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The Nonlinear Library allows you to easily listen to top EA and rationalist content on your podcast player. We use text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of audio content from the EA Forum, Alignment Forum, LessWrong, and other EA blogs. To find out more, please visit us at nonlinear.org
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The Nonlinear Library allows you to easily listen to top EA and rationalist content on your podcast player. We use text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of audio content from the EA Forum, Alignment Forum, LessWrong, and other EA blogs. To find out more, please visit us at nonlinear.org
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Rationally Writing

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Webserial authors Daystar Eld and Alexander Wales talk about the craft of writing stories that make sense, and examine writing tropes and media through the lens of the Rational and Rationalist genres. Intro and Outro music is G.A.T.O. Must Be Respected, by Tim Yarbrough To contact us, please email daystar721@gmail.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rationally-writing/support
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The Nonlinear Library allows you to easily listen to top EA and rationalist content on your podcast player. We use text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of audio content from the EA Forum, Alignment Forum, LessWrong, and other EA blogs. To find out more, please visit us at nonlinear.org
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Welcome to Humanism Now, the weekly podcast from Central London Humanists and Humanise Live. Tune in for the latest news, insightful worldwide guest interviews, and lively discussions on the most pressing questions of our time — all from a naturalistic, empathetic, and rationalist world view that marks out humanism. Join us as we explore ethical dilemmas, dissect current events, and engage in thoughtful conversations that matter.
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With Reason

