Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Feedbackloop-first Rationality" by Raemon
I've been workshopping a new rationality training paradigm. (By "rationality training paradigm", I mean an approach to learning/teaching the skill of…
3 years, 1 month ago
"When can we trust model evaluations?" bu evhub
In "Towards understanding-based safety evaluations," I discussed why I think evaluating specifically the alignment of models is likely to require mec…
3 years, 1 month ago
"Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research" by evhub, Nicholas Schiefer, Carson Denison, Ethan Perez
TL;DR: This document lays out the case for research on “model organisms of misalignment” – in vitro demonstrations of the kinds of failures that migh…
3 years, 1 month ago
"My current LK99 questions" by Eliezer Yudkowsky
So this morning I thought to myself, "Okay, now I will actually try to study the LK99 question, instead of betting based on nontechnical priors and m…
3 years, 1 month ago
"The "public debate" about AI is confusing for the general public and for policymakers because it is a three-sided debate" by Adam David Long
Summary of Argument: The public debate among AI experts is confusing because there are, to a first approximation, three sides, not two sides to the d…
3 years, 1 month ago
"ARC Evals new report: Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks" by Beth Barnes
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We have just released our first public report. It introduces methodology for assessing the capacity of LLM agents to acquire res…
3 years, 1 month ago
"Thoughts on sharing information about language model capabilities" by paulfchristiano
I believe that sharing information about the capabilities and limits of existing ML systems, and especially language model agents, significantly redu…
3 years, 1 month ago
"Yes, It's Subjective, But Why All The Crabs?" by johnswentworth
Some early biologist, equipped with knowledge of evolution but not much else, might see all these crabs and expect a common ancestral lineage. That’s…
3 years, 1 month ago
"Self-driving car bets" by paulfchristiano
This month I lost a bunch of bets.
Back in early 2016 I bet at even odds that self-driving ride sharing would be available in 10 US cities by July 202…
3 years, 1 month ago
"Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born" by Henrik Karlsson
In the early 2010s, a popular idea was to provide coworking spaces and shared living to people who were building startups. That way the founders woul…
3 years, 1 month ago