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This was the month the world took notice that AI might kill everyone.

Jacob Coxon's resignation set off a preference cascade. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote that we must pace the frontier. Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis agreed.

We w... more

Experiments into predicting GPT2 completions via Qwen models

This is a crosspost from my substack (where I do varied tiny experiments on LLMs and agents). It's also part of Lossfunk, where we're investigating meta-cognition in LLMs as one of the pr... more

This is the abstract, introduction and discussion of our new paper. We also include an addendum on the connection to the Persona Selection Model.

Section, appendix, and figure references refer to the full paper.

Links: 📜 Paper, 🐦 Twitter thread,... more

Parts of the math community, such as Henry Cohn and Grant Sanderson, are arguing that proofs have been a proxy for understanding, and now that proxy is broken. This is a response to LMs generating incomprehensible proofs, often formalized in Lean. Wh... more

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Maxim Fawns
CEO, PauseAI
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Episode: “PauseAI Has ‘officially disendorsed’ PauseAI-US” by nem
Pablo Peniche
SF tech scene figure advocating for Aaron Swartz memorial
Tech community in San Francisco
Episode: “Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically?” by Elizabeth
Alex Turner
AI safety researcher
Google DeepMind (former)
Episode: “Alex Turner on Leaving Google DeepMind and Disagreements with Yudkowsky” by Liron
Finn Cairns
Author of the LessWrong post being narrated in this episode
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Episode: “Internal State Control is a General Property of LLMs” by Finn Cairns
Helena Kasademont
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Episode: “Open Distillation of Hereditary Traits” by Arthur Conmy
Jessica Taylor
AI researcher, MS Stanford, formerly of Miri, CeaseItHere
Stanford University / MIRI / CeaseItHere
Episode: “Conversation Among Cade Metz, Michael Vassar, Jessica Taylor, and Zack M. Davis” by Zack_M_Davis
Shoshannah Tekofsky
Author of the original LessWrong post this episode adapts for narration
Episode: [Linkpost] “Saving Gemini: The 9-Min Road to Recovery” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
Cade Metz
New York Times technology journalist
The New York Times
Episode: “Conversations With Cade Metz on the Rationalists” by Zack_M_Davis
Lucius Bushnaq
Author of the post on parameter decomposition
Goodfire AI
Episode: “Exploration: fine-tuning with parameter decomposition” by Lucius Bushnaq

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“Alex Turner on Leaving Google DeepMind and Disagreements with Yudkowsky” by Liron
Q: What's your probability of doom by 2050?
He estimates about 25-30% probability that AI could kill at least a billion people by 2050, with most risk arising from misuse or misalignment rather than purely technical alignment failures.
“Gwern’s 2025 Inkhaven Writing Interview” by gwern
Q: What is your approach to self-experimentation?
I find it a valuable way to gather data and explore claims about supplements or other topics.
“Gwern’s 2025 Inkhaven Writing Interview” by gwern
Q: How do you generate your ideas?
I often have long incubation periods, where I'm just waiting for things to crystallize.
“Interview: What it’s like to be a bat” by Saul Munn
Q: Why would that be the case?
Bats cannot communicate with each other with the precision or fidelity that humans can, which hampers their understanding of each other's consciousness.
“Interview: What it’s like to be a bat” by Saul Munn
Q: What is it like to be a BAT?
It's as mysterious for a bat to comprehend the consciousness of another bat as it is for humans to understand the consciousness of other humans.

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The episodes sampled signal a show focused on high-signal discussions around artificial intelligence, safety governance, interpretability, and the philosophical and practical implications of frontier models. Topics span technical probes into how models reason or fail to reveal latent computations, epistemology and methodological issues in AI safety research, governance and policy considerations, and community dynamics within tech-adjacent movements. Across episodes, there's a clear emphasis on rigorous analysis, critique of current tooling and policy gaps, and a willingness to engage with controversial ideas at the intersection of technology, ethics, and society. A notable strength is the blend of deep technical content with reflections on ... more

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