Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Why Even Experts Don’t Know What to Do About AI Risk” by Luc Brinkman, plex
AI Safety veteran Holden Karnofsky thinks there's a 49% chance his actions are making things worse.[1]
In 2025, Jesse Clifton even stepped down as t…
3 days, 20 hours ago
“Agent Foundations Reminds Me of Continental Philosophy” by IanWS
Nevertheless, I shall take advantage of your kindness in assuming we agree that a science cannot be conditioned upon empiricism.
— Jacques Lacan, “T…
3 days, 21 hours ago
“Announcing the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge” by Jacob_Hilton
ARC has teamed up with AIcrowd to launch the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge, a contest to improve upon our estimation algorithms for random MLPs…
3 days, 22 hours ago
“Tech I’m skeptical of and why” by harsimony
I’m a fan of people trying things, even if they seem silly. Dismissing risky ideas misses the point of research.
But thoughtful criticism can direct…
4 days, 7 hours ago
“Dissolving the Deep Learning Sample Efficiency Gap” by Samuel Knoche
A common observation about deep learning is that it's wildly sample inefficient compared to humans. Deep learning systems appear to need much more r…
4 days, 14 hours ago
″“Contagious Humming” to Silence a Room” by JohnofCharleston
Often when running meetups you’ll have several lively conversations going at the same time. This is a great problem to have, but it can make it diff…
4 days, 17 hours ago
[Linkpost] “NYT: Senator Sanders Proposes Gov’t Take 50% Ownership of AI labs” by Julian Bradshaw
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Quoting from Senator Bernie Sanders Op-Ed in the New York Times today:
(...) I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovere…
4 days, 17 hours ago
“Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare” by Zvi
Everything impacts everything. All knobs that you turn generalize. Thus, when you try to solve one problem, you often create another.
There were cl…
4 days, 20 hours ago
[Linkpost] “Some humans are both male and female, and can (but shouldn’t) have children with themselves” by HedonicEscalator
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“Potential autofertility in true hermaphrodites”[1] by Istanbul urologist Zeki Bayraktar is among the most bizarre articles I ha…
5 days, 1 hour ago
“Outrunning your headlights” by mattshu0410
This is exactly the right place to probe. Gromov-Wasserstein is genuinely dimension free. Partial and semi-relaxed are precisely the mechanisms for …
5 days, 10 hours ago