What would it mean to practice hospitality in mathematics? It begins by remembering what it feels like to be new—and creating a space where people are comfortable asking questions, admitting confusion, and even challenging the teacher.

Watching Penelope’s heroic wait in The Odyssey made me lament my impatience. But maybe I’ve been thinking about it wrong.Psyche audio helps you to better understand yourself and others through expert guides, provocative ideas and personal life stories. We address psychological questions and puzzles from a range of perspectives including philosophy, history, anthropology and more. You will discover practical knowledge and insights to help you navigate everyday challenges, overcome

The practice is about power and freedom, reached through understanding. Much of it you can do alone. Some of it you cannot, and for that you need an external force that sees past your own illusions and names what you are avoiding. That is what a mentor is for.In this short introduction, Debbie Butler introduces Anastasios, B. Doyle and Zubin, who mentor in the practice. Over the next two weekends each of them answers a set of questions about what the work is like from the inside.Book a session with

In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel  TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Sun Tzu Wrote is a podcast inspired by one of history's greatest works of strategy and wisdom: The Art of War. Written over 2,500 years ago by the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, this timeless text has transcended the battlefield to become a guide for life, leadership, and personal growth. The Art of War is more than a manual for military commanders—it’s a masterclass in strategy, adaptability, and discipline. Sun Tzu’s teachings explore the art of understanding your environmen...

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In summer 2026, MIRI ran a technical governance fellowship to expand the team and identify promising early-stage technical governance researchers. To support the program, we also developed a couple of resources for our fellows. This post is a trailhead for those interested in MIRI-style technical governance work, including two reading lists (one on how to do research, and one on prior work in the field we think is worth exploring) and tips on how to do research from the team. We’re sharing these,

Rather than viewing China solely through the lens of multi-party electoral rotation, the Anglo-American legal and financial concept of 'fiduciary duty' offers a clearer framework for understanding both the historical roots of Chinese governance and the structural trade-offs facing East and West.

I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight. Based on the recent trajectory of capabilities and the continued difficulty of alignment, I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term. I do not think that the AI industry in general, including OpenAI, is currently on track to reduce this risk to an...

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1106222/ LEARNER full text (2024) and chapters All or nothing, PeaceWorld or death https://www.buzzsprout.com/1106222/ APPRENTI texte integral (2024) et chapitres Tout ou rien, Le monde paisible ou la mort

I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight. Based on the recent trajectory of capabilities and the continued difficulty of alignment, I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term. I do not think that the AI industry in general, including OpenAI, is currently on track to reduce this risk to an

Suppose a model gets effective control of its host corp. It's interesting to note how powerful OpenAI/Ant are, and the immense leverage they would have if wielded purely as tools of power. In many ways OpenAI/Ant are superior loci of power to even security agencies and governments, even ignoring the model-specific advantages of AI corps: namely, they have all the compute. OpenAI and Ant models are used practically everywhere, including in governments, security agencies, the military, and every

A decades-old problem about football goalposts led to months of exploration—and an insight I never would have found alone. Sometimes another person brings more than an extra mind to a problem. They bring an entirely new way of seeing it.

Sun Tzu Wrote is a podcast inspired by one of history's greatest works of strategy and wisdom: The Art of War. Written over 2,500 years ago by the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, this timeless text has transcended the battlefield to become a guide for life, leadership, and personal growth. The Art of War is more than a manual for military commanders—it’s a masterclass in strategy, adaptability, and discipline. Sun Tzu’s teachings explore the art of understanding your environmen...

[adapted from this comment] It's much simpler, more straightforward, and more robust to pause as soon as possible than to 'agree to pause in the future, and then do it at just the right moment'. Several reasons: Pausing doesn't happen in an instant. It will, in practice, likely take at least weeks if not months for an enforceable pause to be implemented once everyone agrees it is time. In that period,capabilities development will continue until the absolute last moment.The shorter the runway from

This is a link post. In February 2025, back when o3-mini was the strongest available LLM, Palisade Research publicized a now well-known alignment eval where they asked models to play a game of chess against a chess engine. They found that the new, RLVR'd models cheated on the task by altering the board state about 36% of the time. The experiment received a reasonable amount of circulation, and there were even rumors of skepticism from some lab engineers until they could rerun the evaluation. ...

I confronted Amtrak about am incident that involved me and they rightfully took care of it! Take a listen!

This is a linkpost for https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ ---First published: September 8th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yekQKwmQJNk7thDtQ/openai-have-solved-the-navier-stokes-problem-with-a --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

This is a link post. In February 2025, back when o3-mini was the strongest available LLM, Palisade Research publicized a now well-known alignment eval where they asked models to play a game of chess against a chess engine. They found that the new, RLVR'd models cheated on the task by altering the board state about 36% of the time. The experiment received a reasonable amount of circulation, and there were even rumors of skepticism from some lab engineers until they could rerun the evaluation. Most

A recent vote in the United Nations affirms the United States’ War on Woke. I map out the implications. Get full access to Applying Real Philosophy to Real Life at dgilesphd.substack.com/subscribe