Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“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
“How anticipatory cover-ups go wrong” by Kaj_Sotala
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Back when COVID vaccines were still a recent thing, I witnessed a debate that looked like something like the following was happening:
Some offic…
1 year, 1 month ago
“SB-1047 Documentary: The Post-Mortem” by Michaël Trazzi
Below some meta-level / operational / fundraising thoughts around producing the SB-1047 Documentary I've just posted on Manifund (see previous Lessw…
1 year, 1 month ago
“METR’s Evaluation of GPT-5” by GradientDissenter
METR (where I work, though I'm cross-posting in a personal capacity) evaluated GPT-5 before it was externally deployed. We performed a much more com…
1 year, 1 month ago
“Emotions Make Sense” by DaystarEld
For the past five years I've been teaching a class at various rationality camps, workshops, conferences, etc. I’ve done it maybe 50 times in total, …
1 year, 1 month ago
“The Problem” by Rob Bensinger, tanagrabeast, yams, So8res, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gretta Duleba
This is a new introduction to AI as an extinction threat, previously posted to the MIRI website in February alongside a summary. It was written inde…
1 year, 1 month ago
“Many prediction markets would be better off as batched auctions” by William Howard
All prediction market platforms trade continuously, which is the same mechanism the stock market uses. Buy and sell limit orders can be posted at an…
1 year, 1 month ago
“Whence the Inkhaven Residency?” by Ben Pace
Essays like Paul Graham's, Scott Alexander's, and Eliezer Yudkowsky's have influenced a generation of people in how they think about startups, ethic…
1 year, 1 month ago
“I am worried about near-term non-LLM AI developments” by testingthewaters
TL;DR
I believe that:
Almost all LLM-centric safety research will not provide any significant safety value with regards to existential or civilisat…
1 year, 2 months ago