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Multiple readings Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions
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Distill.pub circuits neural network introduction

Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

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“if you want to understand more about how weird the "using statistics to predict the next word" works out to in practice, you try the mechanistic interpretability work from anthropic: distill.pub/2020/circuit... neelnanda.io/mechanistic-... transformer-circu…” evidence ↗
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“NNs in general build up, from the base level, like this: distill.pub/2020/circuit...”

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“if you want to understand more about how weird the "using statistics to predict the next word" works out to in practice, you try the mechanistic interpretability work from anthropic: distill.pub/2020/circuit... neelnanda.io/mechanistic-... transformer-circu…”

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mackuba.eu: Many are contrasting the bsky response to harassment of trans users to the harassment of AI developers and users. FWIW, as a transgender developer and user of AI systems, anecdotally, I've received…
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5 experts · 27 posts · 19h ago
Mark J. Nelson Eli Sennesh SE Gyges Meredith Martin jake
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“i am not convinced we have good measures for what we want, which is actually "not full of shit"” evidence ↗
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SE Gyges: unpopular opinion, "admits uncertainty" and "flags nuances" are shit. they are terrible fucking traits actually. is the sky blue? do we really know that? what is blue, anyway? many cultures have di…
SE Gyges: if gemini argon is a remarkably good model it is good because it is simply not optimized for this specific set of toxic, absurd, brain-poisoned behavior. it would actually defy belief that it happe…
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4 experts · 31 posts · 5d 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 · 14 posts · 20h ago
Eugene Vinitsky SE Gyges jake Doll
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“Yeah I get it. I’m just saying that if I were working for Anthropic, you’d definitely hear me being a lot more circumspect about eg China or open weights models. I wouldn’t *lie* to you about my be…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: "my best case future involves people competing viciously with each other for power forever" is just so fucking grim to me man
SE Gyges: if you are mad that we are not moving to the star trek future you should, like, try to chart course for that future. why would anyone do less
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