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LessWrong (30+ Karma)[Linkpost] “MIRI Newsletter #123” by Harlan, Rob BensingerThis is a link post. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies As we announced last month, Eliezer and Nate have a book coming out this September: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. This is MIRI's major attempt to warn the policy world and the general public about AI. Preorders are live now, and are exceptionally helpful. Preorder Bonus: We’re hosting two exclusive virtual events for those who preorder the book! The first is a chat between Nate Soares and Tim Urban (Wait But Why) followed by a Q&A, on August 10 @ noon PT. The second is a Q...2025-07-0404 min

London FuturistsThe AI disconnect: understanding vs motivation, with Nate SoaresOur guest in this episode is Nate Soares, President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, or MIRI.MIRI was founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence by Eliezer Yudkowsky, with support from a couple of internet entrepreneurs. Among other things, it ran a series of conferences called the Singularity Summit. In 2012, Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil, acquired the Singularity Summit, including the Singularity brand, and the Institute was renamed as MIRI.Nate joined MIRI in 2014 after working as a software engineer at Google, and since then he’s been a key figure in th...2025-06-1150 min

Doom DebatesThis $85M-Backed Founder Claims Open Source AGI is Safe — Debate with Himanshu TyagiDr. Himanshu Tyagi is a professor of engineering at the Indian Institute of Science and the co-founder of Sentient, an open-source AI platform that raised $85M in funding led by Founders Fund.In this conversation, Himanshu gives me Sentient’s pitch. Then we debate whether open-sourcing frontier AGI development is a good idea, or a reckless way to raise humanity’s P(doom).00:00 Introducing Himanshu Tyagi01:41 Sentient’s Vision05:20 How’d You Raise $85M?11:19 Comparing Sentient to Competitors27:26 Open Source vs. Closed Source AI43:01 What’s Your P(D...2025-05-221h 21

Doom DebatesGary Marcus vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom DebateProf. Gary Marcus is a scientist, bestselling author and entrepreneur, well known as one of the most influential voices in AI. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at NYU. He was founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016.Gary co-authored the 2019 book, Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust, and the 2024 book, Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us. He played an important role in the 2023 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Oversight of AI, testifying with Sam Altman.In this ep...2025-05-152h 04

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)“Eliezer’s Lost Alignment Articles / The Arbital Sequence” by RubyNote: this is a static copy of this wiki page. We are also publishing it as a post to ensure visibility.Circa 2015-2017, a lot of high quality content was written on Arbital by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, Paul Christiano, and others. Perhaps because the platform didn't take off, most of this content has not been as widely read as warranted by its quality. Fortunately, they have now been imported into LessWrong.Most of the content written was either about AI alignment or math[1]. The Bayes Guide and Logarithm Guide are likely some of the best...2025-02-2102 min

Monét Talks with Monét X ChangeNate White Talks Finding Comfort in FemininityThis week Monet Talks with fashion designer Nate White also known as Nene L.A. Shiro! They both bond over being Pisces who were born and raised in Brooklyn. Nate shares the moment Rihanna recognized him and confesses to never have driven once in his life. They discuss how different the New York club scene is to LA and Nate shares how doing drag is on his bucket list.Created by and starring: Monét X Change, Executive Producers: Patrick Minor and Jay Difeo, Produced By: Jonathan Mitchell and Robbie Soares, Creative Director: Patrick Mi...2025-01-161h 01

Digging Deeper - Hope Missionary ChurchDigging Deeper #14: Putting Down Our Phones with Nate Soares This week on Digging Deeper, Chris and Ross sit down with Nate Soares (one of our BU@HMC students) to discuss week 2 of our new "Unhurried" series. Join us as we seek to slow down and dig into the practices of silence and solitude. 2024-11-1429 min

Savior Services PodcastEpisode 146: Keys to Growth through Time & Energy Management with Breno SoaresTo the Leaders,We are all going through our own struggles.We need to grow through challenges and need challenges to grow.This is all about mindful of time and energy and how you are using it and to what intensity,Please enjoy this podcast with me and my good friend Breno as we discuss life and how to become the best version of ourselves in today's difficult world.Check out Breno's brand Unitary on Instagram @unitaryforeverHe is a stylist and high-end clothing maker. Check out...2024-09-2349 min

ColabCastMaconha, música e a influência no debate públicoPara fechar a série especial sobre maconha, neste novo episódio do Colabcast são exploradas as dimensões culturais da planta, com ênfase nas influências da música. Programas e entrevistas usados no episódio: Podcast “Papo com Clê” - Marcelo Lobatto Podcast “Papo com Clê” - Marcelo D2 Alborghetti - "Planeta Hemp" Só se Passar Por Cima Do Meu Cadáver Matéria sobre a prisão do Planet Hemp (MTV no Ar, 1997) Referências acadêmicas: Os discursos socioculturais na internet sobre a legalização da Cannabis sativa - Achylles...2023-11-1413 min

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"AI as a science, and three obstacles to alignment strategies" by Nate SoaresAI used to be a science. In the old days (back when AI didn't work very well), people were attempting to develop a working theory of cognition.Those scientists didn’t succeed, and those days are behind us. For most people working in AI today and dividing up their work hours between tasks, gone is the ambition to understand minds. People working on mechanistic interpretability (and others attempting to build an empirical understanding of modern AIs) are laying an important foundation stone that could play a role in a future science of artificial minds, but on the wh...2023-10-3018 min

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"Evaluating the historical value misspecification argument" by Matthew BarnettETA: I'm not saying that MIRI thought AIs wouldn't understand human values. If there's only one thing you take away from this post, please don't take away that.Recently, many people have talked about whether some of the main MIRI people (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, and Rob Bensinger[1]) should update on whether value alignment is easier than they thought given that GPT-4 seems to follow human directions and act within moral constraints pretty well (here are two specific examples of people talking about this: 1, 2). Because these conversations are often hard to follow without much context, I'll just...2023-10-1011 min

Effektiver Altruismus: ArtikelÜber das Kümmern – Nate SoaresNate Solares schreibt in diesem Text über die Unmöglichkeit, emotionale Reaktionen zu haben, die dem Ausmaß globaler Probleme gerecht werden — und wie wir manchmal doch einen Blick darauf erhaschen, wie sehr uns das Wohlergehen anderer fühlender Wesen doch kümmert und wie uns das zu altruistischen Handlungen motivieren kann.Den vollständigen Text gibt's auf der Episodenseite: https://effektiveraltruismus.audio/episode/uber-das-kummern-nate-soares 2023-08-0622 min

