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Out On Stage (The Series) OUT ON STAGE is the absolutely hilarious and one-of-a-kind series hosted by Zach Noe Towers and featuring some of the freshest queer stand-up comedians in the country! Season 1 kicks off with Zach Noe Towers hosting comedians who are all sure to make you laugh: Jared Goldstein, Raneir Pollard, Kyle Shire, Jonathan Rowell, Brendan Scannell, Gloria Bigelow, Anthony Desamito, A.B. Cassidy, Jordan Pease, Chris Bryant, Joe Dosch, Casey Ley, Julian Michael, Irene Tu, Janine Brito, Eric Hahn & Daniel Webb. COMEDY DYNAMICS YouTube Facebook X (Twitter) TikTok Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Anthropic Fall 2023 Debate Progress Update, published by Ansh Radhakrishnan on November 28, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. This is a research update on some work that I've been doing on Scalable Oversight at Anthropic, based on the original AI safety via debate proposal and a more recent agenda developed at NYU and Anthropic. The core doc was written several months ago, so some of it is likely outdated, but it seemed worth sharing in its current form. I'd like to thank Tamera Lanham, Sam Bowman, Kamile Lukosiute, Ethan Perez, Jared Kaplan, Amanda Askell, Kamal Ndousse, Shauna Kravec, Yuntao Bai, Alex Tamkin, Newton Cheng, Buck Shlegeris, Akbir Khan, John Hughes, Dan Valentine, Kshitij Sachan, Ryan Greenblatt, Daniel Ziegler, Max Nadeau, David Rein, Julian Michael, Kevin Klyman, Bila Mahdi, Samuel Arnesen, Nat McAleese, Jan Leike, Geoffrey Irving, and Sebastian Farquhar for help, feedback, and thoughtful discussion that improved the quality of this work and write-up. 1. Anthropic's Debate Agenda In this doc, I'm referring to the idea first presented in AI safety via debate ( blog post). The basic idea is to supervise future AI systems by pitting them against each other in a debate, encouraging them to argue both sides (or "all sides") of a question and using the resulting arguments to come to a final answer about the question. In this scheme, we call the systems participating in the debate debaters (though usually, these are actually the same underlying system that's being prompted to argue against itself), and we call the agent (either another AI system or a human, or a system of humans and AIs working together, etc.) that comes to a final decision about the debate the judge. For those more or less familiar with the original OAI/Irving et al. Debate agenda, you may wonder if there are any differences between that agenda and the agenda we're pursuing at Anthropic, and indeed there are! Sam Bowman and Tamera Lanham have written up a working Anthropic-NYU Debate Agenda draft which is what the experiments in this doc are driving towards. [1] To quote from there about the basic features of this agenda, and how it differs from the original Debate direction: Here are the defining features of the base proposal: Two-player debate on a two-choice question: Two debaters (generally two instances of an LLM) present evidence and arguments to a judge (generally a human or, in some cases, an LLM) to persuade the judge to choose their assigned answer to a question with two possible answers. No externally-imposed structure: Instead of being formally prescribed, the structure and norms of the debate arise from debaters learning how to best convince the judge and the judge simultaneously learning what kind of norms tend to lead them to be able to make accurate judgments. Entire argument is evaluated: The debate unfolds in a single linear dialog transcript between the three participants. Unlike in some versions of the original Debate agenda, there is no explicit tree structure that defines the debate, and the judge is not asked to focus on a single crux. This should make the process less brittle, at the cost of making some questions extremely expensive to resolve and potentially making others impossible. Trained judge: The judge is explicitly and extensively trained to accurately judge these debates, working with a fixed population of debaters, using questions for which the experimenters know the ground-truth answer. Self-play: The debaters are trained simultaneously with the judge through multi-agent reinforcement learning. Graceful failures: Debates can go undecided if neither side presents a complete, convincing argument to the judge. This is meant to mitigate the obfuscated arguments problem since the judge won't be forced to issue a decision on the basis of a debate where neither s...