Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRaising children on the eve of AI
Cross-posted with light edits from Otherwise.
I think of us in some kind of twilight world as transformative AI looks more likely: things are about t…
2 years, 5 months ago
“No-one in my org puts money in their pension”
This is a linkpost for https://seekingtobejolly.substack.com/p/no-one-in-my-org-puts-money-in-theirEpistemic status: the stories here are all as true…
2 years, 5 months ago
Masterpiece
This is a linkpost for https://www.narrativeark.xyz/p/masterpieceA sequel to qntm's Lena. Reading Lena first is helpful but not necessary.
We’re excit…
2 years, 5 months ago
CFAR Takeaways: Andrew Critch
I'm trying to build my own art of rationality training, and I've started talking to various CFAR instructors about their experiences – things that mi…
2 years, 5 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "Believing In" by Anna Salamon
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2 years, 5 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "Attitudes about Applied Rationality" by Camille Berger
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2 years, 5 months ago
Scale Was All We Needed, At First
This is a hasty speculative fiction vignette of one way I expect we might get AGI by January 2025 (within about one year of writing this). Like simil…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy
This is a linkpost for https://garrisonlovely.substack.com/p/sam-altmans-chip-ambitions-undercut If you enjoy this, please consider subscribing to my…
2 years, 5 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "A Shutdown Problem Proposal" by johnswentworth, David Lorell
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2 years, 5 months ago
Brute Force Manufactured Consensus is Hiding the Crime of the Century
People often parse information through an epistemic consensus filter. They do not ask "is this true", they ask "will others be OK with me thinking th…
2 years, 5 months ago