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Break the fourth wall and start petting the elephant
aka: how to have more authentic, rewarding conversations with other people
 • Alex Libre
You can probably just tell the truth much more often than you think
On white lies, tactful honesty, and why most people’s intuitions here are (understandably) incorrect
 • Alex Libre
If you're not yet using AI to get feedback on your human writing, you should start
Especially considering a humanities professor at Dartmouth once admitted to me that he and most of his colleagues "honestly just kind of skim [the…
 • Alex Libre
Everything worth inventing has not, in fact, already been invented
There are good reasons to believe that education could be a lot better than it currently is in most school systems. Freddie deBoer is, as he often is…
 • Alex Libre
Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI
New evidence from the past week (e.g. Anthropic's "alignment faking" paper + OpenAI's new o3 model scoring 87% on ARC-AGI) gave me the courage to speak…
 • Alex Libre
Infants feel pain, continents move, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, and 27 other things that you would have at some point been ridiculed…
I think it's actually super important to remember this: it's not only possible for literally everyone to be wrong about important questions, but it's…
 • Alex Libre
How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA
Recommendations for Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS), and arguments for the Food and Drug Administration.
 • Alex Libre
Orca & Fishbowl
Orca & Fishbowl
The intersection of AI, psychology, consciousness, ethics, orcas, and many other topics. Reverse knowledge cutoff as of August 1994.
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