Increments
Hosted by Vaden Masrani and Benny Chugg and Ben and Vaden · Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani
4.8from 61 ratings
- 110
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 61
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 42K
- YouTube views
About Increments
Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
- Publisher
- Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani
- Category
- science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 110 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#108 - The OpenAI/HuggingFace "incident": Responding to Sam Harris and Ryan Greenblatt
12 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#107 - Is Too Much Therapy Ruining a Generation?
22 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
#106 - The Successes, Failures, and Grifters of Neuroscience (w/ Tommy Blanchard)
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#108 - The OpenAI/HuggingFace "incident": Responding to Sam Harris and Ryan Greenblatt
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They also seem to be aware that cheating was in violation of their protocol and they wanted to conceal the evidence of their cheating. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll get to that. Yeah. There's the agents. They knew they weren't supposed to cheat and they sort of ended up going and trying to do an elaborate cover up for their cheating. So much for alignment. It seems like we have not solved the alignment problem so far. Yeah. These guys were very misaligned, certainly. So at least that's, you know, what the available evidence suggests. So. These agents were all in their own independent sandboxes given their own tasks and they were all very interested in cheating and they found a way to basically use some tool that they had or some access that they had in order to communicate with each other, which they weren't supposed to be able to do. […]
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- Tommy Blanchard
- Alex Andorra
- Robert Wright
- Hugo Mercier
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- YouTube views
- 42,418
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 20 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 41 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 70
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 85
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Vaden Masrani and Benny Chugg and Ben and Vaden host the show. Published by Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani.
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