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Ben Backus

@benbackus4

Fan of math and qualia | Stanford - Symbolic Systems | Senior Software Engineer

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Type of basilisk where once you are aware of it, one day it will reward you with eternal bliss for not creating Roko’s basilisk.

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I love it when people on the calculusguy subreddit say you “shouldn’t” use l’hopital’s rule because you have to solve this the “right way”. Only makes me wanna do it more.

I love it when people on the calculusguy subreddit say you “shouldn’t” use l’hopital’s rule because you have to solve this the “right way”. Only makes me wanna do it more.
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We spent two years getting LLMs to speak valid JSON. That was the easy part. Now we're solving what actually matters: making sure the model can't even express an action it's not allowed to take. Not "will not." Cannot. 👇 blog.dottxt.ai/control-layer-…

We spent two years getting LLMs to speak valid JSON.

That was the easy part.

Now we're solving what actually matters: making sure the model can't even express an action it's not allowed to take.

Not "will not." Cannot. 👇

blog.dottxt.ai/control-layer-…
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i'm grateful for two people who shaped my life in almost completely non-overlapping ways. when i joined chris olah's team at openai i didn't have a clear worldview, a research direction, or any real sense of what i wanted to do. my career had wound semi-randomly with no center.

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I feel like spaced repetition algorithms should begin to incorporate a semantic similarity variable to account for the fact that some flashcards are similar to others and if you confuse one for the other a lot then you need to repeat both, amongst other reasons.