图布读书#24 如何不再为负罪感所累今天介绍是本独立出版的成功学图书Replacing Guilt。书中的一系列文章主要探讨了以内在动机代替以罪疚为基础的动机的各种思维方式。作者认为，我们在世界中的价值不是基于我们的努力程度，也不是基于别人对我们的评价，而是基于我们的行动对宇宙历史造成的实际影响。我们的目标应该是尽可能地让未来朝着我们期望的方向改变，而不是被过去的罪疚感或别人的期待束缚。本书作者Nate Soares，是美国加州的非盈利组织Machine Intelligence Research Institute（MIRI, 机器智能研究所）的研究负责人。该机构的主要目标是确保人工智能的发展过程安全、受益于所有人，并且不会给人类社会带来风险。他们通过技术研究、政策倡导和公众教育等方式来实现这一目标。书中的内容全文可以在这里阅读。书的第一部分稍稍晦涩一些，也可以从第二部分或者第四部分开始阅读。主播：斯图亚特、布朗主任剪辑：布朗主任 RSS：https://feeds.fireside.fm/books/rss 【时间线】 02:02 机器智能研究所与LessWrong社群 08:00 是怎么知道这本书的？ 18:33 一种常见的愧疚感来自于不知道该做什么 23:12 这一段让布朗主任放松而斯图会觉得好累 29:50 为什么要先做完事情才可以休息啊？ 37:09 很少有人真的觉得休息是人生的终极目的吧？ 47:45 用到意志力去自律的时候就已经输了？ 55:02 这本书适合什么样的读者？【相关资料】 02:55 LessWrong 是一个社区博客和论坛，专注于讨论认知偏差、哲学、决策理论以及其他与人类理性和推理相关的领域。灵魂人物Eliezer Yudkowsky是MIRI的资深研究员和理事。LessWrong以其"序列"帖子而闻名，入坑可以从这里开始。 03:40 人体冷冻技术 (Cryonics) 的相关讨论，现时只应用于在临床和法律上已被宣告死亡的情形，并且在主流观点中属于伪科学。而目前被认可的是深低温保存 (Cryopreservation)，可以参考维基词条。 08:23 The Art of Learning的书评，作者Stephen Manila现在在一家AI医疗公司从事机器学习的研究与实践。他有一个My favorite random internet writing的阅读列表。 10:02 Tim Urban和他的The Story of Us，出书的时候改名为What's Our Problem，还是对原来的名字印象更深。 13:20 Omakase (お任せ)，意思是“交给您了”，是一种由主厨决定菜单的就餐方式，通常以较贵的食材为主。 32:00 《围城》第8章，方鸿渐"想起在伦敦上道德哲学一课，那位山羊胡子的哲学家讲的话"。 44:45 Doom游戏制作者之一John Romero和Tim Ferriss的访谈，他的新书是一本回忆录Doom Guy: Life in First Person。如果你喜欢我们的节目，欢迎在小宇宙、Spotify或其他泛用型播客平台订阅、留言、分享，谢谢！ 2023-08-0259 min

BanklessRevolutionizing AI: Tackling the Alignment Problem | Zuzalu #3In this episode, we delve into the frontier of AI and the challenges surrounding AI alignment. The AI / Crypto overlap at Zuzalu sparked discussions on topics like ZKML, MEV bots, and the integration of AI agents into the Ethereum landscape. However, the focal point was the alignment conversation, which showcased both pessimistic and resigned optimistic perspectives. We hear from Nate Sores of MIRI, who offers a downstream view on AI risk, and Deger Turan, who emphasizes the importance of human alignment as a prerequisite for aligning AI. Their discussions touch on epistemology, individual preferences, and the potential o...2023-07-202h 07

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty" by Holden Karnofskyhttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iy2o4nQj9DnQD7Yhj/discussion-with-nate-soares-on-a-key-alignment-difficultyCrossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.In late 2022, Nate Soares gave some feedback on my Cold Takes series on AI risk (shared as drafts at that point), stating that I hadn't discussed what he sees as one of the key difficulties of AI alignment. I wanted to understand the difficulty he was pointing to, so the two of us had an extended Slack exchange, and I then wrote up a summary of the exchange that w...2023-04-0539 min

TYPE III AUDIO (All episodes)"Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty" by Holden Karnofsky---client: lesswrongproject_id: curatedfeed_id: ai_safety narrator: pwqa: mdsqa_time: 1h00m---In late 2022, Nate Soares gave some feedback on my Cold Takes series on AI risk (shared as drafts at that point), stating that I hadn't discussed what he sees as one of the key difficulties of AI alignment.I wanted to understand the difficulty he was pointing to, so the two of us had an extended Slack exchange, and I then wrote up a summary of the exchange that w...2023-04-0539 min

TYPE III AUDIO (All episodes)"A stylized dialogue on John Wentworth's claims about markets and optimization" by Nate Soares---client: lesswrongproject_id: curatednarrator: pwqa: mdsqa_time: 0h30m---(This is a stylized version of a real conversation, where the first part happened as part of a public debate between John Wentworth and Eliezer Yudkowsky, and the second part happened between John and me over the following morning. The below is combined, stylized, and written in my own voice throughout. The specific concrete examples in John's part of the dialog were produced by me. It's over a year old. Sorry for the lag.)(As to...2023-04-0516 min

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"A stylized dialogue on John Wentworth's claims about markets and optimization" by Nate Soareshttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fJBTRa7m7KnCDdzG5/a-stylized-dialogue-on-john-wentworth-s-claims-about-markets(This is a stylized version of a real conversation, where the first part happened as part of a public debate between John Wentworth and Eliezer Yudkowsky, and the second part happened between John and me over the following morning. The below is combined, stylized, and written in my own voice throughout. The specific concrete examples in John's part of the dialog were produced by me. It's over a year old. Sorry for the lag.)(As to whether John agrees with this dialog, he said "there was...2023-04-0516 min

TYPE III AUDIO (All episodes)"Deep Deceptiveness" by Nate Soares---client: lesswrongproject_id: curatedfeed_id: ai_safetynarrator: pwqa: mdsqa_time: 0h45m---This post is an attempt to gesture at a class of AI notkilleveryoneism (alignment) problem that seems to me to go largely unrecognized. E.g., it isn’t discussed (or at least I don't recognize it) in the recent plans written up by OpenAI (1,2), by DeepMind’s alignment team, or by Anthropic, and I know of no other acknowledgment of this issue by major labs.You could think of this as a...2023-04-0530 min

