Podcast Episodes

“In defense of parents” by Yair Halberstadt

Contra Aella on chattel childhood

Aella has a post where she argues that today's parents don't sufficiently respect the independence of their childr…

1 month, 1 week ago

“AI companies should publish security assessments” by ryan_greenblatt

AI companies should get third-party security experts to assess (and possibly also red-team/pen-test) their security against key threat models and th…

1 month, 1 week ago

“The other paper that killed deep learning theory” by LawrenceC

Yesterday, I wrote about the state of deep learning theory circa 2016,[1] as well as the bombshell 2016 paper that arguably signaled its demise, Zha…

1 month, 1 week ago

“What holds AI safety together? Co-authorship networks from 200 papers” by Anna Thieser

We (social science PhD students) computed co-authorship networks based on a corpus of 200 AI safety papers covering 2015-2025, and we’d like your he…

1 month, 1 week ago

″“Bad faith” means intentionally misrepresenting your beliefs” by TFD

The confusion

I recently came upon a comment which I believe reflects a persistent confusion among rationalist/EA types. I was reading this post wh…

1 month, 1 week ago

“Retrospective on my unsupervised elicitation challenge” by DanielFilan

This post contains spoilers for the unsupervised elicitation challenge of getting Claude to get my Ancient Greek homework right.

tl;dr Opus 4.7 one…

1 month, 1 week ago

“Control protocols don’t always need to know which models are scheming” by Fabien Roger

These are my personal views.

To detect if an agent is taking a catastrophically dangerous action, you might want to monitor its actions using the sm…

1 month, 1 week ago

“Anthropic spent too much don’t-be-annoying capital on Mythos” by draganover

I have seen a lot of coverage from reasonable people suggesting that Claude's new model, Mythos, is a vehicle for Anthropic to peddle hype and doom …

1 month, 1 week ago

“The paper that killed deep learning theory” by LawrenceC

Around 10 years ago, a paper came out that arguably killed classical deep learning theory: Zhang et al. 's aptly titled Understanding deep learning …

1 month, 1 week ago

“Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It” by mabramov

Summary

EA and rationalists got enamoured with forecasting and prediction markets and made them part of the culture, but this hasn’t proven very us…

1 month, 1 week ago