- 1,030
- Episodes
- 628
- Transcribed
- 74
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About LessWrong Curated Podcast
Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.
- Publisher
- LessWrong
- Category
- society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Jun 2022
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
628 of 1,030 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026
"How much should we worry about the pneumonic plague lableak in Siberia?" by Drew Spartz
5 Oct 2026
"“Alignment Engineering” vs. “Misalignment Science”" by Edward James Young
4 Oct 2026
"You can’t use it without becoming like me" by Martin Sustrik
Inside a recent episode
"Plan R: AI Safety by ASICs" by Roko
Published 27 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] AI is not banned. You can still have ChatGPT, it just gets served from an ASIC. People can still try to cure cancer and aging. Robots can still have AI brains, either in place or remotely. We can still use AI for military applications. but there is a very strong separation between inference and training, enforced at the hardware level. ASICs cannot compute gradients, so they cannot train. They cannot change what model they are running, so they cannot be taken over by rogue AIs. Insider risk at the AI R&D orgs is reduced because Model X cannot be used to help train Model X plus one. You have to use someone else's model. […]
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- June Jimenez
- cousin_it
- Roko
- Ajeya Cotra
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 14 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 60 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100
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- 57
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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