Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMIRI 2024 Mission and Strategy Update
As we announced back in October, I have taken on the senior leadership role at MIRI as its CEO. It's a big pair of shoes to fill, and an awesome resp…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Plan - 2023 Version
Background: The Plan, The Plan: 2022 Update. If you haven’t read those, don’t worry, we’re going to go through things from the top this year, and wit…
2 years, 1 month ago
Apologizing is a Core Rationalist Skill
In certain circumstances, apologizing can also be a countersignalling power-move, i.e. “I am so high status that I can grovel a bit without anybody m…
2 years, 1 month ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "A case for AI alignment being difficult" by jessicata
This is a linkpost for https://unstableontology.com/2023/12/31/a-case-for-ai-alignment-being-difficult/
Support ongoing human narrations of LessWrong'…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Dark Arts
lsusrIt is my understanding that you won all of your public forum debates this year. That's very impressive. I thought it would be interesting to dis…
2 years, 1 month ago
Critical review of Christiano’s disagreements with Yudkowsky
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.This is a review of Paul Christiano's article "where I agree an…
2 years, 2 months ago
Most People Don’t Realize We Have No Idea How Our AIs Work
This point feels fairly obvious, yet seems worth stating explicitly.
Those of us familiar with the field of AI after the deep-learning revolution know…
2 years, 2 months ago
Discussion: Challenges with Unsupervised LLM Knowledge Discovery
TL;DR: Contrast-consistent search (CCS) seemed exciting to us and we were keen to apply it. At this point, we think it is unlikely to be directly hel…
2 years, 2 months ago
Succession
This is a linkpost for https://www.narrativeark.xyz/p/succession“A table beside the evening sea
where you sit shelling pistachios,
flicking the next …
2 years, 2 months ago
Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims
Recently, Ben Pace wrote a well-intentioned blog post mostly based on complaints from 2 (of 21) Nonlinear employees who 1) wanted more money, 2) fel…
2 years, 2 months ago