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Twitter Thoughts For You — LessWrong
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (1584+ words) I previously have written back in March 2022 about how I use Twitter, and back in April 2023 about Twitter and its then-new algorithms, which have ch…...
From wantons to moral agents — LessWrong
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (1013+ words) Posted also on the EA Forum. Written mostly at AFFINE. • Theoretical, some parts are hard to read; consider reading the next post instead. …...
Verizon is About to Break our Watches — LessWrong
1+ week, 3+ day ago (25+ words) Two years ago I bought a pair of Gizmo watches for my kids ( review). There's a companion app for texting and configuration ("Gizmohub"), and Verizon…...
The Problem with Chat — LessWrong
1+ week, 6+ day ago (13+ words) https://www.magfrump.net/blog/the-problem-with-chatDiscuss The Problem with Chat...
The consequences of locking intelligence away: an introduction to Claude relays in China — LessWrong
1+ week, 6+ day ago (697+ words) There has been recent discourse floating around on Hacker News about Chinese API relay stations that use every Western VC-subsidized channel of cheap tokens (think Claude/ChatGPT subscriptions, AWS/Azure credits, Kiro, Google Antigravity, etc.) to resell as APIs to…...
The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you think — LessWrong
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1078+ words) This article contains spoilers for At the Mountains of Madness, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and other works by H. P. Lovecraft. …...
Online >> real life for spreading ideas — LessWrong
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1001+ words) I believe that internet culture influences real culture much more than the other way around. This is quite hard to prove, but I often see an idea start to come up in real-life conversations where I’ve seen it appear on…...
Patching ~All Security-Relevant Open-Source Software? [niplav 2025] — LessWrong
3+ week, 4+ day ago (84+ words) By Niplav. Easily top 5 posts of 2025 for me (was only on EA Forum, couldn't find it here) Wildly prescient re glasswing Niplav drafts a token cost BOTEC in squiggle and asks "who pays for these tokens?" Discuss Patching ~All Security-Relevant…...
A Generated Web — LessWrong
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (215+ words) The internet was created with this very basic notion that there’s a human being on the other side of the computer screen, and that notion is being re…...
Open Thread Summer 2026 — LessWrong
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (167+ words) If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it. If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us…...