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This is my favorite article in Stanford's student newspaper: the Stanford Daily. It raises the question: why are students at an institution so prestigious... so boring? At this late hour of Stanford history, can anyone hope to bring up a serious subject in a dining hall? Every so often I...

There's probably nothing new here if you've read the paper. I am not affiliated with the paper authors. I took some figures from the paper. You should really go read the paper. Thanks to everyone who helped me with this post! Thanks to Justis for providing feedback on a draft!...

Comp sci in 2017: Student: I get the feeling the compiler is just ignoring all my comments. Teaching assistant: You have failed to understand not just compilers but the concept of computation itself. Comp sci in 2027: Student: I get the feeling the compiler is just ignoring all my comments....

Acknowledgements Thanks to Joe Benton for proposing the analogy to diffusion models. Thanks to Alex Spies, Erik Winsor, Lee Sharkey, and many others for deeply valuable and insightful discussion as well as red-teaming of this technique during EAG London. Thanks to Justis (via LessWrong Feedback), Scott Viteri, and others for...

At some restaurants, you will be asked after ordering if you’d like to have your meal “for here” or “to go.” As far as I can tell, the only thing that changes based on your response is how your food is served. If it is “for here,” it’ll be served...

Be the AGI you want to see in the world. Epistemic status: highly speculative, authors are not neuroscientists. Summary * It may be possible to enhance human intelligence via a brain-computer interface (BCI). We could put electrodes into a human brain, connect those electrodes to an artificial neural network, and...

Disclaimer: These are entirely my thoughts. I'm posting this before it's fully polished because it never will be. Epistemic status: Moderately confident. Deliberately provocative title. Apparently, the Bay Area rationalist community has a burnout problem. I have no idea if it's worse than base rate, but I've been told it's...