Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"The Darwinian Honeymoon - Why I am not as impressed by human progress as I used to be" by Elias Schmied
Crossposted from Substack and the EA Forum.
A common argument for optimism about the future is that living conditions have improved a lot in the p…
2 months, 1 week ago
"What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half" by ozymandias
My name is Emma and I’m six and a half years old and I like pink and Pokemon and my cat River and I’m going to be swallowed by a hedonium shockwave …
2 months, 1 week ago
"Bad Problems Don’t Stop Being Bad Because Somebody’s Wrong About Fault Analysis" by Linch
Here's a dynamic I’ve seen at least a dozen times:
Alice: Man that article has a very inaccurate/misleading/horrifying headline.
Bob: Did you know…
2 months, 1 week ago
"x-risk-themed" by kave
Sometimes, a friend who works around here, at an x-risk-themed organisation, will think about leaving their job. They’ll ask a group of people “what…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations" by Subhash Kantamneni, kitft, Euan Ong, Sam Marks
Abstract
We introduce Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs), an unsupervised method for generating natural language explanations of LLM activations. …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
[Linkpost] "Interpreting Language Model Parameters" by Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors, Lee Sharkey
This is a link post. This is the latest work in our Parameter Decomposition agenda. We introduce a new parameter decomposition method, adVersarial Pa…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I really do have a life" by Viliam
I have two shameful secrets that I probably shouldn't talk about online:
I love my family.I enjoy my hobbies. "What an idiot!" you probably think. "…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"Irretrievability; or, Murphy’s Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Example 1: The Viking 1 lander
In the 1970s, NASA sent a pair of probes to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2 missions, at a total cost of 1 billion dollar…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)" by Elizabeth
How much do cows suffer in the production of milk? I can’t answer that; understanding animal experience is hard. But I can at least provide some fac…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"Takes from two months as an aspiring LLM naturalist" by AnnaSalamon
I spent my last two months playing around with LLMs. I’m a beginner, bumbling and incorrect, but I want to share some takes anyhow.[1]
Take 1. Ever…
2 months, 2 weeks ago