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“How I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy ” by zhukeepa
“Did Christopher Hitchens change his mind about waterboarding? ” by Isaac King
“The Great Data Integration Schlep ” by sarahconstantin
“Contra papers claiming superhuman AI forecasting ” by nikos, Peter Mühlbacher, Lawrence Phillips, dschwarz
“OpenAI o1 ” by Zach Stein-Perlman
“The Best Lay Argument is not a Simple English Yud Essay ” by J Bostock
“My Number 1 Epistemology Book Recommendation: Inventing Temperature ” by adamShimi
“That Alien Message - The Animation ” by Writer
“Pay Risk Evaluators in Cash, Not Equity ” by Adam Scholl
“Survey: How Do Elite Chinese Students Feel About the Risks of AI? ” by Nick Corvino
“things that confuse me about the current AI market. ” by DMMF
“Nursing doubts ” by dynomight
“Principles for the AGI Race ” by William_S
“The Information: OpenAI shows ‘Strawberry’ to feds, races to launch it ” by Martín Soto
“What is it to solve the alignment problem? ” by Joe Carlsmith
“Limitations on Formal Verification for AI Safety ” by Andrew Dickson
“Would catching your AIs trying to escape convince AI developers to slow down or undeploy? ” by Buck
“Liability regimes for AI ” by Ege Erdil
“AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind:A Summary of Recent Work ” by Rohin Shah, Seb Farquhar, Anca Dragan
“Fields that I reference when thinking about AI takeover prevention” by Buck
“WTH is Cerebrolysin, actually?” by gsfitzgerald, delton137
“You can remove GPT2’s LayerNorm by fine-tuning for an hour” by StefanHex
“Leaving MIRI, Seeking Funding” by abramdemski
“How I Learned To Stop Trusting Prediction Markets and Love the Arbitrage” by orthonormal
“This is already your second chance” by Malmesbury
“0. CAST: Corrigibility as Singular Target” by Max Harms
“Self-Other Overlap: A Neglected Approach to AI Alignment” by Marc Carauleanu, Mike Vaiana, Judd Rosenblatt, Diogo de Lucena
“You don’t know how bad most things are nor precisely how they’re bad.” by Solenoid_Entity
“Recommendation: reports on the search for missing hiker Bill Ewasko” by eukaryote
“The ‘strong’ feature hypothesis could be wrong” by lsgos
“‘AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems’” by gjm
“Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires” by owencb, Raymond D
“Universal Basic Income and Poverty” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Optimistic Assumptions, Longterm Planning, and ‘Cope’” by Raemon
“Superbabies: Putting The Pieces Together” by sarahconstantin
“Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one.” by rossry
“Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard” by TracingWoodgrains
“When is a mind me?” by Rob Bensinger
“80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar orgs should do similarly)” by Raemon
[Linkpost] “introduction to cancer vaccines” by bhauth
“Priors and Prejudice” by MathiasKB
“My experience using financial commitments to overcome akrasia” by William Howard
“The Incredible Fentanyl-Detecting Machine” by sarahconstantin
“AI catastrophes and rogue deployments” by Buck
“Loving a world you don’t trust” by Joe Carlsmith
“Formal verification, heuristic explanations and surprise accounting” by paulfchristiano
“LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux” by eggsyntax
“SAE feature geometry is outside the superposition hypothesis” by jake_mendel
“Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer & Verbalize Latent Structure from Training Data” by Johannes Treutlein, Owain_Evans
“Boycott OpenAI” by PeterMcCluskey
“Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in large language models” by evhub, Carson Denison
“I would have shit in that alley, too” by Declan Molony
“Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o” by ryan_greenblatt
“Why I don’t believe in the placebo effect” by transhumanist_atom_understander
“Safety isn’t safety without a social model (or: dispelling the myth of per se technical safety)” by Andrew_Critch
“My AI Model Delta Compared To Christiano” by johnswentworth
“My AI Model Delta Compared To Yudkowsky” by johnswentworth
“Response to Aschenbrenner’s ‘Situational Awareness’” by Rob Bensinger
“Humming is not a free $100 bill” by Elizabeth
“Announcing ILIAD — Theoretical AI Alignment Conference ” by Nora_Ammann, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
“Non-Disparagement Canaries for OpenAI” by aysja, Adam Scholl
“MIRI 2024 Communications Strategy” by Gretta Duleba
“OpenAI: Fallout” by Zvi
[HUMAN VOICE] Update on human narration for this podcast
“Maybe Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust is powerless” by Zach Stein-Perlman
“Notifications Received in 30 Minutes of Class” by tanagrabeast
“AI companies aren’t really using external evaluators” by Zach Stein-Perlman
“EIS XIII: Reflections on Anthropic’s SAE Research Circa May 2024” by scasper
“What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?” by ozziegoen
“Language Models Model Us” by eggsyntax
Jaan Tallinn’s 2023 Philanthropy Overview
“OpenAI: Exodus” by Zvi
DeepMind’s ”Frontier Safety Framework” is weak and unambitious
Do you believe in hundred dollar bills lying on the ground? Consider humming
Deep Honesty
On Not Pulling The Ladder Up Behind You
Mechanistically Eliciting Latent Behaviors in Language Models
Ironing Out the Squiggles
Introducing AI Lab Watch
Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction
Funny Anecdote of Eliezer From His Sister
Thoughts on seed oil
Why Would Belief-States Have A Fractal Structure, And Why Would That Matter For Interpretability? An Explainer
Express interest in an “FHI of the West”
Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream
Paul Christiano named as US AI Safety Institute Head of AI Safety
[HUMAN VOICE] "On green" by Joe Carlsmith
[HUMAN VOICE] "Toward a Broader Conception of Adverse Selection" by Ricki Heicklen
[HUMAN VOICE] "My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology" by Eric Neyman
[HUMAN VOICE] "How could I have thought that faster?" by mesaoptimizer
LLMs for Alignment Research: a safety priority?
[HUMAN VOICE] "Scale Was All We Needed, At First" by Gabriel Mukobi
[HUMAN VOICE] "Using axis lines for good or evil" by dynomight
[HUMAN VOICE] "Social status part 1/2: negotiations over object-level preferences" by Steven Byrnes
[HUMAN VOICE] "Acting Wholesomely" by OwenCB
The Story of “I Have Been A Good Bing”
The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject
[HUMAN VOICE] "Deep atheism and AI risk" by Joe Carlsmith
[HUMAN VOICE] "My Clients, The Liars" by ymeskhout
[HUMAN VOICE] "Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk" by Akash, hath