@vmfunc

computer hacker, alignment & safety @flockcap, part-time independent journalist opinions my own 💍 @computerphile

 Seattle / San Francisco
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Joined March 2020
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went side questin' @NotionHQ yesterday :)
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Replying to @nikunj
great message and very on point but why did you have to use AI for all of it :(
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2024 vs 2026 (before vs after rationalism)
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went to twitch HQ today
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ty @pangram !!
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Replying to @r2pair
I HAVE THIS ONE LOL
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posted up at the midjourney event last night ❤️❤️
Michael Tsai
@thedataroomOct 6
Replying to @thedataroom
2/ many of my favorite minds in AI and in general @DavidSHolz @mattparlmer Celeste and Celeste @vmfunc @parafactual
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we made sparse autoencoders compete with tiny softmax classifiers and the classifiers won on bits 🐐 a pure discrete code (no coefficients!) beats a top-k SAE at matched bits on SONAR, and an 800-bit hard code recovers 97.6% of gpt-2's loss paper out now! (link in replies)
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sunday evening
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→ we found what was freezing heads late in training and killed it → some things very much did not work (an HSIC bottleneck does not want to be your friend), and those go in the paper too negative results are results
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