Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Claude… doesn’t know who you are?” by Smaug123
Follow-up to https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jkb4CBB7rf4XYP5eb/claude-knows-who-you-are after the release of Claude Opus 4.8.
Claude Opus 4.8 refuse…
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“Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes” by Brinedew
Back in 2013, Scott Alexander wrote in Extreme mnemonics:
JS-154 is one of five metabolic products of netamine; however, the enzyme that produces it…
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“Some Dating Stories” by johnswentworth
There's a genre of dating discourse which I wish were more common, in which people just tell detailed stories of their own flirtation, courtships, d…
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“AI #170: Lack of Executive Order” by Zvi
Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts. What's in the Executive Order coming later today? What will be in the Magnifica Humanitas?
The Executiv…
1 week, 2 days ago
“Infinite ethics and UDASSA” by David Matolcsi
Reading the first post of the sequence (Probabilities are not the right concept) is recommended but not required for understanding this post.[1]
In…
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“The ballad of TIGIT” by Abhishaike Mahajan
There exist drug classes that seem, in retrospect, cursed. As these chemicals worm their way through the clinical trial system, they consume billion…
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“Eval Cooperativeness May Be a Scalable Mitigation for Eval Gaming” by Jasmine Li, Alex Turner
Behavioral evaluations may become worthless, which we think would be a disaster. Smart misaligned models may realize they are being evaluated ("eval…
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“LLMs Through the Eyes of Vinge” by Gordon Seidoh Worley
For the last few months, I’ve been re-reading some of my favorite novels. Recently, I went through Vinge's Zones of Thought series: A Fire Upon the …
1 week, 2 days ago
“Announcing Geodesic Research” by Puria, Cam, Alexandra Narin, Edward James Young, Kyle O’Brien
We're a Cambridge, UK-based AI safety organisation that's asking: how can we build the most robust alignment initialisations for capable LLMs?
We’re…
1 week, 3 days ago
“Full automation of AI R&D probably yields a large speed up even without a software-only singularity” by ryan_greenblatt
This is a somewhat technical note.
By "software-only singularity", I mean that, after full automation of AI R&D, progress gets faster and faster du…
1 week, 3 days ago