Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)" by Elizabeth
How much do cows suffer in the production of milk? I can’t answer that; understanding animal experience is hard. But I can at least provide some fac…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
"Takes from two months as an aspiring LLM naturalist" by AnnaSalamon
I spent my last two months playing around with LLMs. I’m a beginner, bumbling and incorrect, but I want to share some takes anyhow.[1]
Take 1. Ever…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
"Intelligence Dissolves Privacy" by Vaniver
The future is going to be different from the present. Let's think about how.
Specifically, our expectations about what's reasonable are downstream o…
4 weeks ago
"How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI" by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez
Written as part of the MATS 9.1 extension program, mentored by Richard Ngo.
From March 9th to 15th 2016, Go players around the world stayed up to wa…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
"On today’s panel with Bernie Sanders" by David Scott Krueger
It's sort of easy to forget how close Bernie Sanders was to becoming the most powerful person in the world. The world we live in feels so much not l…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
"Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”" by LawrenceC
(Fragments from a research paper that will never be written)
Extended Abstract.
The frontier AI developers are becoming increasingly powerful and w…
1 month ago
"llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)" by nostalgebraist
(This was originally going to be a "quick take" but then it got a bit long. Just FYI.)
There's this weird trend I perceive with the personas of LLM …
1 month ago
"LessWrong Shows You Social Signals Before the Comment" by TurnTrout
When reading comments, you see is what other people think before reading the comment. As shown in an RCT, that information anchors your opinion, red…
1 month ago
"Update on the Alex Bores campaign" by Eric Neyman
In October, I wrote a post arguing that donating to Alex Bores's campaign for Congress was among the most cost-effective opportunities that I'd ever…
1 month ago
"Community misconduct disputes are not about facts" by mingyuan
In criminal law, the prosecution and the defense each try to establish a timeline — what happened, where, when, who was involved — and thereby deter…
1 month ago