Yesterday James Knight did a fun interview with me for his “Philosophical Muser” podcast about Aumann’s agreement theorem and human disagreements more generally. It’s already on YouTube here for those who would like to listen. […]
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This is my first post in well over a month. The obvious excuse is that I’ve been on a monthlong family world tour, which took me first to the Bay Area, then NYC, then Israel, […]
When I was a teenager, I enjoyed reading Hyperspace, an early popularization of string theory by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. I’m sure I’d have plenty of criticisms if I reread it today, but at […]
[Like everything else on this blog—but perhaps even more so—this post represents my personal views, not those of UT Austin or OpenAI] Since 2015, depressed, isolated, romantically unsuccessful nerdy young guys have regularly been emailing […]
That’s all. No real post this morning, just an hour-long podcast on YouTube featuring two decades-long veterans of the nerd blogosphere, Robin Hanson and yours truly, talking about AI, trying to articulate various possibilities outside […]
I blogged a few weeks ago about SB 18, a bill that would end tenure at Texas public universities, including UT Austin and Texas A&M. The bad news is that SB 18 passed the Texas […]
The major developments in human history are always steeped in dark ironies. Yes, that’s my Law of Dark Irony, the whole thing. I don’t know why it’s true, but it certainly seems to be. Taking […]
Artificial intelligence has made incredible progress in the last decade, but in one crucial aspect, it still lags behind the theoretical computer science of the 1990s: namely, there is no essay describing five potential worlds […]
This week, the Texas Legislature will take up SB 18, a bill to ban the granting of tenure at all public universities in Texas, including UT Austin and Texas A&M. (Those of us who already […]
So, I recorded a 2.5-hour-long podcast with Daniel Filan about “reform AI alignment,” and the work I’ve been doing this year at OpenAI. The end result is … well, probably closer to my current views […]
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