Zifan Wang

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be courageous when the mind deceives you be courageous in the final account only this is important and let your helpless Anger be like the sea whenever you hear the voice of the insulted and beaten
The Envoy of Mr. Cogito | The Poetry Foundation
such as Causal Decision Theory (CDT) and Evidential Decision Theory (EDT)
Philosophy behind Claude's Constitution
Don't train on the raw datapoint w/ the standard objective.
augustus odena on X: "I have a bunch of thoughts about continual learning and nothing to do with them (I'm working on something else) so I figured I'd just turn them into a post: First: I think people use "continual learning" to point at a cluster of issues that are related but distinct. I'll list" / X
the context here is an object to be understood by the model, and code execution and recursive LM calls are a means of understanding this context efficiently.
Recursive Language Models | Alex L. Zhang
If you don’t know what you don’t know, you might not be able to ask the model the right questions.
Don’t Outsource Your Thinking
The Gang of Eight, a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders, are normally briefed in advance due to requirements by law to maintain balance between executive war powers and congressional oversight. But they weren’t briefed this time. Trump’s justification—that “Congress has a tendency to leak”—is essentially a middle finger to Article I, which normally puts Congress in the drivers seat when it comes to war.
Maduro has been captured. What's next? - by Peter Wildeford
And this dismissal of Machado is striking and underexplained. Recall that Machado won the opposition primary decisively. Why? Perhaps Trump cares more about stability and oil access than democratic transition. Rodríguez represents continuity with the existing power structure whereas Machado represents upheaval. Or perhaps portions of the Maduro regime negotiated this outcome and accepting Rodríguez was the price of Venezuelan non-resistance. Or perhaps the Trump administration has no plan and is improvising on the fly. Perhaps Trump wanted the win, got the win, and figured they’d sort out the …
Maduro has been captured. What's next? - by Peter Wildeford
Under this framework, major powers implicitly agree to stay out of each other’s backyards. There’s perhaps something to this interpretation. Trump has shown little appetite for defending Ukraine, and his pressure on European allies to handle their own defense suggests a willingness to let that theater go.
Maduro has been captured. What's next? - by Peter Wildeford
China holds billions in Venezuelan debt and has been receiving sanctioned oil shipments.
Maduro has been captured. What's next? - by Peter Wildeford