Self-experiment risk-taking interview, by Elizabeth van Nostrand, Gwern · Gwern.net
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Interview transcript about risk-taking in self-experimentation, LLM creativity, and the limits of self-tracking metrics.
--- title: "Self-experiment risk-taking interview" author: Elizabeth van Nostrand, Gwern description: "Interview transcript about risk-taking in self-experimentation, LLM creativity, and the limits of self-tracking metrics." thumbnail: /doc/reinforcement-learning/preference-learning/mode-collapse/2026-02-13-gwern-chatgpt-truncatednormaldistrbution-fireinthetails.jpg created: 2026-02-12 modified: 2026-02-12 status: finished confidence: log css-extension: dropcaps-de-zs ... > Elizabeth van Nostrand interviews Gwern Branwen in February 2026 about risk tolerance in self-experimentation: what he tr
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