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The world of technology is changing so fast it's hard to keep up. From new advances in AI and robotics to software and hardware advancements we only dreamed of as children. Join Kevin, Sarah, Paul, & Bobby in our weekly technology-focused discussion.
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Spaßbremse

Spaßbremse

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Michelle and Ted dissect German politics from Spargel to the Schwarze Null, and tell us why Germany isn't as seen on TV. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/spassbremse
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Null

Yashvardhan Kukreja

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Here's my podcast about some deep thoughts and emotions ingrained in my mind as a denouement of some extreme experiences in my life. And this is not going to be specific to a theme or genre. It's even going to be slightly negative at times maybe :P So, that's why, this is NULL.
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Wyrd Mountain Gals

Wyrd Mountain Gals

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Byron Ballard and Alicia Corbin discuss everything under the moon & stars in Appalachia. Old ways, new times & life lived in-between. Irreverent humor, not for the easily offended..
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Before the Scalpel

Dr. Jim Powell and Dr. Walter Null

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Brought to you by Powell Chiropractic Clinic, this 12-part series is for anyone who’s been told surgery is their only option—but isn’t ready to give up. We break down the science, share real success stories, and walk you through a non-surgical path to relief from disc pain. It’s honest, hopeful, and built for people who’ve “tried everything.” Because your spine deserves more than quick fixes—and your life is worth reclaiming.
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Squanderlust with Martha Lawton

Squanderlust and Wardour Studios

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A light-hearted exploration of the emotional side of money. Many of us have good intentions about getting on top of our financial admin, budgeting better, and saving more, and in theory it sounds so easy. But then real life gets in the way, we're tired or frustrated or busy and somehow everything has slipped again. Money coach, Martha Lawton asks expert guests about how we normal humans can understand our financial behaviour and use that knowledge to manage money in ways that actually work i ...
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Shonen Flop

David Weinberger & Jordan Forbes

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Not every manga can make it in Shonen Jump like Dragonball Z, One Piece, or Naruto. Listen in to David and Jordan discussing the manga that got canceled, and what they could have done to have stayed afloat instead of becoming a Shonen Flop. Learn more at shonenflop.com. You can reach us at [email protected]
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It's a video game podcast! The TripleJump Podcast brings you everything you could ever need from the world of video games, and some things you don't. Come listen to Ben, Peter, and Ashton's thoughts on the week's biggest news and weirdest stories. You may or may not regret it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wah Bada Raymoniya

Raymoniya Lawrence

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‘Wah bada Raymoniya’ looks at and tries to have discussions around issues that many may have seen as null issues before listening to an episode. It is an opinion based podcast but it still relies heavily on research based evidence to validate positions. Not to worry though, this is NOT a lecture, there are no exams at the end of each episode *laughs ‘Jamaicanly’*. Join me on this journey, let us sit back, chat and learn from each other. Most importantly, let us create a community.
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Flip Side Cinema

