Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"The world keeps getting saved and you don’t notice" by Bogoed
Nothing groundbreaking, just something people forget constantly, and I’m writing it down so I don’t have to re-explain it from scratch.
The world do…
1 week, 2 days ago
"Solemn Courage" by aysja
Every so often it slips. It seems I am writing a book, but I can’t remember why. Somehow, the sentences are supposed to perform that impossible, int…
1 week, 3 days ago
"Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse" by Martin Sustrik
Nagoro, a depopulated village in Japan where residents are replaced by dolls. In 1960, Yubari, a former coal-mining city on Japan's northern island o…
1 week, 5 days ago
"Why You Don’t Believe in Xhosa Prophecies" by Jan_Kulveit
Based on a talk at the Post-AGI Workshop. Also on Boundedly Rational
Does anyone reading this believe in Xhosa cattle-killing prophecies?
My claim …
1 week, 5 days ago
"Weight-Sparse Circuits May Be Interpretable Yet Unfaithful" by jacob_drori
TLDR: Recently, Gao et al trained transformers with sparse weights, and introduced a pruning algorithm to extract circuits that explain performance …
2 weeks ago
"My journey to the microwave alternate timeline" by Malmesbury
Cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip
Recommended soundtrack for this post
As we all know, the march of technological progress is best summarized by t…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
"Stone Age Billionaire Can’t Words Good" by Eneasz
I was at the Pro-Billionaire march, unironically. Here's why, what happened there, and how I think it went.
Me on the far left. From WSJ.
I. Why?
Th…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
"On Goal-Models" by Richard_Ngo
I'd like to reframe our understanding of the goals of intelligent agents to be in terms of goal-models rather than utility functions. By a goal-mode…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
"Prompt injection in Google Translate reveals base model behaviors behind task-specific fine-tuning" by megasilverfist
tl;dr Argumate on Tumblr found you can sometimes access the base model behind Google Translate via prompt injection. The result replicates for me, a…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
"Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics" by eleweek
Psychedelics are usually known for many things: making people see cool fractal patterns, shaping 60s music culture, healing trauma. Neuroscientists …
2 weeks, 4 days ago