Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month ago
“My AGI timeline updates from GPT-5 (and 2025 so far)” by ryan_greenblatt
As I discussed in a prior post, I felt like there were some reasonably compelling arguments for expecting very fast AI progress in 2025 (especially …
1 year, 1 month ago
“Hyperbolic model fits METR capabilities estimate worse than exponential model” by gjm
This is a response to https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mXa66dPR8hmHgndP5/hyperbolic-trend-with-upcoming-singularity-fits-metr which claims that a hyp…
1 year, 1 month ago
“My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Lighthaven” by Zack_M_Davis
On 12 August 2025, I sat down with New York Times reporter Cade Metz to discuss some criticisms of his 4 August 2025 article, "The Rise of Silicon V…
1 year, 1 month ago
“Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus” by Elizabeth
I’m going to describe a Type Of Guy starting a business, and you’re going to guess the business:
The founder is very young, often under 25. He mig…
1 year, 1 month ago
“Somebody invented a better bookmark” by Alex_Altair
This will only be exciting to those of us who still read physical paper books. But like. Guys. They did it. They invented the perfect bookmark.
Clas…
1 year, 1 month ago
“How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?” by henry
Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the Earth from space. We can see it all with certainty: there's no northwest passage to search …
1 year, 1 month ago
“Re: Recent Anthropic Safety Research” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
A reporter asked me for my off-the-record take on recent safety research from Anthropic. After I drafted an off-the-record reply, I realized that I …
1 year, 1 month ago