Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“The title is reasonable” by Raemon
I'm annoyed by various people who seem to be complaining about the book title being "unreasonable" – who don't merely disagree with the title of "If…
10 months ago
“The Problem with Defining an ‘AGI Ban’ by Outcome (a lawyer’s take).” by Katalina Hernandez
TL;DR
Most “AGI ban” proposals define AGI by outcome: whatever potentially leads to human extinction. That's legally insufficient: regulation has to…
10 months ago
“Contra Collier on IABIED” by Max Harms
Clara Collier recently reviewed If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies in Asterisk Magazine. I’ve been a reader of Asterisk since the beginning and had …
10 months ago
“You can’t eval GPT5 anymore” by Lukas Petersson
The GPT-5 API is aware of today's date (no other model provider does this). This is problematic because the model becomes aware that it is in a simu…
10 months ago
“Teaching My Toddler To Read” by maia
I have been teaching my oldest son to read with Anki and techniques recommended here on LessWrong as well as in Larry Sanger's post, and it's going …
10 months ago
“Safety researchers should take a public stance” by Ishual, Mateusz Bagiński
[Co-written by Mateusz Bagiński and Samuel Buteau (Ishual)]
TL;DR
Many X-risk-concerned people who join AI capabilities labs with the intent to cont…
10 months ago
“The Company Man” by Tomás B.
To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies. I call them fentanyl zombies because it helps engender a sort of detached, low-empat…
10 months ago
“Christian homeschoolers in the year 3000” by Buck
[I wrote this blog post as part of the Asterisk Blogging Fellowship. It's substantially an experiment in writing more breezily and concisely than us…
10 months ago
“I enjoyed most of IABED” by Buck
I listened to "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" today.
I think the first two parts of the book are the best available explanation of the basic ca…
10 months, 1 week ago
“‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’ release day!” by alexvermeer
Back in May, we announced that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares's new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies was coming out in September. At long …
10 months, 1 week ago