Oliver Habryka
@ohabryka
Building https://LessWrong.com and https://Lighthaven.space
The AI 2027 scenario is terrifying and important. More people should be thinking about how radical change might come over the next few years, how likely it is, and how a sane world would be reacting to it. We want to bring you into the story, and the conversation. Video here:
It's been ~1 year since I updated the tacit knowledge video directory. Today, I added 32 new videos! The most interesting videos are below.
I spent 60+ hours finding 78 tacit knowledge videos. After going viral last year, my LW post is the Schelling point for sharing the type of vid Richard is talking about. If curious, check out the vids and pls share videos of this type in the comments! x.com/RichardMCNgo/s…
Gotta love Vercel’s pricing display. IMO we should adopt it for Lighthaven room pricing. Cost to rent a room: $5B per geological epoch (~10M years), prorated per day.
1.2 trillion dollars per million trillion Events
Aella's a friend of mine, and she seems to be the person I know who gets by far the largest amount of obviously unreasonable and extreme Internet hate. (Not even factoring in the stalking, death threats, murder attempts, et cetera. Christ.) It's true, and seems worth saying.
Lighthaven plaques with their sponsors. ❤️❤️ Me, @RosieCampbell @ciphergoth @Aella_Girl (close ups and wider context in 🧵)
Some wise reminders for the AI policy advocacy community from @anton_d_leicht: “Over time, political sycophancy hurts policy development. This mostly has to do with filtering ideas: Where policy organisations start placing higher and higher priority on the political feasibility…
Reference works are really cool. Check out the thread below for my favorites!
I spent 60+ hours finding 78 tacit knowledge videos. After going viral last year, my LW post is the Schelling point for sharing the type of vid Richard is talking about. If curious, check out the vids and pls share videos of this type in the comments! x.com/RichardMCNgo/s…
As a random update on this: I've run spot-checks on ~4 posts on Cremieux's Substack, doing a bunch of Google searching, asking language models, etc, and I didn't find anything that suggests they were as heavily cribbed as the twitter thread. The Substack posts do have a lot of…
Interested in thoughts on this. This basically takes the entirety of a blogpost I wrote in 2023 and turns it into a thread. I'm mentioned at the end but still... am I wrong to expect more credit?