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"Deep Deceptiveness" by Nate Soareshttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XWwvwytieLtEWaFJX/deep-deceptivenessThis post is an attempt to gesture at a class of AI notkilleveryoneism (alignment) problem that seems to me to go largely unrecognized. E.g., it isn’t discussed (or at least I don't recognize it) in the recent plans written up by OpenAI (1,2), by DeepMind’s alignment team, or by Anthropic, and I know of no other acknowledgment of this issue by major labs.You could think of this as a fragment of my answer to “Where do plans like OpenAI’s ‘Our Approach to Alignment Research’ fail?”, as d...2023-04-0530 min

The Flock PodThe Flock Pod Episode #144 "NFL Draft Stock, Nike Sabrina 1 and Hoops Season Recaps"On today's pod... NEWS NFL Draft - Christian Gonzalez stock up, Noah Sewell stock down PFF has Gonzo going #4 to the Colts Jeff Risdon from USA Today lists him as top 4 overhyped draft prospects Draft is April 27th Sabrina Signature Shoe Announced “Nike Sabrina 1” releases this summer Womens Hoops 20-15 Overall Lost 59-63 to Washington in Quarterfinals of NIT Endyia Rogers to WNBA Sedona Prince to WNBA Jennah Issai Transfer Losing Ahli...2023-03-311h 07

TYPE III AUDIO (All episodes)"Enemies vs Malefactors" by Nate Soares---client: lesswrongproject_id: curatednarrator: pwqa: kmnarrator_time: 1h15mqa_time: 0h15m---Status: some mix of common wisdom (that bears repeating in our particular context), and another deeper point that I mostly failed to communicate.Short versionHarmful people often lack explicit malicious intent. It’s worth deploying your social or community defenses against them anyway. I recommend focusing less on intent and more on patterns of harm.(Credit to my explicit articulation of this idea goes in la...2023-03-1409 min

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"Enemies vs Malefactors" by Nate Soareshttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zidQmfFhMgwFzcHhs/enemies-vs-malefactorsStatus: some mix of common wisdom (that bears repeating in our particular context), and another deeper point that I mostly failed to communicate.Short versionHarmful people often lack explicit malicious intent. It’s worth deploying your social or community defenses against them anyway. I recommend focusing less on intent and more on patterns of harm.(Credit to my explicit articulation of this idea goes in large part to Aella, and also in part to Oliver Habryka.)2023-03-1409 min

TYPE III AUDIO (All episodes)"What I mean by "alignment is in large part about making cognition aimable at all"" by Nate Soares---client: lesswrongproject_id: curatedfeed_id: ai, ai_safety, ai_safety__technicalnarrator: pwqa: mds---(Epistemic status: attempting to clear up a misunderstanding about points I have attempted to make in the past. This post is not intended as an argument for those points.)I have long said that the lion's share of the AI alignment problem seems to me to be about pointing powerful cognition at anything at all, rather than figuring out what to point it at.It’s recently come to...2023-02-1404 min

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"What I mean by "alignment is in large part about making cognition aimable at all"" by Nate Soareshttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NJYmovr9ZZAyyTBwM/what-i-mean-by-alignment-is-in-large-part-about-makingCrossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.(Epistemic status: attempting to clear up a misunderstanding about points I have attempted to make in the past. This post is not intended as an argument for those points.)I have long said that the lion's share of the AI alignment problem seems to me to be about pointing powerful cognition at anything at all, rather than figuring out what to point it at.It’s recently come to my at...2023-02-1404 min

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball" by Nate Soareshttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zp6wG5eQFLGWwcG6j/focus-on-the-places-where-you-feel-shocked-everyone-sWriting down something I’ve found myself repeating in different conversations:If you're looking for ways to help with the whole “the world looks pretty doomed” business, here's my advice: look around for places where we're all being total idiots.Look for places where everyone's fretting about a problem that some part of you thinks it could obviously just solve.Look around for places where something seems incompetently run, or hopelessly inept, and where some part of you thinks you can do bet...2023-02-0406 min

TYPE III AUDIO (All episodes)"Focus on the places where you feel shocked everyone's dropping the ball" by Nate Soares---client: lesswrongproject_id: curatednarrator: pwqa: mdsnarrator_time: 0h40mqa_time: 0h15m---Writing down something I’ve found myself repeating in different conversations:If you're looking for ways to help with the whole “the world looks pretty doomed” business, here's my advice: look around for places where we're all being total idiots.Look for places where everyone's fretting about a problem that some part of you thinks it could obviously just solve.Look around for places where something seems...2023-02-0406 min

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)"On how various plans miss the hard bits of the alignment challenge" by Nate Soares https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3pinFH3jerMzAvmza/on-how-various-plans-miss-the-hard-bits-of-the-alignment Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. (As usual, this post was written by Nate Soares with some help and editing from Rob Bensinger.) In my last post, I described a “hard bit” of the challenge of aligning AGI—the sharp left turn that comes when your system slides into the “AGI” capabilities well, the fact that alignment doesn’t generalize similarly well at this turn, and the fact that this turn seems likely to break a bunch of your existing alignment pro...2022-07-1754 min

The Nonlinear Library: Alignment Section(Part 1/2) Is power-seeking AI an existential risk? by Joseph CarlsmithWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is part one of: Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?, published by Joseph Carlsmith. 1. Introduction Some worry that the development of advanced artificial intelligence will result in existential catastrophe -- that is, the destruction of humanity’s longterm potential. Here I examine the following version of this worry (it’s not the only version): By 2070: It will become possible and financially feasible to build AI systems with the following properties: Advanced capability: they outperform the best huma...2021-12-181h 29

