Podcast Episodes
Back to Search[Linkpost] “You’re always stressed, your mind is always busy, you never have enough time” by mingyuan
This is a link post. You have things you want to do, but there's just never time. Maybe you want to find someone to have kids with, or maybe you want…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“LLM-generated text is not testimony” by TsviBT
Crosspost from my blog.
Synopsis
When we share words with each other, we don't only care about the words themselves. We care also—even primarily—ab…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“Post title: Why I Transitioned: A Case Study” by Fiora Sunshine
An Overture
Famously, trans people tend not to have great introspective clarity into their own motivations for transition. Intuitively, they tend to…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“The Memetics of AI Successionism” by Jan_Kulveit
TL;DR: AI progress and the recognition of associated risks are painful to think about. This cognitive dissonance acts as fertile ground in the memet…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord
This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling.
You can find the others on my site.
Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surprisingly poorl…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“An Opinionated Guide to Privacy Despite Authoritarianism” by TurnTrout
I've created a highly specific and actionable privacy guide, sorted by importance and venturing several layers deep into the privacy iceberg. I star…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“Cancer has a surprising amount of detail” by Abhishaike Mahajan
There is a very famous essay titled ‘Reality has a surprising amount of detail’. The thesis of the article is that reality is filled, just filled, w…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“AIs should also refuse to work on capabilities research” by Davidmanheim
There's a strong argument that humans should stop trying to build more capable AI systems, or at least slow down progress. The risks are plausibly l…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
“On Fleshling Safety: A Debate by Klurl and Trapaucius.” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
(23K words; best considered as nonfiction with a fictional-dialogue frame, not a proper short story.)
Prologue:
Klurl and Trapaucius were members of…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
“EU explained in 10 minutes” by Martin Sustrik
If you want to understand a country, you should pick a similar country that you are already familiar with, research the differences between the two …
9 months ago