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Back to Search“Understanding Shapley Values with Venn Diagrams” by agucova
This is a link post. Someone I know wrote this very nice post explaining the core intuition around Shapley values (which play an important role in im…
1 year, 4 months ago
“o1: A Technical Primer” by Jesse Hoogland
TL;DR: In September 2024, OpenAI released o1, its first "reasoning model". This model exhibits remarkable test-time scaling laws, which complete a mi…
1 year, 4 months ago
“Gradient Routing: Masking Gradients to Localize Computation in Neural Networks” by cloud, Jacob G-W, Evzen, Joseph Miller, TurnTrout
We present gradient routing, a way of controlling where learning happens in neural networks. Gradient routing applies masks to limit the flow of grad…
1 year, 4 months ago
“Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming” by Marius Hobbhahn, AlexMeinke, Bronson Schoen
This is a brief summary of what we believe to be the most important takeaways from our new paper and from our findings shown in the o1 system card. W…
1 year, 4 months ago
“(The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven’s first big fundraiser” by habryka
TLDR: LessWrong + Lighthaven need about $3M for the next 12 months. Donate here, or send me an email, DM or signal message (+1 510 944 3235) if you w…
1 year, 4 months ago
“Repeal the Jones Act of 1920” by Zvi
Balsa Policy Institute chose as its first mission to lay groundwork for the potential repeal, or partial repeal, of section 27 of the Jones Act of 19…
1 year, 4 months ago
“China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race” by garrison
This is the full text of a post from "The Obsolete Newsletter," a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artif…
1 year, 4 months ago
“Information vs Assurance” by johnswentworth
In contract law, there's this thing called a “representation”. Example: as part of a contract to sell my house, I might “represent that” the house co…
1 year, 4 months ago
“You are not too ‘irrational’ to know your preferences.” by DaystarEld
Epistemic Status: 13 years working as a therapist for a wide variety of populations, 5 of them working with rationalists and EA clients. 7 years teac…
1 year, 4 months ago
“‘The Solomonoff Prior is Malign’ is a special case of a simpler argument” by David Matolcsi
[Warning: This post is probably only worth reading if you already have opinions on the Solomonoff induction being malign, or at least heard of the co…
1 year, 4 months ago