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Multiple readings Our position on open-weights models Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings State media control influences large language models | Nature Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Research 18h ago
LLM lattice representation hypothesis paper

The Lattice Representation Hypothesis of Large Language Models

17 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · David Marx
“If you're coming at this from the background of a traumatized logician, you'll probably enjoy this paper demonstrating how linear representations (i.e. "embeddings" of the kind learned by DNNs) are connected to boolean logic and formal concept analysis.” evidence ↗
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David Marx

“If you're coming at this from the background of a traumatized logician, you'll probably enjoy this paper demonstrating how linear representations (i.e. "embeddings" of the kind learned by DNNs) are connected to boolean logic and formal concept analysis.”

17 experts discussed this · 40 posts
Grace: This post lives rent-free in my head, because it seems very wrong but it’s hard to articulate why
Isaiah Bishop: because its literally exactly what he thought self-driving would be and then it turned out structure and control was really important
Isaiah Bishop: The man keeps falling into the black box trap
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New Models & releases Analysis 19h ago
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Anthropic open-weights position statement

Our position on open-weights models

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim James MacGlashan Dare Obasanjo Larry Hunter Fran Litterio +2
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Multiple readings

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”

Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”

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“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
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New Models & releases Research 11h ago
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Justin Hendrix, MilaNLP Lab
“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…” evidence ↗
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Justin Hendrix Gina Helfrich Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Debora Nozza MilaNLP Lab René Walter B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New AI field signal Signal 21h ago

Claude's new constitution

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“i obviously can’t answer that, but imo it was the constitution that did it, which they used in all phases of training www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...” evidence ↗
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Tim Kellogg

“i obviously can’t answer that, but imo it was the constitution that did it, which they used in all phases of training www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Tim Kellogg: this was in regards to Claude refusing DHH’s racism i sort of get DHH’s shock. We’ve seen tools deny based on laws & agreements but moral shaming is new and definitely takes you off guard if you th…
Tim Kellogg: it’s tempting to say that horrible governments/companies will force AI’s to have specific biases, but i’m not sure that’s true Anthropic got Claude to do this by teaching it an internally consisten…
Tim Kellogg: xAI tried giving Grok conservative values the reason for the Mecha Hitler & such incidents is because those were consistent with the moral logic the AI was taught
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3 experts · 5 posts · 8h ago
angela zhou suhr Alexander Hoyle
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“Is anyone studying the "cognitive load" of reading LLM-generated text? The extra interpretative labor that presenting such text asks of us?” evidence ↗
suhr: Is anyone studying the "cognitive load" of reading LLM-generated text? The extra interpretative labor that presenting such text asks of us?
angela zhou: Is anyone studying the "cognitive load" of reading LLM-generated text? The extra interpretative labor that presenting such text asks of us?
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