Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"There should be more AI safety orgs" by Marius Hobbhahn
I’m writing this in my own capacity. The views expressed are my own, and should not be taken to represent the views of Apollo Research or any other p…
2 years, 8 months ago
"The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism" by Malmesbury
Cross-posted from substack.
"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about clonal interference."
– Oscar Wilde (kind of)
As we all know…
2 years, 8 months ago
"A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX" by jacobjacob
Patrick Collison has a fantastic list of examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together since the 19th Century. It does make you …
2 years, 8 months ago
"AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas" by TurnTrout & Garrett Baker
This is a linkpost for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02kbWY5mahQ
None of the presidents fully represent my (TurnTrout's) views.
TurnTrout wrote the s…
2 years, 8 months ago
"UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever" by Wei Dai
I feel like MIRI perhaps mispositioned FDT (their variant of UDT) as a clear advancement in decision theory, whereas maybe they could have attracted …
2 years, 8 months ago
"Sum-threshold attacks" by TsviBT
How do you affect something far away, a lot, without anyone noticing?
(Note: you can safely skip sections. It is also safe to skip the essay entirely,…
2 years, 8 months ago
"A list of core AI safety problems and how I hope to solve them" by Davidad
Context: I sometimes find myself referring back to this tweet and wanted to give it a more permanent home. While I'm at it, I thought I would try to …
2 years, 8 months ago
"Report on Frontier Model Training" by Yafah Edelman
This is a linkpost for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TsYkDYtV6BKiCN9PAOirRAy3TrNDu2XncUZ5UZfaAKA/edit?usp=sharing
Understanding what drives the …
2 years, 8 months ago
"Defunding My Mistake" by ymeskhout
Until about five years ago, I unironically parroted the slogan All Cops Are Bastards (ACAB) and earnestly advocated to abolish the police and prison …
2 years, 8 months ago
"Sharing Information About Nonlinear" by Ben Pace
Added (11th Sept): Nonlinear have commented that they intend to write a response, have written a short follow-up, and claim that they dispute 85 clai…
2 years, 8 months ago