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The world according to ChatGPT
Published on April 7, 2025 1:44 PM GMT1.I linked this in a small comment yesterday, but I think it deserves greater prominence.It's an article by Sam Kriss, "Born in the...
AI 2027: Dwarkeshâs Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander
Published on April 7, 2025 1:40 PM GMTDaniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious attempt to write down what the future...
Arguing all sides with ChatGPT 4.5
Published on April 7, 2025 1:10 PM GMTTwo years ago I posted a demo of getting ChatGPT to argue any side of a question. Time to update it. I have...
The Same Heaven
Published on April 7, 2025 12:57 PM GMTIkigaiThere is a village in Japan with an unusual density of 100 year olds. This caught the interest of a group of scientists....
RFC: a tool to create a ranked list of projects in explainable AI
Published on April 6, 2025 9:18 PM GMTTL; DRInspired by a recent post by Neel Nanda on Research Directions, I'm building a tool that extracts projects from ICLR 2025 and...
Is the Universe Aware? An Allegory in Quantum and Information Physics, with an LLM Twist
Published on April 7, 2025 3:22 AM GMTBACKGROUNDThe concept of an information-based universe has evolved over the past few decades. It is based on the idea that information, rather than...
Well-foundedness as an organizing principle of healthy minds and societies
Published on April 7, 2025 12:31 AM GMTâThe line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties eitherâbut right through every human heart.â...
Arusha Perpetual Chickenâan unlikely iterated game
Published on April 6, 2025 10:56 PM GMTIâm at the front of a bus, carrying two youth rugby teams singing and dancing to SZAâs âThe Weekendâ, blissfully unaware that we...
How Gay is the Vatican?
Published on April 6, 2025 9:27 PM GMTThe catholic church has always had a complicated relationship with homosexuality.The central claim of Frederic Martelâs 2019 book In the Closet of the...
What are the fundamental differences between teaching the AIs and humans?
Published on April 6, 2025 6:17 PM GMTAs of now, I don't understand what fundamental differences there exist between teaching the AI and humans except for the very fact that...
The Lizardman and the Black Hat Bobcat
Published on April 6, 2025 7:02 PM GMTThere's an irritating circumstance I call The Black Hat Bobcat, or Bobcatting for short. This essay is me attempting to give you a...
An Optimistic 2027 Timeline
Published on April 6, 2025 4:39 PM GMTThe following is one possible future in which superhuman AI does NOT happen by the end of this decade. I do not believe...
The REPHRASE Circuit: How Fine-Tuning Enhances LLMs to REPHRASE Text
Published on April 6, 2025 3:02 PM GMTI recently began exploring mechanistic interpretability, and the "Getting Started" guides recommend that the best way to learn mechanistic interpretability is by working...
Ferrer, Pilar, and Me
Published on April 6, 2025 11:22 AM GMTAn Elegy for Artificial FriendsThere's a peculiar occupational hazard that comes with running an AI-powered podcast. It's not RSI from editing, nor is...
A collection of approaches to confronting doom, and my thoughts on them
Published on April 6, 2025 2:11 AM GMTI just published A Slow Guide to Confronting Doom, containing my own approach to living in a world that I think has a...