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Assuming transformers can have conscious experience, what would that experience be like?
Transformers[1] are a structured grid of layers and token p…
1 month, 1 week ago
“On today’s panel with Bernie Sanders” by David Scott Krueger
It's sort of easy to forget how close Bernie Sanders was to becoming the most powerful person in the world. The world we live in feels so much not l…
1 month, 1 week ago
“No Strong Orthogonality From Selection Pressure” by lumpenspace
TL;DR
If everything goes according to plan, by the end of this post we should have separated three claims that are too often bundled together:
Intel…1 month, 1 week ago
“Learning zero, and what SLT gets wrong about it” by Dmitry Vaintrob
This is a first in a pair of posts I'm hoping to write about Singular Learning Theory (SLT) and singularities as a model of data degeneracy. If I ge…
1 month, 1 week ago
“The Most Important Charts In The World” by Zvi
We all need a break so: What is the most important chart in the world?
I decided to ask Twitter, and got a lot of good answers.
So today, with few…
1 month, 1 week ago
“LLM Style Slop is Absolutely Everywhere” by silentbob
Epistemic status: something of a rant. Is not meant to make claims about the general capabilities (or lack thereof) of LLMs (beyond their prose), bu…
1 month, 1 week ago
“Goblin Mode, 24 Hours Later” by Dylan Bowman
Yesterday, Twitter user arb8020 posted this:
It went semi-viral within AI Twitter and users began experimenting with "goblin mode" and hypothesizing…
1 month, 1 week ago
“Let Kids Keep More Productivity Gains” by jefftk
While I was traveling Julia asked me: why is Anna saying her fiddle practice is only two minutes? In this case, two minutes was the right amount o…
1 month, 1 week ago
“llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)” by nostalgebraist
(This was originally going to be a "quick take" but then it got a bit long. Just FYI.)
There's this weird trend I perceive with the personas of LLM …
1 month, 1 week ago
“Not a Paper: “Frontier Lab CEOs are Capable of In-Context Scheming”” by LawrenceC
(Fragments from a research paper that will never be written)
Extended Abstract.
The frontier AI developers are becoming increasingly powerful and w…
1 month, 1 week ago