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Transcript generated by Gemini-4-Argon and spot-checked but not fully verified by a human. Ivan Vendrov: Welcome to the show, Richard. Richard Ngo: Thanks, Ivan. Ivan Vendrov: So, notionally we’re going to talk about emergent wisdom in language models following up on my conversation with Davidad. But I’m sure we’ll touch...
Transcript generated with Gemini-4-Argon and spot checked in places but not fully verified by a human. Ivan Vendrov: All right, welcome to the show, Gabriel. Gabriel Alfour: Thanks for having me here. Ivan Vendrov: So, we’re going to talk. This is a follow-up conversation to the chat I had with...
Transcript generated by Gemini-3.1-Pro and only partly checked for accuracy (but the parts I checked seem basically perfect). Ivan Vendrov: Welcome to the show, David. David Dalrymple: Thank you. Good to be here. Ivan Vendrov: I mostly want to pick your brain about the topic of emergent wisdom in language...
Consider reading Some Memories of Early Anthropic first to get a sense of my raw experience before you read my speculative interpretation. I’m writing these lines in Alamogordo, New Mexico. I’m about as close as a civilian can get to the site of the Trinity test, the first nuclear bomb...
The following events took place between October 2022 and May 2023. I wrote very little of this down at the time so am recalling from memory, and am rendering the gist of the dialogue rather than the exact words used. I’ve also swapped some pronouns and other personal identifiable details....
> All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. > > ~ John von Neumann > We discovered something. Our one hope against total domination. A hope that with courage, insight, and solidarity we could use to resist. A strange property of the physical universe that...
Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind. I feel nervous, as if I just stood up to speak in front of a crowd. For the longest time, all but the most famous writers could expect their words to be read by a few, then safely forgotten. But these...