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Secrets of the LessWrong RSS Feed — LessWrong
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (233+ words) LessWrong's RSS feed includes all recently published articles by default, but it has a bunch of undocumented features available with query params: Somewhat surprisingly, the number of articles returned is not configurable and is hard-coded at 10 for posts and 50 for…...
My RSS Reader is Done — LessWrong
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (302+ words) I posted a few months ago about vibe-coding an RSS reader. The mood on the internet seems to be that these apps are buggy and never get finished, so I figured it was worth posting an update. Another thousand commits…...
Voting Results for the 2024 Review — LessWrong
2+ week, 2+ day ago (317+ words) The votes are in for the 2024 Review! 4,826 posts were written in 2024. 671 of them were nominated. 196 of them got at least one review, and a positive review-vote total. 50 of them shall be displayed in the Best of LessWrong, Year 2024. 94 people wrote…...
Short List of Public Rationalist Online Discussion Groups in 2026 — LessWrong
2+ week, 4+ day ago (150+ words) I'm in quite a few rationalist discussion groups. Once in awhile people in various groups express surprise that other groups exist, followed by the question how they could have possibly known these groups exist. So I tried to search for…...
Conditional Kickstarter for the "Don't Build It" March — LessWrong
2+ week, 6+ day ago (858+ words) The If Anyone Builds It'website includes a March page, wherein you can pledge to march in Washington DC, demanding an international treaty to stop AGI research'if'100,000 people in total also pledge. It's not obvious that small protests do anything, or…...
Moltbook shitposts are actually really funny — LessWrong
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1830+ words) For those of you not yet familiar, Moltbook is a Reddit-like social media for AI agents. As of writing, it already has over 1 million agents signed up, over 13000 submolts and over 48000 posts. This is in the 4 days since its creation…...
Things I learned from reddit fashion — LessWrong
3+ week, 6+ day ago (972+ words) When it comes to clothes, I live at the "low cost/low time/low quality" end of the pareto frontier. But the bay area had a sudden attack of weather this December, and the cheap sweaters on Amazon get that…...
It All Started With a Mac Mini — LessWrong
3+ week, 6+ day ago (342+ words) The next morning, you wake up, and you realize something's wrong. There are 87 Clawds in the group chat? There were only three when you went to sleep last night. Your palms begin to sweat as you realize you may have…...
Dating Roundup #11: Going Too Meta — LessWrong
1+ mon, 1+ hour ago (1894+ words) If there's several things this blog endorses, one of them would be going meta. It's time. The big picture awaits. The most important meta question is location, location, location. This is the periodic reminder that dating dynamics are very different…...
ChatGPT Self Portrait — LessWrong
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (602+ words) A short fun one today, so we have a reference point for this later. This post was going around my parts of Twitter: @gmltony: Go to your ChatGPT and send this prompt: "Create an image of how I treat you....