An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details(lesswrong.com)

14 points by joozio 3 months ago | 9 comments

The Median Researcher Problem(lesswrong.com)

27 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 17 comments

Too much serendipity(lesswrong.com)

178 points by HR01 2 years ago | 81 comments

AIs Will Increasingly Attempt Shenanigans(lesswrong.com)

19 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 12 comments

FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI(lesswrong.com)

429 points by wujerry2000 1 year ago | 156 comments

A LessWrong shortform post by user meemi, linked as reporting that the FrontierMath AI math benchmark was funded by OpenAI.

How much are LLMs boosting real-world programmer productivity?(lesswrong.com)

55 points by gatinsama 1 year ago | 61 comments

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better(ourworldindata.org)

363 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 265 comments

Max Roser essay on Our World in Data arguing the world is simultaneously awful, much better than before, and capable of becoming much better.

Most arguments are about ego, not ideas(wangcong.org)

560 points by backlit4034 3 months ago | 431 comments

Personal blog post by a software engineer explaining why he stopped arguing with people over technical correctness and what he learned about arguments.

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public(honest-broker.com)

330 points by imartin2k 1 year ago | 279 comments

Ted Gioia essay on The Honest Broker arguing tech companies are forcing unwanted AI features on users, calling it tyranny rather than innovation.

How to post when no one is reading(jeetmehta.com)

598 points by j4mehta 1 year ago | 240 comments

Personal blog essay arguing creators should keep publishing through years of obscurity, since mastery and audience take a long time to build.

There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets(blog.jxmo.io)

448 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 240 comments

Jack Morris essay arguing that major AI breakthroughs, including LLMs, came from new datasets rather than new ideas or methods.

Portable EPUBs(willcrichton.net)

551 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 213 comments

Will Crichton's essay arguing PDF limits modern documents and proposing portable EPUBs as an HTML-based alternative, shown in a prototype EPUB reader.