Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Information vs Assurance” by johnswentworth
In contract law, there's this thing called a “representation”. Example: as part of a contract to sell my house, I might “represent that” the house co…
1 year, 7 months ago
“You are not too ‘irrational’ to know your preferences.” by DaystarEld
Epistemic Status: 13 years working as a therapist for a wide variety of populations, 5 of them working with rationalists and EA clients. 7 years teac…
1 year, 7 months ago
“‘The Solomonoff Prior is Malign’ is a special case of a simpler argument” by David Matolcsi
[Warning: This post is probably only worth reading if you already have opinions on the Solomonoff induction being malign, or at least heard of the co…
1 year, 8 months ago
“‘It’s a 10% chance which I did 10 times, so it should be 100%’” by egor.timatkov
Audio note: this article contains 33 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in th…
1 year, 8 months ago
“OpenAI Email Archives” by habryka
As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between Elon, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockma…
1 year, 8 months ago
“Ayn Rand’s model of ‘living money’; and an upside of burnout” by AnnaSalamon
Epistemic status: Toy model. Oversimplified, but has been anecdotally useful to at least a couple people, and I like it as a metaphor.
Introduction
I’…
1 year, 8 months ago
“Neutrality” by sarahconstantin
Midjourney, “infinite library”I’ve had post-election thoughts percolating, and the sense that I wanted to synthesize something about this moment, but…
1 year, 8 months ago
“Making a conservative case for alignment” by Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins, AE Studio
Trump and the Republican party will yield broad governmental control during what will almost certainly be a critical period for AGI development. In t…
1 year, 8 months ago
“OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman)” by habryka
As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between Elon, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockma…
1 year, 8 months ago
“Catastrophic sabotage as a major threat model for human-level AI systems” by evhub
Thanks to Holden Karnofsky, David Duvenaud, and Kate Woolverton for useful discussions and feedback.
Following up on our recent “Sabotage Evaluations …
1 year, 8 months ago