Lydia Nottingham
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- [2405.01470] WildChat: 1M ChatGPT Interaction Logs in the Wild1 savers
- Collider bias | Catalog of Bias1 savers
- Collider (statistics)1 savers
- Fall of Constantinople1 savers
- Magnesium Self-Experiments · Gwern.net1 savers
- Faculty AI - Frontier AI for the frontlines | Faculty2 savers
- Faculty (company)1 savers
- Accenture Completes Acquisition of Faculty2 savers
- Implicit function1 savers
- Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War1 savers
- Evacuation Day (New York)1 savers
- Erie Canal1 savers
- History of New York City (1784–1854)1 savers
- AI as orderly evacuation vs stampede - by Richard Ngo1 savers
- Coasean Bargaining at Scale - Cosmos Institute3 savers
- The Open Security Lakehouse Built for the AI Era | Databricks1 savers
- Economic efficiency often undermines sociopolitical autonomy1 savers
- Writing — Matt Mandel2 savers
- The Philosopher-Builder - Cosmos Institute7 savers
- Dare to Found · Matt Mandel2 savers
- maiush/OpenCharacterTraining: Open Character Training ·1 savers
- [2511.01689] Open Character Training: Shaping the Persona of AI Assistants through Constitutional AI1 savers
- winstonBosan's Shortform — LessWrong1 savers
- Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI feedback \ Anthropic1 savers
- Skybrian's Links1 savers
- Link to: Claude's new constitution \ Anthropic1 savers
- Decathexis1 savers
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- Occident1 savers
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- Blog1 savers
- My Trip to the Alignment Research Center1 savers
- People – Stochastic Labs1 savers
- Vero Bollow – Stochastic Labs1 savers
- Gray Area Festival 20211 savers
- Sampura Research: Human-AI Complementarity for Alignment · Sampura Research1 savers
- The Safety Condition for Knowledge | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy1 savers
- research_statement_rebrova.pdf1 savers
- Liza Rebrova's research website2 savers
- Brendan McCord2 savers
- Memphis Pyramid1 savers
- Alignment & Succession: Morality Lives in the Human Individual3 savers
- Seeing Like a State: Best of the Blogs | Cato Unbound1 savers
- facebookresearch/fairseq: Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit written in Python. ·1 savers
- facebookresearch/segment-anything: The repository provides code for running inference with the SegmentAnything Model (SAM), links for downloading the trained model checkpoints, and example notebooks that show how to use the model. ·1 savers
- Extinction Is Optional2 savers
- Can We Survive Technology?5 savers
- Lebensraum1 savers
- Humans Replacing Robots Herald Toyota’s Vision of Future - Bloomberg1 savers
- The Use of Knowledge in Society - Wikipedia2 savers
- adammaj on X: "from the outside, it is very reasonable to interpret the past 2 weeks as an orchestrated industry-wide regulatory capture strategy. I realize that no one has properly explained yet what all the lab employees have seen that scared them so suddenly. I will try to explain -" / X1 savers
- The Use of Knowledge in Society1 savers
- Seeing Like a State1 savers
- Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration - Thinking Machines Lab23 savers
- The Future Worth Building Is Human - Thinking Machines Lab23 savers
- Tinker - Thinking Machines Lab3 savers
- Inkling - Thinking Machines Lab1 savers
- Thinking Machines (@thinkymachines) / X1 savers
- Thinking Machines Lab11 savers
- the singularity is nearer | A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway5 savers
- geohot1 savers
- Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier31 savers
- Vinayak Grants Program — Nytery1 savers
- AI Legislation Tracker • Chasing Sunsets1 savers
- hannah2 savers
- What You'll Wish You'd Known8 savers
- Jackie Chan Drunken Master 2 Final fight - YouTube1 savers
- My PhD Grind (1): All the Friends Who Worked on Theory Have Switched to LLMs / 我的PhD Grind（1）：23年申phd时认识的那群朋友至此都转了LLM | Jinyan Su2 savers
- Priest, Monk, and Mathematician1 savers
- Tilting_at_windmills_(disambiguation)1 savers
- I. J. Good - Wikipedia2 savers
- tom cunningham on X: "New post: nine different ways of summarizing agent ability. #1: Score at Fixed Expenditure. Spend a fixed amount on each model (x=tokens/money) , and report the agent's score. This is the classic. https://t.co/YWAinLz7Au" / X1 savers
- Blog Posts | Tom Cunningham – Tom Cunningham2 savers
- Coalition of Concerned AI Staff3 savers
- what makes Claude 3 Opus misaligned — LessWrong3 savers
- First-mover_advantage1 savers
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- w32105.pdf1 savers
- Learning societal values from law as part of an AGI alignment strategy — EA Forum1 savers
- Comments on Comprehensive AI Services1 savers
- Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence — AI Alignment Forum2 savers
- “Reframing Superintelligence” is a must-read – Longitudinal Science1 savers
- “Reframing Superintelligence” + LLMs + 4 years — AI Alignment Forum1 savers
- Maria's Room | Substack1 savers
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- C. Northcote Parkinson1 savers
- Shocker: In Search of Lost Time really rather good | Books | The Guardian1 savers
- In Search of Lost Time3 savers
- Man-Computer Symbiosis5 savers
- Can I Form a Non-Profit LLC, 501c3? - IncNow1 savers
- Univariate Distribution Relationship Chart2 savers
- Conversation as a mini economy | Raymond’s Weblog^1 savers
- David Manheim1 savers
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- About — Inversed1 savers
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highlights — 10433
San Francisco proposed a new bus lane on Van Ness in 2001. It opened in 2022, yielding a project duration of around 7,600 days. “The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather since the project started,” said Paul Rose, a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson. The project cost $346 million, i.e. $110,000 per meter. The Alaska Highway, mentioned above, constructed across remote tundra, cost $793 per meter in 2019 dollars.
Fast · Patrick CollisonGit. Linus Torvalds started working on Git on April 3 2005. It was self-hosting 4 days later. On April 20 2005, 17 days after work commenced, Linux 2.6.12-rc3 was publicly released with Git. Source: LKML.
Fast · Patrick Collisonthe end came instantly, after a day filled with nothing but joy
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writingsdesire that I switch on self-driving to avoid her being subjected to my own substandard human driving
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsShe considered returning to where she’d left off in Gibbs theory 30 years ago, being told by an old colleague that her work there was still very current.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writingsinfection was not a binary phenomenon, but that instead each person had a constantly changing viral load and immunity, creating a “viral field” at the population level
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsThe master’s degree ended up being highly successful and continues to this day.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsShe would go off each day to do math. I would stay home to be a remote CEO, and work on science. And from time to time she’d jet off to Texas, Montana, France or wherever to give talks.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writingsinject new ideas into our company faster than it could absorb them
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writingswhat made me originally develop our technology was that I wanted to use it myself—to do science
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsRather untypically for a mathematician, Elise was always notable for her distinctive personal style
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram WritingsElise would say that there were people of action, and there were philosophers.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writingsincreasingly about the foundations of mathematics, taking a Platonic view of truth and lamenting the twentieth-century transition to a more formalistic approach
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writingsfundamentally a humanist, thinking about the world in human terms. She decried dry modernism and was drawn to the human connections of classicism
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years—Stephen Wolfram Writings“When I was a young man, noise was money,” Terry told us. “Milwaukee just revered these huge, massive industrial factories, because this engine is paying our bills, sending our kids to school, feeding us, housing us.
No Data Centers In My Backyard - by Jasmine SunBut not everyone is losing out from the data center boom. Just ask any of the earthmovers, HVAC engineers, electricians, or crane operators earning six-figure salaries working on data centers.
No Data Centers In My Backyard - by Jasmine SunAccording to Spengler, the meaningful units for history are not epochs but whole cultures which evolve as organisms.
The_Decline_of_the_WestRecord the provider that served the response, and include in your paper/codebase the same way you’d report temperature.
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongI spend most of my time begging Claude “please please please fail loudly don’t secretly hide bugs”. If your provider is down, you should know.
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongThe AI Safety Community should consider creating an organization to provide standardized access to models.