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsDiscussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions by Rob Bensinger, Eliezer YudkowskyWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions, published by Rob Bensinger, Eliezer Yudkowsky on LessWrong. Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. The following is a partially redacted and lightly edited transcript of a chat conversation about AGI between Eliezer Yudkowsky and a set of invitees in early September 2021. By default, all other participants are anonymized as "Anonymous". I think this Nate Soares quote (excerpted from Nate's ) is a...2021-12-1255 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsDiscussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions by Rob Bensinger, Eliezer YudkowskyWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.This is: Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions, published by Rob Bensinger, Eliezer Yudkowsky on LessWrong.Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.The following is a partially redacted and lightly edited transcript of a chat conversation about AGI between Eliezer Yudkowsky and a set of invitees in early September 2021. By default, all other participants are anonymized as "Anonymous".I think this Nate Soares quote (excerpted from Nate's ) is a...2021-12-1255 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsLessons I've Learned from Self-TeachingWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Lessons I've Learned from Self-Teaching, published by TurnTrout on LessWrong. In 2018, I was a bright-eyed grad student who was freaking out about AI alignment. I guess I'm still a bright-eyed grad student freaking out about AI alignment, but that's beside the point. I wanted to help, and so I started levelling up. While I'd read Nate Soares's self-teaching posts, there were a few key lessons I'd either failed to internalize or failed to consider at...2021-12-1215 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsLessons I've Learned from Self-TeachingWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.This is: Lessons I've Learned from Self-Teaching, published by TurnTrout on LessWrong.In 2018, I was a bright-eyed grad student who was freaking out about AI alignment. I guess I'm still a bright-eyed grad student freaking out about AI alignment, but that's beside the point.I wanted to help, and so I started levelling up. While I'd read Nate Soares's self-teaching posts, there were a few key lessons I'd either failed to internalize or failed to consider at...2021-12-1215 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsWe've built Connected Papers - a visual tool for researchers to find and explore academic papers by discordyWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: We've built Connected Papers - a visual tool for researchers to find and explore academic papers, published by discordy on the LessWrong. Hi LessWrong. I'm a long time lurker and finally have something that I'm really proud to share with you. After a long beta, we are releasing Connected Papers to the public! Connected papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of...2021-12-1204 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsWe've built Connected Papers - a visual tool for researchers to find and explore academic papers by discordyWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.This is: We've built Connected Papers - a visual tool for researchers to find and explore academic papers, published by discordy on the LessWrong.Hi LessWrong. I'm a long time lurker and finally have something that I'm really proud to share with you.After a long beta, we are releasing Connected Papers to the public!Connected papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of...2021-12-1204 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsThe 3 Books Technique for Learning a New Skilll by Matt GoldenbergWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is:The 3 Books Technique for Learning a New Skilll, published by Matt Goldenberg on the LESSWRONG. When I'm learning a new skill, there's a technique I often use to quickly gain the basics of the new skill without getting drowned in the plethora of resources that exist. I've found that just 3 resources that cover the skill from 3 separate viewpoints(along with either daily practice or a project) is enough to quickly get all the pieces I...2021-12-1203 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsSpeaking of Stag Hunts by Duncan_SabienWelcome to the nonlinear library, where we use text-to-speech software to convert the best writing from the rationalist and ea communities into audio.This is: Speaking of Stag Hunts, published by Duncan_Sabien on the effective altruism forum.This is an essay about the current state of the LessWrong community, and the broader EA/rationalist/longtermist communities that it overlaps and bridges, inspired mostly by the dynamics around these three posts. The concepts and claims laid out in Concentration of Force, which was originally written as part one of this essay, are important context for the thoughts below.Summary/thesis...2021-12-1227 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsSpeaking of Stag Hunts by Duncan_SabienWelcome to the nonlinear library, where we use text-to-speech software to convert the best writing from the rationalist and ea communities into audio. This is: Speaking of Stag Hunts, published by Duncan_Sabien on the effective altruism forum. This is an essay about the current state of the LessWrong community, and the broader EA/rationalist/longtermist communities that it overlaps and bridges, inspired mostly by the dynamics around these three posts. The concepts and claims laid out in Concentration of Force, which was originally written as part one of this essay, are important context for the thoughts below. Summary/thesis...2021-12-1227 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsRedwood Research’s current projectWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Redwood Research’s current project , published by Buck on the AI Alignment Forum. Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Here’s a description of the project Redwood Research is working on at the moment. First I’ll say roughly what we’re doing, and then I’ll try to explain why I think this is a reasonable applied alignment project, and then I’ll talk a bit about the takeaway...2021-12-1122 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsRedwood Research’s current projectWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.This is: Redwood Research’s current project , published by Buck on the AI Alignment Forum.Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.Here’s a description of the project Redwood Research is working on at the moment. First I’ll say roughly what we’re doing, and then I’ll try to explain why I think this is a reasonable applied alignment project, and then I’ll talk a bit about the takeaway...2021-12-1122 min

The Nonlinear Library: Alignment Forum Top PostsDiscussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions by Rob Bensinger, Eliezer YudkowskyWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions, published by Rob Bensinger, Eliezer Yudkowsky on the AI Alignment Forum. The following is a partially redacted and lightly edited transcript of a chat conversation about AGI between Eliezer Yudkowsky and a set of invitees in early September 2021. By default, all other participants are anonymized as "Anonymous". I think this Nate Soares quote (excerpted from Nate's response to a report by Joe Carlsmith) is a...2021-12-1055 min

The Nonlinear Library: Alignment Forum Top PostsRedwood Research’s current project by Buck ShlegerisWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Redwood Research’s current project, published by Buck Shlegeris on the AI Alignment Forum. Here’s a description of the project Redwood Research is working on at the moment. First I’ll say roughly what we’re doing, and then I’ll try to explain why I think this is a reasonable applied alignment project, and then I’ll talk a bit about the takeaways I’ve had from the project so far. There are...2021-12-1022 min

The Nonlinear Library: Alignment Forum Top PostsComments on Carlsmith's “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?” by Nate SoaresWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Comments on Carlsmith's “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”, published by Nate Soares on the AI Alignment Forum. The following are some comments I gave on Open Philanthropy Senior Research Analyst Joe Carlsmith’s Apr. 2021 “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”, published with permission and lightly edited. Joe replied; his comments are included inline. I gave a few quick replies in response, that I didn't want to worry about cleaning up; Rob Bensinger has summar...2021-12-051h 04

The Nonlinear Library: Alignment SectionRedwood Research"s current project by Buck ShlegerisWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Redwood Research"s current project, published by Buck Shlegeris on the AI Alignment Forum. Here’s a description of the project Redwood Research is working on at the moment. First I’ll say roughly what we’re doing, and then I’ll try to explain why I think this is a reasonable applied alignment project, and then I’ll talk a bit about the takeaways I’ve had from the project so far. There are a bunch of p...2021-11-1622 min

