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Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning

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2024/11/30

Podcast: Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Episode: Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and MeaningRelease date: 2024-11-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNora Belrose, Head of Interpretability Research at EleutherAI, discusses critical challenges in AI safety and development. The conversation begins with her technical work on concept erasure in neural networks through LEACE (LEAst-squares Concept Erasure), while highlighting how neural

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The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy

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2024/09/05

Podcast: No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups Episode: The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej KarpathyRelease date: 2024-09-05Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah and Elad in this week of No Priors. Andrej, who was a founding team member of OpenAI and former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, needs no introduction. In this episode, Andrej discusses the evolution of self-driving cars, comparing Tesla and Waymo’s approaches, and the technical challenges ahead. They also cover

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Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)

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2024/08/21

Podcast: Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Episode: Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)Release date: 2024-08-21Dr. Joscha Bach introduces a surprising idea called "cyber animism" in his AGI-24 talk - the notion that nature might be full of self-organizing software agents, similar to the spirits in ancient belief systems. Bach suggests that consciousness could be a kind of software running on our brains, and wonders if similar "programs" might exist in plants or even

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Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy...

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2024/07/27

Podcast: The TrajectoryEpisode: Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 1)Release date: 2024-07-26This is an interview with Nick Bostrom, the Founding Director of Future of Humanity Institute Oxford.This is the first installment of The Worthy Successor series - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead.This episode referred to the following other essays and resources:-- The Intelligence Trajectory

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#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping”...

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2024/05/31

Podcast: 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode: #189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problemsRelease date: 2024-05-29"You can’t charge what something is worth during a pandemic. So we estimated that the value of one course of COVID vaccine in January 2021 was over $5,000. They were selling for between $6 and $40. So nothing like their social value. Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t think that they should have charged $5,000 or $6,000

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#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping”...

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2024/05/31

Podcast: 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode: #189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problemsRelease date: 2024-05-29"You can’t charge what something is worth during a pandemic. So we estimated that the value of one course of COVID vaccine in January 2021 was over $5,000. They were selling for between $6 and $40. So nothing like their social value. Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t think that they should have charged $5,000 or $6,000

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Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is

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2024/05/21

Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show Episode: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He IsRelease date: 2024-04-26Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York

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Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is

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2024/05/21

Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show Episode: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He IsRelease date: 2024-04-26Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York

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THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus

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2024/05/18

Podcast: Political Philosophy Podcast Episode: THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManusRelease date: 2024-04-28What defines the modern American right? Matt McManus argues we should understand the movement as fundementally about hierarchy, we then get into a general conversation about the Biden administration and the direction of the US Left.

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THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus

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2024/05/18

Podcast: Political Philosophy Podcast Episode: THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManusRelease date: 2024-04-28What defines the modern American right? Matt McManus argues we should understand the movement as fundementally about hierarchy, we then get into a general conversation about the Biden administration and the direction of the US Left.

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David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case...

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2024/05/13

Podcast: The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Episode: David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against LongtermismRelease date: 2024-05-02Episode 122I spoke with Professor David Thorstad about:* The practical difficulties of doing interdisciplinary work* Why theories of human rationality should account for boundedness, heuristics, and other cognitive limitations* why EA epistemics suck (ok, it’s a little more nuanced than that)Professor Thorstad is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at

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David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case...

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2024/05/13

Podcast: The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Episode: David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against LongtermismRelease date: 2024-05-02Episode 122I spoke with Professor David Thorstad about:* The practical difficulties of doing interdisciplinary work* Why theories of human rationality should account for boundedness, heuristics, and other cognitive limitations* why EA epistemics suck (ok, it’s a little more nuanced than that)Professor Thorstad is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at

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Peter Thiel on Political Theology

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2024/04/17

Podcast: Conversations with Tyler Episode: Peter Thiel on Political TheologyRelease date: 2024-04-17In this conversation recorded live in Miami, Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it’s a concept we still need today, why Peter’s against Calvinism (and rationalism), whether the Old Testament should lead us to be woke, why Carl Schmitt is enjoying a resurgence, whether we’re entering a new age of millenarian thought, the one existential risk

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Peter Thiel on Political Theology

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2024/04/17

Podcast: Conversations with Tyler Episode: Peter Thiel on Political TheologyRelease date: 2024-04-17In this conversation recorded live in Miami, Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it’s a concept we still need today, why Peter’s against Calvinism (and rationalism), whether the Old Testament should lead us to be woke, why Carl Schmitt is enjoying a resurgence, whether we’re entering a new age of millenarian thought, the one existential risk

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#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

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2024/04/02

Podcast: Making Sense with Sam Harris Episode: #361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective AltruismRelease date: 2024-04-01Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on the Effective Altruism movement. They discuss the logic of “earning to give,” the mind of SBF, his philanthropy, the character of the EA community, potential problems with focusing on long-term outcomes, AI risk, the effects of the FTX collapse on Will personally, and other topics

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#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

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2024/04/02

Podcast: Making Sense with Sam Harris Episode: #361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective AltruismRelease date: 2024-04-01Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on the Effective Altruism movement. They discuss the logic of “earning to give,” the mind of SBF, his philanthropy, the character of the EA community, potential problems with focusing on long-term outcomes, AI risk, the effects of the FTX collapse on Will personally, and other topics

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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build &...

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2024/03/30

Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast Episode: Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's MindRelease date: 2024-03-28Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast.No way to summarize it, except: This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what capabilities they're likely to soon have, and what exactly is going on inside them.You would be shocked how much of what I know about this field, I've learned just from

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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build &...

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2024/03/30

Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast Episode: Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's MindRelease date: 2024-03-28Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast.No way to summarize it, except: This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what capabilities they're likely to soon have, and what exactly is going on inside them.You would be shocked how much of what I know about this field, I've learned just from

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An even deeper atheism

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2024/03/11

Podcast: Joe Carlsmith Audio Episode: An even deeper atheismRelease date: 2024-01-11Who isn't a paperclipper?Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/11/an-even-deeper-atheism This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far:

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An even deeper atheism

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2024/03/11

Podcast: Joe Carlsmith Audio Episode: An even deeper atheismRelease date: 2024-01-11Who isn't a paperclipper?Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/11/an-even-deeper-atheism This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far:

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