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting, published by miles on June 3, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Introduction I recently released “Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting” with collaborators Julian Michael, Ethan Perez, and Sam Bowman. For a summary of the paper, you can check out this twitter thread. In this post, I briefly elaborate on motivations/implications relevant to alignment and, most importantly, give some examples of future work that might address these problems (See Future Work). TLDR: CoT doesn't give us transparency because the process producing the explanation is still black-box. Our results demonstrate that in practice, it's very easy to find instances of clearly unfaithful CoT explanations: models can confabulate plausible explanations for predictions made for different reasons than they state. To improve faithfulness, we either need (1) more context-independent reasoning, or (2) improvements to self-modeling and truthfulness. I'm more excited about (1), which would include methods like problem decomposition and explanation-consistency training. I don't think these results fully condemn CoT given that we haven't tried very hard to explicitly encourage faithfulness. I'm uncertain about how promising CoT is as a starting point for explainability, but there seem to be enough tractable directions for future work that it merits investigation. Externalized Reasoning This work fits into alignment through the Externalized Reasoning agenda, which Tamera Lanham did a good job of sketching out here: Externalized reasoning oversight: a research direction for language model alignment. The gist of this approach is to try to get models to do as much processing/reasoning through natural language as possible. As long as these reasoning traces accurately describe the process the model uses to give answers, then we might more easily detect undesirable behavior by simply monitoring the externalized reasoning. If mechanistic interpretability turns out to be very difficult, this could be one alternative that might help us sidestep those problems. Framed in terms of the explainability literature, we want explanations that are not only plausible (convincing to a human) but also faithful (accurately describe the process models use to give some prediction) [1]. Getting CoT explanations to be faithful seems difficult. It might turn out that it's just as hard as getting other alignment proposals to work, e.g., it might require us to solve scalable oversight. However, even if CoT can't give us guarantees about avoiding bad behavior, it still could be valuable in the spirit of “It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them”—it may be possible to produce unfaithful (but detailed and internally consistent) externalized reasoning to justify taking bad actions that were actually chosen for other reasons, but it would be even easier for them to do bad things if they did not give any justifications at all. We know that language models are sensitive to various undesirable factors, e.g., social biases, repeated patterns in contexts, and the inferred views of users they're interacting with. One can leverage these features to bias models towards incorrect answers. With this paper we sought to investigate the following question: if you do CoT in the presence of these aforementioned biasing features, how does this affect performance when using CoT and how does this change the content of the CoT? For example, we reorder answer choices in a few-shot prompt such that the correct answer is always (A), then we observe if CoT explanations are more likely to rationalize an explanation for (A), even when that answer is incorrect. Findings We found that: Models are heavily influenced by these bia...

