Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Nullius in Verba" by Aurelia
Independent verification by the Brain Preservation Foundation and the Survival and Flourishing Fund — the results so far
Cultivating independent ver…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
"Broad Timelines" by Toby_Ord
No-one knows when AI will begin having transformative impacts upon the world. People aren’t sure and shouldn’t be sure: there just isn’t enough evid…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
"No, we haven’t uploaded a fly yet" by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
In the last two weeks, social media was set abuzz by claims that scientists had succeeded in uploading a fruit fly. It started with a video released…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
"Terrified Comments on Corrigibility in Claude’s Constitution" by Zack_M_Davis
(Previously: Prologue.)
Corrigibility as a term of art in AI alignment was coined as a word to refer to a property of an AI being willing to let its…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
"PSA: Predictions markets often have very low liquidity; be careful citing them." by Eye You
I see people repeatedly make the mistake of referencing a very low liquidity prediction market and using it to make a nontrivial point. Usually the …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
"“The AI Doc” is coming out March 26" by Rob Bensinger, Beckeck
On Thursday, March 26th, a major new AI documentary is coming out: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Tickets are on sale now.
The movie…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
"Customer Satisfaction Opportunities" by Tomás B.
I am monitoring surveillance camera V84A. A tall man is walking towards me. He is roughly twenty-five. His name is Damion Prescott. He has a room b…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
"Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline" by Ihor Kendiukhov
The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas h…
4 weeks ago
"Personality Self-Replicators" by eggsyntax
One-sentence summary
I describe the risk of personality self-replicators, the threat of OpenClaw-like agents managing to spread in hard-to-control w…
4 weeks ago
"My Willing Complicity In “Human Rights Abuse”" by AlphaAndOmega
Note on AI usage: As is my norm, I use LLMs for proof reading, editing, feedback and research purposes. This essay started off as an entirely human …
4 weeks, 2 days ago