Podcast Episodes

Why Would Belief-States Have A Fractal Structure, And Why Would That Matter For Interpretability? An Explainer

Yesterday Adam Shai put up a cool post which… well, take a look at the visual:

Yup, it sure looks like that fractal is very noisily embedded in the re…

2 years, 5 months ago

Express interest in an “FHI of the West”

TLDR: I am investigating whether to found a spiritual successor to FHI, housed under Lightcone Infrastructure, providing a rich cultural environment …

2 years, 5 months ago

Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream

Produced while being an affiliate at PIBBSS[1]. The work was done initially with funding from a Lightspeed Grant, and then continued while at PIBBSS.…

2 years, 5 months ago

Paul Christiano named as US AI Safety Institute Head of AI Safety

This is a linkpost for https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2024/04/us-commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-announces-expansion-us-ai-safetyU.S. …

2 years, 5 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "On green" by Joe Carlsmith

Cross-posted from my website. Podcast version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.

This essay is part of a series that I'm c…

2 years, 5 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "Toward a Broader Conception of Adverse Selection" by Ricki Heicklen

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This is a linkpost for https://bayesshammai.substack.com/p/con…

2 years, 5 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology" by Eric Neyman

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In January, I defended my PhD thesis, which I called Algorithm…

2 years, 5 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "How could I have thought that faster?" by mesaoptimizer

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This is a linkpost for https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/…

2 years, 5 months ago

LLMs for Alignment Research: a safety priority?

A recent short story by Gabriel Mukobi illustrates a near-term scenario where things go bad because new developments in LLMs allow LLMs to accelerate…

2 years, 5 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "Scale Was All We Needed, At First" by Gabriel Mukobi

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Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xLDwCemt5qvchzgHd/scale…

2 years, 5 months ago