Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“The Best Lack All Conviction: A Confusing Day in the AI Village” by null
The AI Village is an ongoing experiment (currently running on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time) in which frontier language models are gi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
“The Boring Part of Bell Labs” by Elizabeth
It took me a long time to realize that Bell Labs was cool. You see, my dad worked at Bell Labs, and he has not done a single cool thing in his life …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “The Missing Genre: Heroic Parenthood - You can have kids and still punch the sun” by null
This is a link post. I stopped reading when I was 30. You can fill in all the stereotypes of a girl with a book glued to her face during every meal, …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
“Writing advice: Why people like your quick bullshit takes better than your high-effort posts” by null
Right now I’m coaching for Inkhaven, a month-long marathon writing event where our brave residents are writing a blog post every single day for the …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
“Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document” by null
Summary
As far as I understand and uncovered, a document for the character training for Claude is compressed in Claude's weights. The full document …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
“Unless its governance changes, Anthropic is untrustworthy” by null
Anthropic is untrustworthy.
This post provides arguments, asks questions, and documents some examples of Anthropic's leadership being misleading and…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
“Alignment remains a hard, unsolved problem” by null
Thanks to (in alphabetical order) Joshua Batson, Roger Grosse, Jeremy Hadfield, Jared Kaplan, Jan Leike, Jack Lindsey, Monte MacDiarmid, Francesco M…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
“Video games are philosophy’s playground” by Rachel Shu
Crypto people have this saying: "cryptocurrencies are macroeconomics' playground." The idea is that blockchains let you cheaply spin up toy economie…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
“Stop Applying And Get To Work” by plex
TL;DR: Figure out what needs doing and do it, don't wait on approval from fellowships or jobs.
If you...
Have short timelines Have been struggling …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
“Gemini 3 is Evaluation-Paranoid and Contaminated” by null
TL;DR: Gemini 3 frequently thinks it is in an evaluation when it is not, assuming that all of its reality is fabricated. It can also reliably outpu…
4 months, 3 weeks ago