Ready for a three hour episode? Because the Savage FINcast has got three hour episode for ya. Craig, Raven, Jim, and Mark peel back the cover of Savage Dragon 270 to witness the aftermath of last issue. With Walter is on the run, Mickey lurking in the shadows, and Frank is slumming it in Dimension X this issue has got more plot threads then you can…

The bro is back in town! Matthew flew into town so we could do some podcasting. Today we got together with Dad. Some of the things we talked about were O.J. Simpson, training for Body For Life, Matthew dating twins, and more. If you'd like to support my family and I create more content, please come visit us at Patreon. patreon.com/dogbo Support the…

This is a special crosspost episode where Adam Gleave is interviewed by Nathan Labenz from the Cognitive Revolution. At the end I also have a discussion with Nathan Labenz about his takes on AI. Adam Gleave is the founder of Far AI, and with Nathan they discuss finding vulnerabilities in GPT-4's fine-tuning and Assistant PIs, Far AI's work exposing…

Its a moderately tardy episode of the Savage FINcast! Hosts Jim, Craig, Raven, and Mark take a look at Savage Dragon 269, where not even a singular 69 occurs. Malcolm and the new SOS is acclimating to San Fran life. But something fishy is going on down. And possibly something Mickey as well. All this, and Erik Larsen news, listener letters, and FIN…

Ethan Perez is a Research Scientist at Anthropic, where he leads a team working on developing model organisms of misalignment. Youtube: ⁠https://youtu.be/XDtDljh44DMEthan is interviewed by Mikita Balesni (Apollo Research) and Henry Sleight (Astra Fellowship)) about his approach in selecting projects for doing AI Alignment research.A transcript & wr…

Today my Dad asks me some questions about my phone and wallet being stolen recently and about my 18 year old cat Hendrix. We also talk about encouraging strangers at the gym and persevering through tough circumstances. If you'd like to support my family and I create more content, please come visit us at Patreon. patreon.com/dogbo Support the Show.…

Today Pops and I talk about faith, grace, will, and how different couples process things emotionally. If you'd like to support my family and I create more content, please come visit us at Patreon. patreon.com/dogbo Support the Show.By Mark Castleman McClanahan

It’s another exciting episode of the Savage FINcast, show hosts Craig, Jim, and Mark take a look at Savage Dragon 268 as Malcolm and Maxine settle into their new San Fransisco lives. Unexpected foes, unexpected visitors, and unexpected heart break! This and more, with Erik Larsen News, Listener letters, and FINteresting Conversations. Oh yeah, and …

Emil is the co-founder of palette.fm (colorizing B&W pictures with generative AI) and was previously working in deep learning for Google Arts & Culture. We were talking about Sora on a daily basis, so I decided to record our conversation, and then proceeded to confront him about AI risk. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theinsideviewSora: https://o…

Evan Hubinger leads the Alignment stress-testing at Anthropic and recently published "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training".In this interview we mostly discuss the Sleeper Agents paper, but also how this line of work relates to his work with Alignment Stress-testing, Model Organisms of Misalignment, Deceptive…

Now that we are both working full time from home I sit down with Sam to talk about how life is going since we had our second child. We also talk about God's grace and our own faith growing in our lives. We also discuss how 2024 is the year for family, fitness, and finances, and what our goals are. If you'd like to support my family and I create mor…

Jeffrey Ladish is the Executive Director of Palisade Research which aimes so "study the offensive capabilities or AI systems today to better understand the risk of losing control to AI systems forever". He previously helped build out the information security program at Anthropic. Audio is a edit & re-master of the Twitter Space on "AI Governance an…

When I say God and you say source are we talking about the same thing? When two people say "source" are we talking about the same thing? If not, what are some of the different meanings of "source"? Today my Dad and I talk about the origins of the name Dogbo. Then I bounce some audio clips off him with people talking about, what is "source"? If you'…

Holly Elmore is an AI Pause Advocate who has organized two protests in the past few months (against Meta's open sourcing of LLMs and before the UK AI Summit), and is currently running the US front of the Pause AI Movement. Prior to that, Holly previously worked at a think thank and has a PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard. [Deleted & re-uploa…

After a long wait, the Savage FINcast returns to celebrate the nuptials of Angel Murphy and Frankie Darling. Craig, Jim, and Mark take a look at the highly anticipated 100 page giant anniversary issue Savage Dragon 267! Extended flashback, pre-wedding jitters, and unexpected guests. This issue has it all, but does it live up to to the anticipation?…

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Today I'm excited to kick off Dogbo Season 2 by having my dad back on, only this time joined by my favorite brother on his 42nd birthday. We ended up talking about facing adversity, living a plain vanilla life, and the infamous story of my dad cutting his hand off with a chainsaw a year after he broke his femur, and much more... Special shoutout to…

