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On January 6, 2025, Ann Altman filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Missouri alleging that Sam Altman carried out multiple acts of sexual abuse against her over "a period of approximately eight or nine years" starting in 1997. The case number is 4:25-cv-00017, for those who have PACER...

In light of the shutdown of Slate Star Codex, and in particular, the lack of new SSC Open Threads, much of the SSC community has moved to a new forum: Data Secrets Lox. Data Secrets Lox is a sort of "permanent open thread" for the SSC readership, with many of...

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a body created by Congress to study the impact of advances in AI on US national security has put out a call for essays which analyze how advances in artificial intelligence could affect US government and security policy. There are 5 specific prompts,...

This is a post from The Last Rationalist, which asks, generally, "Why do rationalists have such a hard time doing things, as a community?" Their answer is that rationality selects for a particular smart-but-lazy archetype, who values solving problems with silver bullets and abstraction, rather than hard work and perseverance....

Trust Me I'm Lying, by Ryan Holiday, is probably the most influential book I've read in the past two years. This book is a guidebook to the twenty-first century media ecosystem, and shows how the structures and incentives of online media serve to polarize us by stoking fear and anger....

Stephen Randy Waldman (Interfluidity) writes about the process by which authority is created. His definition of authority applies to information in a social context. Namely, information that is authoritative is information which we take to be true by our actions, regardless of whether that information is true or not. The...

Hello LessWrong, I just (finally) finished Good and Real, by Gary Drescher. It was a very stimulating read, and I'd like to continue learning philosophy on my own. However, I'm running into a bootstrapping problem. I don't know what I don't know, and therefore, I don't know where I should...