18+ hour, 17+ min ago   (182+ words) Cross post, adapted for LessWrong Several challenges add friction to finding high signal people and literature: Let's look at the results! Unsurprisingly, Sam Altman is rank 0, clearly a center of gravity in the field, with other famous people trailing. How…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (681+ words) I am not an expert on dating. In fact, I am an extremely conservative male who is not polyamorous and who is not really interested in dating. I am already married. I in fact never really dated anyone to begin…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (317+ words) I like being open on the internet. But I am getting increasingly worried (have been for the last few years, but never really acted on it) that public posting is dangerous because in the future your public corpus will expose…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (186+ words) Seeing this post and its comments made me a bit concerned for young people around this community. I thought I would try to write down why I believe most folks who read and write here (and are generally smart, caring,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (691+ words) "Whenever I see a new person who blogs every day, it's very rare that that never goes anywhere or they don't get good. That's like my best leading indicator for who's going to be a good blogger." In November 2025, Lightcone…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1916+ words) Ultimately, it comes down to one question. Are you in? For you, and for them. The Ick, the ultimate red flag, makes perfect sense and is all about likelihood ratios. Koenfucius: The "ick" is a colloquial term for a feeling…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1914+ words) Here's to everyone having a great 2026 in all ways, so I figured what better way to end the year than with a little practical advice. Like everything else, dating is a skill. Practice makes perfect. It helps to combine it…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (309+ words) A chain is only as strong under tension as its weakest link, and an AI chat system is, under normal design choices, as secure as the weakest model in the selector. While this is relatively easy to mitigate, Anthropic is…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1153+ words) Screwtape, as the global ACX meetups czar, has to be reasonable and responsible in his advice giving for running meetups. And the advice is great! It is unobjectionably great. It's one in the morning. I just ran the east coast…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1465+ words) Screwtape, as the global ACX meetups czar, has to be reasonable and responsible in his advice giving for running meetups. And the advice is great! It is unobjectionably great. I am here to give you more objectionable advice, as another…...