Today I sit down with my dad Pastor Pat on his 69th birthday and have a talk about life. My dad is one of my favorite people in the world and I hope to have him on way more. This man was built for podcasting and today he makes his first ever podcasting debut as he did not disappoint. Hope you enjoy. Special shout out to Sing Me Happy Birthday on Sp…

The Savage FINcast Retro returns after a slight delay. Sorry about that. Craig, Jim, and Mark take a look at the first two issues of the Star mini-series and talk a lot about the premise of Star. What worked, what really didn’t, and what might have.By Craig, Jim, & Raven

Today I cover the preface, and first of four books that make up C.S. Lewis's classic Mere Christianity. Can morals tell us about the meaning of the universe? If so, what? Ch. 1 The Law Of Human Nature Ch. 2 Some Objections Ch. 3 The Reality Of The Law Ch. 4 What Lies Behind The Law Ch. 5 We Have Cause To Be Uneasy If you'd like to support my family…

Today I riff on some quotes from the global elite like Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari. What is the meaning of life? What does it mean to be human? What is their vision for our future? Is there room for spirituality and free will in the future? Who will be in charge of writing the code for, and the programming for the future of humanity? This ep…

Today my wife Sam joins me to talk about our son Malachi's home birth story and we take a deeper look at what it means to "rewire" your brain while giving birth. We talk about how hard it's been for Sam to be the breadwinner for most of this year while being pregnant with our second child, and while I work overtime not earning an income. We also di…

Apologies for the delay, the summer months truly got away from us. But the Savage FINcast Retro returns for a brand new episode. Hosts Craig, Jim, and Mark take a loot at the second SuperPatriot mini-series, Liberty & Justice. Where Johnny learns he’s got kids now. And a world wide terror organization is gunning for him. Spoiler Warning. The gang b…

Today I cover Ch. 8 The Genesis Files: What is a Human Being?, from John Lennox's book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. What is consciousness? What is your definition or standard for consciousness? What does science have to say about the nature of consciousness? There are many developing theories but we really don't know. C…

Today I riff on Episode 1 of Netflix's documentary series Unnatural Selection. Gene-editing technologies promise to eliminate diseases, and biohackers push for access while scientists grapple with formidable ethical questions. Where are the labs located that are doing this kind of research? What are some ethical concerns? Can we mix the bio lumines…

Youtube: https://youtu.be/JXYcLQItZsk Paul Christiano's post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xWMqsvHapP3nwdSW8/my-views-on-doom

Neel Nanda is a researcher at Google DeepMind working on mechanistic interpretability. He is also known for his YouTube channel where he explains what is going on inside of neural networks to a large audience. In this conversation, we discuss what is mechanistic interpretability, how Neel got into it, his research methodology, his advice for people…

Today I cover Ch. 7 Artificial Intelligence: The Future Is Dark?, from John Lennox's book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. We hear people warning us about the potential harm of AI. What are some of the potential ways people see AI being able to dominate the globe and how close are we to AI posing a real threat to humanity? …

Today I riff on a recent interview Tucker Carlson did with Elon Musk mostly about AI and our future. If you'd like to support my family and I create more content please come visit us at Patreon. patreon.com/dogbo God Bless! Support the Show.By Mark Castleman McClanahan

Joscha Bach (who defines himself as an AI researcher/cognitive scientist) has recently been debating existential risk from AI with Connor Leahy (previous guest of the podcast), and since their conversation was quite short I wanted to continue the debate in more depth. The resulting conversation ended up being quite long (over 3h of recording), with…

Today I cover Ch. 6 Upgrading Humans, from John Lennox's book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. What is in store for humans in the future as we pioneer new medicine and technology to upgrading our bodies and minds. Will this new world be for everyone or just the well-to-do and wealthy? Also could we possibly create a modern …

"If you were able to create an immortal version of yourself, would you? Until this decade, that question was the stuff of science fiction, but now experts in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics suggest it will indeed be possible." Today I riff on a documentary I watched by ENDEVR called Living Forever Through AI: Digital Immortality …

Today I riff on a couple Koncrete podcast's about UFO's. The first episode Danny Jones interviews Mike Clelland, a researcher studying the mystical correlation between owl's and UFO encounters. Mike Clelland began his study of the UFO abduction phenomenon in 2006 as a way to better understand his own personal experiences. He has since collected a w…

Today I cover Chuck Missler's presentation on Transhumanism and The Age of The Hybrid. We take a look at the four converging technologies that are shaping our world at a rapid rate, unlike anything we've ever seen. Pioneers of these technologies promise us, and our bodies and minds, enhancements, upgrades and ultimately immortality. If you'd like t…

