Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“My Number 1 Epistemology Book Recommendation: Inventing Temperature ” by adamShimi
In my last post, I wrote that no resource out there exactly captured my model of epistemology, which is why I wanted to share a half-baked version of…
1 year, 7 months ago
“That Alien Message - The Animation ” by Writer
Our new video is an adaptation of That Alien Message, by @Eliezer Yudkowsky. This time, the text has been significantly adapted, so I include it belo…
1 year, 7 months ago
“Pay Risk Evaluators in Cash, Not Equity ” by Adam Scholl
Personally, I suspect the alignment problem is hard. But even if it turns out to be easy, survival may still require getting at least the absolute ba…
1 year, 7 months ago
“Survey: How Do Elite Chinese Students Feel About the Risks of AI? ” by Nick Corvino
Intro
In April 2024, my colleague and I (both affiliated with Peking University) conducted a survey involving 510 students from Tsinghua University an…
1 year, 7 months ago
“things that confuse me about the current AI market. ” by DMMF
Paging Gwern or anyone else who can shed light on the current state of the AI market—I have several questions.
Since the release of ChatGPT, at least …
1 year, 7 months ago
“Nursing doubts ” by dynomight
If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED because BREAST MILK = OPTIMAL FOOD FOR BABY. But if yo…
1 year, 7 months ago
“Principles for the AGI Race ” by William_S
Crossposted from https://williamrsaunders.substack.com/p/principles-for-the-agi-race
Why form principles for the AGI Race?
I worked at OpenAI for 3 ye…
1 year, 7 months ago
“The Information: OpenAI shows ‘Strawberry’ to feds, races to launch it ” by Martín Soto
Two new The Information articles with insider information on OpenAI's next models and moves.
They are paywalled, but here are the new bits of informat…
1 year, 7 months ago
“What is it to solve the alignment problem? ” by Joe Carlsmith
People often talk about “solving the alignment problem.” But what is it to do such a thing? I wanted to clarify my thinking about this topic, so I wr…
1 year, 7 months ago
“Limitations on Formal Verification for AI Safety ” by Andrew Dickson
In the past two years there has been increased interest in formal verification-based approaches to AI safety. Formal verification is a sub-field of c…
1 year, 7 months ago