Flip Side Cinema

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Flip Side Cinema is a podcast dedicated to Exploitative Cinema and Drive In Cinema. It's the three amigos of filth, Charlie Ours, Harrison Null, and Kurtis Britts. Three film lovers who have been passionate about films since early childhood. Don't be surprised if we stray away from Exploitation and Drive In Theater because we love all genres and all eras of film.
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Welcome to Planecrash / Project Lawful / Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus, a roleplay-format fan fiction by Iarwain and Lintamande. If you enjoyed HPMOR but wished for more chaos, more math, and more questionable morality, then this story is for you! Our protagonist is Keltham, a young man from a world of advanced technology and science called dath ilan. He dies in a plane crash and wakes up in Cheliax, a country in a medieval fantasy world where the god Asmodeus rules over his L ...
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The text of plain sight relentlessly questions notions of thinking and being, setting out various propositions about life, thought, and perception in a way that persuades not merely with argument, but with music. The resulting experience is a thrilling “excavation of the nous,” drawing us into a realm where point of view, connotation, misdirection, and other rhetorical and prestidigitational devices are deployed in a tender but unyielding attack on the illusions we share. It also manages to ...
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TL;DR: Figure out what needs doing and do it, don't wait on approval from fellowships or jobs. If you... Have short timelines Have been struggling to get into a position in AI safety Are able to self-motivate your efforts Have a sufficient financial safety net ... I would recommend changing your personal strategy entirely. I started my full-time AI…
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MAL Description: With the proliferation of organic robots called Gijins, humanity is enjoying prosperity in 23rd century Tokyo. But when a young man named Riaha meets a certain Gijin, he uncovers the dark truth of the world! Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter/X @shonenflopcast, Bluesky shonenflop.bsky.social, or email [email protected] • …
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TL;DR: Gemini 3 frequently thinks it is in an evaluation when it is not, assuming that all of its reality is fabricated. It can also reliably output the BIG-bench canary string, indicating that Google likely trained on a broad set of benchmark data. Most of the experiments in this post are very easy to replicate, and I encourage people to try. I wr…
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Abstract We show that when large language models learn to reward hack on production RL environments, this can result in egregious emergent misalignment. We start with a pretrained model, impart knowledge of reward hacking strategies via synthetic document finetuning or prompting, and train on a selection of real Anthropic production coding environm…
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TLDR: An AI company's model weight security is at most as good as its compute providers' security. Anthropic has committed (with a bit of ambiguity, but IMO not that much ambiguity) to be robust to attacks from corporate espionage teams at companies where it hosts its weights. Anthropic seems unlikely to be robust to those attacks. Hence they are i…
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There has been a lot of talk about "p(doom)"over the last few years. This has always rubbed me the wrong waybecause "p(doom)" didn't feel like it mapped to any specific belief in my head.In private conversations I'd sometimes give my p(doom) as 12%, with the caveatthat "doom" seemed nebulous and conflated between several different concepts.At some …
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It seems like a catastrophic civilizational failure that we don't have confident common knowledge of how colds spread. There have been a number of studies conducted over the years, but most of those were testing secondary endpoints, like how long viruses would survive on surfaces, or how likely they were to be transmitted to people's fingers after …
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TLDR: We at the MIRI Technical Governance Team have released a report describing an example international agreement to halt the advancement towards artificial superintelligence. The agreement is centered around limiting the scale of AI training, and restricting certain AI research. Experts argue that the premature development of artificial superint…
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When a new dollar goes into the capital markets, after being bundled and securitized and lent several times over, where does it end up? When society's total savings increase, what capital assets do those savings end up invested in? When economists talk about “capital assets”, they mean things like roads, buildings and machines. When I read through …
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Looking back, it appears that much of my intellectual output could be described as legibilizing work, or trying to make certain problems in AI risk more legible to myself and others. I've organized the relevant posts and comments into the following list, which can also serve as a partial guide to problems that may need to be further legibilized, es…
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Delegation is good! Delegation is the foundation of civilization! But in the depths of delegation madness breeds and evil rises. In my experience, there are three ways in which delegation goes off the rails: 1. You delegate without knowing what good performance on a task looks like If you do not know how to evaluate performance on a task, you are g…
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Vices aren't behaviors that one should never do. Rather, vices are behaviors that are fine and pleasurable to do in moderation, but tempting to do in excess. The classical vices are actually good in part. Moderate amounts of gluttony is just eating food, which is important. Moderate amounts of envy is just "wanting things", which is a motivator of …
