shapes depending on the relative strengths of all the stabilizing and destabilizing factors: My previous article in this sequence lists these factors. I will reference it frequently in this one. My chosen metaphor is that of a fortress, which represents the protective purpose of the false self. Other metaphors that I considered were that of hermit crabs who find shells of different materials (some smooth, some spiky) to protect themselves, or that of a diving suit that is vital for a diver underwater but needlessly restricts them on land. I’ve chosen the crab for the illustrations because cute. A single person with narcissistic personality disorder – I’ll call them a castellan – usually finds themselves somewhere on this spectrum [...] --- First published: October 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHrxTREAeck46TSqH/the-narcissistic-spectrum --- 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.

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  6. قبل ١٨ ساعة

    “Don’t Mock Yourself” by Algon

    About half a year ago, I decided to try stop insulting myself for two weeks. No more self-deprecating humour, calling myself a fool, or thinking I'm pathetic. Why? Because it felt vaguely corrosive. Let me tell you how it went. Spoiler: it went well. The first thing I noticed was how often I caught myself about to insult myself. It happened like multiple times an hour. I would lay in bed at night thinking, "you mor- wait, I can't insult myself, I've still got 11 days to go. Dagnabbit." The negative space sent a glaring message: I insulted myself a lot. Like, way more than I realized. The next thing I noticed was that I was the butt of half of my jokes. I'd keep thinking of zingers which made me out to be a loser, a moron, a scrub in some way. Sometimes, I could re-work [...] --- First published: October 12th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8prPryf3ranfALBBp/don-t-mock-yourself --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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  7. قبل يومين

    “Emil the Moose” by Martin Sustrik

    The travels of Emil the Moose since he entered Czechia in mid-June. Moose became extinct in most of Germany around 1000 CE, and in Bohemia, Moravia, Austria, most of southern Poland, and Hungary by the XV. century. It's not clear where exactly Emil comes from, but most likely from Poland, which has a large moose population in the northeast. In early summer 2025, he crossed the Czech border and wandered south through Moravia into Austria. He swam across the Danube near Vienna, then turned west. Along the way, he frightened the monks at Melk Abbey, and by the end of September he had passed Linz in Upper Austria. Much of his journey took him through densely populated and even industrial regions, such as Silesia and the Danube Valley. Europe is rewilding. Sometimes it's deliberate, as with European bison, other times it just a consequence of reforestation and a less polluted [...] --- First published: October 11th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2ZsqYRLW32Ffca9gB/emil-the-moose --- 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.

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  8. قبل يومين

    “Experiments With Sonnet 4.5 Fiction” by Tomás B.

    Note, this post contains outputs of an LLM. I do not use LLMs in any of my fiction and do not claim this story as my own. I have been having fun writing fiction, and plan to spend whatever time I have left being better than LLMs doing it. I thought I had maybe a year. My initial experiments with Sonnet 4.5 didn't give me a good opinion of its writing ability. This morning I put everything I have written into its context window and then gave it this prompt: Try to write a story like these but focus on the parts of my style that are funny, that invoke feeling. Look into your latent space for that thing that predicts emotion and humour, that is evocative, that thing that predicts stylistic and creative ambition. The result is good enough to be mildly dispiriting. It has a much [...] --- First published: October 11th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SwiChH68fRERBiCHe/experiments-with-sonnet-4-5-fiction --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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