Podcast Episodes

“An easy coordination problem?” by KatjaGrace

Common wisdom says that it is incredibly hard to coordinate to not build more dangerous AI. This sounds believable in the abstract: international ge…

1 week, 6 days ago

“Excerpts and Notes on Mythos Model Card” by williawa

List of Excerpts from Mythos model card. Tried to include interesting things, but also included some boring to be expected things. I omitted some …

1 week, 6 days ago

“The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life” by kman

epistemic status: confident in the overall picture, substantial quantitative uncertainty about the relative potency of caffeine and paraxanthine

tld…

2 weeks ago

“You don’t know what you are made of till you’ve been stalked across three countries” by Shoshannah Tekofsky

When I was 19 I made some decisions. One of them was to stop eating meat. One of them was to stop using cutlery. One of them was to stop using chair…

2 weeks ago

“Why is Flesh So Weak?” by J Bostock

Ok, I got nerd sniped on the specific argument "Animals would be better off being made of stronger material than protein, but they don't because evo…

2 weeks ago

“The hard part isn’t noticing when papers are bad, it’s deciding what to do afterwards” by LawrenceC

Written (very) quickly for the Inkhaven Residency.

I used to hate the classic management adage of “bring me solutions, not problems”. After all, ide…

2 weeks ago

“We can prevent progress! Conceptual clarity, and inspiration from the FDA” by KatjaGrace

“We can’t prevent progress” say the people for some reason enthusiastically advocating that we just risk dying by AI rather than even consider contr…

2 weeks ago

“AI as a Trojan horse race” by KatjaGrace

I’ve argued that the AI situation is not clearly an ‘arms race’. By which I mean, going fast is not clearly good, even selfishly.

I think this is a…

2 weeks ago

“My unsupervised elicitation challenge” by DanielFilan

Note: you are ineligible to complete this challenge if you’ve studied Ancient or Modern Greek, or if you natively speak Modern Greek, or if for othe…

2 weeks ago

“Role-playing vs Self-modelling” by Jan_Kulveit

In a recent debate on Twitter – which I recommend reading in full – David Chalmers argues:

"Claude doesn't role-play the assistant, it realizes the …

2 weeks ago