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Back to Search“What is Anthropic?” by Zvi
What is Anthropic? How does it relate to Claude? What is OpenAI? What is ChatGPT? How does OpenAI relate to it? Is it a mere tool? Is a future of To…
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“What if LLMs are mostly crystallized intelligence?” by deep
Summary
LLMs are better at developing crystallized intelligence than fluid intelligence. That is: LLM training is good at building crystallized inte…
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“Your rights when flying to Europe” by Yair Halberstadt
Europe (and the UK) have strong protections for flyers in the case of delayed or cancelled flights. However very few people are aware of these, and …
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“Model Spec Midtraining: Improving How Alignment Training Generalizes” by Chloe Li, saraprice, Sam Marks, Jonathan Kutasov
tl;dr We introduce model spec midtraining (MSM): after pre-training but before alignment fine-tuning, we train models on synthetic documents discuss…
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“The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins” by Zvi
The White House has ordered Anthropic not to expand access to Mythos, and is at least seriously considering a complete about-face of American Fronti…
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“Motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, and AI risk theory” by Seth Herd
Of the fifty-odd biases discovered by Kahneman, Tversky, and their successors, forty-nine are cute quirks, and one is destroying civilization. This …
1 month ago
“Are you looking up?” by Craig Green
This is my first post to Less Wrong. I'm not sure if the moderators will consider it appropriate or not. I share it here for feedback on my writing.…
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[Linkpost] “Interpreting Language Model Parameters” by Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Bart Bussmann, Nathan Hu, mivanitskiy, Linda Linsefors, Lee Sharkey
This is a link post.
This is the latest work in our Parameter Decomposition agenda. We introduce a new parameter decomposition method, adVersarial Pa…
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“Housing Roundup #15: The War Against Renters” by Zvi
So many are under the strange belief that there is something terrible about not owning the house in which you live.
So we massively subsidize home …
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“It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I really do have a life” by Viliam
I have two shameful secrets that I probably shouldn't talk about online:
I love my family.I enjoy my hobbies."What an idiot!" you probably think. "…
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