RobertM

I'm going to tell you a story. For that story to make sense, I need to give you some background context. I have some pretty smart friends. One of them is Peter Schmidt-Nielsen. Peter has an illustrious line of descent. His paternal grandfather was Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, regarded as one of...

If you're starting from a baseline of drinking relatively cheap mass-market teabags, the easiest way to marginally improve your tea quality is by making sure you don't oversteep it. If it's a typical black tea, try 3 minutes (rather than 4-5). If it's some kind of green, try 2 minutes,...

Epistemic status: I think the headline claim is true, and that the evidence within is actually quite strong in a bayesian sense, but don't think the post itself is very well written or particularly interesting. But I had to get 500 words out! I think the 2013 conversation is interesting...

I and some other people noticed a potential discrepancy in Anthropic's announcement of Claude Mythos. The version of the RSP that was operative over the relevant period of time (3.0) included a section (3.1) that suggested some internal deployments would require Anthropic to publish a discussion of that model's effect...

Or, for that matter, anything else. This post is meant to be two things: 1. a PSA about LessWrong's current security posture, from a LessWrong admin[1] 2. an attempt to establish common knowledge of the security situation it looks like the world (and, by extension, you) will shortly be in...

These are things I've learned from experience that others might find helpful. Some of them are easy to miss for a while. (Also an exercise in "reality contains a surprising amount of detail"; I could probably have kept going for a while but needed to call it at some point.)...

Written for Inkhaven. Probably should be two posts. Some people have argued the advent of LLMs has dramatically increased the value of having a public writing footprint. The first reason given is that this might help secure a meaningful form of immortality. The second reason given is that this might...