Podcast Episodes
Back to Searchre: Yudkowsky on biological materials
I was asked to respond to this comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky. This post is partly redundant with my previous post.
Why is flesh weaker than diamond?
Whe…
2 years, 2 months ago
Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk
In May and June of 2023, I (Akash) had about 50-70 meetings about AI risks with congressional staffers. I had been meaning to write a post reflecting…
2 years, 2 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety" by technicalities & Stag
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You can’t optimise an allocation of resources if you don’t kno…
2 years, 2 months ago
Thoughts on “AI is easy to control” by Pope & Belrose
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.Quintin Pope & Nora Belrose have a new “AI Optimists” website, …
2 years, 2 months ago
The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You
Any community which ever adds new people will need to either routinely teach the new and (to established members) blindingly obvious information to t…
2 years, 2 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "Social Dark Matter" by Duncan Sabien
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https://substack.com/@homosabiens
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You kno…
2 years, 3 months ago
Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.Summary.
You can’t optimise an allocation of resources if you do…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ability to solve long-horizon tasks correlates with wanting things in the behaviorist sense
Status: Vague, sorry. The point seems almost tautological to me, and yet also seems like the correct answer to the people going around saying “LLMs t…
2 years, 3 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "The 6D effect: When companies take risks, one email can be very powerful." by scasper
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Recently, I have been learning about industry norms, legal discovery proce…
2 years, 3 months ago
OpenAI: The Battle of the Board
Previously: OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend.
On Friday afternoon, OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman.
Overnight, an agreement in principle was reached …
2 years, 3 months ago