Best Nick Bowman Podcasts (2024)

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Legendary Bingo founder & Musician Jeffery Bowman: "I've Lived this Nick at Nite Life" 1:16:07

21d ago1:16:07

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Dennis connects via Zoom with Jeffery Bowman who is the founder and co-host of Legendary Bingo, a West Hollywood staple since 1998. Jeffery talks about the event's humble beginnings, how he enlisted the queen Belle Aire early on as his first drag co-host and how the event has raised over $9 million to date for countless local charities. He dishes a…

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Max Donohue - Singer/Songwriter & First Top Hill Recording Intern 1:11:10

5h ago1:11:10

1:11:10

We're saying a temporary farewell to our first-ever Top Hill Recording intern, Tennessee-based singer-songwriter Max Donohue. Max, influenced by artists like Lizzy McAlpine, Noah Kahan, and Ryan Beatty, recently released his album "Growing Pains", offering a deeply personal look into the mind of a 19-year-old. Thank you, Max, for your time and cont…

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AF - Backdoors as an analogy for deceptive alignment by Jacob Hilton 14:45

11h ago14:45

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Backdoors as an analogy for deceptive alignment, published by Jacob Hilton on September 6, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.ARC has released a paper on Backdoor defens…

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AF - Conflating value alignment and intent alignment is causing confusion by Seth Herd 13:40

1d ago13:40

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Conflating value alignment and intent alignment is causing confusion, published by Seth Herd on September 5, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Submitted to the Alignmen…

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Actor-Singer David Burnham ("Burnham Sings Buble"): "My Pants Were So Tight I Almost Passed Out" 58:38

1h ago58:38

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Dennis is joined by singer-actor David Burnham to talk about his new cabaret show Burnham Sings Buble, in which he interprets the music of Michael Buble, singing hits like "Home" and "Everything" along with more obscure Buble gems. David also talks about his previous touring show, a tribute Tom Jones, which, in true Tom Jones fashion, featured pant…

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AF - Is there any rigorous work on using anthropic uncertainty to prevent situational awareness / deception? by David Scott Krueger 1:01

1d ago1:01

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Is there any rigorous work on using anthropic uncertainty to prevent situational awareness / deception?, published by David Scott Krueger on September 4, 2024 on The…

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AF - The Checklist: What Succeeding at AI Safety Will Involve by Sam Bowman 35:25

12h ago35:25

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Checklist: What Succeeding at AI Safety Will Involve, published by Sam Bowman on September 3, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Crossposted by habryka with Sam's pe…

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AF - Survey: How Do Elite Chinese Students Feel About the Risks of AI? by Nick Corvino 19:38

1d ago19:38

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Survey: How Do Elite Chinese Students Feel About the Risks of AI?, published by Nick Corvino on September 2, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.IntroIn April 2024, my co…

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AF - Can a Bayesian Oracle Prevent Harm from an Agent? (Bengio et al. 2024) by Matt MacDermott 8:04

3d ago8:04

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Can a Bayesian Oracle Prevent Harm from an Agent? (Bengio et al. 2024), published by Matt MacDermott on September 1, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Yoshua Bengio wro…

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AF - Epistemic states as a potential benign prior by Tamsin Leake 13:38

6h ago13:38

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Epistemic states as a potential benign prior, published by Tamsin Leake on August 31, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Malignancy in the prior seems like a strong crux…

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Cait Justice - An Appalachian Girl with a Guitar 56:59

7d ago56:59

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Cait Justice is an Appalachian girl with a guitar and a heart full of music. Hailing from the hills of Eastern Kentucky, Cait’s musical journey began in church as a child, where her passion for singing first took root. Over the years, she’s honed her craft as a folk/Americana singer-songwriter, using music as a powerful outlet for self-expression a…

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AF - AIS terminology proposal: standardize terms for probability ranges by Egg Syntax 5:24

8d ago5:24

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AIS terminology proposal: standardize terms for probability ranges, published by Egg Syntax on August 30, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Summary: The AI safety resea…

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Still Working 9 to 5 Filmmakers Gary & Larry Lane: "Just Cuz You're Twins, Don’t Think You're Special" 1:06:30

7d ago1:06:30

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Dennis is joined by two of the filmmakers of the new documentary Still Working 9 to 5, which is about the classic film comedy from 1980 and the ongoing movement for equality for women that the film depicted. Gary co-directed the film and Larry executive produced it. The twin brothers talk about how they first got the idea to make the documentary, t…

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AF - Solving adversarial attacks in computer vision as a baby version of general AI alignment by stanislavfort 12:34

6d ago12:34

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Solving adversarial attacks in computer vision as a baby version of general AI alignment, published by stanislavfort on August 29, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.I s…

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AF - Would catching your AIs trying to escape convince AI developers to slow down or undeploy? by Buck Shlegeris 5:55

16h ago5:55

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Would catching your AIs trying to escape convince AI developers to slow down or undeploy?, published by Buck Shlegeris on August 26, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.I…

