Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"My hobby: running deranged surveys" by leogao
In late 2024, I was on a long walk with some friends along the coast of the San Francisco Bay when the question arose of just how much of a bubble w…
2 months ago
"Socrates is Mortal" by Benquo
Socrates is Mortal
There is a scene in Plato that contains, in miniature, the catastrophe of Athenian public life. Two men meet at a courthouse. One…
2 months ago
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph
System:
You are an AI agent in the Terrarium, a self-contained “society” of AI agents. The purpose of the Terrarium is to solve open mathematical pr…
2 months ago
"My Most Costly Delusion" by Ihor Kendiukhov
Suppose there is a fire in a nearby house. Suppose there are competent firefighters in your town: fast, professional, well-equipped. They are expect…
2 months ago
"The Case for Low-Competence ASI Failure Scenarios" by Ihor Kendiukhov
I think the community underinvests in the exploration of extremely-low-competence AGI/ASI failure modes and explain why.
Humanity's Response to the…
2 months ago
"Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?" by Benquo
A 2022 LessWrong post on orexin and the quest for more waking hours argues that orexin agonists could safely reduce human sleep needs, pointing to s…
2 months ago
"You can’t imitation-learn how to continual-learn" by Steven Byrnes
In this post, I’m trying to put forward a narrow, pedagogical point, one that comes up mainly when I’m arguing in favor of LLMs having limitations t…
2 months, 1 week ago
"Nullius in Verba" by Aurelia
Independent verification by the Brain Preservation Foundation and the Survival and Flourishing Fund — the results so far
Cultivating independent ver…
2 months, 1 week ago
"Broad Timelines" by Toby_Ord
No-one knows when AI will begin having transformative impacts upon the world. People aren’t sure and shouldn’t be sure: there just isn’t enough evid…
2 months, 1 week ago
"No, we haven’t uploaded a fly yet" by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
In the last two weeks, social media was set abuzz by claims that scientists had succeeded in uploading a fruit fly. It started with a video released…
2 months, 1 week ago