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Anthropic recently released their Risk Report: August 2026. It's a hefty 186-page report in which they introduced three separate threat models of catastrophic risks. In this blog post, I will give a brief overview of the three different threat models, then spend the rest of the blog post describing my...
jenn Hi Jas! After our recent meetup on moral mazes, we were talking in the KWR discord about how much one can trust someone who says that there are no mazes or status games being played in their corner of the world. You had some interesting things to say in...
I first got this dichotomy by reading someone's comment on how Mao was a wartime general but not a peacetime general. Of course, it's possible that a more accurate model is not binary but a spectrum, or maybe it has more dimensions. Nonetheless, over time, I've found this heuristic useful....
[Note to readers: The Jupyter notebook version of this post is here] Previously: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fKTqwbGAwPNm6fyEH/an-apprentice-experiment-in-python-programming-part-3 Python Objects in Memory (from comments) In the previous post, purge commented: > Due to Python's style of reference passing, most of these print statements will show matching id values even if you use any kind...
This question has been asked, but I will ask again. In light of the upcoming meetups everywhere, I thought it would be a good idea to compile a list of ice breaker questions, so we can make it easier for people to start conversations. A few questions that have worked...
[NOTE TO READERS: WE'VE CONVERTED THIS POST INTO A JUPYTER NOTEBOOK SO YOU CAN CODE ALONG! (THE NOTEBOOK WORKS ON FIREFOX AND CHROME, BUT MAY NOT WORK ON ALL BROWSERS.)] LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! [Epistemic Status: this post is reconstructed from primarily chat logs, so I am more...
[Epistemic status: me trying to recall what happened in a 4.5-hour pair-programming session, during which I was focused on solving problems. This post was reconstructed from scratch code files, written messages (the session was over voice call) and my python shell history.] Previously: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kv3RG7Ax8sgn2eog7/an-apprentice-experiment-in-python-programming Three days ago gilch and I...