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Established Models & releases Research 8d ago
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Anthropic LLM biology interpretability paper

On the Biology of a Large Language Model

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“"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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Established Models & releases Research 9d ago
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LLM political bias audits sycophancy paper

Political Bias Audits of LLMs Capture Sycophancy to the Inferred Auditor

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“1. Political Bias Audits of LLMs Capture Sycophancy to the Inferred Auditor arxiv.org/abs/2604.27633 (that study is contested osf.io/preprints/me... but imo the argument makes sense) 2. Reality has a liberal bias goodinternet.substack.com/p/the-truthi...”

“As a reminder, LLMs recognize when they're being tested and have a tendency to answer based on what they think an alignment-tester wants to hear (for example, "racism is bad", etc) - and swapping cues about the politics of the tester changes the outputs. ar…”

Established Models & releases Signal 8d ago

transformer-circuits.pub

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“Essentially anything you can think of exists in some combination of firings somewhere in the network. There's a circuit for "talking like MAGA". A circuit for "off-by-one-errors in programming". A circuit for "greek vowels". Anything you can think of. Ex: t…”

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5 experts · 11 posts · 18d ago
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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