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Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Un saludo amigos, en lo que queda de año vamos a resumir la obra más célebre de Francis Bacon en el 400 aniversario de su fallecimiento: el Novum Organum. Bacon explica que antes de conocer bien la realidad debemos reconocer los errores de nuestra propia mente. Los llama ídolos y distingue cuatro tipos: los de la tribu, propios de la condición humana; los de la caverna, ligados a

Inkhaven is a writers residency in Berkeley, in which the only requirement is you have to publish 500 words each and every day. Though I always had some confidence in my ability to write, I never actually did it much until I applied to Inkhaven. I had finished only two short stories before I applied: The Maker of MIND and The Liar and the Scold. And it was them I used in my application. In the roughly twelve months since I was accepted, I have written thirteen, and even some half-finished things

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Responding to warnings in The New York Times and The Economist about AI summaries and 'cognitive shallowing': from television-era 'couch potato' panics to how YouTube, TikTok, and AI gave me the scaffolding to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason—why staring at raw text does not equal understanding, and what really determines whether we keep questioning after opening the door.

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Follow-up to: “LLMs are (still) mostly powered by imitative learning, not RL” A common take I’ve been hearing is: “LLMs are especially good at math because math is easy to verify”. But that story doesn’t make much sense. For one thing, “easy to verify” only matters for the RL part of LLM training pipelines, and the leading LLM companies have said that they spend very little effort on RL-for-math.Worse, to the extent that the companies are doing RL-for-math, it's RLAIF, not RLVR. So really, the

I'm mostly hoping this somehow gets sent to a privately disgruntled frontier lab employee, but it would also be cool to expand other people's minds on the way there. I read through Ethical AI Departures and would like to note that only a few of them have gotten extensive media coverage and none of them have actually effectively gotten the frontier labs to stop, and that collectively signed letters by employees have historically not done much either. I read Dear God, Please Do Not Resign In Protest

A year ago I posted that YCombinator (YC) companies didn’t seem to be growing faster since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. I reran that experiment and found that 2023+ YC companies are arguably growing a bit faster than pre-2023 companies (including AfterQuery, YC's fastest-ever unicorn), but the difference isn’t large relative to the underlying variance. It's worth noting that YC has somewhat fallen from grace: the most valuable AI startups are generally not incubated by YC. Nonetheless, it's

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit contemplativepath.substack.comAutopilot mornings — phone first, news first — make it easy to forget you’re a spiritual being as much as a physical one. This is a rule, in the old monastic sense: short, repeatable words for resetting your inner compass before the day takes over.The practice moves through the sacred web beneath ordinary appearances, the roots beneath roots connecting …

In quantum experiments, measurement can affect what is being measured. Human attention carries a different but equally important influence: what we repeatedly notice shapes our experience of the world. Are we feeding fear and grievance—or becoming attentive to gratitude, possibility, and grace?

我常常会想：为什么我们总习惯用“10秒”“一下下”来包装一个问题？因为我们默认“请教”是一件低成本的事，默认对方的时间可以随时被借用，默认一个真诚的答案可以在仓促中被生产出来。 心有光，行有路。几分钟给你一个念头。” 黄文鸿《一天一悟》！UFM100.3首播时间：傍晚6点10分See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if nothing ever truly leaves Love—and what we call separation is only an appearance that, in time, must give way?Nigel Lott teaandzen.org In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel  TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

While this is relevant to my work at MIRI, I have not checked these ideas with anyone else on the team and am posting this on my personal LW account. These views are my own. And to be honest, I am writing this mostly to remind myself of my weakness. --- I expect one (or many) adversarial memetic attacks aiming to trip you up, perhaps consisting of fake leaks relating to dangerous stuff happening in the labs. Specifically, worrying incidents that may fit snugly within your worldview, leaking from

This is a link post. Three whitehack hackers from Hacktron used Claude Opus 5 within hours of release to chain exploits into hacking to OpenAI's monorepo codebase. This likely means they have access to almost all of OpenAI's research and production code, though likely not the literal model weights. Oops. You can so their blog post about it here. Interesting sidenote: they used less than $3000 of compute credits for the entire hack. Alternative title: OpenAI unilaterally implements "Total Research

Long Time Dead is a show about the one thing that unites every human being: death. Through conversations with people of different faiths, philosophers, psychologists, artists, and cultural thinkers, the show asks “What is death? What does it mean? Why do we fear it? And how does knowing that we will die shape the way we live?” From religious traditions and cultural rituals to Plato, Freud, Lacan, Žižek, and the changing image of the Grim Reaper, each episode approaches death from a different ...

This is a link post. Below is the executive summary from our new paper at pacing.tech. The full paper is available on the site and as a PDF. The full author list is Raymond Douglas, Charles Dillon, Nikola Moore, Gavin Leech, Shahar Avin, Mathias Kirk Bonde, Rohit Krishnan, Noah Perez, Nathan Young, Cormac Slade Byrd, Stephen Casper, Jan Kulveit, & David Duvenaud “Pacing AI” usually refers to how to conclusively handle the most extreme risks in the face of race dynamics. However, even for the

This is a link post. I'm excited to introduce callcongress.ai as a new site that makes it very easier to contact your representatives in Congress. Following recent events, people are updating about the extreme risks arising from AI development. Many have the natural and excellent instinct to want to do something. If you live in the US, then the basic action that pretty much anyone can take is contacting their representatives in Congress and let them know that you are concerned and want action on AI

tl;dr: No I intended to read Richard Ngo's Agency Curriculum today. Unfortunately I didn't get more than halfway through the first reading of the first week of the curriculum. The reading is the blogpost 'The Copernican Revolution from the Inside' by Jacob Lagerros. Broadly, it outlines the Copernican Revolution and explains all of its messiness. One of the things it argues is that, while correct (the earth does indeed orbit the sun), Galileo was overconfident and made many mistakes. So, on the

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