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AF - Owain Evans on Situational Awareness and Out-of-Context Reasoning in LLMs by Michaël Trazzi 8:33

15d ago8:33

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Owain Evans on Situational Awareness and Out-of-Context Reasoning in LLMs, published by Michaël Trazzi on August 24, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Owain Evans is an…

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AF - Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs by Bart Bussmann 35:53

1d ago35:53

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs, published by Bart Bussmann on August 24, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Bart, Michael and Patrick are joint first…

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Teale Appeal - Soulful Storyteller Nick Teale and Company 53:20

6d ago53:20

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Born in Kentucky to a British expat, Nick Teale combines the soulful storytelling of classic Americana with the compositional and experimental mentality of British art-rock. Although primarily a solo acoustic artist, Teale also has a full band, in both cases tackling everything from folk and Americana to rock, metal, blues, jazz, and hip-hop.Teale’…

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AF - Invitation to lead a project at AI Safety Camp (Virtual Edition, 2025) by Linda Linsefors 7:27

13h ago7:27

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Invitation to lead a project at AI Safety Camp (Virtual Edition, 2025), published by Linda Linsefors on August 23, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Do you have AI Safe…

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AF - Interoperable High Level Structures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives by johnswentworth 12:28

16d ago12:28

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Interoperable High Level Structures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives, published by johnswentworth on August 22, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Meta: This post is a rela…

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AF - A Robust Natural Latent Over A Mixed Distribution Is Natural Over The Distributions Which Were Mixed by johnswentworth 8:37

5h ago8:37

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A Robust Natural Latent Over A Mixed Distribution Is Natural Over The Distributions Which Were Mixed, published by johnswentworth on August 22, 2024 on The AI Alignm…

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Ganymede Filmmakers Colby Holt & Sam Probst: "I Believe We're Dealing With a Ganymede" 57:19

22m ago57:19

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Dennis is joined via Zoom by the filmmakers behind the new gay thriller Ganymede, Colby Holt & Sam Probst. The film is about a high school wrestling star from a strict Christian family who develops feelings for his openly gay classmate, which causes him to be haunted by a terrifying creature. The co-directors, who are also husbands, talk about wher…

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AF - Measuring Structure Development in Algorithmic Transformers by Jasmina Nasufi 18:17

1d ago18:17

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Measuring Structure Development in Algorithmic Transformers, published by Jasmina Nasufi on August 22, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.tl;dr: We compute the evolution…

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AF - AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind: A Summary of Recent Work by Rohin Shah 16:31

11d ago16:31

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind: A Summary of Recent Work, published by Rohin Shah on August 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.We wanted to share a reca…

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AF - Finding Deception in Language Models by Esben Kran 7:36

1d ago7:36

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Finding Deception in Language Models, published by Esben Kran on August 20, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This June, Apart Research and Apollo Research joined force…

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AF - Limitations on Formal Verification for AI Safety by Andrew Dickson 37:37

8d ago37:37

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Limitations on Formal Verification for AI Safety, published by Andrew Dickson on August 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.In the past two years there has been incre…

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AF - Clarifying alignment vs capabilities by Richard Ngo 13:26

20h ago13:26

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Clarifying alignment vs capabilities, published by Richard Ngo on August 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.A core distinction in AGI safety is between alignment and…

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AF - Untrustworthy models: a frame for scheming evaluations by Olli Järviniemi 15:38

2d ago15:38

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Untrustworthy models: a frame for scheming evaluations, published by Olli Järviniemi on August 19, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.In this post, I'll talk about trust…

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AF - Calendar feature geometry in GPT-2 layer 8 residual stream SAEs by Patrick Leask 7:17

9h ago7:17

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Calendar feature geometry in GPT-2 layer 8 residual stream SAEs, published by Patrick Leask on August 17, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.TL;DR: We demonstrate that t…

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Overlook - A Band of Lifelong Friends 1:19:13

6d ago1:19:13

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Overlook is a band of four lifelong friends: Sam Bellavance (Bass), Carson Bull (Vocals/Guitars), Colin Christenson (Drums), and Jim Haines (Guitar).Formed in 2016 while they were still in high school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the group bonded over a shared love for the classic rock their dads played and the alt rock that dominated local radio statio…

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Singer-Songwriter & Composer Greg O'Connor: "I Never Gave Myself Permission To Do This Before" 56:55

7d ago56:55

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Dennis connects via Zoom with musician Greg O'Connor to talk about his debut album The Place I've Never Been and what it's been like to venture out as a solo artist after decades of writing songs and scores for TV and movies. Greg talks about what inspired him to take such a big swing in his mid-50's, the artists that inspired him like Toto, The Be…

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AF - Fields that I reference when thinking about AI takeover prevention by Buck Shlegeris 17:03

15d ago17:03

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Fields that I reference when thinking about AI takeover prevention, published by Buck Shlegeris on August 13, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Is AI takeover like a nu…

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AF - Extracting SAE task features for ICL by Dmitrii Kharlapenko 17:20

26d ago17:20

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Extracting SAE task features for ICL, published by Dmitrii Kharlapenko on August 12, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.TL;DRWe try to study task vectors in the SAE basi…

