I talked with Erik Torenberg about the ideas in his Substack series on navigating the status games of today. We discussed status as reputation allocation, cyclical change in status mobility over time, status in the world of social media, beliefs as fashions, the status games of...See more

I continued my conversation with recurring guest Forrest Landry on his arguments that continued AI development poses certain catastrophic risk to humanity. We discussed the liminal feeling of the current moment in AI, Rice’s theorem & the unknowability of alignment, the analogy...See more

I talked with Melanie Mitchell about her critique of applying standardized exams to LLMs and the debate over understanding in AI. We discussed ChatGPT and GPT-4’s performance on standardized exams, questioning the underlying assumptions, OpenAI’s lack of transparency,...See more