Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“You don’t know how bad most things are nor precisely how they’re bad.” by Solenoid_Entity
TL;DR: Your discernment in a subject often improves as you dedicate time and attention to that subject. The space of possible subjects is huge, so on…
2 years, 1 month ago
“Recommendation: reports on the search for missing hiker Bill Ewasko” by eukaryote
This is a link post.Content warning: About an IRL death.
Today's post isn’t so much an essay as a recommendation for two bodies of work on the same to…
2 years, 1 month ago
“The ‘strong’ feature hypothesis could be wrong” by lsgos
NB. I am on the Google Deepmind language model interpretability team. But the arguments/views in this post are my own, and shouldn't be read as a tea…
2 years, 1 month ago
“‘AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems’” by gjm
This is a link post.Google DeepMind reports on a system for solving mathematical problems that allegedly is able to give complete solutions to four o…
2 years, 1 month ago
“Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires” by owencb, Raymond D
This is a link post.What is an agent? It's a slippery concept with no commonly accepted formal definition, but informally the concept seems to be use…
2 years, 1 month ago
“Universal Basic Income and Poverty” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
(Crossposted from Twitter)
I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity i…
2 years, 1 month ago
“Optimistic Assumptions, Longterm Planning, and ‘Cope’” by Raemon
Eliezer Yudkowsky periodically complains about people coming up with questionable plans with questionable assumptions to deal with AI, and then eithe…
2 years, 2 months ago
“Superbabies: Putting The Pieces Together” by sarahconstantin
This post was inspired by some talks at the recent LessOnline conference including one by LessWrong user “Gene Smith”.
Let's say you want to have a “d…
2 years, 2 months ago
“Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one.” by rossry
This is a link post.Editor's note: Somewhat after I posted this on my own blog, Max Chiswick cornered me at LessOnline / Manifest and gave me a whole…
2 years, 2 months ago
“Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard” by TracingWoodgrains
This is a linkpost for https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin, posted in full here given its relevance to this comm…
2 years, 2 months ago