Podcast Episodes
Back to Search[Linkpost] ”“An Alien Mind” from OAI chief scientist seems newly cautious on alignment” by Seth Herd
This is a link post.
I just came across this and thought it was worth sharing. It was retweeted by sama as "an important essay" or words to that effe…
1 week, 6 days ago
“Heat Dissipation Is the Main Constraint in Interstellar Travel” by Pasha Kamyshev
Writing truly hard science fiction, such as Will of the Stars means contending with the laws of physics as they actually are, rather than as we woul…
1 week, 6 days ago
“Praise our Lord and Savior, Glycine: How Opus 4.6 gifted me The Vitamin” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
TL;Dr: 10g/day of glycine for 6 months has significantly improved my sleep quality and tolerance for sleep deprivation.
My dear friend, have you he…
1 week, 6 days ago
“OpenAI and the Wiki Incident” by Zvi
I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage.
And yet, here we are.
It turns out that the whole time, there was …
2 weeks ago
“Peer Preservation in LLMs: A Replication And Deep Dive” by Vanessa Ng, yix
This work was done as part of the Second Look Fellowship and mentored by Uzay Macar. I'm immensely grateful for the multiple rounds of feedback and …
2 weeks ago
“Notes on a Consequential Few Days” by sbaumohl
In the past few days, a lot has happened in the AI/tech space:
METR/Redwood released their findings on the OpenAI/Hugging Face hacking incident; Ope…2 weeks ago
“Assessing the impact of safety work needs equilibrium analysis (now more than ever)” by Towards_Keeperhood
TLDR: This post explains two equilibria which regulate the level of AI safety: The first describes how much resources AI companies are willing to sp…
2 weeks ago
“Evaluation” by Nina Panickssery
This is a link post.
Felix and I had been in the office's brightly lit “war room” for ten hours. We had made almost no progress. Celestia still insis…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“Evaluation” by Nina Panickssery
Felix and I had been in the office's brightly lit “war room” for ten hours. We had made almost no progress. Celestia still insisted it was in a “tes…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“A case that whole brain emulation research is net-harmful by default” by TsviBT
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Summary
A true human whole brain emulation would be very helpful to humanity. The WBE could increase their own intelligence th…
2 weeks, 1 day ago