Brendan Long

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Robust Software Isn’t About Error Handling

Brendan Long27 Nov 2025 20:40 UTC

12 points

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[Question] Is SGD capabilities research positive?

Brendan Long12 Nov 2025 20:32 UTC

7 points

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Fairly Breaking Ties Without Fair Coins

Brendan Long11 Nov 2025 21:48 UTC

11 points

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Review: E-bikes on Hills

Brendan Long10 Sep 2025 17:52 UTC

24 points

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Mics, Bandwidth, Action: Fix Your Videoconferencing Setup

Brendan Long5 Sep 2025 23:49 UTC

23 points

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Using the LessWrong Editor for a Static Blog

Brendan Long5 Sep 2025 18:00 UTC

15 points

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30 Days of Retatrutide

Brendan Long4 Sep 2025 16:39 UTC

76 points

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%CPU Utilization Is A Lie

Brendan Long2 Sep 2025 17:05 UTC

75 points

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LLMs Are Trained to Assume Their Output Is Perfect

Brendan Long26 Aug 2025 0:24 UTC

10 points

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Shorter Tokens Are More Likely

Brendan Long24 Aug 2025 0:22 UTC

98 points

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Four Axes of Hunger

Brendan Long14 Aug 2025 19:03 UTC

25 points

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Doing A Thing Puts You in The Top 10% (And That Sucks)

Brendan Long13 Aug 2025 19:50 UTC

76 points

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Fixing a Loose Mouse Wheel With Putty

Brendan Long12 Aug 2025 19:43 UTC

13 points

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Dwarf Fortress and Claude’s ASCII Art Blindness

Brendan Long11 Aug 2025 16:05 UTC

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My Least Libertarian Opinion: Ban Exclusivity Deals*

Brendan Long10 Aug 2025 21:41 UTC

78 points

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[Question] Linkable images in the editor?

Brendan Long10 Aug 2025 0:34 UTC

9 points

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Output and CoE Monitoring of Customer Service Representatives Shows Default Alignment

Brendan Long9 Aug 2025 21:31 UTC

21 points

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What would a human pretending to be an AI say?

Brendan Long8 Aug 2025 18:56 UTC

54 points

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Fresh Fruit Tourism

Brendan Long5 Aug 2025 2:31 UTC

22 points

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[Question] When will the Fooming Shoggoths songs from LessOnline 2025 come out?

Brendan Long30 Jul 2025 4:04 UTC

15 points

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