Podcast Episodes

Processor clock speeds are not how fast AIs think

I often encounter some confusion about whether the fact that synapses in the brain typically fire at frequencies of 1-100 Hz while the clock frequenc…

2 years, 7 months ago

Without fundamental advances, misalignment and catastrophe are the default outcomes of training powerful AI

A pdf version of this report is available here.

Summary.

In this report we argue that AI systems capable of large scale scientific research will like…

2 years, 7 months ago

Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model

This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/the-block-funding-model-for-scienceWhen Galileo wanted to study the heavens through his telescope,…

2 years, 7 months ago

The case for training frontier AIs on Sumerian-only corpus

Let your every day be full of joy, love the child that holds your hand, let your wife delight in your embrace, for these alone are the concerns of hu…

2 years, 7 months ago

This might be the last AI Safety Camp

We are organising the 9th edition without funds. We have no personal runway left to do this again. We will not run the 10th edition without funding. …

2 years, 8 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "There is way too much serendipity" by Malmesbury

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Crossposted from substack.

As we all know, sugar is sweet and s…

2 years, 8 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training" by evhub et al

This is a linkpost for https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566

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2 years, 8 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "How useful is mechanistic interpretability?" by ryan_greenblatt, Neel Nanda, Buck, habryka

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Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tEPHGZAb63dfq2v8n/how-u…

2 years, 8 months ago

The impossible problem of due process

I wrote this entire post in February of 2023, during the fallout from the TIME article. I didn't post it at the time for multiple reasons:

because I …

2 years, 8 months ago

[HUMAN VOICE] "Gentleness and the artificial Other" by Joe Carlsmith

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

This is the first essay in a series that I’…

2 years, 8 months ago