Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“What Mormons get right about community building” by Jacob Brinton
Mormons get a lot of things right. Apart from strange Masonic temple rituals, they lead rather normal—and even excellent—lives. Mormons enjoy a long…
1 month ago
“Scrying, Modeling, and Nerdsnipe” by Cole Wyeth
Epistemic status: Exploratory thinking.
After attending ILIAD: Aeneid and talking with @Richard_Ngo, I've been thinking a bit about how to get ideas…
1 month ago
“How the American Executive Could Control AI Companies” by caiitlinm, Anders Cairns Woodruff
Some of the most notable American AI policies to date have been enacted by unilateral executive branch action. Consider the Department of Defense's …
1 month ago
“Frontier agents don’t comply with standards, even when instructed to” by Daan Henselmans, Arno Libert
TLDR: Our open testbed LARA examines the behavior of frontier LLMs in realistic agentic deployment contexts. Previous results showed all models rout…
1 month ago
“How to Answer a Question Without Answering The Question” by Kabir Kumar
Basics:
Answering something other than the question,
Either making something up that they want to answer instead or going back to an easier to answ…
1 month ago
“Some Ways I Think About Evaluating Grant Applications” by sarahconstantin
Rider-Waite Tarot, 6 of Pentacles
I’ve done enough grant evaluations so far (for ACX grants and SFF) and been involved in philanthropy in various oth…
1 month ago
“Features that current AIs don’t have that future AIs will have” by Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
Features that current AIs don't have that future AIs will have:
Continual Learning [& long-term memory]
Every second humans update their brain weigh…
1 month ago
“Measuring Activation Control in LLMs” by Marek Kowalski, Joshua Fonseca Rivera, Uzay Macar, David Africa
TL;DR
Inspired by the introspective awareness and CoT controllability papers, we made a benchmark to measure how well models can control their activ…1 month ago
“What happened when I tried to be vegan” by finitude
tw: diet, exercise, illness, ethics, suicide mention
I want to start by explaining what made me want to change my diet. That's pretty difficult, bec…
1 month ago
“How My Students Think About AI” by dvd
Context: I am an instructor at a public university in the United States. This reports how students at my institution appear to be thinking about AI …
1 month ago