Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“AI companies are unlikely to make high-assurance safety cases if timelines are short” by ryan_greenblatt
One hope for keeping existential risks low is to get AI companies to (successfully) make high-assurance safety cases: structured and auditable argume…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Mechanisms too simple for humans to design” by Malmesbury
Cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip
As we all know, humans are terrible at building butterflies. We can make a lot of objectively cool things like nuc…
1 year, 6 months ago
“The Gentle Romance” by Richard_Ngo
This is a link post.A story I wrote about living through the transition to utopia.
This is the one story that I've put the most time and effort into; …
1 year, 6 months ago
“Quotes from the Stargate press conference” by Nikola Jurkovic
This is a link post.Present alongside President Trump:
Sam AltmanLarry Ellison (Oracle executive chairman and CTO)Masayoshi Son (Softbank CEO who be…
1 year, 6 months ago
“The Case Against AI Control Research” by johnswentworth
The AI Control Agenda, in its own words:
… we argue that AI labs should ensure that powerful AIs are controlled. That is, labs should make sure that t…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Don’t ignore bad vibes you get from people” by Kaj_Sotala
I think a lot of people have heard so much about internalized prejudice and bias that they think they should ignore any bad vibes they get about a pe…
1 year, 6 months ago
“[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty” by tandem
(Both characters are fictional, loosely inspired by various traits from various real people. Be careful about combining kratom and alcohol.)
The orig…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Building AI Research Fleets” by bgold, Jesse Hoogland
From AI scientist to AI research fleet
Research automation is here (1, 2, 3). We saw it coming and planned ahead, which puts us ahead of most (4, 5, …
1 year, 6 months ago
“What Is The Alignment Problem?” by johnswentworth
So we want to align future AGIs. Ultimately we’d like to align them to human values, but in the shorter term we might start with other targets, like …
1 year, 6 months ago
“Applying traditional economic thinking to AGI: a trilemma” by Steven Byrnes
Traditional economics thinking has two strong principles, each based on abundant historical data:
Principle (A): No “lump of labor”: If human populat…
1 year, 6 months ago