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by boazbarak
6th Sep 2025
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[-]boazbarak3d631

First lecture for CS 2881 is online https://boazbk.github.io/mltheoryseminar/  + prereading for next lecture.
Students will be posting blog posts here with lecture summaries as well.

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[-]Daniel Kokotajlo3d131

Thank you for doing this!

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[-]boazbarak3d90

Btw I assigned AI 2027 as pre reading for the first lecture! (As well as “AI as a normal technology “ and the METR paper on doubling time for tasks.)

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[-]Daniel Kokotajlo2d44

Nice. If you get a chance I'd love to hear what the students think about all of the above.

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[-]peterbarnett2d60

The Arbital link (Yudkowsky, E. – "AGI Take-off Speeds" (Arbital 2016)) in there is dead, I briefly looked at the LW wiki to try find the page but didn't see it. @Ruby? 

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[-]Adam Shai2d20

This looks great! Thanks for making the videos public. 

Any chance the homework assignments/experiments can be made public?

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[-]jsd2d10

Neat! 

"Does AI Progress Have a Speed Limit?" links to an April 2025 dialogue between Ajeya Cotra and Arvind Narayanan. Perhaps you wanted to link the 2023 dialogue between Tamay and Matt Clancy, also on Asterisk?

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[-]boazbarak2d20

Actually I did want to link to the debate between Ajeya and Narayanan. As part of working on the website I wanted to try out various AI tools since I haven't been coding outside the OpenAI codebase for a while, and I might have gone overboard :)

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