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I generally don't find mechanistic AI content on LW very engaging, and just pass over it. I loved this one.

A lot of things about this post made it really attractive to me:

• Relatively simple language, I didn't need a deep understanding of modern AI vocabulary to understand this
• The color-coded examples are excellent
• The main points don't require fluency in math, particularly math notation
• A bunch of the examples look very familiar, exactly how I tried to get good performance out of the chatgpt 3.5-ish models on the web client

I'm curious if you think about the... (read more)

I unintentionally read this right after reading https://appliedtranshumanism.substack.com/p/how-to-engineer-authentic-confidence

Yours describes my personal experience to an extent that surprised me. Aaron's feels super believable and enticing.  I feel like they contrast well, and something in the space between them feels "cruxy".

(This is an output-only comment, just something I thought was interesting, I'm unlikely to engage after this)