Podcast Episodes

"Report on Frontier Model Training" by Yafah Edelman

This is a linkpost for https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TsYkDYtV6BKiCN9PAOirRAy3TrNDu2XncUZ5UZfaAKA/edit?usp=sharing

Understanding what drives the …

3 years ago

"Defunding My Mistake" by ymeskhout

Until about five years ago, I unironically parroted the slogan All Cops Are Bastards (ACAB) and earnestly advocated to abolish the police and prison …

3 years ago

"Sharing Information About Nonlinear" by Ben Pace

Added (11th Sept): Nonlinear have commented that they intend to write a response, have written a short follow-up, and claim that they dispute 85 clai…

3 years ago

"One Minute Every Moment" by abramdemski

About how much information are we keeping in working memory at a given moment?

"Miller's Law" dictates that the number of things humans can hold in wo…

3 years ago

"What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals" by LawrenceC

In which: I list 9 projects that I would work on if I wasn’t busy working on safety standards at ARC Evals, and explain why they might be good to wor…

3 years ago

"The U.S. is becoming less stable" by lc

We focus so much on arguing over who is at fault in this country that I think sometimes we fail to alert on what's actually happening. I would just l…

3 years ago

"Meta Questions about Metaphilosophy" by Wei Dai

To quickly recap my main intellectual journey so far (omitting a lengthy side trip into cryptography and Cypherpunk land), with the approximate age t…

3 years ago

"OpenAI API base models are not sycophantic, at any size" by Nostalgebraist

In Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations" (Perez et al 2022), the authors studied language model "sycophancy" - the ten…

3 years ago

"Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition" by Elizabeth

I keep seeing advice on ambition, aimed at people in college or early in their career, that would have been really bad for me at similar ages. Rather…

3 years ago

"Book Launch: "The Carving of Reality," Best of LessWrong vol. III" by Raemon

The Carving of Reality, third volume of the Best of LessWrong books is now available on Amazon (US).

The Carving of Reality includes 43 essays from 29…

3 years ago