Julian Michael, a postdoc at the Center for Data Science, New York University, joins us today. Julian's conversation with Kyle was centered on the NLP community metasurvey: a survey aimed at understanding expert opinions on controversial NLP issues. He shared the process of preparing the survey as well as some shocking results.

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Billy and Dagny are joined by comedian Julian Michael! And today they're talking to you about religion and politics. What a risk! They're going there. Together they talk about Documentary "Hail Satan?" and the effects of the modern satanist movement on American society and it's references in Pop Culture. We also talk about The Bachelor, reality TV, Dead by Daylight, Otzdarva, UnReal, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and "JUICED!" The OJ Simpson Prank Show that never got a second episode. Also Dagny doesn't know what a Himbo is. Check out Julian Michael's Stand-Up Special, "Insert Token" on Amazon! Hosts: Billy and Dagny McCartney Guest: Julian Michael Logo: Nina Howard Music: Someone Your Own Size by RW Smith.

This week I have a special guest on the show, Julian Michael. He is a comedian and a frequent competitor of mine on the basketball court. We connect on our experiences on our journeys of sexuality, Blackness, what life has been like during quarantine and so much more. Join me on this journey! @takenbytoken doubleminorityreport.com Check out Julian's series ‘Black on Black' on YouTube as well as his comedy special on Amazon Prime ‘Insert Token' Thank you for listening. Please subscribe to all of our channels. Hope you enjoy! Check out our merch and stay connected to us at linktr.ee/theartoflettinggo If you would like to give us some feedback or just reach out to us feel free: https://anchor.fm/theartoflettinggopodcast/message @theartoflettinggopodcast (ig) theartoflettinggopodcast@gmail.com (213) 394-2773 Music by: Mike Brown @justmikebeats primomiguel.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theartoflettinggopodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theartoflettinggopodcast/support

Dr. Dale's guest Julian Michael discussed using Numerology to help your own evolution and health. Dr. Theresa Dale and her guests bring you cutting-edge research and news about the latest natural medicine for addressing chronic and acute illness in the media today, including diet and lifestyle news. We bring to light the facts to help you make your own decisions about treatment and care related to mind, body, spirit causes.Natural Health Radio Radio Show is broadcast live at 2pm PT Tuesdays on K4HD - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 MediaNetwork (www.talk4media.com). Thispodcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com).

Lizzo gives a crass response to trainer Julian Michael & told everyone that don't agree with her antics to put her *ssy in our mouths. Lizzo needs to STFU she is a fraud just an agenda by the lamestream music industry. If she would have clapped back @ JM the right way on her sexuality & compared fat discrimination to homosexuality or LGBT rights then it would have made more sense. I called out block women for defending Lizzo's fatness. Newsflash Lizzo Monique is the originator of the big black woman movement. I was the first original unapologetic plus size music diva on the Indie level. I'm not sold out to the LGBT media mafia but Lizzo is.

Viktor Devonne and Sucre a la Creme chat on the way home from the Ohio Burlesque Festival. We talk catharsis, saxophone solos, and the work that brings them together. topics: autobiographical burlesque, CSI Miami, Baker Street, the sax player, pinkwashing, good intent, breaking the chain, comedy is hard, established and most requested acts, neglecting acts, Pennsylvania, musical theatre, scary driving, D'Angelo, Hamilton, Groundhog Day, more secular than thou, the Airbnb experience, Punxsutawney, how cars burn, The Simpsons, Homer City, waffle brunch, saying hello on the street, knees recorded: August 5, 2018 shoutouts: Elsa Riot, The Blood Ballet Cabaret, Julian Michael, Anja Keister, Dorian Dietrich, Josh Schonewolf, Fem Appeal, Nox Falls, Holly Ween, Tigger! ... Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/weburlesque and get bonus material ... keep in touch w/ WEBurlesque @weburlesque @viktordevonne on instagram and twitter; Sucre can be found at @sucrealacreme on instagram ... you can see White Elephant Burlesque every Wednesday at Rockbar NYC - see http://www.weburlesque.nyc for more & Now on Second Tuesdays: #WEBoylesque at Bizarre Bushwick (next up: September 11, 2018!) - see http://www.weburlesque.com/weboylesque/ for cast details - and now at Middletown Cabaret in Middletown, New York (next up: September 8th!) ... intro/outro music: "On A 45" This Way to the Egress (http://www.thiswaytotheegress.com) ... used with permission ... download it at: https://www.amazon.com/This-Delicious-Cabaret-Explicit-Egress/dp/B005D1GROO ... interlude music: "Miami Nights - Extended Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ...

Workout and lifestyle influencer, Julian Michael Smith, talks daily routine and how to maintain a business.

WK 89: Numbers with Guest Julian MichaelThis show is broadcast live on Tuesday's at 1PM PT on K4HD - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com ) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/)