The Nonlinear Library: Alignment SectionDiscussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions by Rob Bensinger, Eliezer YudkowskyWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions, published by Rob Bensinger, Eliezer Yudkowsky on the AI Alignment Forum. The following is a partially redacted and lightly edited transcript of a chat conversation about AGI between Eliezer Yudkowsky and a set of invitees in early September 2021. By default, all other participants are anonymized as "Anonymous". I think this Nate Soares quote (excerpted from Nate's response to a report by Joe Carlsmith) is a useful context-setting preface...2021-11-1655 min

The Conduit#37 - Obligations of the Affluent & Movember FeverIn this episode, Josh and Lyndon attempt to dissect altruism from a number of angles. Evaluating why it's important, the ways our minds can stop us from doing us much good as we can, the role spontaneity plays, and how Effective Altruism ideas might proliferate into the mainstream more. Thanks as always for listening! Additional resources:On Caring - Nate Soares (Minding Our Way) What is Effective Altruism? Giving What We Can 2021-10-311h 43

Replacing GuiltReplacing Guilt (full audiobook)The complete Replacing Guilt series. Written by Nate Soares. Read and produced by Gianluca Truda. --- Contents 0:00:36 : Preliminaries 0:17:50 : Part 1: Fighting for something 1:03:20 : Part 2: Drop your obligations 1:30:27 : Part 3: Half monkey, half god 2:44:30 : Part 4: The dark world 4:17:40 : Part 5: Fire within 5:39:14 : Conclusion 5:43:46 : Series reflection (excerpt from Bit of a Tangent) --- The My Hero comic by Matt Rhodes: mindingourway.com/content/images/2015/05/MyHero.jpg --- If you enjoyed this audiobook, please do share it...2021-06-255h 59

Replacing GuiltUpdates and DiscussionThis episode is made of two parts. Firstly, some updates on the project: the audiobook is still in progress and should be released soon. I'll be uploading it to this feed and will try make it as accessible as possible. To tie you all over until then, the rest of this instalment is an excerpt from the Bit of a Tangent podcast, which I co-host with my good friend, Jared. We discussed how and why I came to narrate Replacing Guilt, how to gain the most from listening to the series, and the types of people who will find...2021-05-1818 min

Replacing Guilt42 Conclusion"All we need to do, in any given moment, is look upon the actions available to us, consider, and take whichever one seems most likely to lead to a future full of light." -------- Stay subscribed for future updates about a full audiobook version, as well as further discussions on the subject matter. Original post: http://mindingourway.com/guilt-conclusion/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda...2021-03-1704 min

Replacing Guilt41 How we will be measured"After nearly a year of writing, my "replacing guilt" sequence is coming to a close. I have just one more thing to say on the subject, by pointing out a running theme throughout the series." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/how-we-will-be-measured/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.2021-03-1007 min

Replacing Guilt40 Defiance"Defiance-the-virtue is about having the same reflexive response, not towards an authority figure, but towards the state of a broken world. It's about making the fact that you struggle to fix broken worlds automatic and unspoken — you might weigh your options and bide your time, but you spare no thought for whether you will struggle. I don't know how to teach defiance, but it's one of the keystones of my motivation system. If you want to build yourself a motivation system akin to mine, defiance is an important component." -------- Original post: http://mi...2021-03-0309 min

Replacing Guilt39 Recklessness"The second dubious virtue is recklessness. As with desperation, there are many bad ways to be reckless. There is a nihilistic recklessness, in those with a muted ability to feel and care, that is self-destructive. There is a social recklessness, when peers push each other towards doing something dangerous that none of them would do alone, in a demonstration of commitment that can become needlessly dangerous. And there is a fiery, destructive recklessness in those too quick to anger, which can lead people to actions they will regret for a lifetime. I caution against all these types of recklessness.2021-02-2407 min

Replacing Guilt38 Desperation"The next three posts will discuss what I dub the three dubious virtues: desperation, recklessness, and defiance. I call them dubious, because each can easily turn into a vice if used incorrectly or excessively. As you read these posts, keep in mind the law of equal and opposite advice. Though these virtues are dubious, I have found each of them to be a crucial component of a strong and healthy intrinsic motivation system. The first of the three dubious virtues is desperation. There are bad ways to be desperate: visible desperation towards people can put you in...2021-02-1712 min

Replacing Guilt37 Confidence all the way up"I have found this mindset to be very useful throughout my life. Confidence all the way up is what has me dive into the fray to try new things, while others stand on the sidelines bemoaning a high degree of uncertainty. It's part of the technique of treat recurring failures as data and training, rather than as a signal that it's time to feel guilty. It's part of the technique of knowing you're deeply limited without letting that interfere with your progress towards the goal. Of the top ten most competent people I've met in person (by my estimation), eight...2021-02-1008 min

Replacing Guilt36 The art of response"Polished response patterns have proven useful to me, and I attribute much of my skill at math, programming, and running nonprofits to having sane responses to new obstacles. Regardless of where you get your response patterns from, I suspect that honing them will do you well." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/the-art-of-response/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms...2021-01-1311 min

Replacing Guilt35 Obvious advice"Sometimes, I wonder how successful a person would be if they just did all the obvious things in pursuit of their goals [...] So with that in mind, allow me to offer some quite obvious pieces of advice, which have proven very useful for me..." Replacing Guilt will return to schedule in 2021. Take care and enjoy the break. -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/obvious-advice/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced...2020-12-2309 min

MMA TRUFANAnderson Silva: Audio DocumentaryFeaturing exclusive interviews with: Anderson Silva, Stephen Bonnar, Daniel Cormier, Jorge Guimaraes, Jeremy Horn, Ricardo Liborio, Lyoto Machida, Mark Munoz, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Pedro Rizzo, and Ed Soares. Created by: Nate EvansWritten and Edited by: Rich Donohue Narrated by: Rich Donohue and Ashley EvansTranslation By: Viviani Sikorski Music By: With Lions ProductionsArtwork By: Mike Zandt 2020-12-212h 08

Replacing Guilt34 There is no try"Ok, so "try" is actually a pretty useful concept; there's a reason we have a very short word for it in the English language. Nevertheless, I have found it quite useful to occasionally spend a few weeks refusing to use the word "try" or any of its synonyms, at least when talking about myself, and especially when thinking about myself to myself." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/there-is-no-try/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soar...2020-12-1607 min

