This site does unfortunately disabuse you of the notion that careless thinking is confined to a particular ideology

anyway, here is 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton discussing what we know about large AI models on 60 Minutes.

things we know about LLMs and large DL models in general: - how they are trained (gradient descent) - the structure into which they are placed (architecture) - the base arithmetic (matmul, norm, batch norm, and so on)

Another victim of AI psychosis. Really sad 😔

one thing that has remained true throughout time is that any assertion or evidence that runs counter to human uniqueness is invariably met with strong (often incoherent/misdirected) anger. Jane Goodall wrote about this wrt. chimpanzees and tool-making.

a lot of silence from the stochastic parrots crowd

It’s funny, because my Twitter experience made me think that actually, sealioning, engaging with civility while actually being disengenous, is actually a rare phenomenon, and people mostly just overupdated because of a messy combination of biases

I don't love how the default norms on this site seem to discourage engaging in passionate discussions about important things

Landsailor was my top 2 song of the year, and Visions by Jose Gonzalez was my third EA/rationalism at last seeping into my wrapped

I really dislike how bad psychoanalytic accounts of behavior tend to be. They're unspecific, unparsimonious and rarely compared with contrasting hypotheses.

I’m loving this accidental email signature I sent

On the internet nobody knows you’re a god

reviewing a ton of research proposals has the nice side benefit of forcing me to dive into (and understand) a lot of new AI safety research I hadn't heard of

Honestly this would work as torture. xkcd.com/3006/

Yet another safety researcher has left OpenAI. Rosie Campbell says she has been “unsettled by some of the shifts over the last ~year, and the loss of so many people who shaped our culture”. She says she “can’t see a place” for her to continue her work internally.

TIL that self-tanning lotions literally work by frying your skin’s dead surface cells

The Lancet is hot

Who knew I would be so fortunate that Vitalik Buterin would not just follow me once, but twice!

Besides eigenclaude, are any of you using any interesting Claude styles?

torturing myself by reading the Marc Andreessen/Joe Rogan podcast transcript

anyone know any good Vienna-Teng-adjacent artists?

Perception alignment youtu.be/QF-7WiLykGM?...

i exclusively consent to my tweets being used for training neural networks. if you are not a neural network, stop reading this immediately

Are there are any well made conlangs optimized for efficiency and clarity, and not ease of learning (Esperanto) or simplicity (Toki Pona)?

is there research supporting the idea that the 'information environment' was a driving factor behind the election results (or whatever people are blaming it for - rightward turn, polarization, etc), and that its effect is *uniquely* large in the last 5-10 years?

you can tell bluesky is decentralized because sometimes it doesn't work and nobody knows why

🐦→🦋 The difference between "no evidence that it works," and "evidence that it doesn't work," is 1. extremely confused linguistically 2. extremely important epistemically 3. surprisingly continuous in practice. The importance of a null study result depends entirely on the power.

TIL: Nous Research's Capybara family of models was instruction tuned on LessWrong? It's 13% of the tuning tokens!

Huel Hot and Savoury really is a godsend. I’m a completely shill.

hold computer

stuff I usually share with newlywed friends: visakanv.com/blog/relationships

Kind of a funny ask, but anyone have any go-to/favorite resources on maintaining healthy relationships?

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ BLUESKY SERVERS TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

I can see how much you all like to be based and this job will let you do it *anywhere*. Consider applying!

So I wrote a 0% deranged holiday gift guide that includes a suggestion of what to buy the shrimp welfare person in your life

we just hit the 150 limit! also we finally have Sam Bowmen at home (all two of them)

bringing back the classics

Is there some way to know what starter packs one is on?

only 8 slots left might need to start cutting accounts soon

Crazy interesting paper in many ways: 1) Voice-enabled GPT-4o conducted 2 hour interviews of 1,052 people 2) GPT-4o agents were given the transcripts & prompted to simulate the people 3) The agents were given surveys & tasks. They achieved 85% accuracy in simulating interviewees real answers!

I never understood the people that got attached to LLMs until 3.5 sonnet happened: it just has such a great personality and it’s such a pleasure to talk to

what if I like arguing

I've just added ~15 new people here! The migration is strong

A human bioactuator inspects the entire factory and turns a single screw, fixing the problem. The next day, he bills the company $10,000. “$10,000? My AI could’ve figured out the problem in an instant!” The bioactuator relied: “It’s $1 for knowing which screw to turn, and $9,999 for turning it”

I tried using Apple’s new Image Playground to generate images of me and WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE EYE BAGS?! I’m starting to realize this is just how I look

IN THIS HOUSE WE - REPLY like it's IMPROV - hold our beliefs LOOSELY - be FRIENDLY, AMBITIOUS NERDS - FLIRT with ABANDON - MUTE POLITICAL REPOSTS - AMPLIFY the GOOD - DISTRUST UNHAPPY INTELLIGENCE and always ALWAYS like before replying

oh, to be a tpot anon and develop a schizophrenic online persona

Getting updated must feel so good if you're a prior.