Narratives (stories)

TagLast edit: 15 Jul 2020 19:33 UTC by Bird Concept

[Transcript] Tyler Cowen on Stories

Grognor17 Dec 2011 5:42 UTC

96 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

Peter Thiel/Eric Weinstein Transcript on Growth, Violence, and Stories

Ben Pace31 Aug 2019 2:44 UTC

70 points

20 comments15 min readLW link

Optimizing for Stories (vs Optimizing Reality)

Ruby7 Jan 2019 8:03 UTC

43 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Serious Stories

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Jan 2009 23:49 UTC

129 points

105 comments9 min readLW link

Ten Minutes with Sam Altman

lsusr28 Dec 2021 7:32 UTC

91 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

[Book Review] “Sorceror’s Apprentice” by Tahir Shah

lsusr20 Nov 2021 11:29 UTC

93 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Awakening

lsusr30 May 2024 7:03 UTC

125 points

80 comments9 min readLW link

You get one story detail

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Apr 2022 4:38 UTC

37 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

The Machine that Broke My Heart

lsusr30 Dec 2021 11:59 UTC

47 points

34 comments2 min readLW link

Training My Friend to Cook

lsusr29 Aug 2021 5:54 UTC

72 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

The Intelligent Social Web

Valentine22 Feb 2018 18:55 UTC

236 points

112 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

Short story speculating on possible ramifications of AI on the art world

Yitz1 Sep 2022 21:15 UTC

30 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(archiveofourown.org)

Narrative, self-image, and self-communication

Academian19 Dec 2012 9:42 UTC

48 points

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The absent-minded variations

dr_s17 May 2025 6:57 UTC

24 points

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Forecasting Through Fiction

Yitz6 Jul 2022 5:03 UTC

5 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Narrative truth

Chris_Leong26 Aug 2021 17:49 UTC

21 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Telling more rational stories

DirectedEvolution17 Jul 2020 17:47 UTC

26 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

LifeKeeper Diaries: Exploring Misaligned AI Through Interactive Fiction

Tristan Tran, stijn and Mose Wintner

9 Nov 2024 20:58 UTC

15 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Living with Rats in College

lsusr25 Dec 2024 10:44 UTC

28 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Where’s my magic sword?

lsusr27 Sep 2021 7:26 UTC

48 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Treat Examples as World-Building

adamShimi10 Mar 2022 15:09 UTC

19 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

From Fragment to Form: A Personal Prelude to Human–AI Resonance

Vladimir Kim6 Apr 2025 20:24 UTC

1 point

0 comments15 min readLW link

Exploring Lily’s world with ChatGPT [things an AI won’t do]

Bill Benzon19 Feb 2023 16:39 UTC

5 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

Emergent Authorship: Creativity à la Communing

gswonk14 Sep 2024 19:02 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Savanna Poets

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Mar 2008 18:42 UTC

70 points

40 comments5 min readLW link

Chronicles of the Gentle Singularity: A Short Story

Ihor Kendiukhov7 Aug 2025 13:50 UTC

21 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Are You a Solar Deity?

Scott Alexander15 Mar 2009 19:30 UTC

53 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Funny Anecdote of Eliezer From His Sister

Noah Birnbaum22 Apr 2024 22:05 UTC

215 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Nyarlathotep Stirs: A Meta-Narrative ChatGPT Story

Charlie Sanders20 Mar 2023 8:00 UTC

4 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(dailymicrofiction.substack.com)

“Pastor Selfie,” How would you teach what you learn about rationality from scratch to the general public?

P. João20 Sep 2025 12:43 UTC

1 point

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Imaginary Positions

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Dec 2008 17:35 UTC

30 points

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Rereading Atlas Shrugged

Vaniver28 Jul 2020 18:54 UTC

174 points

36 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

So you want to be a witch

lucid_levi_ackerman31 Dec 2024 4:31 UTC

−32 points

3 comments28 min readLW link

ChatGPT: Tantalizing afterthoughts in search of story trajectories [induction heads]

Bill Benzon3 Feb 2023 10:35 UTC

4 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

Scale Was All We Needed, At First

Gabe M14 Feb 2024 1:49 UTC

296 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

(aiacumen.substack.com)

Frank Herbert’s great insight into human agency—Muad’Dib the tool?

Nerret2 Jun 2025 18:52 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

ChatGPT tells 20 versions of its prototypical story, with a short note on method

Bill Benzon14 Oct 2023 15:27 UTC

7 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Goodness of Morning

YanLyutnev27 Jan 2025 23:25 UTC

−11 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

The Jolly Green Giant Chronicles [ChatGPT]

Bill Benzon18 Feb 2024 17:28 UTC

4 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Places of Loving Grace [Story]

ank18 Feb 2025 23:49 UTC

−1 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

The Healing Code of Joan

jdcampolargo30 Mar 2023 21:09 UTC

6 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

So Shrieked ZAR

AdamLacerdo23 Jul 2025 23:25 UTC

10 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

My 1st month at a “neurodivergent gifted school” called Minerva University

exanova10 Oct 2023 3:34 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(inawe.substack.com)

ChatGPT intimates a tantalizing future; its core LLM is organized on multiple levels; and it has broken the idea of thinking.

Bill Benzon24 Jan 2023 19:05 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media

gwern12 Jan 2019 17:46 UTC

37 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Guardians of Ayn Rand

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Dec 2007 6:24 UTC

123 points

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Why Support the Underdog?

Scott Alexander5 Apr 2009 0:01 UTC

45 points

102 comments3 min readLW link

ChatGPT tells stories, and a note about reverse engineering: A Working Paper

Bill Benzon3 Mar 2023 15:12 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Why You’re Stuck in a Narrative

[deleted]4 Aug 2009 0:31 UTC

46 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News

PeterMcCluskey14 Jun 2021 20:54 UTC

42 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

notes, 1-6

marwood3 Jun 2024 21:02 UTC

0 points

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Why safety is not safe

rwallace14 Jun 2009 5:20 UTC

60 points

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PlayStation Odysseys

Jacob Falkovich1 Jul 2019 17:41 UTC

22 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

The danger of living a story—Singularity Tropes

patrissimo14 Nov 2010 22:39 UTC

28 points

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Coh and the ripped codice, a tale of the horns effect

AdamLacerdo20 Aug 2025 10:10 UTC

−3 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

A Talmudic Rationalist Cautionary Tale

Noah Birnbaum15 Apr 2025 4:11 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Don’t Think About the Thing Behind the Curtain.

keltan19 Sep 2023 2:07 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Defeating the Villain

Zubon26 Mar 2015 21:43 UTC

48 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts about Dr Stone and Mythology

mako yass25 Feb 2020 1:51 UTC

19 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

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Narratives (stories)