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    [Linkpost] “You can only build safe ASI if ASI is globally banned” by Connor Leahy

    This is a link post. Sometimes people make various suggestions that we should simply build "safe" artificial Superintelligence (ASI), rather than the presumably "unsafe" kind.[1] There are various flavors of “safe” people suggest. Sometimes they suggest building “aligned” ASI: You have a full agentic autonomous god-like ASI running around, but it really really loves you and definitely will do the right thing.Sometimes they suggest we should simply build “tool AI” or “non-agentic” AI.Sometimes they have even more exotic, or more obviously-stupid ideas. Now I could argue at lengths about why this is astronomically harder than people think it is, why their various proposals are almost universally unworkable, why even attempting this is insanely immoral[2], but that's not the main point I want to make. Instead, I want to make a simpler point: Assume you have a research agenda that, if executed, results in a ASI-tier powerful software system that you can “control”.[3] Punchline: On your way to figuring out how to build controllable ASI, you will have figured out how to build unsafe ASI, because unsafe ASI is vastly easier to build than controlled ASI, and is on the same tech path. You can’t build a controlled [...] The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: April 16th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7noKve57za3yg2LEb/you-can-only-build-safe-asi-if-asi-is-globally-banned-1 Linkpost URL:https://www.ettf.land/p/you-can-only-build-safe-asi-if-asi --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    3 min
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    “On Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang” by Zvi

    Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level. This was one of those. So here we go. As usual for podcast posts, the baseline bullet points describe key points made, and then the nested statements are my commentary. Some points are dropped. If I am quoting directly I use quote marks, otherwise assume paraphrases. As with the last podcast I covered, Dwarkesh Patel's 2026 interview with Elon Musk, we have a CEO who is doubtless talking his agenda and book, and has proven to be an unreliable narrator. Thus we must consider the relevant rules of bounded distrust. Elon Musk is a special case where in some ways he is full of technical insights and unique valuable takes, and in other ways he just says things that aren’t true, often that he knows are not true, makes predicts markets then price at essentially 0%, and also provides absurd numbers and timelines. Jensen Huang is not like that, and in the past has followed more traditional bounded distrust rules. He’ll make self-serving Obvious Nonsense arguments and use aggressive framing, but not make provably false factual claims or [...] --- Outline: (02:02) Podcast Overview Part 1: Ordinary Business Interview (04:33) Podcast Overview Part 2: A Debate About Chip Exports (09:12) What Is Nvidias Moat? (14:41) TPU vs. GPU (19:30) Why Isnt Nvidia Hyperscaling? (24:42) Selling Chips To China (52:39) Different Chip Architectures (53:59) The Online Reactions On Export Controls (01:01:47) Is This About Being Superintelligence Pilled? (01:07:07) Jensens Arguments Are Poor Both Logically And Rhetorically --- First published: April 16th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RBBChvuPHP7LfWyME/on-dwarkesh-patel-s-podcast-with-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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    “You Aren’t in Charge of the Overton Window; Politics Is Not Interior Design” by Davidmanheim

    Sometimes, people don't say what they actually think, not because saying it would be rude or costly, but because they believe saying it now would be counterproductive. They see that the true claim is outside the Overton window. And they conclude that the strategic play is to say something weaker, something adjacent. That will let you normalize the frame without triggering the immune response. You will redesign the house a bit now so that you can slide the window later. Then, when the ground has shifted, you imagine, the real claim becomes sayable. Strategic discourse chess? The above is an attempt at high-dimensional discourse chess. In politics and the world of ideas, it seems that people play it constantly. But building on a recent comment by Rob Bensinger, I want to argue that the conceit behind playing, that we can model how public acceptability shifts and cleverly intervene to steer those shifts, is usually wrong - not in the sense that discourse has no structure, or to argue that framing never matters. Most people vastly overestimate their ability to predict second- and third-order effects of anything, including strategic speech. And this is a more damaging error than you might [...] --- Outline: (00:45) Strategic discourse chess? (02:21) Yes, Overton windows exist, but... (04:00) ...can they be reliably manipulated? (05:57) Why would you think this could work? (07:16) The case of AI Safety (11:14) Pushing back is also manipulation. (15:03) Another real-world example: Defund the Police (17:43) Strategic discourse chess usually underperforms just saying what is true. (19:58) The obvious conclusion The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: April 16th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a9CxzxKbqHkQBdcqY/you-aren-t-in-charge-of-the-overton-window-politics-is-not --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    22 min
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    “Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #7: Auto Mode” by Zvi

    As we all try to figure out what Mythos means for us down the line, the world of practical agentic coding continues, with the latest array of upgrades. The biggest change, which I’m finally covering, is Auto Mode. Auto Mode is the famously requested kinda-dangerously-skip-some-permissions, where the system keeps an eye on all the commands to ensure human approval for anything too dangerous. It is not entirely safe, but it is a lot safer than —dangerously-skip-permissions, and previously a lot of people were just clicking yes to requests mostly without thinking, which isn’t safe either. Table of Contents Huh, Upgrades. On Your Marks. Lazy Cheaters. It's All Routine. Declawing. Free Claw. Take It To The Limit. Turn On Auto The Pilot. I’ll Allow It. Threat Model. The Classifier Is The Hard Part. Acceptable Risks. Manage The Agents. Introducing. Skilling Up. What Happened To My Tokens? Coding Agents Offer Mundane Utility. Huh, Upgrades Claude Code Desktop gets a redesign for parallel agents, with a new sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout for arranging your [...] --- Outline: (00:48) Huh, Upgrades (02:46) On Your Marks (04:21) Lazy Cheaters (06:11) Its All Routine (06:52) Declawing (09:03) Free Claw (09:31) Take It To The Limit (13:54) Turn On Auto The Pilot (15:55) Ill Allow It (16:26) Threat Model (17:10) The Classifier Is The Hard Part (18:34) Acceptable Risks (19:54) Manage The Agents (22:34) Introducing (22:44) Skilling Up (25:27) What Happened To My Tokens? (25:43) Coding Agents Offer Mundane Utility --- First published: April 15th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/w8misLX7KCmLxJM2K/claude-code-codex-and-agentic-coding-7-auto-mode --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    26 min

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