Lucie Philippon — LessWrong

A multi-level postmortem of how our whole house got badly poisoned

Taking reasonable choices is not enough. You need to fight death at every possible point of intervention. Two weeks ago, my flatmates and I published Basics of How Not to Die, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of not dying from carbon monoxide poisoning. This post was written with a rather...

Feb 1476

Basics of How Not to Die

One year ago, we nearly died. This is maybe an overdramatic statement, but long story short, nearly all of us underwent carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning[1]. The benefit is, we all suddenly got back in touch with a failure mode we had forgotten about, and we decided to make it a...

Jan 31111

France is ready to stand alone

First part of a series of article on French AI Policy that I’m currently writing as part of the Inkhaven Residency. EDIT: Those are my views of how French government and tech elites see the world. I am personally skeptical that France can stay relevant. I'm offering here a lens...

Nov 11, 202532

How I switched careers from software engineer to AI policy operations

Thanks to Linda Linsefors for encouraging me to write my story. Although it might not generalize to anyone else, I hope it will help some AI safety newcomers get a clearer picture of how to get into the field. In Summer 2023, I thought that all jobs in AI safety...

Apr 13, 202559

Building Communities Beyond the Bay

During DunCon 2025, I run a community building strategy workshop with @Screwtape. Going through the workshop gave me great insights into what I actually wanted out of my community and how to get there, so I figured sharing the session plan could be useful. If you end up following this...

Apr 1, 20258

Index of rationalist groups in the Bay Area June 2025

[Last update: 2025-06-07] The Bay Area rationalist community has an entry problem! Lots of listed groups are dead, the last centralized index disappeared, communication moved to private discord and slacks. This is bad, so we're making a new index, hopefully up to date and as complete as we can! This...

Jul 26, 202441

Determining the power of investors over Frontier AI Labs is strategically important to reduce x-risk

Produced as part of the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Summer 2024 Cohort This post presents the basic story behind my current research direction at MATS. I'm looking for feedback on whether the basic premises hold up, and which research questions should I prioritize. The role of investors...

Jul 25, 202418