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Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
New episode with my good friends Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken. Sholto focuses on scaling RL and Trenton researches mechanistic interpretability, …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
What will automated firms look like?
Based on my essay about AI firms.
Huge thanks to Petr and his team for bringing this to life!
Watch on YouTube.
Thanks to Google for sponsoring. We used…
11 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
Zuck on:
* Llama 4, benchmark gaming
* Intelligence explosion, business models for AGI
* DeepSeek/China, export controls, & Trump
* Orion glasses, AI rel…
11 months, 1 week ago
Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
800 years before the Black Death, the very same bacteria ravaged Rome, killing 60%+ of the population in many areas.
Also, back-to-back volcanic erupt…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't think an intelligence explosion is plausible,…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
Scott and Daniel break down every month from now until the 2027 intelligence explosion.
Scott Alexander is author of the highly influential blogs Slat…
1 year ago
AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
I recorded an AMA! I had a blast chatting with my friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas. We discussed my new book, career advice given AGI, how …
1 year ago
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
Humans have not succeeded because of our raw intelligence.
Marooned European explorers regularly starved to death in areas where foragers thrived for …
1 year ago
Notes on China
I’m so excited with how this visualization of Notes on China turned out. Petr, thank you for such beautiful watercolor artwork. More to come!
Watch on…
1 year, 1 month ago
Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
Satya Nadella on:
Why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth;
Microsoft’s new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming wo…
1 year, 1 month ago