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Anthropic LLM biology interpretability paper

On the Biology of a Large Language Model

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Mary Branscombe Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦

“"yeah; the precise function of any individual node in the generative layer is essentially unknowable" It really isn't. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...”

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Singularity's Bounty e/cc: They're lucky there isn't a *SAT for being a NYT reporter
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: IMHO, it's very straightforward reasoning. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... Some of the paths may seem a bit counterintuitive, such as how math is done, but it's important to remember that …
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: E.g. we humans do heuristic-based math as well for at-a-glance calculations - we're just not nearly as good at it. But for example, if I said: 2891 * 1280 = 18294 Your mind probably instantly flash…
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5 experts · 11 posts · 18d ago
Ted Underwood Mark J. Nelson Mary Branscombe Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦 austegard.com
Ted Underwood: Fascinating op-ed. Starts with the premise that models can’t check their work, then runs into the reality that in 2026, everyone knows this is wrong. Patch: a tiny exception is in “formal or verifi…
Ted Underwood: Actually sympathetic to Tufekci’s conclusion that we shouldn’t expect jobpocalypse, but people have got to stop grounding that belief in the premise that we have some mysterious power only achievab…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 4d ago
Matthew Kirschenbaum brennan Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Matthew Kirschenbaum: At some point we’re going to need to square the circle between puffing “Why are you asking AI, go ask a real person instead” and all of us who have told someone “If you are soliciting my expertise …
Matthew Kirschenbaum: I don’t think we’re going to get very far by pretending there’s no demand for usually-good-enough information that is also devoid of the friction that comes from an expectation for an interpersonal…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
antirez.bsky.social coty.bsky.social Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
antirez.bsky.social: In Wohpe (Laurana, 2022) an engineer erroneously leave his phone near a GPU of Wohpe, believed to be fully contained. The AI discovers that could use the GPU itself as a resonator to establish an R…
coty.bsky.social: In Wohpe (Laurana, 2022) an engineer erroneously leave his phone near a GPU of Wohpe, believed to be fully contained. The AI discovers that could use the GPU itself as a resonator to establish an R…
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2 experts · 21 posts · 17d ago
Marc Lanctot Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Marc Lanctot: A lot of food for thought in this article. I too am not worried about mass unemployment from generative AI soon, but there are a few clarifications worth making that could be helpful. 🧵 1/N
Marc Lanctot: I have recently started using coding models. I certainly see what all the fuss is about. I also thought "what does this mean for jobs with heavy coding elements?" I think AI leaders are thinking lo…
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4 experts · 5 posts · 18d ago
Chris Brockett Rafael M Batista Veni Kunche Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Veni Kunche: I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "…
Rafael M Batista: I agree with this too. But the problem I’ve faced is that sometimes actual human writing feels like that too. Especially first drafts or pieces following a template. Weird times we’re in…
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3 experts · 5 posts · 19d ago
SE Gyges Andy Masley Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Andy Masley: Okay I gotta actually defend Kylarz here, AI servers are different from normal internet data center servers and it makes sense to object to AI data centers specifically, they're a unique deal, thou…
SE Gyges: not *really*, gpu is a normal type of chip and does a lot of normal things that people have been quietly taking for granted tor a decade. there do exist solid blocks of GPUs per building now more t…
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