Daniel Filan 🔎
@danielfilan.com
I'm mostly on superstimul.us now (profile is @sloeb) (also Twitter)
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Want to get into alignment research? Alex Cloud & I mentor *Team Shard*, responsible for gradient routing, steering vectors, MELBO, and a new unlearning technique (TBA) :) We discover new research subfields.
Apply for mentorship this summer at forms.matsprogram.org/turner-app-8
Apply for mentorship this summer at forms.matsprogram.org/turner-app-8
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Want to get into alignment research? Alex Cloud & I mentor *Team Shard*, responsible for gradient routing, steering vectors, MELBO, and a new unlearning technique (TBA) :) We discover new research subfields.
Apply for mentorship this summer at forms.matsprogram.org/turner-app-8
Apply for mentorship this summer at forms.matsprogram.org/turner-app-8
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My first podcast appearance! Thanks to @danielfilan.com
for asking lots of great questions about our interpretability paper on learned look-ahead in a chess network. I'll be presenting a poster at NeurIPS tomorrow 4:30pm (East, #2802), stop by if you want to chat! axrp.net/episode/2024...
for asking lots of great questions about our interpretability paper on learned look-ahead in a chess network. I'll be presenting a poster at NeurIPS tomorrow 4:30pm (East, #2802), stop by if you want to chat! axrp.net/episode/2024...
38.3 - Erik Jenner on Learned Look-Ahead
YouTube link
axrp.net
December 12, 2024 at 6:04 AM
My first podcast appearance! Thanks to @danielfilan.com
for asking lots of great questions about our interpretability paper on learned look-ahead in a chess network. I'll be presenting a poster at NeurIPS tomorrow 4:30pm (East, #2802), stop by if you want to chat! axrp.net/episode/2024...
for asking lots of great questions about our interpretability paper on learned look-ahead in a chess network. I'll be presenting a poster at NeurIPS tomorrow 4:30pm (East, #2802), stop by if you want to chat! axrp.net/episode/2024...
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Playing with logo designs for the AI Governance and Policy team.
What I like about this one is how original it is. Completely unlike any existing logo.
What I like about this one is how original it is. Completely unlike any existing logo.
November 24, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Playing with logo designs for the AI Governance and Policy team.
What I like about this one is how original it is. Completely unlike any existing logo.
What I like about this one is how original it is. Completely unlike any existing logo.
The bridge was not working that well on superstimulus' end so I turned it off. I think friendica (the software that runs superstimulus) will soon get a new release that fixes it, so maybe I'll turn it on again later. For now, I prefer the 2016-era-FB vibes of superstimulus, so will return there.
I am posting from superstimulus and maybe it will go to bluesky also
November 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM
The bridge was not working that well on superstimulus' end so I turned it off. I think friendica (the software that runs superstimulus) will soon get a new release that fixes it, so maybe I'll turn it on again later. For now, I prefer the 2016-era-FB vibes of superstimulus, so will return there.
does bluesky have polls yet?
November 17, 2024 at 6:18 AM
does bluesky have polls yet?
I am posting from superstimulus and maybe it will go to bluesky also
November 17, 2024 at 5:55 AM
I am posting from superstimulus and maybe it will go to bluesky also
Anyone know why suddenly many people seem to have moved here?
November 16, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Anyone know why suddenly many people seem to have moved here?
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having a low IQ is a choice, it's defecting and it should be socially punished
July 2, 2023 at 2:31 PM
having a low IQ is a choice, it's defecting and it should be socially punished
the vibes of archimedes banya are really nice
- saunas, hot tubs, cold plunges
- a bunch of tattooed russians with felt hats
- art of greeks / romans on the wall
- you can walk out to a view of cargo ships docking in piers, shrouded by mist
- saunas, hot tubs, cold plunges
- a bunch of tattooed russians with felt hats
- art of greeks / romans on the wall
- you can walk out to a view of cargo ships docking in piers, shrouded by mist
July 15, 2023 at 6:11 PM
the vibes of archimedes banya are really nice
- saunas, hot tubs, cold plunges
- a bunch of tattooed russians with felt hats
- art of greeks / romans on the wall
- you can walk out to a view of cargo ships docking in piers, shrouded by mist
- saunas, hot tubs, cold plunges
- a bunch of tattooed russians with felt hats
- art of greeks / romans on the wall
- you can walk out to a view of cargo ships docking in piers, shrouded by mist
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Here's your Sunday reading! A fraction of great things I read this year.
Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/16-a-fraction-of-great-things-you
Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/16-a-fraction-of-great-things-you
#16: A fraction of great things you missed this year
This week: Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, conspiracy theories, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
July 9, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Here's your Sunday reading! A fraction of great things I read this year.
Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/16-a-fraction-of-great-things-you
Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/16-a-fraction-of-great-things-you
speaking of social media failing, does anyone know what the reddit situation is? is there an obvious thing everyone's moving to?
July 1, 2023 at 8:26 PM
speaking of social media failing, does anyone know what the reddit situation is? is there an obvious thing everyone's moving to?
typerace me, offer open briefly https://play.typeracer.com?rt=2a1buae0tq
TypeRacer - the global typing competition
Race against live opponents typing quotes from books, movies, and songs.
play.typeracer.com
July 1, 2023 at 8:06 PM
typerace me, offer open briefly https://play.typeracer.com?rt=2a1buae0tq
anyone have recommendations for things I should do in Payson, AZ?
July 1, 2023 at 7:54 PM
anyone have recommendations for things I should do in Payson, AZ?
current status: I don't really understand singular learning theory, also I can't stop thinking about it
June 22, 2023 at 9:05 PM
current status: I don't really understand singular learning theory, also I can't stop thinking about it
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text is the universal interface...sure bro. don't mind the whales sharing alpha through songs and clicks underneath the sea.
April 12, 2023 at 10:49 PM
text is the universal interface...sure bro. don't mind the whales sharing alpha through songs and clicks underneath the sea.
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The one thing I’d like to return from the 90s is the transparent plastic device aesthetic. Feels like we’re due for a repeat.
May 20, 2023 at 8:46 PM
The one thing I’d like to return from the 90s is the transparent plastic device aesthetic. Feels like we’re due for a repeat.
This is a dope LW post that I made a couple cool contributions to. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7RFC74otGcZifXpec/the-possible-shared-craft-of-deliberate-lexicogenesis
www.lesswrong.com
May 21, 2023 at 1:44 AM
This is a dope LW post that I made a couple cool contributions to. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7RFC74otGcZifXpec/the-possible-shared-craft-of-deliberate-lexicogenesis
I wrote a blog post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nwjtqoox7JAcvMynx/difficulties-in-making-powerful-aligned-ai
May 14, 2023 at 11:22 PM
I wonder if twitter et al are cognitively handicapping me by taking situations where I have a germ of a thought and making the most available next action "tweet it" rather than "think about it more"? Counterpoint: this is probably a rosy view of my pre-twitter behaviour.
May 14, 2023 at 11:19 PM
I wonder if twitter et al are cognitively handicapping me by taking situations where I have a germ of a thought and making the most available next action "tweet it" rather than "think about it more"? Counterpoint: this is probably a rosy view of my pre-twitter behaviour.
Hot take: podcasting is maybe the most epistemically healthy form of internet content (maybe up there with blogs? I'm comparing to YouTube, twitter, etc), and it's also the medium with the least capable recommendation algorithms. Not a coincidence!
May 14, 2023 at 6:28 AM
Hot take: podcasting is maybe the most epistemically healthy form of internet content (maybe up there with blogs? I'm comparing to YouTube, twitter, etc), and it's also the medium with the least capable recommendation algorithms. Not a coincidence!
I think it's messed up that there are a bunch of people in the new testament named James, it's not clear which references to a 'James' are about the same person, and their names are Jacob, not James.
May 10, 2023 at 8:29 PM
I think it's messed up that there are a bunch of people in the new testament named James, it's not clear which references to a 'James' are about the same person, and their names are Jacob, not James.
I feel like there's some juicy alpha left in telling rationalists about Molinism.
May 10, 2023 at 1:14 AM
I feel like there's some juicy alpha left in telling rationalists about Molinism.
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quaternion globe!
follow the arrows to find the multiplication rules
e.g. following i and then j has the same start&endpoints as just following k. so i*j=k
follow the arrows to find the multiplication rules
e.g. following i and then j has the same start&endpoints as just following k. so i*j=k
May 9, 2023 at 1:26 PM
quaternion globe!
follow the arrows to find the multiplication rules
e.g. following i and then j has the same start&endpoints as just following k. so i*j=k
follow the arrows to find the multiplication rules
e.g. following i and then j has the same start&endpoints as just following k. so i*j=k
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blocking anyone who links to a podcast whose host isn't vegan
May 7, 2023 at 6:53 AM
blocking anyone who links to a podcast whose host isn't vegan