in terms of custom stuff with LLM tech, seems to me there's a few levels: 1. custom starting prompt ... 3. fine-tuning on specific content and/or custom RLHF ... 5. train own LLM from scratch what are the levels in between? is there an obvious ordering for fine-tuning & RLHF?

hart the phoenix complaining is sacred! it's how people affirm values and their own dignity and say "you don't expect me to just roll over and take this [thing that frustrates me], right?" x.com/Malcolm_Ocean/…

I don't know all the details here but I trust Critch's thinking on this sort of topic at this scale ...and in general am in favour of politicians not giving into lobbying. if you vote in Cali, call Newsom's office! a call is worth 100 tweets x.com/AndrewCritchPh…

got permission today to go ahead with my bad self

link a short film below, that you like

Ok, here's a question for awakened people: sometimes a monster is following me. I'm stressed. I wake up and realise "Oh, that was but a dream". I was confused into thinking that what was a dream was actually reality. But no more. I woke up from it and that's that. That makes

what are your favorite solvents for dissolving a problem?

wholes have some degree of responsibility to take care of their parts but if entities from outside can become part without choice from the whole, care cannot be freely given without creating huge pressure across the membrane

would be curious to see a comparison, for various conditions, between various placebos (sugar pill, saline shot, ??) and a control condition of "tell person it should go away on its own"

oh so that’s why the body keeps the score to such a ridiculous extent

good mistake theory article highlighting that "misinformation" is harder to name than you might think in particular, that even very disreputable news sources (from any wing) tend not to lie but to quote people & interpret things in surprising ways astralcodexten.com/p/sorry-i-stil…

I think I found a solution to the incompatible food triad... haven't tried the trio yet to see if it's bad, but the subcombos are good albeit somewhat unconventional: - fresh strawberries - peanut butter - picked ginger georgehart.com/triad.html

looking at my newborn in the context of my grandmother having an imminent surgery and suddenly struck with the bizarre recognition that my grandmother was once a baby very much like this