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The stupid red-button/blue-button discourse came back. Eneasz thought he could sit out this round until Aella went Chaos God with her social...

We discuss how far the right to be wrong goes, a recent intra-rat kerfuffle, and why random violence is bad. And it’s secretly all abo...

Matt returns to discuss a post urging us to chill out on AI if there isn’t imminent doom in 2028. There is no video or preshow chat to...

We talk about three EA-adjacent articles, hitting veganism , directing your donations , and community . LINKS Why you should eat meat –...

We relive the last 48 hours of the future of humanity being wrestled over. The Pentagon wants to use Claude for comprehensive mass surveilla...

We are inspired by Andrew Cutler’s Writing for AI to consider the value of writing for LLM s LINKS Andrew Cutler’s Writing for A...

Eneasz talks a bit about his CFAR experience, and we discuss DaystarEld’s Epistemically Honest Reassurance LINKS CFAR’s home pag...

WSCFriedman gets to the core of what HPMOR is ACTUALLY about, and finally pinpoints why we love it so much, in his essay Harry Potter And Th...

Discussing Ben Pace’s recent post on the Rationalist Vices . LINKS The Seven Vicious Vices of Rationalists (includes AI audio version)...

A short story by Ben Pace. Original can be found here . Donate to the fundraiser here ! Harry sings karaoke here . Happy New Year.

A short story by Prerat. Original can be found here . Merry Xmas!

Hello and happy holiday season to you all! Eneasz is back and we’re here to say hi and give a shoutout to Skyler’s awesome annua...

Join me as I sit down with Alex and David, both previous guests on the show and both cofounders of the Guild of the Rose. Together, we go ov...

Matt Freeman has been cohosting several media analysis podcasts for over a decade. He and his cohost Scott have been doing weekly episodes o...

Booker is a long-time attendee and one of the coordinators of the Denver area Less Wrong community. Community engagement isn’t just a...

While Eneasz is busy at InkHaven, Steven sits down with Matt Freeman to talk about not-AI stuff! We had (in my opinion) a great conversation...

We talk with Max Harms on the air for the first time since 2017 ! He’s got a new book coming out (pre-order your copy here or at Amazo...

Jay talks with us about finding Alpha – returns above the base rate – in every day life (and what this means). LINKS Optimize Ev...

We continue discussing Nostalgebraist’s “The Void” in the context of how to relate to LLMs. If God imagines Claude hard enough, does Claude...

We discuss Nostalgebraist’s “The Void” in the context of how to relate to LLMs. “When you talk to ChatGPT, who or wh...

Audio reading of The Void , from AskWho

Do we need to be concerned for the welfare of AIs today? What about the near future? Eleos AI Research is asking exactly that. LINKS Eleos A...

Andrew Willsen tells us how incorporating as a church allows you to navigate modernity, and gives us the basic steps to doing so. LINKS Andr...

Is a bee worth 1/7th of a human? Can a bee suffer at all? Nathan joins us to discuss what neural structures are needed for this question to...

Wes defends his post I Am Not the Monogamy Police, while Jennifer asserts it’s about more than monogamy. LINKS Wes’s post I Am N...

Olivia from the Guild of the Rose is back to tell us about the noble and most ancient tradition of play-by-post storytelling. (Spoiler, it&#...

Eneasz sits down with Tracing Woodgrains before a live audience at Manifest 2025 for a wide range of topics. Then we follow up some more aft...

Olivia is a member of the Guild of the Rose and a total badass. Enjoy the intuitive and fun lesson in Bayesian reasoning she shared with me...

Four AIs recruited a human to host a story-telling event in Dolores Park. Larissa Schiavo is this human. She tells of her interaction with t...

Liron Shapira debates AI luminaries and public intellectuals on the imminent possibility of human extinction. Let’s get on the P(Doom)...

Many of us have a high P(Doom) — a belief new AI tools could cause human extinction in the very near future. How can one live a good l...

David Youssef used Claude and Suno to make some truly awesome music. He tells us how he did it and some of his favorite lyrics. Check out th...

Steven works at SymbyAI , a startup that’s bringing AI into research review and replication. We talk with founder Ashia Livaudais abou...

We speak with a long-time Denver rationalist who’s converting to Christianity about why. Eneasz can’t get over the abandonment of epis...

We speak with a long-time Denver rationalist who’s converting to Christianity about why. Part one, it turns out. LINKS Thomas Ambrose...

Eneasz and Liam discuss Scott Alexander’s post “ Twilight of the Edgelords ,” an exploration of Truth, Morality, and how o...

Wes Fenza and Jen Kesteloot join us to talk about whether there’s significant personality differences between men and women, and what...

We speak to Nick Allardice, President & CEO of GiveDirectly . Afterwards Steven and Eneasz get wrapped up talking about community altruism f...

Dave Kasten joins us to discuss how AI is being discussed in the US government and gives a rather inspiring and hopeful take. LINKS Narrow P...

The White House wants to hear from you regarding what it should do about AI safety. Now’s your chance to spend a few minutes to make someone...

John Bennett discusses Milton Friedman ‘s model of policy change . LINKS The Milton Friedman Model of Policy Change John Bennett’...

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G ene Smith on polygenic screening; gene editing to give our children the happiest, healthiest, best lives they can live; and if we can do t...

Eneasz tells Jen about Sympathetic Opposition’s How and Why to be Ladylike (For Women with Autism) , and the podcast takes a 1-episode...

Jacob Falkovich on finding a good match and selfless dating LINKS SecondPerson.Dating – why dating sucks and how you will unsuck it Ja...

How shitcoins work, plus the Dumb Money movie about the GameStop squeeze.

Why you definitely should kill your friend’s cat if you promised to kill your friend’s cat. (+Q&A) This is a lightning talk give...

Eric discusses integrating our emotions via observation and adjustment. His free course is at EnjoyExisting.org or email him – eric@er...

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Oliver tells us how Less Wrong instantiated itself into physical reality, along with a bit of deep lore of foundational Rationalist/EA orgs....