Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Destroying the universe: How hard can it be?” by djbinder
In quantum field theory, the vacuum state refers to the lowest energy state in a system. Particles are excitations above this state and carry energy…
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“AI will make biological extinction risks worse before it makes them better” by MichaelDickens
An argument goes: If we don't build aligned artificial superintelligence, we risk driving ourselves extinct for some other reason. We should rush to…
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″$1M AI x-risk grant round is live on grantmaking.ai - apply for funding, review applicants, or fund projects” by mbrooks, Mckiev
TLDR: what is the grant round?
grantmaking.ai is launching a 1 million dollars grant round, distributing 5 thousand dollars to 50 thousand dollars p…
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“Third-parties should focus on scrutinising systems cards” by Cleo Nardo
By default, I expect system cards will get worse, which would be bad. Some mechanisms could improve system cards, but I expect they will be outweigh…
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“WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense” by Zvi
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by…
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“P(doom) is a Dumb Meme” by Max Harms
Look, I'm as much of a Rationalist with a special interest in AI x-risk as anyone. But oh my god do I hate talking about "P(doom)". When it first st…
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“GPT-5.6: The System Card” by Zvi
While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America's Next Top Model, GP…
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“A reading list for generalists” by Dylan Bowman
I, along with many others in AI safety, believe there is a shortage of generalists in the community and that there exist many projects and efforts t…
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“What comes with cheap math?” by abramdemski
Thanks to conversations with Anson Berns, Gurkenglass, Roman Malov, Sahil, Sam Eisenstat, and others.
Over the past two months, I've been doing a lo…
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“Do LLMs Have Desires?” by Christopher Ackerman
Work conducted with Yujun Zhou (yzhou25@nd.edu) and supported by SPAR
TL;DR:
In paired-choice paradigms, LLMs report consistent preferences over out…1 month ago