Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"The Case for Low-Competence ASI Failure Scenarios" by Ihor Kendiukhov
I think the community underinvests in the exploration of extremely-low-competence AGI/ASI failure modes and explain why.
Humanity's Response to the…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
"Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?" by Benquo
A 2022 LessWrong post on orexin and the quest for more waking hours argues that orexin agonists could safely reduce human sleep needs, pointing to s…
6 months ago
"You can’t imitation-learn how to continual-learn" by Steven Byrnes
In this post, I’m trying to put forward a narrow, pedagogical point, one that comes up mainly when I’m arguing in favor of LLMs having limitations t…
6 months ago
"Nullius in Verba" by Aurelia
Independent verification by the Brain Preservation Foundation and the Survival and Flourishing Fund — the results so far
Cultivating independent ver…
6 months ago
"Broad Timelines" by Toby_Ord
No-one knows when AI will begin having transformative impacts upon the world. People aren’t sure and shouldn’t be sure: there just isn’t enough evid…
6 months ago
"No, we haven’t uploaded a fly yet" by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
In the last two weeks, social media was set abuzz by claims that scientists had succeeded in uploading a fruit fly. It started with a video released…
6 months ago
"Terrified Comments on Corrigibility in Claude’s Constitution" by Zack_M_Davis
(Previously: Prologue.)
Corrigibility as a term of art in AI alignment was coined as a word to refer to a property of an AI being willing to let its…
6 months ago
"PSA: Predictions markets often have very low liquidity; be careful citing them." by Eye You
I see people repeatedly make the mistake of referencing a very low liquidity prediction market and using it to make a nontrivial point. Usually the …
6 months ago
"“The AI Doc” is coming out March 26" by Rob Bensinger, Beckeck
On Thursday, March 26th, a major new AI documentary is coming out: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Tickets are on sale now.
The movie…
6 months ago
"Customer Satisfaction Opportunities" by Tomás B.
I am monitoring surveillance camera V84A. A tall man is walking towards me. He is roughly twenty-five. His name is Damion Prescott. He has a room b…
6 months ago