person / recommends
Kevin Roose
“On The New York Times, I, I share your disappointment. I, I recommend Kevin Roose and, and Hard Fork out of The New York Times family of-”
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Nathan Labenz
Host · The Cognitive Revolution
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- Shows
- 1
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- 9
Books, apps, and tools
The evidenced stack.
tool / uses
Claude Max
“And certainly if you were to triple it from there, you'd be getting into something on the order of magnitude of parity with human headcount. What are you doing with it all too? Because I use my $200 Claude Max and my Codex Pro and I honestly don't even hit my limits that often.”
tool / uses
Codex Pro
“And certainly if you were to triple it from there, you'd be getting into something on the order of magnitude of parity with human headcount. What are you doing with it all too? Because I use my $200 Claude Max and my Codex Pro and I honestly don't even hit my limits that often.”
app / uses
Claude Max
“What are you doing with it all too? Because I use my $200 Claude Max and my Codex Pro and I honestly don't even hit my limits that often.”
app / uses
Codex Pro
“What are you doing with it all too? Because I use my $200 Claude Max and my Codex Pro and I honestly don't even hit my limits that often.”
tool / uses
Gemini 3 flash
“I think I used Gemini 3 flash at the time.”
app / uses
Claude
“That's probably the biggest reason that I use Claude is that I perceive it to be most robust to that kind of stuff.”
app / uses
Beeper Desktop
“I use Beeper Desktop to try to like aggregate a half dozen or so of them. That's also kind of painful. I feel like Beeper Desktop is, Good idea crashes a lot for me.”
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AE Studio
“Is there stuff that we can do or is it, you know, is there is it a different organization's job to figure out how to fill that gap. Because I do feel like I want some more, and I love some of the AE Studio stuff, including self-other overlap.”
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What Nathan said.
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01 / recommendation
On the topic of whether or not it's OK to put pressure on the chain of thought, the obfuscated reward hacking paper from Open AI is canonical in my mind for why you maybe shouldn't do it.
“On the topic of whether or not it's OK to put pressure on the chain of thought, the obfuscated reward hacking paper from Open AI is canonical in my mind for why you maybe shouldn't do it.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Episode
- Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
02 / recommendation
We should fund more AI safety research and do more policy because if we have time for the wisdom of having these alien intelligences around helping us, if we can leverage them and actually make better decisions before the critical decisions get made, there's going to be a series of decisions in the 21st century that we're going to look back on, like this decisions made in the 20th century about communism and World War 2 and the atom bomb and all of those things.
“We should fund more AI safety research and do more policy because if we have time for the wisdom of having these alien intelligences around helping us, if we can leverage them and actually make better decisions before the critical decisions get made, there's going to be a series of decisions in the 21st century that we're going to look back on, like this decisions made in the 20th century about communism and World War 2 and the atom bomb and all of those things.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Episode
- AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
03 / recommendation
Recommends Kevin Roose.
“On The New York Times, I, I share your disappointment. I, I recommend Kevin Roose and, and Hard Fork out of The New York Times family of-”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
04 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Claude Max. Mentions personal use of Codex Pro.
“What are you doing with it all too? Because I use my $200 Claude Max and my Codex Pro and I honestly don't even hit my limits that often.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Episode
- Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
05 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Claude Max. Mentions personal use of Codex Pro.
“And certainly if you were to triple it from there, you'd be getting into something on the order of magnitude of parity with human headcount. What are you doing with it all too? Because I use my $200 Claude Max and my Codex Pro and I honestly don't even hit my limits that often.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Episode
- Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
06 / recommendation
It can only do probably the frog game at the end of this training. But building out a world where we have these little role-specific AIs doing their jobs, doing it really well, I think that creates a much more buffered environment that's probably a lot more resilient to another generation of AI that's just like amazing at everything coming in and kind of shocking the system in such a profound way.
“It can only do probably the frog game at the end of this training. But building out a world where we have these little role-specific AIs doing their jobs, doing it really well, I think that creates a much more buffered environment that's probably a lot more resilient to another generation of AI that's just like amazing at everything coming in and kind of shocking the system in such a profound way.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
07 / recommendation
Yeah, I used to tell people, When I did any sort of AI advisory consulting, I would say you could do a lot worse than as a leader just watching your token consumption, but definitely don't tell the team that's how you're gonna be measuring them.
“Yeah, I used to tell people, When I did any sort of AI advisory consulting, I would say you could do a lot worse than as a leader just watching your token consumption, but definitely don't tell the team that's how you're gonna be measuring them.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
08 / recommendation
This is thought to be dangerous because if you have a disconnect between what you really want and the signal that you are rewarding the AI for, then you can get into bad places. And so the obfuscated reward hacking paper that I think is still one of the most important papers of the last few years from OpenAI showed that if you have a hackable reward signal and your model learns to hack that, you can then put pressure on the chain of thought.
“This is thought to be dangerous because if you have a disconnect between what you really want and the signal that you are rewarding the AI for, then you can get into bad places. And so the obfuscated reward hacking paper that I think is still one of the most important papers of the last few years from OpenAI showed that if you have a hackable reward signal and your model learns to hack that, you can then put pressure on the chain of thought.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
09 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Gemini 3 flash.
“I think I used Gemini 3 flash at the time.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Episode
- Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
10 / recommendation
Yeah, portfolio approach, I think is kind of always an answer to this. It does seem like there's room for it.
“Yeah, portfolio approach, I think is kind of always an answer to this. It does seem like there's room for it.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Episode
- Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
11 / recommendation
I do think one of my own personal cause areas that I recommend all the time is just trying to develop more concrete visions of what a positive future and of rewarding life in the context of AGI abundance could look like.
“I do think one of my own personal cause areas that I recommend all the time is just trying to develop more concrete visions of what a positive future and of rewarding life in the context of AGI abundance could look like.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Episode
- Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
12 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Claude.
“That's probably the biggest reason that I use Claude is that I perceive it to be most robust to that kind of stuff.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Episode
- AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
13 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of Beeper Desktop.
“I use Beeper Desktop to try to like aggregate a half dozen or so of them. That's also kind of painful. I feel like Beeper Desktop is, Good idea crashes a lot for me.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution
14 / recommendation
Likes AE Studio.
“Is there stuff that we can do or is it, you know, is there is it a different organization's job to figure out how to fill that gap. Because I do feel like I want some more, and I love some of the AE Studio stuff, including self-other overlap.”
- Speaker
- Nathan Labenz
- Publisher
- The Cognitive Revolution