Podcast Episodes
Back to Search[Linkpost] “Open Global Investment as a Governance Model for AGI” by Nick Bostrom
This is a link post. I've seen many prescriptive contributions to AGI governance take the form of proposals for some radically new structure. Some ca…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
“Will Any Old Crap Cause Emergent Misalignment?” by J Bostock
The following work was done independently by me in an afternoon and basically entirely vibe-coded with Claude. Code and instructions to reproduce ca…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
“AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation” by Tim Hua
“This is a Copernican-level shift in perspective for the field of AI safety.” - Gemini 2.5 Pro
“What you need right now is not validation, but immed…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
“Before LLM Psychosis, There Was Yes-Man Psychosis” by johnswentworth
A studio executive has no beliefs
That's the way of a studio system
We've bowed to every rear of all the studio chiefs
And you can bet your ass we'v…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
“Training a Reward Hacker Despite Perfect Labels” by ariana_azarbal, vgillioz, TurnTrout
Summary: Perfectly labeled outcomes in training can still boost reward hacking tendencies in generalization. This can hold even when the train/test …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
“Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)” by habryka
It's been roughly 7 years since the LessWrong user-base voted on whether it's time to close down shop and become an archive, or to move towards the …
11 months ago
“Underdog bias rules everything around me” by Richard_Ngo
People very often underrate how much power they (and their allies) have, and overrate how much power their enemies have. I call this “underdog bias”…
11 months ago
“Epistemic advantages of working as a moderate” by Buck
Many people who are concerned about existential risk from AI spend their time advocating for radical changes to how AI is handled. Most notably, the…
11 months ago
“Four ways Econ makes people dumber re: future AI” by Steven Byrnes
(Cross-posted from X, intended for a general audience.)
There's a funny thing where economics education paradoxically makes people DUMBER at thinkin…
11 months ago
“Should you make stone tools?” by Alex_Altair
Knowing how evolution works gives you an enormously powerful tool to understand the living world around you and how it came to be that way. (Though …
11 months ago