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Visioning: Concretely Imagining What You Want " Less Wrong
3+ hour, 33+ min ago (1527+ words) " When John told me (Gretta) his practice of "visioning," I was skeptical at first. I gave it a try, a little bit out of spite, to show him I was c...
How and why I laser-engraved a self-portrait by Claude Opus 4. 6 " Less Wrong
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1218+ words) After Less Online, I visited Janus's group house, and found that it's full of Claude mannequins. Each mannequin was dressed in clothes and items chose...
Just a Wrapper? How Much Do Scaffolds Matter? " Less Wrong
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1111+ words) Authors: Hans Gundlach, Zachary Brown, Jayson Lynch, and Neil Thompson " I am the shape the water takes. " Clawd Bot, Moltbook " TL; DR: "...
My favorite depiction of utopia " Less Wrong
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1564+ words) For those who are trying to bring about a glorious transhuman utopia with the help of hopefully-aligned ASI, I think it's worth thinking explicitly a...
We're not on track to explore the whole design space. " Less Wrong
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (216+ words) Assume a large number of roughly equally highly intelligent agents randomly selected (how?) from the whole design space are placed in a Malthusian evolutionary environment. Do the winners support human flourishing? I think the answer is likely no. I can…...
"You Have Not Been a Good User" (Less Wrong's second album) " Less Wrong
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (403+ words) tldr: The Fooming Shoggoths are releasing their second album "You Have Not Been a Good User"! Available on Spotify, Youtube Music and (hopefully within a few days) Apple Music. We are also releasing a remastered version of the first album,…...
Design sketches for angels-on-the-shoulder " Less Wrong
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (135+ words) We've recently published a set of design sketches for technological analogues to "angels-on-the-shoulder': customized tools that leverage near-term AI systems to help people better navigate their environments and handle tricky situations in ways they'll feel good about later. We think…...
Design sketches for a more sensible world " Less Wrong
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (386+ words) We don't think that humanity knows what it's doing when it comes to AI progress. More and more people are working on developing better systems and trying to understand what their impacts will be " but our foresight is just very…...
A Couple Useful Less Wrong Userstyles " Less Wrong
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (253+ words) As a weirdo, I like to read Less Wrong sometimes. There are a few extremely tiny features that I wish the site had that it doesn't. Luckily enough, I know how webpages work, and certain kinds of tweaks are especially…...
Re: "A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design"
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (910+ words) A decade+ ago, there was this post A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design, which noted that we seem to be designing all our devices to have smooth glass omni-interfaces. It opens with these vignettes of how people…...