Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago
“I got dysentery so you don’t have to” by eukaryote
This summer, I participated in a human challenge trial at the University of Maryland. I spent the days just prior to my 30th birthday sick with shige…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Overcoming Bias Anthology” by Arjun Panickssery
This is a link post. Part 1: Our Thinking
Near and Far
1 Abstract/Distant Future Bias
2 Abstractly Ideal, Concretely Selfish
3 We Add Near, Average Far
4…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology” by dynomight
Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what's best? Society seems to think pretty highly of arithmetic. It's one of the first things we le…
1 year, 5 months ago