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Established Models & releases Signal 11d ago
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Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Tim Kellogg John David Pressman

“this is one of my favorite papers, similar method. It convinced me a that LLMs weren’t merely autocompleting they showed that EVEN WHEN the answer to a math problem was present in the dataset, the agent didn’t reference it, but rather looked at problems wit…”

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Tim Kellogg: this is only stuff you can do on open models not just open weights, but fully open models with open datasets this stuff is extremely important, and we know next to nothing about it
Tim Kellogg: this is one of my favorite papers, similar method. It convinced me a that LLMs weren’t merely autocompleting they showed that EVEN WHEN the answer to a math problem was present in the dataset, the …
Tim Kellogg: that one paper got me off the AI skeptic route and pushed me a lot deeper into how LLMs actually work and again, without being able to cross reference the training dataset, methods like this simply…
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Established AI field signal Signal 18d ago

AIs are not people

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John David Pressman

“This essay is actually AI psychosis. "Fake consciousness" rogueresearch.substack.com/p/ais-are-no...”

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John David Pressman: This essay is actually AI psychosis. "Fake consciousness" rogueresearch.substack.com/p/ais-are-no...
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: (haven't read it yet) I always love the distinctions "fake ___" which are operationally indistinguishable from "real ___" Like "if you didn't know any better you couldn't tell them apart"
John David Pressman: Mixtral 8x22B base model text vibes.
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 8d ago
Weave Agent embodiment goodhart devlog

Weave Agent DevLog #2 - Embodiment, Goodhart, and Grounding

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John David Pressman

“I tried to write about this here but I buried the lede and didn't quite come at it from the angle of "I need you to understand that arrangements of atoms imply discrete outcomes which push continuous neural nets towards discrete program structure. Your body…”

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John David Pressman: I should start doing this with AI insights I need to write about at some point. Insight #1: Discrete programs (or as they're often called for LLM agents, "tools") are a form of embodiment because a…
John David Pressman: I tried to write about this here but I buried the lede and didn't quite come at it from the angle of "I need you to understand that arrangements of atoms imply discrete outcomes which push continuo…
Tim Kellogg: i think you’re right, but i also think the explanation is very simple and LLM without tools is basically identical to a human brain completely disembodied and set on a cold table but kept alive
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6 experts · 9 posts · 6d ago
Thomas Dietterich Ryan Moulton Colin John David Pressman Max Woolf Alex Gude
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Ryan Moulton: We are not going to de novo invent a whole new language to describe agents rather than reusing the one language for agents we have. Imagine a star next to all the words if you want. Agents don't ha…
Ryan Moulton: Love is a bit unusual in that respect in that the difference between "outwardly displays all the behaviors of love" and "inwardly feels it" matters a lot to people. That distinction doesn't matter …
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John David Pressman Doll
Doll: "nobody should care about a piece of work, that nobody cared to create" is nonsense Keystrokes have never been a unit of caring. Not once. Never has been and never will be. You have smuggled “the h…
Doll: Sometimes someone just generates disposable slop. But humans were quite capable of producing work they didn’t give a shit about before we invented language models and using a language model to inte…
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