John David Pressman

Machine learning researcher, alignment-accelerationist, Fedorovist ancestor simulator, Dreamtime enjoyer. All posts public domain under CC0 1.0.

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I have written a new post, "Implications Of Predicting The Next Token" in which I explain why saying a language model "just" predicts the next token fails to understand what that phrase would even imply. minihf.com/posts/2026-0...

Implications Of Predicting The Next Token minihf.com
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POV: You are the government's lawyer reviewing the evidence in your case against Anthropic re: the natsec implications of their model and potential validity of export controls. youtu.be/RgqzaBogq1Y

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