That’s what COVID does. Gives us a check for phonies in governments, workplaces and any places of power around the world.

An insight into why it is against the very nature of current Russian society to voluntarily stay on lockdown meduza.io/feature/2020/0…

Дудь напомнил, что в 2008 году Владимир Путин обещал не нарушать Конституцию и не идти на новый президентский срок. amp.gs/2kxI

Телеграм теперь на службе режима? #ДуровОтветь

Great Giving What We Can 🔸 meetup today with Philip Trammell! Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the topic of Patient Philanthropy. Looking forward for more decisive results of the research in this area.

A witty and relevant take on the pro-life / pro-choice debate from Joshua Greene’s “Moral Tribes”. From the consequentialist perspective though, pro-choice position makes more sense, if you value not making more people suffer. #DefendRoe

"Wait we're funding constrained?" "Always have been."

A few thoughts on SBF, FTX, and Effective Altruism: 1) Until the current crisis, I think it was reasonable for EAs to look up to SBF and think FTX was hugely net good. SBF intentionally making a huge fortune to then donate to EA causes was ambitious and awesome...

It's premature, and indicates bias, when people rush to exonerate before all the evidence is in. We're still getting to the "who knew what, when" part of the scandal.

Jeffrey Ladish This tweet feels like the right mix of inflammatory and vague to be uninformative, unfalsifiable, and useful as ammo for anyone wanting to blanket condemn EAs :/

Gathering opinions around the EA twitter-sphere on the whole SBF-EA situation; Feels like a deep dive into a pool of rumors and hot takes. Is Twitter always like this?

Spatial light modulators. Empathetic robots. Gig worker empowerment. In a recent showcase, Khoury College's research apprentices discussed not only their findings, but their futures, and the problems they're bent on solving. Read more below. tinyurl.com/ysjbj3cv

Neural nets are often thought of as feature extractors. But what features are neurons in LLMs actually extracting? In our new paper, we leverage sparse probing to find out arxiv.org/abs/2305.01610. A 🧵:

Enermous thank you to Wes Gurnee for giving the opportunity to work on this project

Amazing QnA with Chris Olah Thank you to David Bau for arranging this!

Interesting debunking analysis of the new hot paper about gpt-4 ability to solve all MIT exams.

Frontier LLMs have capabilities that smaller AIs don't, but up to now there's been no way to crack them open. Now that #Llama3 405b is here, what's the most interesting experiment YOU want to do? 🚀 Apply at NDIF.us/405b.html to make it happen and read for details 🧵⬇️