Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“This is a review of the reviews” by Recurrented
This is a review of the reviews, a meta review if you will, but first a tangent. and then a history lesson. This felt boring and obvious and somewha…
5 months ago
“The title is reasonable” by Raemon
I'm annoyed by various people who seem to be complaining about the book title being "unreasonable" – who don't merely disagree with the title of "If…
5 months, 1 week ago
“The Problem with Defining an ‘AGI Ban’ by Outcome (a lawyer’s take).” by Katalina Hernandez
TL;DR
Most “AGI ban” proposals define AGI by outcome: whatever potentially leads to human extinction. That's legally insufficient: regulation has to…
5 months, 1 week ago
“Contra Collier on IABIED” by Max Harms
Clara Collier recently reviewed If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies in Asterisk Magazine. I’ve been a reader of Asterisk since the beginning and had …
5 months, 1 week ago
“You can’t eval GPT5 anymore” by Lukas Petersson
The GPT-5 API is aware of today's date (no other model provider does this). This is problematic because the model becomes aware that it is in a simu…
5 months, 1 week ago
“Teaching My Toddler To Read” by maia
I have been teaching my oldest son to read with Anki and techniques recommended here on LessWrong as well as in Larry Sanger's post, and it's going …
5 months, 1 week ago
“Safety researchers should take a public stance” by Ishual, Mateusz Bagiński
[Co-written by Mateusz Bagiński and Samuel Buteau (Ishual)]
TL;DR
Many X-risk-concerned people who join AI capabilities labs with the intent to cont…
5 months, 1 week ago
“The Company Man” by Tomás B.
To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies. I call them fentanyl zombies because it helps engender a sort of detached, low-empat…
5 months, 1 week ago
“Christian homeschoolers in the year 3000” by Buck
[I wrote this blog post as part of the Asterisk Blogging Fellowship. It's substantially an experiment in writing more breezily and concisely than us…
5 months, 1 week ago
“I enjoyed most of IABED” by Buck
I listened to "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" today.
I think the first two parts of the book are the best available explanation of the basic ca…
5 months, 1 week ago