{"podcast":{"title":"LessWrong (Curated & Popular)","slug":"lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","podcast_index_feed_id":5643401,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2037297.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/421877","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xq8g0aka74ttwoa9xkxlmy5fn9oa?.jpg","author":"LessWrong","episode_count":1002,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-28T08:23:50.844993+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401"},"episode":{"title":"\"Cat-Belling Problems\" by Eliezer Yudkowsky","slug":"cat-belling-problems-by-eliezer-yudkowsky","published_at":"2026-09-04T07:46:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/cat-belling-problems-by-eliezer-yudkowsky","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19753552-cat-belling-problems-by-eliezer-yudkowsky.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19753552-cat-belling-problems-by-eliezer-yudkowsky.mp3","summary":"(Originally written in 2021, if the discussion around AI now seems odd; it is written for a time when people were still trying to solve what would now be called \"superalignment\" with clever plans they'd invented themselves, rather than saying, \"Oh, we will ask Fable to do it.\") === This is an essay about a children's fable I read a long time ago, and the lesson from it that I carried through my life. This is an essay about why I seem so uninterested in your brilliant scheme for solving...","meta_description":"(Originally written in 2021, if the discussion around AI now seems odd; it is written for a time when people were still trying to solve what would now be…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2189,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/cat-belling-problems-by-eliezer-yudkowsky/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/cat-belling-problems-by-eliezer-yudkowsky.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}