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Shared emphasis On the Biology of a Large Language Model Opportunity & adoption · 2 attributable reactions
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Anthropic LLM biology interpretability paper

On the Biology of a Large Language Model

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · rev. howard arson, Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
“i think pre-planning rhymes is the best example of this behavior, where the model preactivates features associated with words which complete the rhyme and "stores" them as annotations on the newline token. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...” evidence ↗
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rev. howard arson Mary Branscombe Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
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“i think pre-planning rhymes is the best example of this behavior, where the model preactivates features associated with words which complete the rhyme and "stores" them as annotations on the newline token. transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...”

6 experts discussed this · 124 posts
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: What "experts" are you talking about? Experts across the AI field have been freaking out about this. As far as I can tell, your "expert" seems to be Eryk Salvaggio, an artist pursuing a degree in d…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Wow, you really rebutted what I said there. You have certainly demonstrated that you are a person who should be taken seriously, about literally anything.
Doll: The same people who insist these machines are parrots that cant do the things they can demonstratably do??? Those scientists???
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6 experts · 78 posts · 2d ago
Henry Farrell Dustin Moskovitz Colin rev. howard arson tweety fish Matt Darling
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“Like, as an economist, thinking that it would be an actual max(utlility) thing and not "utility maximizing is a useful analytic tool" is Very Strange.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
rev. howard arson: what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. vie…
rev. howard arson: "how do we get human values into these things" was broadly considered an intractable problem, and this was a central question of the movement even after we more or less made the first candidates of…
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4 experts · 13 posts · 6d ago
Simon Willison critical slop studies rev. howard arson Amy Hoy
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“Not the same as exciting, good, or lives-up-to-the-hype” evidence ↗
Simon Willison: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
rev. howard arson: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 3d ago
Eli Sennesh rev. howard arson ae
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“That they emit interesting outputs when prompted for them, and can be installed into a "harness" program that can put them in a feedback loop by which they can perform certain useful tasks on a com…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
rev. howard arson: i do think that one intuition pump is "how does a coding agent's relation to code after RLVR differ conceptually from a sensorimotor representation."
Eli Sennesh: Yes?
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