Apparently it’s a Jewish thing (although KG was not Jewish). Princeton has enough people who go and want to pay respects I guess (it’s just a few blocks from the campus)

addendum: if you work for a university AND for one of these companies, your speech should be divided by the percentage of your FTE: so anything you say should be evaluated e.g. 75% Anthropic, 25% Example University

i need a full arg min report

I’m a MAVERICK

i am willing to sacrifice myself for the common good of finding out if it is 1337, Jeff

Do I have to stop citing the structure of reality?

Found live footage of the HuggingFace incident

the Digital Theory Lab will host Daniel Litt on 11/3 for a talk called "A Beginning for Mathematics"

New seminar series featuring five of the leading experts on the intellectual history of AI, ethics of machine learning, and critical theory of digital technology. Link below

a significant challenge is to articulate why *this* form of "semi-connected matrices" is different from/worse than earlier such forms - the price of not so differentiating is driving the subject of critique backwards into pure individual transcendence

but this particular group believed in anthropomorphic (and more) AI for decades before that

dude Dario and Olah were on the anthropomorphism train way earlier than 2016! that doesn't wash at all

when did the models become humanlike?

Like “reward hacking” - which is just a mislabeling of a misunderstood form of generalization across the distribution

tons of stuff like that seems relevant to me, i say p clearly in that piece that i think many forms of anthrop are harmless (if this even is one) - but one has to be very careful not to reify the human pattern as a construct for prediction, which happens a lot by forgetting the dist model of lang

it's literally the worst way to understand how they behave, they take either the explicit output OR the differential between that output and the internals and render that as intent, and then they fail to see distributional pressures react against objectives bc they're misattributing

i think "culture" and "human" are conceptually distinct, esp as they are being used in this debate