Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Estrogen: A trip report” by cube_flipper
I'd like to say thanks to Anna Magpie – who offers literature review as a service – for her help reviewing the section on neuroendocrinology.
The fo…
1 year, 3 months ago
“New Endorsements for ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’” by Malo
Nate and Eliezer's forthcoming book has been getting a remarkably strong reception.
I was under the impression that there are many people who find t…
1 year, 3 months ago
[Linkpost] “the void” by nostalgebraist
This is a link post. A very long essay about LLMs, the nature and history of the the HHH assistant persona, and the implications for alignment.
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1 year, 3 months ago
“Mech interp is not pre-paradigmatic” by Lee Sharkey
This is a blogpost version of a talk I gave earlier this year at GDM.
Epistemic status: Vague and handwavy. Nuance is often missing. Some of the c…
1 year, 3 months ago
“Distillation Robustifies Unlearning” by Bruce W. Lee, Addie Foote, alexinf, leni, Jacob G-W, Harish Kamath, Bryce Woodworth, cloud, TurnTrout
Current “unlearning” methods only suppress capabilities instead of truly unlearning the capabilities. But if you distill an unlearned model into a r…
1 year, 3 months ago
“Intelligence Is Not Magic, But Your Threshold For ‘Magic’ Is Pretty Low” by Expertium
A while ago I saw a person in the comments on comments to Scott Alexander's blog arguing that a superintelligent AI would not be able to do anything…
1 year, 3 months ago
“A Straightforward Explanation of the Good Regulator Theorem” by Alfred Harwood
Audio note: this article contains 329 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in t…
1 year, 3 months ago
“Beware General Claims about ‘Generalizable Reasoning Capabilities’ (of Modern AI Systems)” by LawrenceC
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Late last week, researchers at Apple released a paper provocatively titled “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations …1 year, 3 months ago
“Give Me a Reason(ing Model)” by Zvi
Are we doing this again? It looks like we are doing this again.This time it involves giving LLMs several ‘new’ tasks including effectively a Tower of…
1 year, 3 months ago
“How to help friend who needs to get better at planning?” by shuffled-cantaloupe
I have a good friend who is intelligent in many ways, but bad at planning / achieving his goals / being medium+ agency. He's very habit and routine …
1 year, 3 months ago