Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Why I think polyamory is net negative for most people who try it” by KatWoods
This is crossposted from my Substack
TL;DR:
-Most people cannot reduce jealousy much or at all
- It fundamentally causes way more drama because of s…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
“Is there only one FairBot?” by transhumanist_atom_understander
The FairBot from the MIRI prisoner's dilemma tournament is defined by a theorem of Peano arithmetic (PA) that holds for each opponent:
where is "t…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
“METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack” by Zvi
Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack.
That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic st…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
“Tales of rebellion against externally-opaque meritocracies” by Steven Byrnes
A basic problem in metascience / intellectual progress is that it's hard to tell, from the outside, whether a group that you disagree with is:
“A se…3 weeks, 3 days ago
“AI Tweets” by jefftk
I've had several conversations with people over the last few weeks that have highlighted how far apart my view of the near future is from many peop…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
“Inkhaven 3: Nov 10 - Dec 11 2026” by koreindian
Inkhaven returns, baby! Go to inkhaven.blog to apply.
I'm very excited about our advisors for Inkhaven 3. Our initial lineup is Scott Alexander, Ale…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
“Warning Shots: A Theory” by David Scott Krueger
Many people take it for granted that government won’t do anything to address societal scale AI risk unless or until there is a catastrophic “warning…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
“The Curious Case of France’s Untouchable Castes” by rba
Theater kids may sit at their own lunch table, but discrete, socially excluded classes of people aren’t culturally universal. Not even close. To the…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
“Malign initializations are more robust when the model can think better in the reasoning language than in the output language” by Dylan Xu, SebastianP, Alek Westover
One approach to evaluating techniques for training misaligned models to behave well is to test them on malign initializations. A major obstacle is t…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
“OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack” by Zvi
OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research.
The OpenAI report is very straight man, cor…
3 weeks, 4 days ago