- 4,685
- Episodes
- 2,195
- Transcribed
- 3
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 56M
- YouTube views
About LessWrong (30+ Karma)
Audio narrations of LessWrong posts.
- Publisher
- LessWrong
- Category
- society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Feb 2024
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
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12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
“More people should write basic AI safety explainers” by Linch
12 Oct 2026
“Research Lessons I Learned at MATS & Redwood” by Jo Jiao
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
“Labs’ current alignment plans seem terrible” by Daniel Tan, draganover, nicole x
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“More people should write basic AI safety explainers” by Linch
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In 2019, and even today, the amount the public is talking about AI risk is far below the optimal level. For my time in 2019 wasn't that valuable anyway. I ended up spending my free time learning more about ML and writing up why I think climate change is overrated. I think this was a mistake in prioritization. I believe our community is continuing to make this mistake, both in terms of the general case for AI doom and in the particulars of things like what misalignment is, various threat models, what policymakers could do, and so forth. I briefly helped work on AGI.FYI and definitely think it's a net positive project but IMO the biggest bottleneck in comms is the lack of good explainers rather than the explainers failing to surface to the top. […]
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- Carolanne Jiang
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- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
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