Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Dancing in a World of Horseradish" by lsusr
Commercial airplane tickets are divided up into coach, business class, and first class. In 2014, Etihad introduced The Residence, a premium experien…
9 months ago
"Contradict my take on OpenPhil’s past AI beliefs" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
At many points now, I've been asked in private for a critique of EA / EA's history / EA's impact and I have ad-libbed statements that I feel guilty …
9 months ago
"Opinionated Takes on Meetups Organizing" by jenn
Screwtape, as the global ACX meetups czar, has to be reasonable and responsible in his advice giving for running meetups.
And the advice is great! I…
9 months ago
"How to game the METR plot" by shash42
TL;DR: In 2025, we were in the 1-4 hour range, which has only 14 samples in METR's underlying data. The topic of each sample is public, making it ea…
9 months ago
"Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers" by Sam Marks, Adam Karvonen, James Chua, Subhash Kantamneni, Euan Ong, Julian Minder, Clément Dumas, Owain_Evans
TL;DR: We train LLMs to accept LLM neural activations as inputs and answer arbitrary questions about them in natural language. These Activation Orac…
9 months ago
"Scientific breakthroughs of the year" by technicalities
A couple of years ago, Gavin became frustrated with science journalism. No one was pulling together results across fields; the articles usually did…
9 months, 1 week ago
"A high integrity/epistemics political machine?" by Raemon
I have goals that can only be reached via a powerful political machine. Probably a lot of other people around here share them. (Goals include “ensur…
9 months, 1 week ago
"How I stopped being sure LLMs are just making up their internal experience (but the topic is still confusing)" by Kaj_Sotala
How it started
I used to think that anything that LLMs said about having something like subjective experience or what it felt like on the inside was…
9 months, 1 week ago
“My AGI safety research—2025 review, ’26 plans” by Steven Byrnes
Previous: 2024, 2022
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.” –attributed to DL Mood…
9 months, 1 week ago
“Weird Generalization & Inductive Backdoors” by Jorio Cocola, Owain_Evans, dylan_f
This is the abstract and introduction of our new paper.
Links: 📜 Paper, 🐦 Twitter thread, 🌐 Project page, 💻 Code
Authors: Jan Betley*, Jorio Cocola…
9 months, 1 week ago