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In the wake of the success of Nate and Eliezer's book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, we have an opportunity to push through a lot of doors that have cracked open, and roll a lot of snowballs down a lot of hills. 2026 is... more

Farewell to Friction

So sayeth Zvi: “when defection costs drop dramatically, equilibria break”. Even if AI makes individual tasks easier, this can still cause all kinds of societal problems because for many features of the world, the difficulty is ... more

There is a Bay 2025 Solstice Feedback Form. Please fill it out if you came, and especially fill it out if you felt alienated, or disengaged, or that Solstice left you worse than it found you. (Also fill it out the first question if you consciously ch... more

So this post brought to you by Beren today is about how a lot of claims about within-paradigm algorithmic progress is actually mostly about just getting better data, leading to a Flynn effect, and the reason I'm mentioning this is because once we hav... more

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Adrià Garriga-Alonso
Guest discussing AI alignment and its implications.
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Episode: Will We Get Alignment by Default? — with Adrià Garriga-Alonso
Nathan Calvin
General Counsel at Encode who faced retaliation from OpenAI regarding SB 53.
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Episode: “OpenAI #15: More on OpenAI’s Paranoid Lawfare Against Advocates of SB 53” by Zvi
Jennifer Pahlka
Former civil servant and advocate for better governance practices
Episode: “Civil Service: a Victim or a Villain?” by Martin Sustrik
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Episode: “Interview with Kelsey Piper on Self-Censorship and the Vibe Shift” by Zack_M_Davis
Dr. Steven Byrnes
Artificial intelligence safety researcher at the Astera Institute
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Episode: “Interview with Steven Byrnes on Brain-like AGI, Foom & Doom, and Solving Technical Alignment” by Liron, Steven Byrnes
Lincoln Quirk
Co-founder of Wave and former boss of Elizabeth
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Episode: “Podcast: Lincoln Quirk from Wave” by Elizabeth
Jack Clark
Head of policy at Anthropic
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Episode: “Congress Asks Better Questions” by Zvi
Avind Narayanan
A noted researcher in AI safety and ethics.
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Episode: “Worries About AI Are Usually Complements Not Substitutes” by Zvi
Austin Chen
Co-founder of Manifund, formerly of Manifold
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Episode: “Austin Chen on Winning, Risk-Taking, and FTX” by Elizabeth

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“Interview: What it’s like to be a bat” by Saul Munn
Q: Why would that be the case?
Bats cannot communicate with each other with the precision or fidelity that humans can, which hampers their understanding of each other's consciousness.
“Interview: What it’s like to be a bat” by Saul Munn
Q: What is it like to be a BAT?
It's as mysterious for a bat to comprehend the consciousness of another bat as it is for humans to understand the consciousness of other humans.
“Creditworthiness should not be for sale” by habryka
Q: Okay, but shouldn't I be happy if I give money to a charity that can raise more than a dollar from other people if I give it a dollar?
It's a complex situation where sometimes funding public goods can lead to genuine societal benefits, but it may resemble a creditworthiness purchasing scheme initially.
“Postrationality: An Oral History” by Gordon Seidoh Worley
Q: What do you think about effective altruism criticisms?
Many effective altruists are utilitarians, and utilitarianism has baked-in flaws that don't account for human concerns sufficiently.
“Postrationality: An Oral History” by Gordon Seidoh Worley
Q: What has post rationality actually changed about how you make decisions and take action?
It has helped me break free from my previous worldview, enabling me to engage directly with reality as it is.

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