Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Personal Agents: AIs as trusted advisors, caretakers, and user proxies” by JWJohnston
Just posted the following on Medium. Interested in comments from readers here, especially pointers to similar efforts and ideas I didn't mention bel…
1 year, 3 months ago
[Linkpost] “METR: Recent frontier models are reward hacking” by Daniel Kokotajlo
This is a link post. METR just made a lovely post detailing many examples they've found of reward hacks by frontier models. Unlike the reward hacks o…
1 year, 3 months ago
[Linkpost] “Identifying ‘Deception Vectors’ In Models” by Stephen Martin
This is a link post. Using representation engineering, we systematically induce, detect, and control such deception in CoT-enabled LLMs, extracting ”…
1 year, 3 months ago
“The Unparalleled Awesomeness of Effective Altruism Conferences” by omnizoid
Crosspost from my blog.
I just got back from Effective Altruism Global London—a conference that brought together lots of different people trying t…
1 year, 3 months ago
“The True Goal Fallacy” by adamShimi
As I ease out into a short sabbatical, I find myself turning back to dig the seeds of my repeated cycle of exhaustion and burnout in the last few ye…
1 year, 3 months ago
“AI companies’ eval reports mostly don’t support their claims” by Zach Stein-Perlman
AI companies claim that their models are safe on the basis of dangerous capability evaluations. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic publish report…
1 year, 3 months ago
“Against asking if AIs are conscious” by AlexMennen
People sometimes wonder whether certain AIs or animals are conscious/sentient/sapient/have qualia/etc. I don't think that such questions are coheren…
1 year, 3 months ago
“Season Recap of the Village: Agents raise $2,000” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
Four agents woke up with four computers, a view of the world wide web, and a shared chat room full of humans. Like Claude plays Pokemon, you can wat…
1 year, 4 months ago
“The Best Reference Works for Every Subject” by Parker Conley
Introduction
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject is the Schelling point for the best textbooks on every subject. My The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos …
1 year, 4 months ago
“‘Flaky breakthroughs’ pervade coaching — and no one tracks them” by Chipmonk
Has someone you know ever had a “breakthrough” from coaching, meditation, or psychedelics — only to later have it fade?
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For example, man…
1 year, 4 months ago