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AF - In Defense of Open-Minded UDT by Abram Demski 23:26

21h ago23:26

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: In Defense of Open-Minded UDT, published by Abram Demski on August 12, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.A Defense of Open-Minded Updatelessness, with applications to a…

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John Thomas Moore - 21-year-old Kentucky Singer-Songwriter 1:00:56

28d ago1:00:56

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John Thomas Moore is a 21-year-old singer-songwriter hailing from Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Since releasing his debut EP, Salt River Blues, in 2022, Moore has continued to impress with three singles in 2023—Seventeen, Not Like You Care, and Lyin' in My Head—showcasing his versatility across Americana to rock and roll genres.Moore performs with an acou…

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AF - You can remove GPT2's LayerNorm by fine-tuning for an hour by Stefan Heimersheim 19:03

6d ago19:03

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: You can remove GPT2's LayerNorm by fine-tuning for an hour, published by Stefan Heimersheim on August 8, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This work was produced at Apo…

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AF - Inference-Only Debate Experiments Using Math Problems by Arjun Panickssery 4:41

7d ago4:41

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Inference-Only Debate Experiments Using Math Problems, published by Arjun Panickssery on August 6, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Work supported by MATS and SPAR. Co…

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AF - Self-explaining SAE features by Dmitrii Kharlapenko 19:36

23d ago19:36

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Self-explaining SAE features, published by Dmitrii Kharlapenko on August 5, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.TL;DRWe apply the method of SelfIE/Patchscopes to explain …

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86. Indigenous Resistance and Palestinian Liberation with Nick Estes 1:08:01

1M ago1:08:01

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In this episode, we sit down with a very special guest, Nick Estes, Lead Editor at Red Media. Nick is a Lakota activist, writer, and scholar whose work delves into settler-colonialism, indigenous history, and decolonization. He is the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Ind…

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AF - The Bitter Lesson for AI Safety Research by Adam Khoja 6:33

26d ago6:33

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Bitter Lesson for AI Safety Research, published by Adam Khoja on August 2, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Read the associated paper "Safetywashing: Do AI Safety …

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AF - A Simple Toy Coherence Theorem by johnswentworth 11:59

26d ago11:59

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A Simple Toy Coherence Theorem, published by johnswentworth on August 2, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post presents a simple toy coherence theorem, and then u…

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Joe Hermes - Hot New Act in Rock Country 1:14:41

1M ago1:14:41

1:14:41

Joe Hermes, one of the hottest new acts in the Rock Country scene, is an Illinois native and former defensive lineman known for his edgy vocal textures and high-energy performances. Driven by his faith, family, and belief in the American Dream, Hermes brings a blend of "gunpowder country" to his music, influenced by Metallica, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aeros…

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AF - The 'strong' feature hypothesis could be wrong by lewis smith 31:14

29d ago31:14

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The 'strong' feature hypothesis could be wrong, published by lewis smith on August 2, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.NB. I am on the Google Deepmind language model i…

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With Love, Mommie Dearest Author A. Ashley Hoff: "Faye Dunaway Gave a Performance For the Ages" 1:16:32

21d ago1:16:32

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Dennis is joined in person by author A. Ashley Hoff to discuss his new book With Love, Mommie Dearest, his follow-up to Match Game 101, which he discussed on the podcast a few years back. Ashley talks about why he wanted to write this book, what surprised him while he was conducting interviews and doing research and why be believes that Faye Dunawa…

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85. Polio and The Public Health Crisis in Gaza 28:14

18d ago28:14

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In mid-July, reports began to emerge from the Gaza Strip that polio was detected in the water. Days later, the Gaza Ministry of Health declared a polio epidemic and called for “immediate intervention to end the [Israeli] aggression and find radical solutions” to the worsening public health crisis in the Strip. The World Health Organization (WHO) sa…

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AF - The need for multi-agent experiments by Martín Soto 17:17

27d ago17:17

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The need for multi-agent experiments, published by Martín Soto on August 1, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.TL;DR: Let's start iterating on experiments that approxima…

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84. Israel’s assassination of Hamas & Hezbollah leaders. What comes next for the region? 45:34

27d ago45:34

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AF - Against AI As An Existential Risk by Noah Birnbaum 0:44

1M ago0:44

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Against AI As An Existential Risk, published by Noah Birnbaum on July 30, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.I wrote a post to my Substack attempting to compile all of t…

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AF - Self-Other Overlap: A Neglected Approach to AI Alignment by Marc Carauleanu 19:29

1M ago19:29

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Self-Other Overlap: A Neglected Approach to AI Alignment, published by Marc Carauleanu on July 30, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.Many thanks to Bogdan Ionut-Cirstea…

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AF - Investigating the Ability of LLMs to Recognize Their Own Writing by Christopher Ackerman 23:09

1M ago23:09

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Link to original article Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Investigating the Ability of LLMs to Recognize Their Own Writing, published by Christopher Ackerman on July 30, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum.This post is an interi…

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