RobertM

There's a new editor experience on LessWrong! A bunch of the editor page has been rearranged to make it much more WYSIWYG compared to published post pages. All of the settings live in panels that are hidden by default and can be opened up by clicking the relevant buttons on...

The votes are in for the 2024 Review! 4,826 posts were written in 2024. 671 of them were nominated. 196 of them got at least one review, and a positive review-vote total. 50 of them shall be displayed in the Best of LessWrong, Year 2024. Reviews 94 people wrote reviews....

Author's note: this is somewhat more rushed than ideal, but I think getting this out sooner is pretty important. Ideally, it would be a bit less snarky. I've made a few edits in response to David Johnston's comment here, mostly about the paper's reporting of its own results. Anthropic[1] recently...

We have a ritual around these parts. Every year, we have ourselves a little argument about the annual LessWrong Review, and whether it's a good use of our time or not. Every year, we decide it passes the cost-benefit analysis[1]. Oh, also, every[2] year, you do the following: * Spend...

If you're regularly throwing parties or hosting events that lots of people attend and seem to enjoy, then you might not need to read this post. If you're new to throwing parties, or just want a checklist, this might be for you. Also, keep in mind that nearly all the...

I've claimed before that animal welfare concerns should probably be dominated by post-ASI futures where humans survive. Let me outline a hypothetical scenario to illustrate the shape of my concern. Ten years from now, some lab builds an ASI with the assistance of AIs that are superhuman at AI R&D....

Let's put aside the many, many philosophical confusions about what "preferences" even are. There's a very basic sense that preferences are confusing even in practice. It's that for most things that you could have preferences about, you probably don't know what your preferences about those things are, and you don't...