Dwarkesh Patel again interviewed Tyler Cowen, largely about AI, so here we go. Note that I take it as a given... more

Anthropic's Alignment Science team conducts technical research aimed at mitigating the risk of catastrophes caused by future advanced AI systems,... more

Epistemic status -- sharing rough notes on an important topic because I don't think I'll have a chance to clean... more

[This is an interim report and continuation of the work from the research sprint done in MATS winter 7 (Neel... more

IntroductionMATS currently has more people interested in being mentors than we are able to support—for example, for the Winter... more

Response to Discursive Games, Discursive WarfareThe discursive distortions you discuss serve two functions:1 Narratives can only serve as effective group... more

TL;DR: Making claims or demands about/into other people's internal states, rather than about your state or observable external states, predictably... more

SPOILER WARNING: Extensive spoilers for XX.XX was recommended by one of the comments on my Sci-Fi micro-reviews, so I read... more

There's a conventional narrative by which the pre-20th century aristocracy was the “old corruption” where civil and military positions were... more

The Sun is the most nutritious thing that's reasonably close. It's only 8 light-minutes away, yet contains the vast majority... more