New Humanist magazine | The RA

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Intelligent thinking for turbulent times, from New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association. Interviews with writers, researchers and academics who speak to our age – on subjects including religion, belief, race, politics, sex, technology, science, work and more. Hosted by New Humanist editor Samira Shackle, deputy editor Niki Seth-Smith, and series producer Alice Bloch.
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Chinatown 2.0 is a video podcast that interviews world citizens of Chinese heritage.Our interviews are long form, deep dive, rationalist conversations.Our guests are thinkers and doers, and come from areas of startups, finance, law, art, academia, et al.Some videos will be in English, and others in Mandarin.Host: Richard Yan (twitter.com/gentso09)
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The Nonlinear Library allows you to easily listen to top EA and rationalist content on your podcast player. We use text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of audio content from the EA Forum, Alignment Forum, LessWrong, and other EA blogs. To find out more, please visit us at nonlinear.org
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The Nonlinear Library allows you to easily listen to top EA and rationalist content on your podcast player. We use text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of audio content from the EA Forum, Alignment Forum, LessWrong, and other EA blogs. To find out more, please visit us at nonlinear.org
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Hello, and Welcome to ACX Everywhere 2023. This podcast is a series of candid conversations between meetup attendees recorded at ACX meetups around the country in the fall of 2023. If you're new here, ACX stands for Astral Codex Ten, which is a rationalist blog written by Scott Alexander. Scott is a doctor on the US West Coast, currently working on new models for mental health care at Lorien Psychiatry. Rationalism is...hard to define, so the following definition is taken from Astral Codex T ...
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This is a link post. Introduction: The (highly interrelated) effective altruist and Rationalist communities are very small on a global scale. Therefore, in general, most intelligence, skill and expertise is outside of the community, not within it. I don’t think many people will disagree with this statement. But sometimes it's worth reminding people…
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Welcome 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: Most smart and skilled people are outside of the EA/rationalist community: an analysis, published by titotal on July 12, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Introduction:The (highly interre…
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Welcome 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: A more systematic case for inner misalignment, published by Richard Ngo on July 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post builds on my previous post making the case that squiggle-maximize…
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Welcome 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: BatchTopK: A Simple Improvement for TopK-SAEs, published by Bart Bussmann on July 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Work done in Neel Nanda's stream of MATS 6.0.Epistemic status: Tried this…
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Welcome 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: New Book: "Minimalist Axiologies: Alternatives to 'Good Minus Bad' Views of Value", published by Teo Ajantaival on July 20, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I have just published a book …
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Welcome 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: Feature Targeted LLC Estimation Distinguishes SAE Features from Random Directions, published by Lidor Banuel Dabbah on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.Tl;dr: In this post we present the explorato…
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This is a link post. Folks in philanthropy and development definitely know that the Gates Foundation is the largest private player in that realm by far. Until recently it was likely to get even larger, as Warren Buffet had stated that the Foundation would receive the bulk of his assets when he died. A few weeks ago, Buffet announced that he had cha…
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Welcome 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: Truth is Universal: Robust Detection of Lies in LLMs, published by Lennart Buerger on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.A short summary of the paper is presented below.TL;DR: We develo…
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Link to tool: https://parliament.rethinkpriorities.org (1 min) Introductory Video (6 min) Basic Features Video Executive Summary This post introduces Rethink Priorities’ Moral Parliament Tool, which models ways an agent can make decisions about how to allocate goods in light of normative uncertainty. We treat normative uncertainty as uncertainty ov…
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Link to original article Welcome 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: JumpReLU SAEs + Early Access to Gemma 2 SAEs, published by Neel Nanda on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.New paper from the Google DeepMind mechanistic inter…
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Welcome 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: JumpReLU SAEs + Early Access to Gemma 2 SAEs, published by Neel Nanda on July 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.New paper from the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team, led by …
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Welcome 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: CEEALAR: 2024 Update, published by CEEALAR on July 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TL;DR:Last November we had only 4 months of runway remaining-today we have ~1.5 years.I'm reminded…
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Welcome 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: Taking Uncertainty Seriously (or, Why Tools Matter), published by Bob Fischer on July 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Executive SummaryWe should take uncertainty seriously. Rethink …
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Welcome 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: AI companies are not on track to secure model weights, published by Jeffrey Ladish on July 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post is a write-up of my talk from EA Global: Bay Are…
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Link to original article Welcome 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: How do we know that "good research" is good? (aka "direct evaluation" vs "eigen-evaluation"), published by Ruby on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.AI Alignment is my moti…
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Welcome 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: How do we know that "good research" is good? (aka "direct evaluation" vs "eigen-evaluation"), published by Ruby on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.AI Alignment is my motivating context but this c…
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Link to original article Welcome 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: Linkpost: Surely you can be serious, published by kave on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.Adam Mastroianni writes about "actually caring about stuff, and for the right re…
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Welcome 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: Linkpost: Surely you can be serious, published by kave on July 19, 2024 on LessWrong.Adam Mastroianni writes about "actually caring about stuff, and for the right reasons", rather than just …
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Welcome 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: AI #73: Openly Evil AI, published by Zvi on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong.What do you call a clause explicitly saying that you waive the right to whistleblower compensation, and that you need t…
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Link to original article Welcome 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: AI #73: Openly Evil AI, published by Zvi on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong.What do you call a clause explicitly saying that you waive the right to whistleblower compensa…
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Link to original article Welcome 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: Individually incentivized safe Pareto improvements in open-source bargaining, published by Nicolas Macé on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong.SummaryAgents might fail to pea…
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Welcome 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: Individually incentivized safe Pareto improvements in open-source bargaining, published by Nicolas Macé on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong.SummaryAgents might fail to peacefully trade in high-sta…
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Link to original article Welcome 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: Mech Interp Lacks Good Paradigms, published by Daniel Tan on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong.Note: I wrote this post rather quickly as an exercise in sharing rough / unpo…
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Welcome 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: Mech Interp Lacks Good Paradigms, published by Daniel Tan on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong.Note: I wrote this post rather quickly as an exercise in sharing rough / unpolished thoughts. I am als…
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Welcome 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: A List of 45+ Mech Interp Project Ideas from Apollo Research's Interpretability Team, published by Lee Sharkey on July 18, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Why we made this list:The interpreta…
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Link to original article Welcome 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: A List of 45+ Mech Interp Project Ideas from Apollo Research's Interpretability Team, published by Lee Sharkey on July 18, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Why we made…
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Link to original article Welcome 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 ran an AI safety conference in Tokyo. It went really well. Come next year!, published by Blaine on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong.AbstractTechnical AI Safety 2024 (TA…
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Welcome 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 ran an AI safety conference in Tokyo. It went really well. Come next year!, published by Blaine on July 18, 2024 on LessWrong.AbstractTechnical AI Safety 2024 (TAIS 2024) was a conference…
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Welcome 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: SAEs (usually) Transfer Between Base and Chat Models, published by Connor Kissane on July 18, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This is an interim report sharing preliminary results that we are…
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