{"podcast":{"title":"LessWrong (Curated & Popular)","slug":"lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","podcast_index_feed_id":5643401,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2037297.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/421877","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xq8g0aka74ttwoa9xkxlmy5fn9oa?.jpg","author":"LessWrong","episode_count":914,"summary":"Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T00:17:48.974965+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401"},"episode":{"title":"\"Machinic Psychopharmacology: Do LLMs Self-Medicate?\" by Sid Black, Joseph Bloom","slug":"machinic-psychopharmacology-do-llms-self-medicate-by-sid-black-joseph-bloom","published_at":"2026-06-22T16:58:17+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/machinic-psychopharmacology-do-llms-self-medicate-by-sid-black-joseph-bloom","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19385165-machinic-psychopharmacology-do-llms-self-medicate-by-sid-black-joseph-bloom.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19385165-machinic-psychopharmacology-do-llms-self-medicate-by-sid-black-joseph-bloom.mp3","summary":"Sid Black, Joseph Bloom UK AISI, Model Transparency Team Epistemic status: Most experiments were run over a period of ~2-3 days during a hackathon at UK AISI, and were fairly heavily vibe coded. Expect some of this to be rough around the edges. tl;dr We give two language models (Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-32B) access to “self-steering” tools: a suite of 40 steering vectors as tools they can call to manipulate their own internal states. We make these tools available to the model in various se...","meta_description":"Sid Black, Joseph Bloom UK AISI, Model Transparency Team Epistemic status: Most experiments were run over a period of ~2-3 days during a hackathon at UK A…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3174,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/machinic-psychopharmacology-do-llms-self-medicate-by-sid-black-joseph-bloom/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/machinic-psychopharmacology-do-llms-self-medicate-by-sid-black-joseph-bloom.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}