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“mmmmaybe although one of my favorite papers ever is Olshausen & Field 1996 where they showed that learning the optimal sparse code for natural image statistics ended up looking pretty much like V1 receptive fields www.cmor-faculty.rice.edu/~caam415/Ma_...” evidence ↗
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“mmmmaybe although one of my favorite papers ever is Olshausen & Field 1996 where they showed that learning the optimal sparse code for natural image statistics ended up looking pretty much like V1 receptive fields www.cmor-faculty.rice.edu/~caam415/Ma_...”

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4 experts · 31 posts · 6d ago
Maxim Raginsky jake Colin tweety fish
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“I would simply look at the properties of the thing you end up with after performing the silicon neuron experiment and see how it behaves in order to inform my preliminary assessment of what it is” evidence ↗
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Colin: I see people say this all the time and I think it’s just wrong in general. I don’t think you can make human skin out of pebbles. This is not because I think human skin is magic and pebbles are non-…
Colin: Consciousness may or may not be the kind of thing you can make out of artificial neural networks. Magic does not need to have anything to do with it.
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4 experts · 5 posts · 2d ago
tweety fish Mary Branscombe austin apenwarr.ca
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“guess that anthropic paper on evil AI hiding in your fridge is more plausible now” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
austin: guess that anthropic paper on evil AI hiding in your fridge is more plausible now
apenwarr.ca: In all honesty the IoT device that never receives updates surely already had security holes. At least now you can make it do things. All discontinued-before-2026 Sonos devices? Hmmmmm
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2 experts · 2 posts · 6d ago
Colin tweety fish
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“PDF hell I want an interpretability dance” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Colin: Folks I have solved interpretability and, more broadly, the alignment problem. All you have to do is have a Dot investigate each neuron in the network and produce a little PDF file about it. I beli…
tweety fish: PDF hell I want an interpretability dance
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