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Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma.

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  • [Linkpost] “Gemini Diffusion: watch this space” by Yair Halberstadt

    [Linkpost] “Gemini Diffusion: watch this space” by Yair Halberstadt
    May 22 2025
    This is a link post. Google Deepmind has announced Gemini Diffusion. Though buried under a host of other IO announcements it's possible that this is actually the most important one!

    This is significant because diffusion models are entirely different to LLMs. Instead of predicting the next token, they iteratively denoise all the output tokens until it produces a coherent result. This is similar to how image diffusion models work.

    I've tried they results and they are surprisingly good! It's incredibly fast, averaging nearly 1000 tokens a second. And it one shotted my Google interview question, giving a perfect response in 2 seconds (though it struggled a bit on the followups).

    It's nowhere near as good as Gemini 2.5 pro, but it knocks ChatGPT 3 out the water. If we'd seen this 3 years ago we'd have been mind blown.

    Now this is wild for two reasons:

    1. We now have [...]
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    First published:
    May 20th, 2025

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MZvtRqWnwokTub9sH/gemini-diffusion-watch-this-space

    Linkpost URL:
    https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-diffusion/

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  • “AI Doomerism in 1879” by David Gross

    “AI Doomerism in 1879” by David Gross
    May 21 2025
    I’m reading George Eliot's Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)—so far a snoozer compared to her novels. But chapter 17 surprised me for how well it anticipated modern AI doomerism.

    In summary, Theophrastus is in conversation with Trost, who is an optimist about the future of automation and how it will free us from drudgery and permit us to further extend the reach of the most exalted human capabilities. Theophrastus is more concerned that automation is likely to overtake, obsolete, and atrophy human ability.

    Among Theophrastus's concerns:

    • People will find that they no longer can do labor that is valuable enough to compete with the machines.
    • This will eventually include intellectual labor, as we develop for example “a machine for drawing the right conclusion, which will doubtless by-and-by be improved into an automaton for finding true premises.”
    • Whereupon humanity will finally be transcended and superseded by its own creation [...]
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    Outline:

    (02:05) Impressions of Theophrastus Such

    (02:09) Chapter XVII: Shadows of the Coming Race

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    First published:
    May 13th, 2025

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DFyoYHhbE8icgbTpe/ai-doomerism-in-1879

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  • “Consider not donating under $100 to political candidates” by DanielFilan

    “Consider not donating under $100 to political candidates” by DanielFilan
    May 16 2025
    Epistemic status: thing people have told me that seems right. Also primarily relevant to US audiences. Also I am speaking in my personal capacity and not representing any employer, present or past.

    Sometimes, I talk to people who work in the AI governance space. One thing that multiple people have told me, which I found surprising, is that there is apparently a real problem where people accidentally rule themselves out of AI policy positions by making political donations of small amounts—in particular, under $10.

    My understanding is that in the United States, donations to political candidates are a matter of public record, and that if you donate to candidates of one party, this might look bad if you want to gain a government position when another party is in charge. Therefore, donating approximately $3 can significantly damage your career, while not helping your preferred candidate all that [...]

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    First published:
    May 11th, 2025

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tz43dmLAchxcqnDRA/consider-not-donating-under-usd100-to-political-candidates

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