Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“The Origami Men” by Tomás B.
Of course, you must understand, I couldn't be bothered to act. I know weepers still pretend to try, but I wasn't a weeper, at least not then. It isn…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
“A non-review of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’” by boazbarak
I was hoping to write a full review of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" (IABIED Yudkowski and Soares) but realized I won't have time to do it. S…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
“Notes on fatalities from AI takeover” by ryan_greenblatt
Suppose misaligned AIs take over. What fraction of people will die? I'll discuss my thoughts on this question and my basic framework for thinking ab…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
“Nice-ish, smooth takeoff (with imperfect safeguards) probably kills most ‘classic humans’ in a few decades.” by Raemon
I wrote my recent Accelerando post to mostly stand on it's own as a takeoff scenario. But, the reason it's on my mind is that, if I imagine being ve…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
“Omelas Is Perfectly Misread” by Tobias H
The Standard Reading
If you've heard of Le Guin's ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, you probably know the basic idea. It's a go-to story for disc…11 months, 3 weeks ago
“Ethical Design Patterns” by AnnaSalamon
Related to: Commonsense Good, Creative Good (and my comment); Ethical Injunctions.
Epistemic status: I’m fairly sure “ethics” does useful work in bu…
1 year ago
“You’re probably overestimating how well you understand Dunning-Kruger” by abstractapplic
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The popular conception of Dunning-Kruger is something along the lines of “some people are too dumb to know they’re dumb, and end up thinking they’…
1 year ago
“Reasons to sell frontier lab equity to donate now rather than later” by Daniel_Eth, Ethan Perez
Tl;dr: We believe shareholders in frontier labs who plan to donate some portion of their equity to reduce AI risk should consider liquidating and do…
1 year ago
“CFAR update, and New CFAR workshops” by AnnaSalamon
Hi all! After about five years of hibernation and quietly getting our bearings,[1] CFAR will soon be running two pilot mainline workshops, and may r…
1 year ago
“Why you should eat meat - even if you hate factory farming” by KatWoods
Cross-posted from my Substack
To start off with, I’ve been vegan/vegetarian for the majority of my life.
I think that factory farming has caused mo…
1 year ago