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Kaj_Sotala

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I’ve formerly done research for MIRI and what’s now the Center on Long-Term Risk; I’m now making a living as an emotion coach and Substack writer.

Most of my content becomes free eventually, but if you’d like to get a paid subscription to my Substack, you’ll get it a week early and make it possible for me to write more.

LLMs one-box when in a “hos­tile telepath” ver­sion of New­comb’s Para­dox, ex­cept for the one that beat the predictor

Kaj_Sotala6 Oct 2025 8:44 UTC
52 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

Where does Son­net 4.5′s de­sire to “not get too com­fortable” come from?

Kaj_Sotala4 Oct 2025 10:19 UTC
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23 comments64 min readLW link

Solv­ing the prob­lem of need­ing to give a talk

Kaj_Sotala28 Sep 2025 15:34 UTC
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3 comments8 min readLW link

Defen­sive­ness does not equal guilt

Kaj_Sotala29 Aug 2025 6:14 UTC
60 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Four types of ap­proaches for your emo­tional problems

Kaj_Sotala16 Aug 2025 13:59 UTC
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5 comments15 min readLW link

How an­ti­ci­pa­tory cover-ups go wrong

Kaj_Sotala8 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC
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25 comments6 min readLW link

Creative writ­ing with LLMs, part 2: Co-writ­ing techniques

Kaj_Sotala3 Aug 2025 6:44 UTC
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Creative writ­ing with LLMs, part 1: Prompt­ing for fiction

Kaj_Sotala21 Jul 2025 8:47 UTC
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10 comments20 min readLW link

LLM-in­duced craz­i­ness and base rates

Kaj_Sotala14 Jul 2025 21:16 UTC
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2 comments2 min readLW link
(andymasley.substack.com)

You can get LLMs to say al­most any­thing you want

Kaj_Sotala13 Jul 2025 16:30 UTC
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10 comments14 min readLW link

Sur­pris­ing LLM rea­son­ing failures make me think we still need qual­i­ta­tive break­throughs for AGI

Kaj_Sotala15 Apr 2025 15:56 UTC
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52 comments18 min readLW link

Things I have been us­ing LLMs for

Kaj_Sotala20 Jan 2025 14:20 UTC
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6 comments7 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Don’t ig­nore bad vibes you get from people

Kaj_Sotala18 Jan 2025 9:20 UTC
162 points
50 comments2 min readLW link
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[Question] What are the strongest ar­gu­ments for very short timelines?

Kaj_Sotala23 Dec 2024 9:38 UTC
102 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

You can val­idly be seen and val­i­dated by a chatbot

Kaj_Sotala20 Dec 2024 12:00 UTC
30 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Try­ing to trans­late when peo­ple talk past each other

Kaj_Sotala17 Dec 2024 9:40 UTC
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12 comments6 min readLW link
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Cir­cling as prac­tice for “just be your­self”

Kaj_Sotala16 Dec 2024 7:40 UTC
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6 comments4 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

My 10-year ret­ro­spec­tive on try­ing SSRIs

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2024 20:30 UTC
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9 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Games of My Child­hood: The Troops

Kaj_Sotala8 Jul 2024 11:20 UTC
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0 comments5 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Links and brief mus­ings for June

Kaj_Sotala6 Jul 2024 10:10 UTC
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0 comments10 min readLW link
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