Erik is a Phd at Berkeley working with Jacob Steinhardt, interested in making generative machine learning systems more robust, reliable, and aligned, with a focus on large language models.In this interview we talk about his paper "Automatically Auditing Large Language Models via Discrete Optimization" that he presented at ICML. Youtube: https://you…

Dylan Patel is Chief Analyst at SemiAnalysis a boutique semiconductor research and consulting firm specializing in the semiconductor supply chain from chemical inputs to fabs to design IP and strategy. The SemiAnalysis substack has ~50,000 subscribers and is the second biggest tech substack in the world. In this interview we discuss the current GPU…

Tony is a PhD student at MIT, and author of "Advesarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs", accepted as Oral at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241 Youtube: https://youtu.be/Tip1Ztjd-so

It’s all out action in this latest episode of the Savage FINcast. Fists fly, sound effects thoom, walls crumble, as your hosts Craig and Jim, are joined once again by Mark Welser to take a look at Savage Dragon 266. It’s a nail-biting adventure to the city by the bay, as we witness Malcolm and Maxine Dragon make one of the most important decisions …

David Bau is an Assistant Professor studying the structure and interpretation of deep networks, and the co-author on "Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT" which introduced Rank-One Model Editing (ROME), a method that allows users to alter the weights of a GPT model, for instance by forcing it to output that the Eiffel Tower is in Rome.…

Today I make my first attempt at sharing my full testimony. This comes across much like my life story due to the fact that one of my earliest memories is me asking Jesus to come into my life around 3 years old, and it isn't until the age of 34 I start studying my bible. From a pastor's son at a small church, to Hollywood, to psychedelics and ceremo…

I've talked to Alexander Pan, 1st year at Berkeley working with Jacob Steinhardt about his paper "Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the MACHIAVELLI Benchmark" accepted as oral at ICML. Youtube: https://youtu.be/MjkSETpoFlYPaper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03279

Vincent is currently spending his time supporting AI alignment efforts, as well as investing across AI, semi, energy, crypto, bio and deeptech. His mission is to improve science, augment human capabilities, have a positive impact, help reduce existential risks and extend healthy human lifespan. Youtube: https://youtu.be/weRoJ8KN2f0 Outline (00:00) …

Today I riff on a Pastor Voodie Baucham sermon on 1 John 2:15. "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." If you'd like to support my family and I create more content please come visit us at Patreon. patreon.com/dogbo God Bless! Support the Show.…

Aran Komatsuzaki is a ML PhD student at GaTech and lead researcher at EleutherAI where he was one of the authors on GPT-J. In June 2022 we recorded an episode on scaling following up on the first Ethan Caballero episode (where we mentioned Aran as an influence on how Ethan started thinking about scaling). Note: For some reason I procrastinated on e…

Nina is a software engineer at Stripe currently working with Evan Hubinger (Anthropic) on AI Deception and Mesa Optimization. I met her at a party two days ago and I found her explanation of AI Deception really clear so I thought I should have her explain it on camera. Youtube: https://youtu.be/6ngasL054wM Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelTrazzi…

Curtis, also known on the internet as AI_WAIFU, is the head of Alignment at EleutherAI. In this episode we discuss the massive orders of H100s from different actors, why he thinks AGI is 4-5 years away, why he thinks we're 90% "toast", his comment on Eliezer Yudkwosky's Death with Dignity, and what kind of Alignment projects is currently going on a…

Eric is a PhD student in the Department of Physics at MIT working with Max Tegmark on improving our scientific/theoretical understanding of deep learning -- understanding what deep neural networks do internally and why they work so well. This is part of a broader interest in the nature of intelligent systems, which previously led him to work with S…

WARNING SENSITIVE MATERIAL! What is the history of the "The Royal Secret of the Illuminati? How far up does their secret pyramid go? How twisted are their ways? Today I cover the video presentation of Ex Satanist and Ex member of the Illuminati Bill Schnoebelen who reached some of the highest known ranks within the secret society only to one day be…

The Savage FINcast Retro has finally come to the revelation strewn conclusion of the first run of Freak Force! Regular hosts Craig and Jim and joined by renowned Freak Force fanboy Augie De Blieck! Who can now finally put the record straight about Freak Force once and for all!By Craig, Jim, & Raven

Jesse Hoogland is a research assistant at David Krueger's lab in Cambridge studying AI Safety. More recently, Jesse has been thinking about Singular Learning Theory and Developmental Interpretability, which we discuss in this episode. Before he came to grips with existential risk from AI, he co-founded a health-tech startup automating bariatric sur…