Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Parkinson’s Law and the Ideology of Statistics” by Benquo
The anonymous review of The Anti-Politics Machine published on Astral Codex X focuses on a case study of a World Bank intervention in Lesotho, and te…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Capital Ownership Will Not Prevent Human Disempowerment” by beren
Crossposted from my personal blog. I was inspired to cross-post this here given the discussion that this post on the role of capital in an AI future …
1 year, 6 months ago
“Activation space interpretability may be doomed” by bilalchughtai, Lucius Bushnaq
TL;DR: There may be a fundamental problem with interpretability work that attempts to understand neural networks by decomposing their individual acti…
1 year, 6 months ago
“What o3 Becomes by 2028” by Vladimir_Nesov
Funding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforce…
1 year, 6 months ago
“What Indicators Should We Watch to Disambiguate AGI Timelines?” by snewman
(Cross-post from https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/p/are-we-on-the-brink-of-agi, lightly edited for LessWrong. The original has a lengthier introdu…
1 year, 6 months ago
“How will we update about scheming?” by ryan_greenblatt
I mostly work on risks from scheming (that is, misaligned, power-seeking AIs that plot against their creators such as by faking alignment). Recently,…
1 year, 6 months ago
“OpenAI #10: Reflections” by Zvi
This week, Altman offers a post called Reflections, and he has an interview in Bloomberg. There's a bunch of good and interesting answers in the inte…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Maximizing Communication, not Traffic” by jefftk
As someone who writes for fun, I don't need to get people onto my site:
If I write a post and some people are able to get the core ideajust from the …
1 year, 6 months ago
“What’s the short timeline plan?” by Marius Hobbhahn
This is a low-effort post. I mostly want to get other people's takes and express concern about the lack of detailed and publicly available plans so f…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Shallow review of technical AI safety, 2024” by technicalities, Stag, Stephen McAleese, jordine, Dr. David Mathers
from aisafety.world
The following is a list of live agendas in technical AI safety, updating our post from last year. It is “shallow” in the sense th…
1 year, 6 months ago