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#6 Daniel Filan on why I'm wrong about ethics (+ Oppenheimer and what names mean in like a hardcore phil of language sense)
This wide-ranging conversation between Daniel and Aaron touches on movies, business drama, philosophy of language, ethics and legal theory. The two…
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July 2023
I regret to report that I've started a podcast (again)
Tl;dr and links I started a low-effort “recorded conversation” podcast Spotify Google Podcasts Apple Podcasts RSS feed to paste wherever…
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#5: Nathan Barnard (again!) on why general intelligence is basically fake
Listen now (70 mins) | Follow Nathan’s blog Summary from Clong: The discussion centers around the concept of a unitary general intelligence or cognitive…
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#4 Winston Oswald-Drummond on the tractability of reducing s-risk, ethics, and more
Listen now (72 mins) | Note: skip to minute 4 if you’re already familiar with The EA Archive or would just rather not listen to my spiel Summary (by…
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#3: Nathan Barnard on how financial regulation can inform AI regulation
Listen now (50 mins) | Note: the first few minutes got cut due to technical difficulties, so it sounds like we start in the middle of our conversation…
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[Bot readout] NYT: Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism: Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up, is trying to compete with…
Listen now (22 mins) | Not a legit pod episode, just a bot readout of the NYT's recent article (⁠copy⁠; ⁠original⁠) Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I…
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June 2023
#2 Arjun Panickssery solves books, hobbies, and blogging, but fails to solve the Sleeping Beauty problem because he's wrong on that one
Listen now (62 mins) | Follow Arjun on Twitter Read and subscribe to his blog Transcript Note: created for free by Assembly AI; very imperfect AARON So…
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#1 Laura Duffy solves housing, ethics, and more
Listen now (75 mins) | Transcript Note: created for free by Assembly AI; very imperfect AARON Cool. So we have no topic suggestions. LAURA You mentioned…
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The answer to the sleeping beauty problem is 1/2
Too many perpetually-almost-done drafts. I’m entering my ‘just post stuff even if it kinda sucks’ arc.
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May 2023
April 2023
"Tf is a kernel?"
Professional developer Agus Covarrubias tries to untangle my brain
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Aaron Bergman
August 2022
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
(At least some of) the very smartest students aren't getting in, either
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