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongHighlighting Some Impacted Work Here are some highlights, linked to the line in which a model is called without a provider.[13]
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongNostalgebraist’s experience with different model providers allowed him to see signs of a degraded model in Arun Jose’s CoT legibility results.
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongGrab my Claude Skill to have Claude handle it
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongWhen is Default OpenRouter Fine? The model only has one provider (e.g. proprietary models from OpenAI or Anthropic). Version drift is still a risk.
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongIt is possible that if you ask for GPT-OSS-120B on Monday to do your baseline run, you’ll get a dumb/quantized/truncated model, and if you ask for GPT-OSS-120B on Tuesday to do your experimental run, you’ll get a smarter model, and your intervention will seem to have helped.[8]
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongResearchers should assume that OpenRouter behaves adversarially.
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongNo Guarantees from Fixing a Provider
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongResearch results on Claude from "Between August and early September" 2025 might have been on a buggy Claude (kudos to Anthropic for announcing this information, though!)
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongThere is significant active discussion about whether first party providers like Anthropic and OpenAI have variable quality.[7]
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongThe Silent Hyperparameter “...the choice of backend alone can shift benchmark scores by up to 16.6 percentage points and induce high rates of output disagreement”
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongOpenRouter’s providers can: Use different quantizations Use different inference backends. Handle your request parameters differently. Have different maximum input lengths Be maliciously finetuned to push agendas or have hidden backdoors
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongOpenRouter has barely any quality control, and providers are free to reduce quality to achieve lower costs
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrong“I think this is pretty convincing re your original argument that my results were contaminated by bad inference setups, and that correspondingly my paper doesn't substantiate some of its claims and conclusions with good evidence.”
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongIt turned out that even when using an inference provider with the same quantization (fp8, “as far as [nostalgebraist] could tell”), different providers serve different models with drastically different capabilities and chain-of-thought legibilities.
Not Pinning Your OpenRouter Provider Might Invalidate Your Research — LessWrongWorkspaces may break, change, or be reset without notice.
Soft-Machine — Cloud Dev Environment with AIWe thank Rajashree Agrawal for contributing code and datasets on refusing dangerous requests
[2410.13787] Looking Inward: Language Models Can Learn About Themselves by Introspectioninstead originates from internal states
[2410.13787] Looking Inward: Language Models Can Learn About Themselves by Introspectionphilosophy as a kind of mode of Archimedean orientation towards the world — that will tell them how to live, and justify their actions, and give a kind of comfort and structure — that I think at some point we need to give up
Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion | 80,000 Hoursthe welfare of the finite number of future people who might live in our lightcone
Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion | 80,000 HoursDon’t believe the hype
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and MathematicsThese developments put the autonomy of mathematics under threat. The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance. Indeed, broader understanding of the field may be permanently lost in the process of automation.
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics‘ semi-anarchic default condition ’
The Vulnerable World Hypothesisthere are some actors ( ‘ the apocalyptic residual ’ ) who would act in ways that destroy civilization even at high cost to themselves.
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis"Nick Land diluted for LinkedIn"
Effective accelerationismThus, the type of problem ASI seems to pose depends in considerable part on someone's prior expertise. Even more than the details, different types of expert will bring a different type of intuition about what kinds of phenomena are latent in nature, are possible (or not), and what kinds of defenses may be worked out (or not)16. Much dismissiveness about xrisk comes from people without those intuitions: an economist, for example, simply will not have the same intuitions as a security expert, and vice versa. A physicist won't have the intuitions of an economist, and vice versa. Indeed, many peop…
Notes on the Vulnerable World Hypothesisif rl capabilities and alignment are truly at odds
Questions - Alex ZhaoThe actual writer thinks he is merely contriving a work of fiction. Though he seeks to tell a plausible story, he neither believes it himself, nor expects others to believe it. Yet the story is true.
Last and First Menthe time of Einstein
Last and First MenI have tried to supplement my own slight knowledge of natural science by pestering my scientific friends.
Last and First Menricher than any monoculture
Atomic Power - Reconstructed Lecture