Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Trojan Sky” by Richard_Ngo
You learn the rules as soon as you’re old enough to speak. Don’t talk to jabberjays. You recite them as soon as you wake up every morning. Keep your …
1 year, 6 months ago
“OpenAI:” by Daniel Kokotajlo
Exciting Update: OpenAI has released this blog post and paper which makes me very happy. It's basically the first steps along the research agenda I s…
1 year, 6 months ago
“How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity?” by Thane Ruthenis
LLM-based coding-assistance tools have been out for ~2 years now. Many developers have been reporting that this is dramatically increasing their prod…
1 year, 6 months ago
“So how well is Claude playing Pokémon?” by Julian Bradshaw
Background: After the release of Claude 3.7 Sonnet,[1] an Anthropic employee started livestreaming Claude trying to play through Pokémon Red. The liv…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Methods for strong human germline engineering” by TsviBT
Note: an audio narration is not available for this article. Please see the original text.
The original text contained 169 footnotes which were omitt…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Have LLMs Generated Novel Insights?” by abramdemski, Cole Wyeth
In a recent post, Cole Wyeth makes a bold claim:
. . . there is one crucial test (yes this is a crux) that LLMs have not passed. They have never done …
1 year, 6 months ago
“A Bear Case: My Predictions Regarding AI Progress” by Thane Ruthenis
This isn't really a "timeline", as such – I don't know the timings – but this is my current, fairly optimistic take on where we're heading.
I'm not fu…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Statistical Challenges with Making Super IQ babies” by Jan Christian Refsgaard
This is a critique of How to Make Superbabies on LessWrong.
Disclaimer: I am not a geneticist[1], and I've tried to use as little jargon as possible. …
1 year, 6 months ago
“Self-fulfilling misalignment data might be poisoning our AI models” by TurnTrout
This is a link post.Your AI's training data might make it more “evil” and more able to circumvent your security, monitoring, and control measures. Ev…
1 year, 6 months ago
“Judgements: Merging Prediction & Evidence” by abramdemski
I recently wrote about complete feedback, an idea which I think is quite important for AI safety. However, my note was quite brief, explaining the id…
1 year, 7 months ago