Oly on AI

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Magic Encyclopedias to Save the World

Jun 12 • Oliver Sourbut

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Lab Leaks, Black Holes, and Eggs

FLF's Epistemic Case Study Competition

Jun 7 • Oliver Sourbut

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May 2026

The main impact from automated AI production: concentration of power?

Not all at once, and perhaps not kept in the same hands that first held it

May 31 • Oliver Sourbut

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A (Slightly) Mechanistic Theory for Exponentially Increasing AI Time Horizons?

AI ‘time horizons’ are mostly not about time (I think it’s mostly ‘data’, but you’ll see where I’m unsure)

May 24 • Oliver Sourbut

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Engineering a Safer World

Risk Modelling — and Safety Engineering? — for AI Loss of Control

May 17 • Oliver Sourbut

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Reinforcement learning scaling might incentivise hidden reasoning architectures for AI

Another reason really competent AI might lie to you

May 10 • Oliver Sourbut

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How did ‘large’ language models get that way?

The role of Transformers and Pretraining in GPT

May 3 • Oliver Sourbut

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April 2026

“Best humans still outperform”

One turning point in the history of cope around artificial intelligence

Apr 17 • Oliver Sourbut

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Orders of magnitude: use semitones, not decibels

How I use a secret part of my brain for forbidden mathematics

Apr 1 • Oliver Sourbut

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February 2026

January 2026

The First Type of Transformative AI?

Ask 'what will AI transform?', not 'when?'... and what choices do we have in that?

Jan 6 • Oliver Sourbut

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December 2025

A Full Epistemic Stack

Knowledge Commons for the 21st Century

Dec 19, 2025 • Oliver Sourbut and Ben Goldhaber

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