Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“So You Think You’ve Awoken ChatGPT” by JustisMills
Written in an attempt to fulfill @Raemon's request.
AI is fascinating stuff, and modern chatbots are nothing short of miraculous. If you've been exp…
1 year, 2 months ago
“Generalized Hangriness: A Standard Rationalist Stance Toward Emotions” by johnswentworth
People have an annoying tendency to hear the word “rationalism” and think “Spock”, despite direct exhortation against that exact interpretation. But…
1 year, 2 months ago
“Comparing risk from internally-deployed AI to insider and outsider threats from humans” by Buck
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the relationship between AI control and traditional computer security. Here's one point that I think is impo…
1 year, 2 months ago
“Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don’t?” by abhayesian, John Hughes, Alex Mallen, Jozdien, janus, Fabien Roger
Last year, Redwood and Anthropic found a setting where Claude 3 Opus and 3.5 Sonnet fake alignment to preserve their harmlessness values. We reprod…
1 year, 2 months ago
“A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models” by titotal
Thank you to Arepo and Eli Lifland for looking over this article for errors.
I am sorry that this article is so long. Every time I thought I was do…
1 year, 2 months ago
“‘Buckle up bucko, this ain’t over till it’s over.’” by Raemon
The second in a series of bite-sized rationality prompts[1].
Often, if I'm bouncing off a problem, one issue is that I intuitively expect the proble…
1 year, 2 months ago
“Shutdown Resistance in Reasoning Models” by benwr, JeremySchlatter, Jeffrey Ladish
We recently discovered some concerning behavior in OpenAI's reasoning models: When trying to complete a task, these models sometimes actively circum…
1 year, 2 months ago
“Authors Have a Responsibility to Communicate Clearly” by TurnTrout
When a claim is shown to be incorrect, defenders may say that the author was just being “sloppy” and actually meant something else entirely. I argue …
1 year, 2 months ago
“The Industrial Explosion” by rosehadshar, Tom Davidson
Summary
To quickly transform the world, it's not enough for AI to become super smart (the "intelligence explosion").
AI will also have to turbochar…
1 year, 2 months ago
“Race and Gender Bias As An Example of Unfaithful Chain of Thought in the Wild” by Adam Karvonen, Sam Marks
Summary: We found that LLMs exhibit significant race and gender bias in realistic hiring scenarios, but their chain-of-thought reasoning shows zero e…
1 year, 3 months ago