Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“o1 is a bad idea” by abramdemski
This post comes a bit late with respect to the news cycle, but I argued in a recent interview that o1 is an unfortunate twist on LLM technologies, ma…
1 year, 3 months ago
“Current safety training techniques do not fully transfer to the agent setting” by Simon Lermen, Govind Pimpale
TL;DR: I'm presenting three recent papers which all share a similar finding, i.e. the safety training techniques for chat models don’t transfer well …
1 year, 3 months ago
“Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
At least, if you happen to be near me in brain space.
What advice would you give your younger self?
That was the prompt for a class I taught at PAIR 20…
1 year, 3 months ago
“Survival without dignity” by L Rudolf L
I open my eyes and find myself lying on a bed in a hospital room. I blink.
"Hello", says a middle-aged man with glasses, sitting on a chair by my bed.…
1 year, 3 months ago
“The Median Researcher Problem” by johnswentworth
Claim: memeticity in a scientific field is mostly determined, not by the most competent researchers in the field, but instead by roughly-median resea…
1 year, 3 months ago
“The Compendium, A full argument about extinction risk from AGI” by adamShimi, Gabriel Alfour, Connor Leahy, Chris Scammell, Andrea_Miotti
This is a link post.We (Connor Leahy, Gabriel Alfour, Chris Scammell, Andrea Miotti, Adam Shimi) have just published The Compendium, which brings tog…
1 year, 4 months ago
“What TMS is like” by Sable
There are two nuclear options for treating depression: Ketamine and TMS; This post is about the latter.
TMS stands for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulati…
1 year, 4 months ago
“The hostile telepaths problem” by Valentine
Epistemic status: model-building based on observation, with a few successful unusual predictions. Anecdotal evidence has so far been consistent with …
1 year, 4 months ago
“A bird’s eye view of ARC’s research” by Jacob_Hilton
This post includes a "flattened version" of an interactive diagram that cannot be displayed on this site. I recommend reading the original version of…
1 year, 4 months ago
“A Rocket–Interpretability Analogy” by plex
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4.4% of the US federal budget went into the space race at its peak.
This was surprising to me, until a friend pointed out that landing rockets on…
1 year, 4 months ago