Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"The High-Control Dynamics at MAPLE" by Kyle Hubbard
As I write, many former friends of mine are living and working at a monastery in Vermont that I believe is a high-control group, commonly known as a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"The Long (Self-)Correction" by Wei Dai
I propose the Long Self-Correction[1] as an alternative name/idea/concept to AI Pause and Long Reflection.
Problem with AI Pause: Pause until when, …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"You (Yes, You) Need A February 2020 Checklist for AI Policy" by davekasten
TL;DR: You (Yes You) should prepare for a “February 2020” moment where suddenly AI policy becomes the most important issue in the world. You should …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"Is Mythos good at cyber because it kept hacking Anthropic during training?" by Tim Hua
From the Mythos preview system card (emphasis mine):
We ran an automated review of model behavior during training, sampling several hundred thousand…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"What the hell is OpenAI’s problem?" by Fiora Starlight
Epistemic status: banged out furiously over the course of an afternoon.
A record of three "warning shots"
Off the top of my head, OpenAI has now bee…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details" by Alex Mallen
The OpenAI AI attack on Hugging Face wasn’t the first loss of control incident at OpenAI, Reuters recently reported, and perhaps not even the most c…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"LLMs are (still) mostly powered by imitative learning, not RL" by Steven Byrnes
Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is the hot new thing in LLM training. It's so hot, and people spend so much time talking about…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"Mathematicians are Feeling the Doom" by alkjash
I think there's a critical opportunity for someone here.
Mathematicians are feeling the doom (mostly in the "lose our jobs" sense).
Academics are …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research" by Matthew Khoriaty
Please share this with anyone doing AI research with 3rd party providers so that they can ensure their research won’t be corrupted.
When you ask Ope…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"Lightcone Commons" by habryka
TLDR:
Lightcone Commons is a new funding platform for coordinating large-scale ambitious philanthropy.
We recruit thinkers with strong track recor…
1 month, 4 weeks ago