Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Intelligence Dissolves Privacy" by Vaniver
The future is going to be different from the present. Let's think about how.
Specifically, our expectations about what's reasonable are downstream o…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI" by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez
Written as part of the MATS 9.1 extension program, mentored by Richard Ngo.
From March 9th to 15th 2016, Go players around the world stayed up to wa…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"On today’s panel with Bernie Sanders" by David Scott Krueger
It's sort of easy to forget how close Bernie Sanders was to becoming the most powerful person in the world. The world we live in feels so much not l…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”" by LawrenceC
(Fragments from a research paper that will never be written)
Extended Abstract.
The frontier AI developers are becoming increasingly powerful and w…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)" by nostalgebraist
(This was originally going to be a "quick take" but then it got a bit long. Just FYI.)
There's this weird trend I perceive with the personas of LLM …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"LessWrong Shows You Social Signals Before the Comment" by TurnTrout
When reading comments, you see is what other people think before reading the comment. As shown in an RCT, that information anchors your opinion, red…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Update on the Alex Bores campaign" by Eric Neyman
In October, I wrote a post arguing that donating to Alex Bores's campaign for Congress was among the most cost-effective opportunities that I'd ever…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Community misconduct disputes are not about facts" by mingyuan
In criminal law, the prosecution and the defense each try to establish a timeline — what happened, where, when, who was involved — and thereby deter…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"The paper that killed deep learning theory" by LawrenceC
Around 10 years ago, a paper came out that arguably killed classical deep learning theory: Zhang et al. 's aptly titled Understanding deep learning …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It" by mabramov
Summary
EA and rationalists got enamoured with forecasting and prediction markets and made them part of the culture, but this hasn’t proven very us…
2 months, 4 weeks ago