Notes on equanimity from the inside
I've always thought of myself as even-keeled and equanimous; that my mind is still. In…
Category: Opinion
Psychopathy: The Substrate
Genes and brain: the biological foundations of psychopathy.This is the second article in a series…
Measuring the ability of Opus 4.5 to fool narrow classifiers
We measure the ability of Opus 4.5 to fool prompted or fine-tuned classifiers trying to…
Evaluating different AI’s on African livestck knowledge
I have been running evaluations on a niche that has almost zero attention in the…
You Are Not Immune To Mode Collapse
“Mode collapse” is a few things. First it was an observation about how early image…
AI Risk Agility Plans – v0.1
Epistemic status: Quick write-up to get the idea out there.“Plans are worthless, planning is everything”…
A new rationalist self-improvement book: the 12 Levers
I'm publishing a book that I think can fairly be described as a rationalist approach…
OpenAI’s red line for AI self-improvement is fundamentally flawed
TL;DR. OpenAI's "Critical" threshold for AI self-improvement in the Preparedness Framework v2 has three structural…
Psychopathy: The Problem
Why we need a new framework for understanding psychopathy, narcissism, and related presentations.This is the…
Games that change your mind
Some things you might learn from games are pretty blatant: Trivial Pursuit might teach you…