Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchApologizing is a Core Rationalist Skill
In certain circumstances, apologizing can also be a countersignalling power-move, i.e. “I am so high status that I can grovel a bit without anybody m…
2 years, 6 months ago
[HUMAN VOICE] "A case for AI alignment being difficult" by jessicata
This is a linkpost for https://unstableontology.com/2023/12/31/a-case-for-ai-alignment-being-difficult/
Support ongoing human narrations of LessWrong'…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Dark Arts
lsusrIt is my understanding that you won all of your public forum debates this year. That's very impressive. I thought it would be interesting to dis…
2 years, 6 months ago
Critical review of Christiano’s disagreements with Yudkowsky
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.This is a review of Paul Christiano's article "where I agree an…
2 years, 6 months ago
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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago