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As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between E
Epistemic status: Toy model. Oversimplified, but has been anecdotally useful to at least a couple pe
Midjourney, “infinite library”I’ve had post-election thoughts percolating, and the sense that I want
Trump and the Republican party will yield broad governmental control during what will almost certain
Thanks to Holden Karnofsky, David Duvenaud, and Kate Woolverton for useful discussions and feedback.
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This post comes a bit late with respect to the news cycle, but I argued in a recent interview that o
TL;DR: I'm presenting three recent papers which all share a similar finding, i.e. the safety tr
At least, if you happen to be near me in brain space.What advice would you give your younger self?Th
I open my eyes and find myself lying on a bed in a hospital room. I blink."Hello", says a
Claim: memeticity in a scientific field is mostly determined, not by the most competent researchers
This is a link post.We (Connor Leahy, Gabriel Alfour, Chris Scammell, Andrea Miotti, Adam Shimi) hav
There are two nuclear options for treating depression: Ketamine and TMS; This post is about the latt
Epistemic status: model-building based on observation, with a few successful unusual predictions. An
This post includes a "flattened version" of an interactive diagram that cannot be displaye
1. 4.4% of the US federal budget went into the space race at its peak.This was surprising to me, u
This summer, I participated in a human challenge trial at the University of Maryland. I spent the da
This is a link post. Part 1: Our Thinking Near and Far1 Abstract/Distant Future Bias2 Abstractly Ide