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Epistemological status: these are speculative thoughts I had while trying to improve understanding. Not tested yet. What differentiates understanding from non-understanding? When you pull a door towards you, you predict it will move towards you in a particular way. You can visualize the movement in your mind's eye. Similarly, the...

CERTAIN EXOTIC NEUROTRANSMITTERS AS SMART PILLS: OR COMPOUNDS THAT INCREASE THE CAPACITY FOR MENTAL WORK IN HUMANS A story about LAZAR as told by Hosteen Nez SECOND EDITION Dedicated— To our valiant magic molecule testers and all others who helped. > This material not copyrighted, 1990. It may be copied...

This is a bit of a rant but I notice that I am confused. Eliezer said in the original Sequences: > Rationality is Systematized Winning But it's pretty obvious that LessWrong is not about winning (and Eliezer provides a more accurate definition of what he means by rationality here). As...

[Epistemic status: a software engineer and AI user, not an AI researcher] I could not find a readily available book database that offers semantic search with embeddings. Amazon sells lots of books, wouldn't it be useful for them to propose such a tool to their clients, so they can easily...

Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei 8 May, 2025

I am reading the Sequences and recently started to use LLMs to further analyze each post as I read them. As an experiment I also generate lyrics based on each post's content and analysis, and feed these to Suno AI to create songs. I find some of these songs pleasant...

Hello, I think having some LLM-based fact checking on LessWrong posts would be a valuable addition. To some extent comments already serve this purpose, but LLMs can do this in a more automated and systematic way, side-stepping human blind spots and tendency to conserve energy. 1. Some pros and cons...