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Self-Other Overlap fine tuning described in Carauleanu et al. (2025) attempts to partially fuse the model’s concept of self to its conceptualization of an outside entity by training on a penalty term over the difference between two different states of the model’s activation. This conceptual fusion technique likely has broad...
How does brain structure create different levels of intelligence? I was somewhat surprised to find that the leading researcher of the relationship between neurobiology and IQ, Richard Haier, is not mentioned anywhere on LessWrong, at least according to the search function. The following post reviews current leading academic literature on...
Many people have the impression that US political discussion was calmer and more rational in the past. They are probably right. What changed? For much of the twentieth century mass media was policed by The Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine was a policy that required media outlets to cover controversial...
I was watching an advocate of neuralese looping for chain of thought reasoning in models using the Iranian concept of tarouf as an example of a concept which English doesn't have a word for and must describe using a longer sequence of other descriptive words. And it made me wonder...
Why different sensory modalities have different qualitative experience can be explained through the physically observable organizational structure of a mind. The difference between a sight and a smell is likely due to the way they are predictively wired to other sensory and motor neurons. If you close your eyes and...
"Well, Season's Greatings everyone!" It was the third time the middle age woman who lived on Buffington had repeated herself in the transport's exit. Each of us regulars were exchanging short glances waiting for the stranger to give the response, but he seemed to know something was up. "Don't you...