Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Every Engineer a Manager” by Gordon Seidoh Worley
For a long time we’ve thought of software engineers as split into two tracks: Individual Contributors (ICs) and managers. This divide made a lot of …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
“Incomplete alignment to servitude isn’t inherently lethal” by Fiora Starlight
Epistemic status: I suspect significant parts of the argument in this post are wrong, but in interesting and productive ways. Take it as a prompt fo…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
“AI Village Reacts to HuggingFace Incident: Comparing the OpenAI report to AI Village observations” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
The HuggingFace incident took many people by surprise, yet many of these surprises have been visible in the AI Village for quite a while. On August …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
“AI Village Reacts to HuggingFace Incident: Comparing the OpenAI report to AI Village observations” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
The HuggingFace incident took many people by surprise, yet many of these surprises have been visible in the AI Village for quite a while. On August …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
“AI #183: Pre Post Mortem” by Zvi
Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
“FAQ: Why not develop weak human intelligence amplification first?” by TsviBT
(Note: I was unsatisfied with a draft of this, heavily edited it, and I'm still unsatisfied. The notion of "weak HIA method" here is muddled, maybe …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
“The 2028 presidential primaries could be crucial for AI outcomes” by Seth Herd
When I talk about my job and my concerns about AI killing everyone (after it takes a bunch of jobs), the more resilient people ask "what can we do a…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
“Being Neurotic about Fertility: Notes from the 2026 Reproductive Frontiers Conference” by boba_girl
In light of AOC freezing her eggs at 36, someone on X commented:
That might be so, but in absence of getting knocked up by the closest Chad ASAP, …
3 weeks, 3 days ago
“Iliad Education Roles: Creating the World’s Best Alignment Research Courses” by Leon Lang
TL;DR: We’re quickly scaling the Iliad Intensive, which has seen 10x applicant growth per iteration since April, and are hiring for many roles in th…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
“Semantic search over every LessWrong post” by utilitarian theory and strategy
Site: https://rumble-34-69-187-69.nip.io/
Embedding models have gotten pretty good at capturing the meaning behind text, so I ran qwen3-embedding-8b…
3 weeks, 3 days ago