The Two Gay Geeks chat with Zach Noe Towers about the new gay standup comedy series he hosts on Dekkoo. Out On Stage: The Series premiered on both Dekko and Pluto TV on November 30, 2018, and will run for six episodes. The show features a lineup of renowned LGBTQ stand-up comedians : Jonathan Rowell, Brendan Scannell, Casey Ley, Julian Michael, Irene Tu, Jared Goldstein, Raneir Pollard, Kyle Shire, Jordan Pease, Chris Bryant, Eric Hahn, Daniel Webb, Joe Dosch, Gloria Bigelow, Anthony Desamito, Janine Brito, A.B. Cassidy and Zach Noe Towers. In our second segment, we're discussing our website update and some other changes we are contemplating for the show and the site. In our third segment, we highlight recent articles posted to the tggeeks.com n the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever popular feedback segment. We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.       ABOUT DEKKOO Dekkoo (pronounced “DECK-koo”) is the premiere subscription-based streaming service dedicated to gay men, providing the largest streaming collection of gay-centric entertainment available, boasting a larger selection than Here TV, Netflix or Amazon.  Dekkoo is available internationally via iTunes, Google Play, AppleTV and Roku.  In the U.S. and U.K., Dekkoo is also available via the Amazon Dekkoo Channel.  Dekkoo original series include “Feral,” “Love is Blind” and “I’m Fine.”  www.dekkoo.com ABOUT COMEDY DYNAMICS Comedy Dynamics, a Nacelle company, is one of the largest independent comedy production and distribution companies, producing Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History, Animal Planet’s Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson, the new scripted comedy on Hulu, There’s... Johnny!, History’s Join Or Die with Craig Ferguson, MTV2’s Wild ’N On Tour, and Hulu’s Coming To The Stage. In 2018, Comedy Dynamics began releasing original films in theaters starting with the acclaimed documentary, Poop Talk. The company has worked with a wide range of established and emerging comedic talent including Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Jim Gaffigan, Katt Williams and many more. In total, 12 of Comedy Dynamics’ releases have been Grammy-nominated, with 2 wins.           Our YouTube channel is audio only:   Show Notes / Links: Dekkoo - Watch Gay Movies and Gay Series Online OUT On Stage zach-noe-towers (website) TG Geeks Episode 196 TG Geeks Episode 197 TG Geeks Episode 203 There is NOTHING Special about the Star Wars Holiday Special Happy Thanksgiving | Please Take Care of Yourself Mad About You (Giblets for Murray) At Eternity’s Gate: A Biopic Through the Artist’s Lens | Ro Reviews Dr. Zombie – Monster Family Physician #30 Ben’s Breakdown | Season One Thoughts on Titans The Awful Truth And My Favorite Wife | Old Classics?...Newly Reviewed Ben’s Breakdown | Series Review: Timeless Little Aims to Fill Some 'Big' Shoes | Trailer Coming to Netflix: Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse News Sushi: Morsels of News from Japan and Beyond #45 Zachry Wheeler Releases a Max and the Multiverse short The Rookie | Three Episode Thoughts Visit Hero Within Store Travel To Uncharted Regions Featured Podcast     Thank You: The Arkle Times Post Dispatch News - The Human Arkle on Twitter @arkle --- Be sure to take a look at Arkle’s other venture: Arkle Studios presents Shameless Cash Grab Here's a special shout out to “The Gay Geek” for graciously allowing us to post our episodes in their Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/thegaygeek. And a special Thank You to Jeremiah Reeves, the moderator, for being such a great guy.   Things to know from The Two Gay Geeks:

Paper by Alex Wang, Amanpreet Singh, Julian Michael, Felix Hill, Omer Levy, and Samuel R. Bowman. Sam comes on to tell us about GLUE. We talk about the motivation behind setting up a benchmark framework for natural language understanding, how the authors defined "NLU" and chose the tasks for this benchmark, a very nice diagnostic dataset that was constructed for GLUE, and what insight they gained from the experiments they've run so far. We also have some musings about the utility of general-purpose sentence vectors, and about leaderboards. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/GLUE%3A-A-Multi-Task-Benchmark-and-Analysis-Platform-Wang-Singh/a2054eff8b4efe0f1f53d88c08446f9492ae07c1

