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johnswentworth's Shortform
acertain6mo10

most of these require

  1. more preparation & coordination
  2. more physical energy from everyone

which can be in short supply

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Is there software to practice reading expressions?
Answer by acertainJan 09, 202530

I just made an anki deck for this, using gpt 4o-mini to label images of faces. I’ll try to report back in a month or two how well it works.

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Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel's Shortform
acertain1y10

I guess this is sorta about your 3, which I disbelieve (though algorithms for tasks other than learning are also important). Currently, Bayesian inference vs SGD is a question of how much data you have (where SGD wins except for very little data). For small to medium amounts of data, even without AGI, I expect SGD to lose eventually due to better inference algorithms. For many problems I have the intuition that it's ~always possible to improve performance with more complicated algorithms (eg sat solvers). All that together makes me expect there to be inference algorithms that scale to very large amounts of data (that aren't going to be doing full Bayesian inference but rather some complicated approximation).

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Where is the Learn Everything System?
acertain1y10

Relevant: https://andymatuschak.org/hmwl/

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Why is o1 so deceptive?
acertain1y30

o1 CoT: The user is asking for more references about brownies. <Reasoning about what the references should look like> So, the assistant should list these references clearly, with proper formatting and descriptions, and provide actual or plausible links. Remember, the model cannot retrieve actual URLs, so should format plausible ones.

this might encourage it to make up links

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Sparsify: A mechanistic interpretability research agenda
acertain2y10

description of (network, dataset) for LLMs ?= model that takes as input index of prompt in dataset, then is equivalent to original model conditioned on that prompt

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Why is capnometry biofeedback not more widely known?
acertain2y*10

There exist inexpensive real co2 sensors, e.g. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/22396 . Datasheet says only updates every 5 seconds & 60s response time "for achieving 63% of a respective step function", which I guess is what parent comment means by "They’ll likely be extremely slow".

Probably worth searching e.g. digikey for sensors with faster response time.

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Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel's Shortform
acertain2y20

What about specialized algorithms for problems (e.g. planning algorithms)?

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RSPs are pauses done right
acertain2y1511

IANAL, but I think that this is currently impossible due to anti-trust regulations.

I don't know anything about anti-trust enforcement, but it seems to me that this might be a case where labs should do it anyways & delay hypothetical anti-trust enforcement by fighting in court.

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Frame Control
acertain4y10

blueiris's posts read to me as a combination of good concepts & poor quality attacks/attempts to defend leverage (or something?). Personally I'd mind the attacks more if they were more successful and/or less obvious I think? As-is they're annoying but don't seem very dangerous epistemically.

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