Podcast Episodes

“Childhood And Education #17: Is Our Children Reading” by Zvi

Reading is the most fundamental thing in education. If you can read, you can do and learn everything else. If you can’t read, well, you’re screwed.

3 weeks, 4 days ago

“AI companies are already profitable (in the way that matters)” by Yair Halberstadt

I've occasionally heard people suggest that at some point AI companies are going to run out of money, the cost of using AI will shoot up, demand wil…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

“The Iliad Intensive Course Materials” by Leon Lang, David Udell, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

We are releasing the course materials of the Iliad Intensive, a new month-long and full-time AI Alignment course that runs in-person every second mo…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

“Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology)” by Steven Byrnes

1.1 Tl;dr

Alignment is often conceptualized as AIs helping humans achieve their goals: AIs that increase people's agency and empowerment; AIs that a…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

“How useful is the information you get from working inside an AI company?” by Buck, Anders Cairns Woodruff

This post was drafted by Buck, and substantially edited by Anders. "I" refers to Buck. Thanks to Alex Mallen for comments.

People who work inside AI…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

“Who Got Breasts First and How We Got Them” by rba

It really is Sydney Sweeney's world, and we’re all just living in it.

Human female breasts are an evolutionary mystery along several dimensions. Fir…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

“Anthropic’s strange fixation on “hyperstition”” by Simon Lermen

In a recent tweet, Anthropic seems to have asserted that hyperstition is responsible for observed misalignment in their AIs. Strangely, the research…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

“How the AI Labs Make Profit (Maybe, Eventually)” by mabramov

I wrote this essay as a submission to Dwarkesh Patel's blog prize, though I have been meaning to write this up for a while.

Usually, for a company t…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

“Sawtooth Problems” by Alexander Slugworth

Red Button, Blue Button

On April 24th, 2026, Tim Urban put forth the following poll on Twitter/X:

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote b…

3 weeks, 6 days ago

“The Darwinian Honeymoon - Why I am not as impressed by human progress as I used to be” by Elias Schmied

Crossposted from Substack and the EA Forum.

A common argument for optimism about the future is that living conditions have improved a lot in the p…

3 weeks, 6 days ago