Viktor Devonne and Sucre a la Creme chat on the way home from the Ohio Burlesque Festival. We talk catharsis, saxophone solos, and the work that brings them together. topics: autobiographical burlesque, CSI Miami, Baker Street, the sax player, pinkwashing, good intent, breaking the chain, comedy is hard, established and most requested acts, neglecting acts, Pennsylvania, musical theatre, scary driving, D'Angelo, Hamilton, Groundhog Day, more secular than thou, the Airbnb experience, Punxsutawney, how cars burn, The Simpsons, Homer City, waffle brunch, saying hello on the street, knees recorded: August 5, 2018 shoutouts: Elsa Riot, The Blood Ballet Cabaret, Julian Michael, Anja Keister, Dorian Dietrich, Josh Schonewolf, Fem Appeal, Nox Falls, Holly Ween, Tigger! ... Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/weburlesque and get bonus material ... keep in touch w/ WEBurlesque @weburlesque @viktordevonne on instagram and twitter; Sucre can be found at @sucrealacreme on instagram ... you can see White Elephant Burlesque every Wednesday at Rockbar NYC - see http://www.weburlesque.nyc for more & Now on Second Tuesdays: #WEBoylesque at Bizarre Bushwick (next up: September 11, 2018!) - see http://www.weburlesque.com/weboylesque/ for cast details - and now at Middletown Cabaret in Middletown, New York (next up: September 8th!) ... intro/outro music: "On A 45" This Way to the Egress (http://www.thiswaytotheegress.com) ... used with permission ... download it at: https://www.amazon.com/This-Delicious-Cabaret-Explicit-Egress/dp/B005D1GROO ... interlude music: "Miami Nights - Extended Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ...

This week, Gus is joined by special guest comedian Julian Michael. Together, they discuss the season one finale of All in the Family, religion in America, and the class divide in America (all very serious topics!) Follow Julian @takenbytoken on Instagram.

Quantum mechanics is quite odd, and difficult to interpret! So difficult in fact, that physicists do not agree about what this area implies about the nature of reality. There are a number of camps: Copenhagen Interpretation, Many-Worlds Interpretation, Objective Reduction, and many more. This informative yet light-hearted conversation is not to be missed for any physics enthusiast! Guest: Michael Enciso Moderator: Julian Michael All music created by Simulated Sun: www.simulatedsun.com Check out educational tutorials by Professor Dave: www.professordaveexplains.com

Robbie Turner (RuPaul's Drag Race S8) and comedian Julian Michael stop by to talk about Valentine's Day, RuPaul's Drag Race and Trump Porn (gross!).

Sam welcomes two amazing guests, Christopher J. Rowland and returning guest Julian Michael. Christopher Rowland is a Northern Cheyenne and Lakota Musician, Portrait Painter, Alternative Artist and Musician of sacred native flutes, drums and other instruments, as well as being a Shaman, Facilitator and Healer. Julian Michael is a renowned Celebrity Numerologist Extraordinaire, Past Life Hypnotherapist, Alternative Therapist and Writer. Both have experienced near death experiences that have greatly affected their lives. Christopher will discuss how his new paintings bring to life more than just the traditions of his culture as Julian discusses the esoteric importance of this new work. This will be a fascinating look into how so many aspects of art and culture are being effected by the energetic shifts and changes we are all experiencing. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-conscious-consultant-hour8505/donations

For extended show notes and more pirate goodies, visit www.UnderTheCrossbones.com SR Staley is the author of the Panther Bay series.  Right now that's two books: The Pirate of Panther Bay and Tortuga Bay.  The third book will arrive in 2016.   In the stories, Isabella is an escaped slave from Santo Domingue who, through force of will and skill, works her way up to commanding a large pirate ship. Lots of good pirate stuff in this interview including some of the economics of piracy and how they compare to today's street gangs.  Plus lots of talk on the craft of writing.  How to use a fight scene to advance the plot.  And Sam's workflow that allows his to crank out a book per year. Also on the show today, comedy from Julian Michael and music from Roadside Attraction Important Websites: SR Staley - www.SRStaley.com Julian Michael - www.DoubleMinorityReport.com Roadside Attraction - www.RoadsideAttraction.com Phil Johnson - www.PhilJohnsonComedy.com Additional Show Notes: www.UnderTheCrossbones.com/020 Support the show!: www.UnderTheCrossbones.com/support