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Multiple readings Unit distance remarks Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
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Unit distance remarks

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Ben Recht Suresh Venkatasubramanian Grace James Grimmelmann Benjamin Riley
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Colin: I hate that today’s most prominent AI skeptics keep forcing me to argue against them. I yearn to join them in the fight against the booster zealots, wherein there is still plenty of room for legiti…
Colin: The questions available to a skeptic today are kind of esoteric, like “how much should we as a society be willing to pay for theorems”
Ben Recht: The way forward is through the mushy middle. This technology is amazing. It works and breaks in surprising ways. The main boosters are lunatics. And the loudest critics are detached from reality. F…
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Established Agents & robotics Research 6d ago
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RL reasoning objective arxiv paper

What is the objective of reasoning with reinforcement learning?

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Ben Recht

“This is probably too mathy, but the first few sections might help?”

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tweety fish: the (low) dimensionality of that thumbs up signal (and the nature of the thumbs up corpus) is the key key key key thing to what LLMs can't do and what they are super weird about and why they're Lik…
tweety fish: this is more about the dimensionality of the RL vector as opposed to the size of the corpus but certainly the fact that generating a high-dimensional and robust RL corpus for RLHF is hellaciously e…
Colin: I’m not, really. I don’t think they’re that different. In RLVR there’s still not a great way to tell the model that the part you liked was when it got the right answer, but you didn’t like the part…
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6 experts · 47 posts · 4d ago
Ben Recht Luis Villa VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser tweety fish Pavel
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
tweety fish: like people are getting mad about this but serioulsly, an ethical stand against software developed with AI tools, right now, today, rules out essentially ALL SOFTWARE. I'm sorry! macos. bluesky. th…
tweety fish: anyhow I promise that you have never ever once used a piece of software developed by ME using AI tools, that I can say with 100% confidence.
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4 experts · 29 posts · 2d ago
Ben Recht tweety fish Isaiah Bishop B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
Isaiah Bishop: I dont see a reason to think AGI is impossible, but i do think a lot of people are getting over their skis in part because the anti-AI backlash was pretty dumb
Isaiah Bishop: Like my fundamental view is that AI as it exists, is just the kind of embedded capital we have for machines but for knowledge work. Nothing i have seen from them suggests a really extensive interna…
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