Astral Codex Ten
Scott Alexander · 32 korrents · 14 pieces · astralcodexten.com
AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot3 korrents · 15 Oct 2026 · no page here yet
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- The people at AI companies are no more likely to raise the alarm about AI dangers than people who were never at AI companies, or people who were previously at AI companies but have since quit.
- AI company leaders were expressing concerns about existential risks long before they founded or led major AI companies.
- The experts are warning about AI existential risk because they genuinely believe it is a possibility.
Top Forecasters On The Plague1 korrent · 7 Oct 2026 · no page here yet
An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI1 korrent · 6 Oct 2026 · no page here yet
The Specter Of Neuralese1 korrent · 24 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
Open Thread 4521 korrent · 21 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
King Ludd2 korrents · 14 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques3 korrents · 8 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
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- Large language models are grown rather than built, and nobody really knows how the resulting working AI functions.
- Neural networks do not have a one-to-one mapping between individual neurons and concepts.
- Concepts can reach into unexpected parts of a mind, so removing one can topple seemingly unrelated systems or push it toward incompetence or insanity.
Nicholas Decker In Hell2 korrents · 1 Sept 2026 · no page here yet
My AI Opinions2 korrents · 11 Jun 2026 · no page here yet
Contra MR On Charity Regrants1 korrent · 22 May 2025 · no page here yet
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism5 korrents · 28 Nov 2023
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- The best opportunities to do good are the ones almost nobody is paying attention to.
- Effective altruism's scandals are minor next to its record, and its ratio of accomplishments to scandals is as good as that of any large institution.
- Movements are coalitions, and often the same people hold both of a movement's priorities rather than trading one off against the other.
- The people who can be moved by deaths from neglected tropical diseases are the same people who can be moved by pandemics and by AI risk, because both come from reasoning about importance rather than from the news.
- Effective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending.
Peer Review: Nightmares1 korrent · 16 Jun 2022 · no page here yet
The Precision Of Sensory Evidence1 korrent · 13 Feb 2021 · no page here yet
Mistakes8 korrents · 5 turns · 21 Aug 2019 · no page here yet
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- A writer should keep a public list of the things they got significantly wrong, so that readers can judge their credibility.
- Building more housing in a city raises its local prices, because density is what people are moving there for.
- Fluvoxamine probably treats COVID, at about 60-40, and doctors should be prescribing it on those odds.
- Giving something 60-40 odds and being wrong is not itself a mistake.
- The three-year bet about whether AI image models could handle compositionality was won in three months.
- A retraction can itself be wrong, and be worth retracting.