Podcast Episodes

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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 months ago

Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear Investigation Went Wrong

The New York Times

Picture a scene: the New York Times is releasing an article on Effective Altruism (EA) with an express goal to dig up every piece…

2 years, 3 months ago

Constellations are Younger than Continents

At the Bay Area Solstice, I heard the song Bold Orion for the first time. I like it a lot. It does, however, have one problem:

He has seen the rise an…

2 years, 3 months ago

The ‘Neglected Approaches’ Approach: AE Studio’s Alignment Agenda

Many thanks to Samuel Hammond, Cate Hall, Beren Millidge, Steve Byrnes, Lucius Bushnaq, Joar Skalse, Kyle Gracey, Gunnar Zarncke, Ross Nordby, David …

2 years, 3 months ago

“Humanity vs. AGI” Will Never Look Like “Humanity vs. AGI” to Humanity

When discussing AGI Risk, people often talk about it in terms of a war between humanity and an AGI. Comparisons between the amounts of resources at b…

2 years, 3 months ago

Is being sexy for your homies?

Epistemic status: Speculation. An unholy union of evo psych, introspection, random stuff I happen to observe & hear about, and thinking. Done on a hi…

2 years, 3 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible" by Gene Smith and Kman

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TL;DR version

In the course of my life, there have been a handf…

2 years, 4 months ago