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| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 951 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TechnologyPhilosophySociety & Culture | |||
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tl;dr: people should understand and think hard about the problems they work on.
We’ve observed that those who work in AI safety (ourselves included) often rely on concerning heuristics when choosing what to work on. Running a conference is probably... more
This is crossposted from my Substack
TL;DR:
-Most people cannot reduce jealousy much or at all
- It fundamentally causes way more drama because of strong emotions, jealousy, no default norms to fall back to, and there being exponentially more sur... more
A basic problem in metascience / intellectual progress is that it's hard to tell, from the outside, whether a group that you disagree with is:
• “A self-dealing cabal enmeshed in groupthink”, versus
• “An externally-opaque meritocracy”, i.e. a bunc... more
We recently published the report from our brief independent investigation into this incident. You can read the full report here.
Here is our tweet thread summarizing what we found:
METR & Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Huggin... more
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As someone who foolishly feels pride in my second reddit account being 14 years old I must admit I wish I had discovered LW back then.
All the subs and clusters I found myself in would have led me to assume I would have discovered the site years ago…
I think anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge base should listen and read many of these episodes. check your bias and set aside any preconceived notions of who Yud or the rats are and just read. You do not need to incorporate many of the id... more
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