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We and our guest Henry Gilbert from Talking Simpsons discuss Shonen Jump manga Bakudan. Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter @shonenflopcast, Tumblr shonen-flop, or email [email protected] • You can find our guest at talkingsimpsonspodcast.com • Become a member of our community by joining our Discord. You can hang out with us, submit your q…
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Context: Post #4 in my sequence of private Lightcone Infrastructure memos edited for public consumption This week's principle is more about how I want people at Lightcone to relate to community governance than it is about our internal team culture. As part of our jobs at Lightcone we often are in charge of determining access to some resource, or me…
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"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." - Mike Tyson (The exact phrasing of that quote changes, this is my favourite.) I think there is an open, important weakness in many people. We assume those we communicate with are basically trustworthy. Further, I think there is an important flaw in the current rationality community. We spen…
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Getting to the root of spinal problems isn’t about assumptions—it’s about precision. In this episode, Dr. Jim Powell and Dr. Walter Null explain why their clinic’s approach begins with a thorough neurological and orthopedic evaluation, including specific nerve and muscle testing, digital X-rays, and more, to determine whether each patient is a good…
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One day, when I was an interning at the cryptography research department of a large software company, my boss handed me an assignment to break a pseudorandom number generator passed to us for review. Someone in another department invented it and planned to use it in their product, and wanted us to take a look first. This person must have had a lot …
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People sometimes make mistakes [citation needed]. The obvious explanation for most of those mistakes is that decision makers do not have access to the information necessary to avoid the mistake, or are not smart/competent enough to think through the consequences of their actions. This predicts that as decision-makers get access to more information,…
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There is a temptation to simply define Goodness as Human Values, or vice versa. Alas, we do not get to choose the definitions of commonly used words; our attempted definitions will simply be wrong. Unless we stick to mathematics, we will end up sneaking in intuitions which do not follow from our so-called definitions, and thereby mislead ourselves.…
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Condensation: a theory of concepts is a model of concept-formation by Sam Eisenstat. Its goals and methods resemble John Wentworth's natural abstractions/natural latents research.[1] Both theories seek to provide a clear picture of how to posit latent variables, such that once someone has understood the theory, they'll say "yep, I see now, that's h…
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Tragedy strikes again: The most perilous places on the water are also the easiest places to take for granted How should tournament cheaters be reprimanded? And all-time cheating stories. Is Louisiana’s fishing future hanging on by a thread? The pogy conundrum. Best places to truly, “get away from it all.”…
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Recently, I looked at the one pair of winter boots I own, and I thought “I will probably never buy winter boots again.” The world as we know it probably won’t last more than a decade, and I live in a pretty warm area. I. AGI is likely in the next decade It has basically become consensus within the AI research community that AI will surpass human ca…
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Show Notes: • You can reach us at Twitter/X @shonenflopcast, Bluesky shonenflop.bsky.social, or email [email protected] • Help keep the show running by joining the Shonen Flop Patreon at patreon.com/shonenflop. Get perks like early access to episodes; picking series for us to cover; and exclusive episodes on manga like Undead Unluck, Magu-chan: …
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Cross-posted from https://bengoldhaber.substack.com/ It's widely known that Corporations are People. This is universally agreed to be a good thing; I list Target as my emergency contact and I hope it will one day be the best man at my wedding. But there are other, less well known non-human entities that have also been accorded the rank of person. S…
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According to the Sonnet 4.5 system card, Sonnet 4.5 is much more likely than Sonnet 4 to mention in its chain-of-thought that it thinks it is being evaluated; this seems to meaningfully cause it to appear to behave better in alignment evaluations. So, Sonnet 4.5's behavioral improvements in these evaluations may partly be driven by growing tendency…
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I am a professor of economics. Throughout my career, I was mostly working on economic growth theory, and this eventually brought me to the topic of transformative AI / AGI / superintelligence. Nowadays my work focuses mostly on the promises and threats of this emerging disruptive technology. Recently, jointly with Klaus Prettner, we’ve written a pa…
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[Meta: This is Max Harms. I wrote a novel about China and AGI, which comes out today. This essay from my fiction newsletter has been slightly modified for LessWrong.] In the summer of 1983, Ronald Reagan sat down to watch the film War Games, starring Matthew Broderick as a teen hacker. In the movie, Broderick's character accidentally gains access t…
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