Replacing Guilt33 Stop trying to try and try"Many years ago, when I was in high school, a friend of mine came back from college having joined a fencing team. He wanted to show me some of the basics, so he tossed me a sabre, and we had at each other. We crossed swords a few times, and he said something along the lines of "Nate, the goal isn't to hit my sword, the goal is to hit me." [...] " -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/stop-trying-to-try-and-try/ "SENS is currently fundraising, by the way": www.sens.org Find Nate Soares at...2020-12-0914 min

Replacing Guilt32 Dark, Not Colorless"The last arc of posts has been about how to handle a dour universe. Become unable to despair, learn to see the darkness rather than flinching from it, learn to choose between bad and worse without suffering. Learn to live in a grim world without becoming grim yourself, learn to hear bad news without suffering, and stop needing to know your actions were acceptable. Come to terms with the fact you may lose, use the darkness as a source of fuel, and let go of dreams of total victory. These are the tools I use to tap into intrinsic...2020-12-0205 min

Replacing Guilt31 The best you can"In fiction, protagonists narrow their focus until the difference between success and failure on their specific task seems like the difference between victory and defeat. Batman attempts to solve the mystery while ensuring that nobody dies; meanwhile, children in Africa suffer from Malaria. The crew in The Martian spends billions of dollars worth of capital to save one man; capital that could have been spent curing diseases. Real people run a risk of duplicating this error, if they try to find the very best action available. ..." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/best-you-can/ ...2020-11-2504 min

Replacing Guilt30 Transmute guilt into resolve"Most of the time, if something is hurting you, I recommend making it stop. There is one exception, though..." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/transmute-guilt-i/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.2020-10-2908 min

Replacing Guilt29 Come to your terms"So here's my advice: Think the unthinkable. Consider that which is painful to consider. Figure out what, exactly, is at stake. Weigh the consequences. Come to terms with them." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/come-to-your-terms/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.2020-10-2210 min

Replacing Guilt28 Have no excuses"If you have an excuse prepared, you will be tempted to fall back on it. An excuse makes failure more acceptable, in some way. It's a license to fail." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/have-no-excuses/ "But you know about the planning fallacy" "a wonderful opportunity for self-signaling" Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Ch...2020-10-1514 min

Replacing Guilt27 Simply locate yourself"... Maybe some part of you is pushing against reality, trying to deny it, willing the past to change." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/simply-locate-yourself/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.2020-10-0808 min

Replacing Guilt26 Detach the grim-o-meter"I'm betting that the last three posts have given many readers an incorrect impression about my demeanor. It's easy to read those posts and conclude that I must be a grim, brooding character who goes around with his jaw set all day long. Which is understandable, but silly. You don't need to carry a grim demeanor to draw strength from seeing the dark world. It's quite possible to deeply want the world to be different than it is, and tap into a deep well of cold resolve, and still also be curious, playful, and relaxed in turn. 2020-09-3005 min

Replacing Guilt25 Choose without suffering"When given a choice between bad and worse, you need to be able to choose "bad", without qualm." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/choose-without-suffering/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.2020-09-2306 min

Replacing Guilt24 See the dark world"Consider fictional Carol, who has convinced herself that she doesn't need to worry about the suffering of people who live far away. She works to improve her local community, and donates to her local church. She's a kind and loving woman, and she does her part, and (she reasons) that's all anyone can be expected to do. Now consider fictional Dave, who failed a job interview. When telling his friends the story, he emphasizes how the interviewers were biased against him, and how they asked stupid questions. Meanwhile, driven by hunger, a fox tries to reach s...2020-09-1514 min

Replacing Guilt23 The value of a life"If you have money and want to save lives, you had better put a price on life. Scott Alexander explains it better than I can. But don't mix up the price of a life with the value of a life. I see this happen all too frequently. To correct this mistake, I'm going to tell a little story..." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/the-value-of-a-life Some of us work in the mines to make the dragon's tax. Others prepare for the day we will confront the dragon — for the weapons we must bring to...2020-09-1017 min

Replacing Guilt22 Being unable to despair"Sometimes, when people see that their life is about to get a lot harder, they start buckling down. Other times, they start despairing, or complaining, or preparing excuses so that they can have one ready when the inevitable failure hits, or giving up entirely and then failing with abandon. These next few posts assume that you have the former demeanor, and they might not be helpful to people who are inclined to respond to new difficulties with despair. Remember the law of equal and opposite advice! (For every person who needs a certain piece of advice, there is someone else w...2020-09-0405 min

Replacing Guilt21 Residing in the mortal realm"Many people hold themselves to a very different standard than they hold others. They hold themselves accountable for failing to do the psychologically impossible. They fret over past mistakes and treat themselves as failed gods, rather than ambitious monkeys. This condemning-of-the-self can lead to great guilt, with all its negative effects. My suggestion for dealing with guilt, roughly speaking, is to first focus your guilt, by dispelling the guilt that comes from not doing what other people think you should or from from false obligations, and shifting all your guilt into guilt about the fact that you h...2020-09-0106 min

Replacing Guilt20 There are no "bad people""I confess, I do not know what it would mean for somebody to be a "bad person." I do know what it means for somebody to be bad at achieving the goals they set for themselves. I do know what it means for someone to be good at pursuing goals that I dislike. I have no idea what it would mean for a person to "be bad." I know what it means for a person to lack skill in a specific area. I know what it means for a person to be procrastinating. I know what it means...2020-08-2509 min

Replacing Guilt19 Self compassion"To close the gap between compassion and self-compassion, I offer two tools. The first is a reminder that self-compassion is not the same thing as self-pity, and nor is it the same thing as making excuses for yourself. It is well possible to feel self-compassion even while thinking that you are not moving fast enough. It is perfectly possible to feel self-compassion even as you notice that you're completely failing to act as you wish to." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/self-compassion/ "if you want help feeling compassion towards your fellow humans, then m...2020-08-2008 min

Replacing Guilt18 Where coulds go"Most people don't think they "could" cure Alzheimers by snapping their fingers, and so they don't feel terrible about failing to do this. By contrast, people who fail to resist overeating, or who fail to stop playing Civilization at a reasonable hour, feel strongly that they "could have" resisted, and take this as a license to feel terrible about their decisions. As I said last week, most people have broken "coulds. Willpower is scarce in this world. Sometimes, you can will yourself out of a mental rut you're in, but only rarely; more often...2020-08-1506 min

