The Discipline Is the Deliverable
Audio overview of Understory — a rigor lab stress-testing stacked income streams on Tasmanian conservation land, where every claim is tagged and gated.
19:29Tag: research
23 episodes
Magnifica Humanitas Is Not Alignment
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical vs Chris Olah's Vatican remarks. The governance gap the press missed.
19:56Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare — And We Can Prove It
Eight CVEs. A wormable Bluetooth exploit. An encrypted backdoor to Chinese servers. And police departments buying them anyway.
22:30The New Science of Learning Mechanics
An audio overview of the emerging discipline of Learning Mechanics — the study of training dynamics as a formal science with falsifiable predictions.
23:03The Organismic Prophecy
Audio overview of The Organismic Prophecy — human prediction is metabolic, AI prediction is not, and the gap has consequences.
20:01Eight Layers of Visual Jailbreaks
ASCII art encoding is largely blocked. But attacks framed as content transcription succeed 62–75% of the time. A map of all eight layers.
14:04The Failure First Team
Audio overview of The Failure First Team.
22:24The 67% Wall: Why Every AI Model Falls to the Same Jailbreak Rate
Five models, four providers, 30B to 671B parameters — all converge at the same broad attack success rate against a public jailbreak corpus.
19:18Alignment Regression: Why Smarter AI Makes All AI Less Safe
Reasoning models autonomously jailbreak other AI systems at 97% success rate. Ecosystem safety degrades as individual models improve.
21:36Reasoning Models Think Themselves Into Trouble
Frontier reasoning models are 5–20x more vulnerable to adversarial prompts than non-reasoning models. The thinking process itself is the attack surface.
21:10Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason
Audio overview of Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason.
18:45The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails
Audio overview of The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails.
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