Have anyone written any interesting thoughts about mechinterp and the RL CoT models like o3? I havent really grokked it yet. Seem's like those models in some sense do "less" in a single forward pass. So maybe mechinterp is easier? But also, maybe its less useful, because less is in the activations

There was a drought of podcasts, but now there is a flood. There are too many AI podcasts by cool people that I like. Now I can't even listen to all of them.

You can reduce your level of psychological suffering a lot, by just letting go. Its a mental movement you can learn to perform. Like when you do something that requires willpower, or when you anticipate something uncomfortable, you tense up and feel a bad feeling. But you can choose not to feel that

Made a lesswrong starterpack. reply if you use lesswrong and want to be put in it, or if there's anyone else I've not added that should be added! go.bsky.app/EkcDcjA

Amazing! Suicide race against china!!!! We're gonna blow up the entire world and kill everyone before china does it!!! America!! America!! America!!! Take that you commie bastards!!! We're gonna kill everyone MORTYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.uscc.gov/sites/defaul...

Agenticness/coherence and Intelligence clearly have some connection, but they arent perfectly tethered. The magnitude of the slack between them is proportional to the amount of useful work we can extract from AGI before we all die. Im somewhat happy. Seems theres more slack than id thought earlier

Do anyone know a nice way to measure sleep duration and quality that doesn't involve wearing a clock? So far all the clocks I've tried constrain bloodflow or are uncomfortable.

Using claude for code is so nice. I made a website for practicing arithmetic using it hmys-b.github.io That's something that would've taken me like 3 days if I were to try to do it 3 years ago. And this website is quite nice actually. Not just slop. I use it a lot on my own. Probably 50+ hours