Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"IABIED Book Review: Core Arguments and Counterarguments" by Stephen McAleese
The recent book “If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies” (September 2025) by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argues that creating superintelligent AI i…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
"Anthropic’s “Hot Mess” paper overstates its case (and the blog post is worse)" by RobertM
Author's note: this is somewhat more rushed than ideal, but I think getting this out sooner is pretty important. Ideally, it would be a bit less sna…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
"Conditional Kickstarter for the “Don’t Build It” March" by Raemon
tl;dr: You can pledge to join a big protest to ban AGI research at ifanyonebuildsit.com/march, which only triggers if 100,000 people sign up.
The If…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
"How to Hire a Team" by Gretta Duleba
A low-effort guide I dashed off in less than an hour, because I got riled up.
Try not to hire a team. Try pretty hard at this. Try to find a more …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
"The Possessed Machines (summary)" by L Rudolf L
The Possessed Machines is one of the most important AI microsites. It was published anonymously by an ex- lab employee, and does not seem to have sp…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
"Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance" by Martin Sustrik
Papal election of 1492 For over a decade, Ada Palmer, a history professor at University of Chicago (and a science-fiction writer!), struggled to teac…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
"AI found 12 of 12 OpenSSL zero-days (while curl cancelled its bug bounty)" by Stanislav Fort
This is a partial follow-up to AISLE discovered three new OpenSSL vulnerabilities from October 2025.
TL;DR: OpenSSL is among the most scrutinized an…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
"Dario Amodei – The Adolescence of Technology" by habryka
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has written a new essay on his thoughts on AI risk of various shapes. It seems worth reading, even if just for under…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
"AlgZoo: uninterpreted models with fewer than 1,500 parameters" by Jacob_Hilton
Audio note: this article contains 78 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in th…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
"Does Pentagon Pizza Theory Work?" by rba
As soon as modern data analysis became a thing, the US government has had to deal with people trying to use open source data to uncover its secrets.…
7 months, 4 weeks ago