Podcast Episodes
Back to Search[Linkpost] ”[Paper] Stringological sequence prediction I” by Vanessa Kosoy
This is a link post.
TLDR: The first in a planned series of three or more papers, which constitute the first major in-road in the compositional learn…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“We’re actually running out of benchmarks to upper bound AI capabilities” by LawrenceC
Written quickly as part of the Inkhaven Residency. Opinions are my own and do not represent METR's official opinion.
In early 2025, the situation f…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“Don’t write for LLMs, just record everything” by RobertM
Some people have argued the advent of LLMs has dramatically increased the value of having a public writing footprint. The first reason given is that…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“Contra Nina Panickssery on advice for children” by Sean Herrington
I recently read this post by Nina Panickssery on advice for children. I felt that several of the recommendations are actively harmful the children t…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“By Strong Default, ASI Will End Liberal Democracy” by MichaelDickens
Cross-posted from my website.
The existence of liberal democracy—with rule of law, constraints on government power, and enfranchised citizens—relie…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
“AIs can now often do massive easy-to-verify SWE tasks and I’ve updated towards shorter timelines” by ryan_greenblatt
I've recently updated towards substantially shorter AI timelines and much faster progress in some areas. [1] The largest updates I've made are (1) …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
“Paper close reading: “Why Language Models Hallucinate”” by LawrenceC
People often talk about paper reading as a skill, but there aren’t that many examples of people walking through how they do it. Part of this is a pr…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
“Ten different ways of thinking about Gradual Disempowerment” by David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
About a year ago, we wrote a paper that coined the term “Gradual Disempowerment.”
It proved to be a great success, which is terrific. A friend and c…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
“11 pieces of advice for children” by Nina Panickssery
I came up with these principles when I was a child myself.
Don’t be a sheep 🐑. Avoid mindlessly copying others. Resist the urge towards conformity. …2 weeks, 3 days ago
“Steering Might Stop Working Soon” by J Bostock
Steering LLMs with single-vector methods might break down soon, and by soon I mean soon enough that if you're working on steering, you should start …
2 weeks, 3 days ago