# LessWrong (Curated & Popular)

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Author: LessWrong
Episodes: 859

## Resource

Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.

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## Episodes
- ["A Year Late, Claude Finally Beats Pokémon" by Julian Bradshaw](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/a-year-late-claude-finally-beats-pok-mon-by-julian-bradshaw) — 2026-05-18T06:30:19+00:00
- ["A relatively brief explanation of Boltzmann Brains" by Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/a-relatively-brief-explanation-of-boltzmann-brains-by-eliezer-yudkowsky) — 2026-05-18T02:45:19+00:00
- ["Automated Alignment is Harder Than You Think" by Aleksandr Bowkis, Marie_DB, Jacob Pfau, Geoffrey Irving](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/automated-alignment-is-harder-than-you-think-by-aleksandr-bowkis-marie-db-jacob-pfau-geoffrey-irving) — 2026-05-17T05:15:21+00:00
- ["MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice" by beyarkay](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/mats-9-retrospective-advice-by-beyarkay) — 2026-05-17T05:15:19+00:00
- ["The primary sources of near-term cybersecurity risk" by lc](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-primary-sources-of-near-term-cybersecurity-risk-by-lc) — 2026-05-16T14:45:19+00:00
- ["The Owned Ones" by Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-owned-ones-by-eliezer-yudkowsky) — 2026-05-12T23:45:36+00:00
- ["The Iliad Intensive Course Materials" by Leon Lang, David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-iliad-intensive-course-materials-by-leon-lang-david-udell-alexander-gietelink-oldenziel) — 2026-05-12T21:58:36+00:00
- ["The Darwinian Honeymoon - Why I am not as impressed by human progress as I used to be" by Elias Schmied](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-darwinian-honeymoon-why-i-am-not-as-impressed-by-human-progress-as-i-used-to-be-by-elias-schmied) — 2026-05-12T18:30:36+00:00
- ["What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half" by ozymandias](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/what-i-did-in-the-hedonium-shockwave-by-emma-age-six-and-a-half-by-ozymandias) — 2026-05-11T06:30:42+00:00
- ["Bad Problems Don’t Stop Being Bad Because Somebody’s Wrong About Fault Analysis" by Linch](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/bad-problems-don-t-stop-being-bad-because-somebody-s-wrong-about-fault-analysis-by-linch) — 2026-05-10T07:45:42+00:00
- ["x-risk-themed" by kave](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/x-risk-themed-by-kave) — 2026-05-09T02:45:42+00:00
- ["Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations" by Subhash Kantamneni, kitft, Euan Ong, Sam Marks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/natural-language-autoencoders-produce-unsupervised-explanations-of-llm-activations-by-subhash-kantamneni-kitft-euan-ong-sam-marks) — 2026-05-08T05:45:49+00:00
- [[Linkpost] "Interpreting Language Model Parameters" by Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors, Lee Sharkey](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/linkpost-interpreting-language-model-parameters-by-lucius-bushnaq-dan-braun-oliver-clive-griffin-bart-bussmann-nathan-hu-mivanitskiy-linda-linsefors-lee-sharkey) — 2026-05-07T07:15:05+00:00
- ["It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I really do have a life" by Viliam](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/it-s-nice-of-you-to-worry-about-me-but-i-really-do-have-a-life-by-viliam) — 2026-05-05T15:58:10+00:00
- ["Irretrievability; or, Murphy’s Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI" by Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/irretrievability-or-murphy-s-curse-of-oneshotness-upon-asi-by-eliezer-yudkowsky) — 2026-05-05T03:58:16+00:00
- ["Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)" by Elizabeth](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/dairy-cows-make-their-misery-expensive-but-their-calves-can-t-by-elizabeth) — 2026-05-05T02:15:16+00:00
- ["Takes from two months as an aspiring LLM naturalist" by AnnaSalamon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/takes-from-two-months-as-an-aspiring-llm-naturalist-by-annasalamon) — 2026-05-04T23:15:16+00:00
- ["Intelligence Dissolves Privacy" by Vaniver](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/intelligence-dissolves-privacy-by-vaniver) — 2026-05-02T22:45:27+00:00
- ["How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI" by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/how-go-players-disempower-themselves-to-ai-by-ashe-vazquez-nu-ez) — 2026-05-02T09:15:27+00:00
- ["On today’s panel with Bernie Sanders" by David Scott Krueger](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/on-today-s-panel-with-bernie-sanders-by-david-scott-krueger) — 2026-05-01T10:58:13+00:00
- ["Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”" by LawrenceC](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/not-a-paper-frontier-lab-ceos-are-capable-of-in-context-scheming-by-lawrencec) — 2026-04-29T22:58:16+00:00
- ["llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)" by nostalgebraist](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/llm-assistant-personas-seem-increasingly-incoherent-some-subjective-observations-by-nostalgebraist) — 2026-04-29T19:45:16+00:00
- ["LessWrong Shows You Social Signals Before the Comment" by TurnTrout](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/lesswrong-shows-you-social-signals-before-the-comment-by-turntrout) — 2026-04-28T20:45:17+00:00
- ["Update on the Alex Bores campaign" by Eric Neyman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/update-on-the-alex-bores-campaign-by-eric-neyman) — 2026-04-27T23:45:19+00:00
- ["Community misconduct disputes are not about facts" by mingyuan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/community-misconduct-disputes-are-not-about-facts-by-mingyuan) — 2026-04-27T17:30:19+00:00
- ["The paper that killed deep learning theory" by LawrenceC](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-paper-that-killed-deep-learning-theory-by-lawrencec) — 2026-04-27T10:45:19+00:00
- ["Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It" by mabramov](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/forecasting-is-way-overrated-and-we-should-stop-funding-it-by-mabramov) — 2026-04-26T05:30:26+00:00
- ["Your Supplies Probably Won’t Be Stolen in a Disaster" by jefftk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/your-supplies-probably-won-t-be-stolen-in-a-disaster-by-jefftk) — 2026-04-24T01:58:35+00:00
- ["10 posts I don’t have time to write" by habryka](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/10-posts-i-don-t-have-time-to-write-by-habryka) — 2026-04-23T22:15:35+00:00
- ["$50 million a year for a 10% chance to ban ASI" by Andrea_Miotti, Alex Amadori, Gabriel Alfour](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/50-million-a-year-for-a-10-chance-to-ban-asi-by-andrea-miotti-alex-amadori-gabriel-alfour) — 2026-04-22T17:15:21+00:00
- ["Evil is bad, actually (Vassar and Olivia Schaefer callout post)" by plex](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/evil-is-bad-actually-vassar-and-olivia-schaefer-callout-post-by-plex) — 2026-04-21T22:15:21+00:00
- ["10 non-boring ways I’ve used AI in the last month" by habryka](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/10-non-boring-ways-i-ve-used-ai-in-the-last-month-by-habryka) — 2026-04-21T08:15:24+00:00
- ["Feel like a room has bad vibes? The lighting is probably too “spiky” or too blue" by habryka](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/feel-like-a-room-has-bad-vibes-the-lighting-is-probably-too-spiky-or-too-blue-by-habryka) — 2026-04-21T00:30:24+00:00

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