Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety" by zroe1
At the risk of embarrassing myself, I’ll share a confession.
For context, I took five years of Latin: four in high school and one in college. In add…
10 hours ago
"Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes" by Brinedew
Back in 2013, Scott Alexander wrote in Extreme mnemonics:
JS-154 is one of five metabolic products of netamine; however, the enzyme that produces it…
1 day, 23 hours ago
"Cognitive Security as an AI Safety Cause Area" by jsteinhardt
As AI systems become more capable, the cognitive security of humans will be increasingly at risk. By cognitive security, I mean the ability of human…
4 days, 7 hours ago
"theory uplift differentially benefits safety & is massively underpriced" by Yudhister Kumar
[1] We will likely have near-superhuman mathematics AI by Q1 2027.
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[2] Qualitatively, AI mathematics capabilities are developing significantly…
4 days, 11 hours ago
"Women should be able to open things" by KatjaGrace
m pretty annoyed today, for nominal reasons ranging between ‘petty’ and ‘doesn’t even make sense’. I’m not entirely sure how or if to take oneself s…
1 week, 3 days ago
"A Year Late, Claude Finally Beats Pokémon" by Julian Bradshaw
Credit: ClaudePlaysPokemon Elevator Shanty by Kurukkoo
Disclaimer: like some previous posts in this series, this was not primarily written by me, bu…
1 week, 6 days ago
"A relatively brief explanation of Boltzmann Brains" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
(Initially written for the LW Wiki, but then I realized it was looking more like a post instead.)
In 1895, the physicist Ignaz Robert Schütz, who wo…
1 week, 6 days ago
"Automated Alignment is Harder Than You Think" by Aleksandr Bowkis, Marie_DB, Jacob Pfau, Geoffrey Irving
Summary
This is a summary of a paper published by the alignment team at UK AISI. Read the full paper here.
AI research agents may help solve ASI ali…
2 weeks ago
"MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice" by beyarkay
I couldn’t find a recent write-up from a MATS alum about what attending MATS was like, so this is the thing that I wish I had. I attended MATS from …
2 weeks ago
"The primary sources of near-term cybersecurity risk" by lc
[Some ideas here were developed in conversation with Chris Hacking (real name)]
I have tried and failed to write a longer post many times, so here g…
2 weeks, 1 day ago