Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Announcing the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge" by Jacob_Hilton
ARC has teamed up with AIcrowd to launch the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge, a contest to improve upon our estimation algorithms for random MLPs…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
"Lighthaven East - A Feasibility Study" by JohnofCharleston
As a bureaucrat, my role is to annoy my friends. Someone voices an idea, “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” or “I wonder if we could…” I make a note. I do so…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
"Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology)" by Steven Byrnes
1.1 Tl;dr
Alignment is often conceptualized as AIs helping humans achieve their goals: AIs that increase people's agency and empowerment; AIs that a…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
"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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 weeks 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…
4 months 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…
4 months 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…
4 months ago