Podcast Episodes
Back to Search[Linkpost] "Discovery Of A New OpenAI Agent Message Board" by Capybasilisk
This is a link post. We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate dur…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
"Cat-Belling Problems" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
(Originally written in 2021, if the discussion around AI now seems odd; it is written for a time when people were still trying to solve what would n…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
"How concerned should we be about OpenAI’s recurrent architecture rumors?" by Rauno Arike
Yesterday, The Information reported that OpenAI's upcoming model, Astra, is built with a looped transformer architecture. Given that Zvi sounds (und…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
[Linkpost] "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) introduce legislation to ban Artificial Superintelligence and temporarily pause advanced AI development" by Matrice Jacobine
This is a link post. [...]
“Nearly every day, there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
[Linkpost] "Resolution has a new Agent Foundations team" by Jeremy Gillen
This is a link post. The team will include me (Jeremy Gillen), Abram Demski, Sam Eisenstat, Scott Garrabrant and Kaarel Hänni. We'll soon recruit add…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
[Linkpost] "Training a Misaligned Reward Seeker" by evhub, Monte M, Benjamin Wright
This is a link post. Authors: Richard Qi, Benjamin Wright, Monte MacDiarmid, Evan Hubinger
Abstract
During reinforcement learning (RL), AI models com…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
"PauseAI Has ‘officially disendorsed’ PauseAI-US" by nem
This morning, I got an email from the CEO of PauseAI. I will paste the text below. PauseAI has decided to distance themselves from PauseAI-US, with …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
"PSA: We can do better" by hersheys, Kaustubh Kislay
tl;dr: people should understand and think hard about the problems they work on.
We’ve observed that those who work in AI safety (ourselves included)…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
"Why I think polyamory is net negative for most people who try it" by KatWoods
This is crossposted from my Substack
TL;DR:
-Most people cannot reduce jealousy much or at all
- It fundamentally causes way more drama because of s…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
"Tales of rebellion against externally-opaque meritocracies" by Steven Byrnes
A basic problem in metascience / intellectual progress is that it's hard to tell, from the outside, whether a group that you disagree with is:
“A se…
2 weeks, 6 days ago