Replacing Guilt17 Not yet gods"You probably don't feel guilty for failing to snap your fingers in just such a way as to produce a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Yet, many people do feel guilty for failing to work until they drop every single day (which is a psychological impossibility). They feel guilty for failing to magically abandon behavioral patterns they dislike, without practice or retraining (which is a cognitive impossibility). What gives?" -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/not-yet-gods/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com...2020-08-1204 min

Replacing Guilt16 Be a new homunculus"Here's a mental technique that I find useful for addressing many dour feelings, guilt among them: When you're feeling guilty, it is sometimes helpful to close your eyes for a moment, re-open them, and pretend that you're a new homunculus." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/be-a-new-homunculus/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.2020-08-0606 min

Replacing Guilt15 Update from the suckerpunch"The most common objection I hear when helping people remove their guilt is something along the lines of "Hey wait! I was using that!" Believing this (or really any variant of "but guilt is good for me!") makes it fairly hard to replace guilt with something more productive..." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/update-from-the-suckerpunch/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of A...2020-08-0306 min

Replacing Guilt14 Don't steer with guilt"I've spoken at length about shifting guilt or dispelling guilt. What I haven't talked about, yet, is guilt itself. So let's talk about guilt. Guilt is one of those strange tools that works by not occurring. You place guilt on the branches of possibility that you don't want to happen, and then, if all goes well, those futures don't occur. Guilt is supposed to steer the future towards non-guilty futures; it's never supposed to be instantiated in reality." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/dont-steer-with-guilt/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com 2020-05-3008 min

Replacing Guilt13 Shifting guilt"The posts so far have been less about confronting guilt, and more about different tools for shifting it. This is a valuable skill to generalize. The posts in this series have developed three such tools for shifting guilt. In this post, I'll recast those three tools as members of the same family, so that you can start to see the pattern, and develop similar tools from the same family as you need them. The tools that I have described so far shift guilt to one particular place: guilt about being unable to act as you...2020-05-2609 min

303Endurance PodcastChris Anthony Cycling, Skiing, Mountains and MoviesHappy Memorial Day weekend! In today's show we have Chris Anthony perhaps most known for being a professional skier in the Warren Miller movies is joining us to talk about a host of topics, but the one that might surprise you the most is that he was just as likely to have made a professional career as a cyclist. We are also going to talk about how his cycling background led him to create the biggest Prim funding than pretty much any pro female race at the Colorado Classic. We'll also cover how he is using the history and sto...2020-05-221h 20

Replacing Guilt12 Rest in motion"Many people seem to think the 'good' state of being, the 'ground' state, is a relaxed state, a state with lots of rest and very little action. Because they think the ground state is the relaxed state, they act like maintaining any other state requires effort, requires suffering. This is a failure mode that I used to fall into pretty regularly. I would model my work as a finite stream of tasks that needed doing. I'd think "once I've done the laundry and bought new shoes and finished the grocery shopping and fixed the bugs in my...2020-05-0308 min

Replacing Guilt11 Working yourself ragged is not a virtue"Part 1 was about replacing the listless guilt: if someone feels vaguely guilty for not really doing anything with their life, then the best advice I can give is to start doing something. Find something to fight for. Find a way that the world is not right, and decide to change it. Once the guilt is about failing at a specific task, then we can start addressing it. Part 2 was about refusing to treat your moral impulses as obligations. Be wary of the word should, which tries to force an obligation upon you. I recommend refusing to do...2020-04-1508 min

Replacing Guilt10 Your "shoulds" are not a duty"I have a friend who, after reading my last two posts, still struggled to give up her shoulds. She protested that, if she stopped doing things because she should, then she might do the wrong thing. I see this frequently, even among people who claim to be moral relativists: they protest that if they weigh their wants and their shoulds on the same scales, then they might make the wrong choice." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/shoulds-are-not-a-duty/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.co...2020-03-1010 min

Replacing Guilt09 Not because you "should""A few months ago, a friend of mine was describing her motivational issues to me. As an example, she explained she was having trouble making herself clean her room, despite her dissatisfaction with the constant messiness. I asked: "Have you considered just not forcing yourself?"" -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/not-because-you-should/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Al...2020-03-0609 min

Replacing Guilt08 "Should" considered harmful"My last few posts have been aimed at addressing what I call the "listless guilt," the vague sense of guilt that stems from not doing anything in particular. I said: The listless guilt is a guilt about not doing anything. To remove it, we must first turn it into a guilt about not doing something in particular. If you didn't have a listless guilt, or if you did and the last few posts worked for you, then you may now find yourself wrestling with a very pointed sort of guilt that stems from not doing particular things...2020-03-0309 min

Replacing Guilt07 You don't get to know what you're fighting for"A number of my recent posts may have given you the impression that I know exactly what I'm fighting for. If someone were to ask you, "hey, what's that Nate guy trying so hard to do," you might answer something like "increase the chance of human survival," or "put an end to unwanted death" or "reduce suffering" or something. This isn't the case. I mean, I am doing those things, but those are all negative motivations: I am against Alzheimer's, I am against human extinction, but what am I for? The truth is, I don't...2020-02-2809 min

Replacing Guilt06 Caring about something larger than yourself"In my last post, I said that in order to address the listless guilt, step zero is believing that you can care about something, and step one is finding something to care about. This post is about step one." -------- Original post: http://mindingourway.com/caring-about-some/ Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at http://gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is a remix of Algorithms by Chad Crouch.2020-02-2315 min

Replacing Guilt05 You're allowed to fight for something"The first sort of guilt I want to address is the listless guilt, that vague feeling one gets after playing video games for twelve hours straight, a guilty feeling that you should be doing something else. Many people in my local friend group don't suffer from the listless guilt, because many people in my sphere are effective altruists who feel a very acute and specific sense of guilt when they think they've spent their time poorly. Specific guilt tends to be as bad or worse than the listless guilt, but before I address specific guilt, I need to confront...2020-02-2110 min

Bit of a Tangent024 | Replacing GuiltGianluca announces his latest project—the audio version of Nate Soares’ Replacing Guilt series—and Jared explains why it’s a notable contribution to the rationalist community. Together, they discuss how to gain the most from listening to the series and why it’s something you should strongly consider doing if you often find yourself binging Netflix until 3 AM. --------Shownotes:--------Replacing Guilt podcast: https://anchor.fm/guiltRationality: From AI to Zombies podcast: www.from-ai-to-zombies.eu/SlateStarCodex podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slate-star-codex-podcast/id1295289140...2020-02-1900 min

