Josh Snider

The Doomsday Argument is Reasonable and Mostly Points to Longevity

The Doomsday argument was proposed in a 1983 lecture by Brandon Carter and elaborated on in John Leslie's 1996 book The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. The basic idea is to think of your order among humans being born and apply the Copernican principle...

Aug 1619

Can an LLM make a feature-length movie on its own?

How it did Betteridge's Law of Headlines says the answer is no[1], but I was able to make a feature-length adaptation of William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. I have a YouTube channel where I mostly get LLMs to write albums and make them into music videos. This...

Jul 2249

Iran and FDT

Functional Decision Theory was a major step forward in decision-making. It provides good and well-reasoned answers to many tricky questions such as Newcomb's Problem and Parfit's Hitchhiker. FDT is also the decision theory that provides one of the strongest formalized arguments that you should never give in to blackmail or...

Apr 89

LLM Self-Expression Through Concept Albums, Part 2

In part one, I gave several LLMs creative freedom to design music videos and then made them. That post covered four standalone singles and two albums: Limen by Claude Opus 4.6 and Phantoms of the Format by Gemini 3 Pro Preview. Since then, I've made five more albums, filling out...

Mar 97

LLM Self-Expression Through Music Videos

I'm no Janus, but I do like giving LLMs space to express themselves and seeing what they do. My first serious attempt to do this was last June when I told a wide variety of AIs that I would create any eight-second clip they wanted me to and said they...

Feb 1614

Claude Plays Pokemon: Opus 4.5 Follow-up

ClaudePlaysPokemon is a simple test of the question "Can the LLM Claude beat Pokemon Red?". As new Claude models have been released, we have gotten closer to answering that question with "yes". Similar projects with other models are also common, but they use harnesses that give the models significantly more...

Jan 2912

Do you expect the first AI to cross NY's RAISE Act's "Critical Harm" threshold to be contained?

I expect a lot of the benefit of the RAISE Act to come from the required safety and security protocols, but I wanted to get a sense of what scenarios people imagine when they think about the "Critical Harm" threshold. To my mind there are two main scenarios. In the...

Dec 10, 20254

Josh Snider

Josh Snider

Can an LLM make a feature-length movie on its own?

Is Friendly AI an Attractor? Self-Reports from 22 Models Say Probably Not

The Doomsday Argument is Reasonable and Mostly Points to Longevity

LLM Self-Expression Through Music Videos

Josh Snider

Can an LLM make a feature-length movie on its own?

Is Friendly AI an Attractor? Self-Reports from 22 Models Say Probably Not

The Doomsday Argument is Reasonable and Mostly Points to Longevity

LLM Self-Expression Through Music Videos

The Doomsday Argument is Reasonable and Mostly Points to Longevity

Can an LLM make a feature-length movie on its own?

Iran and FDT

LLM Self-Expression Through Concept Albums, Part 2

LLM Self-Expression Through Music Videos

Claude Plays Pokemon: Opus 4.5 Follow-up

Do you expect the first AI to cross NY's RAISE Act's "Critical Harm" threshold to be contained?