Archive - The Orca & The Fishbowl

Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI

New evidence from the past week (e.g. Anthropic's "alignment faking" paper + OpenAI's new o3 model scoring 87% on ARC-AGI) gave me the courage to speak…

Dec 22, 2024 •

Being Wrong (Part 1): Infants feel pain, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, and 28 other things that almost everyone didn’t know until…

Part 1 of a two-part series on what virtually all of us are probably wrong about.

Dec 15, 2024 •

How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA

Recommendations for Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS), and arguments for the Food and Drug Administration.

Dec 14, 2024 •

Therapists are just expensive friends

Most people just need someone to listen and help them process. Requiring licenses for psychotherapists actively harms millions of people.

Dec 8, 2024 •

March 2024

November 2023

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Make Sense of Psychosis?

GPT-4 provided impressively useful interpretations of notes I'd written during a manic/psychotic episode in 2020.

Nov 5, 2023 •

April 2023

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