Replacing Guilt04 The Stamp Collector"Once upon a time, a group of naïve philosophers found a robot that collected trinkets. Well, more specifically, the robot seemed to collect stamps: if you presented this robot with a choice between various trinkets, it would always choose the option that led towards it having as many stamps as possible in its inventory. It ignored dice, bottle caps, aluminum cans, sticks, twigs, and so on, except insofar as it predicted they could be traded for stamps in the next turn or two. So, of course, the philosophers started calling it the 'stamp collector.' ... " --------2020-02-1709 min

AloudDive inNate Soares | June 2016 | Original SourceBlog post by Nate Soares, executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Group (one of the foremost AI research labs in the world), about the importance of action over deliberation in life. (9 minutes) Get on the email list at aloud.substack.com 2020-02-1609 min

Replacing Guilt03 Failing with AbandonTranscript: http://mindingourway.com/failing-with-abandon/ -------- "Over and over, I see people set themselves a target, miss it by a little, and then throw all restraint to the wind. "Well," they seem to think, "willpower has failed me; I might as well over-indulge." I call this pattern "failing with abandon." But you don't have to fail with abandon. When you miss your targets, you're allowed to say "dang!" and then continue trying to get as close to your target as you can..." -------- Find Nate Soares at http://mindingourway...2020-02-1002 min

Replacing Guilt02 Half-assing it with everything you've gotTranscript: http://mindingourway.com/half-assing-it-with-everything-youve-got -------- I worry that guilt and shame are unhealthy long-term motivators. In many of my friends, guilt and shame tend to induce akrasia, reduce productivity, and drain motivation. So over the next few weeks, I'll be writing a series of posts about removing guilt/shame motivation and replacing it with something stronger. -------- Find Nate Soares at mindingourway.com Find Gianluca Truda at gianlucatruda.com Replacing Guilt is written by Nate Soares and produced, with permission, by Gianluca Truda. The theme music is...2020-02-0815 min

Bit of a Tangent024 | Replacing GuiltGianluca announces his latest project—the audio version of Nate Soares’ Replacing Guilt series—and Jared explains why it’s a notable contribution to the rationalist community. Together, they discuss how to gain the most from listening to the series and why it’s something you should strongly consider doing if you often find yourself binging Netflix until 3 AM. -------- Shownotes: -------- Replacing Guilt podcast: https://anchor.fm/guilt Rationality: From AI to Zombies podcast: www.from-ai-to-zombies.eu/ SlateStarCodex podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slate-star-codex-podcast/id1295289140...2020-02-0419 min

Replacing Guilt01 Replacing guiltTranscript: http://mindingourway.com/replacing-guilt -------- In my experience, many people are motivated primarily by either guilt, shame, or some combination of the two. Some are people who binge-watch television, feel deeply guilty about it, and convert that guilt into a burning need to Actually Do Something on the following day. Others are people who feel guilty whenever they stop working before they literally fall over from exhaustion, and in attempts to avoid that guilty feeling, they consistently work themselves weary. I find that using guilt as a motivation source is both unhealthy and inefficient...2020-01-2103 min

Bit of a Tangent022 | 6 Books You Need to Read in 2020… and 1 You Probably Shouldn’tGianluca presents his much-requested three non-fiction and three fiction recommendations for 2020. Jared recommends a book so long and gripping that you should probably avoid it if you have anything productive to do in the next six months. --------------- Shownotes: --------------- Jared (twitter.com/jnearestn) and Gianluca (twitter.com/QVagabond) on Twitter Bit of a Tangent on Twitter (twitter.com/podtangent) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/podtangent/) Last week’s episode: www.podtangent.com/e/021-the-top-19-ideas-from-2019/ Gianluca on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/56535709-gianluca ...2020-01-2145 min

Bit of a Tangent022 | 6 Books You Need to Read in 2020… and 1 You Probably Shouldn’tGianluca presents his much-requested three non-fiction and three fiction recommendations for 2020. Jared recommends a book so long and gripping that you should probably avoid it if you have anything productive to do in the next six months. ---------------Shownotes:---------------Jared (twitter.com/jnearestn) and Gianluca (twitter.com/QVagabond) on TwitterBit of a Tangent on Twitter (twitter.com/podtangent) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/podtangent/)Last week’s episode: www.podtangent.com/e/021-the-top-19-ideas-from-2019/Gianluca on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/56535709-gianluca 2020-01-2100 min

Tempos de LutaTEMPOS DE LUTA #07 - UFC 242 | Khabib e a Categoria 70kg | BMF TitleO UFC 242 foi além do octógono e a coletiva pós luta também deu o que falar! Além da vitória de Khabib, que surpreendeu um total de zero pessoas, Dana White confirmou que Tony Ferguson deve ser o próximo da fila e falou sobre a confecção de um cinturão especial para a tão aguardada luta entre Nate Diaz e Jorge Masvidal. Falamos sobre tudo isso e mais um pouco no sétimo episódio do podcast Tempos de Luta. O Podcast tempos de luta é produzido e distribuído...2019-09-0935 min

Tempos de LutaTempos de Luta #04 - UFC 241 | Como chegar em grandes eventos?O UFC 241 vai ser mais um daqueles que não dá pra deixar de comentar! O ex-campeão Stipe Miocic tem sua tão sonhada revanche contra Daniel Cormier, Anthony Pettis encara Nate Diaz na sua segunda luta pela categoria até 77kg e a luta Paulo Borrachinha vs Yoel Romero parece finalmente estar perto de acontecer. Além disso Max Soares e Tiago Pamplona discutem acerca do que é preciso para chegar em eventos como UFC, Bellator, One... Basta ser um bom lutador e ter um cartel positivo? Clica ai e ouve o que esses 2 sinistros acham sobre o mercado da luta...2019-08-1640 min

Global OptimumHow to Evaluate Research & EA Origin StoryThis episode features: -A quiz to test your intuitions about which studies replicate and which don’t -An effective altruist origin story -Heuristics for evaluating scientific research -The role of incentives in the replication crisis -What should your prior be for whether research will replicate -Which subfield of psychology has the worst replication rate -Why it’s a mistake to conceptualize glucose as a willpower resource -Problems with interpreting studies of the dictator game Full transcript -Ref...2018-10-3038 min