Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Nectome: All That I Know" by Raelifin
TLDR: I flew to Oregon to investigate Nectome, a brain preservation startup, and talk to their entire team. They’re an ambitious company, looking to…
5 months, 1 week ago
"Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me" by ryan_greenblatt
Many people—especially AI company employees [1] —believe current AI systems are well-aligned in the sense of genuinely trying to do what they're sup…
5 months, 1 week ago
"Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them" by Raemon
Here are two beliefs that are sort of haunting me right now:
Folk who try to push people to uphold principles (whether established ones or novel one…
5 months, 1 week ago
"Morale" by J Bostock
One particularly pernicious condition is low morale. Morale is, roughly, "the belief that if you work hard, your conditions will improve." If your m…
5 months, 1 week ago
"Anthropic repeatedly accidentally trained against the CoT, demonstrating inadequate processes" by Alex Mallen, ryan_greenblatt
It turns out that Anthropic accidentally trained against the chain of thought of Claude Mythos Preview in around 8% of training episodes. This is at…
5 months, 1 week ago
"The policy surrounding Mythos marks an irreversible power shift" by sil
This post assumes Anthropic isn't lying:
Mythos is the current SOTAMythos is potent[1]Anthropic will not make it publicly available un-nerfed[2]Anth…
5 months, 1 week ago
"Only Law Can Prevent Extinction" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
There's a quote I read as a kid that stuck with me my whole life:
"Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. …
5 months, 1 week ago
"Dario probably doesn’t believe in superintelligence" by RobertM
Epistemic status: I think this is true but don't think this post is a very strong argument for the case, or particularly interesting to read. But I …
5 months, 1 week ago
"Daycare illnesses" by Nina Panickssery
Before I had a baby I was pretty agnostic about the idea of daycare. I could imagine various pros and cons but I didn’t have a strong overall opinio…
5 months, 1 week ago
"If Mythos actually made Anthropic employees 4x more productive, I would radically shorten my timelines" by ryan_greenblatt
Anthropic's system card for Mythos Preview says:
It's unclear how we should interpret this. What do they mean by productivity uplift? To what exten…
5 months, 1 week ago