Writing
I’ve written about AI evals, RL, and consciousness on LessWrong.
AI evals
| We Need to Get Serious about Uplift Studies↗ | with frmsaul · LessWrong · 2026-05 |
| Cyborg Evals↗ | with frmsaul · LessWrong · 2026-04 |
| You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat (Benchmark), METR↗ | with frmsaul · LessWrong · 2026-04 |
RL
| We Need to RL Less↗ | LessWrong · 2026-08 |
Consciousness
| Pretraining an LLM Without Mentions of Consciousness↗ | with frmsaul · LessWrong · 2026-09 |
| Reasons to Believe Current AI Models Are Conscious↗ | LessWrong · 2026-07 |
And I’ve written about other things.
| Book Review: Money | with Katya Sinyavin · 2026-05 |
| Memetics | 2025-09 |
| We Are Hosts for Memes | 2025-10 |
| Egregores | 2025-10 |
| Claude’s Constitution Is an Excellent Guide for Humans, Too | 2026-01 |
| PSA: Prediction Markets Often Have Very Low Liquidity | 2026-03 |
| Why Did I Believe Oliver Sacks? | 2025-12 |
| Why I Think We Live in a “Simulation” | 2026-06 |
| GHB: Much More Than You Wanted to Know | 2021 |