August 9, 2023

July 2023 Updates

Hi everyone,

New posts

1. Advice from Tyler Cowen.
   • Top rated MR comment is ofc "This is just so very blindingly false" 🙂
2. Questions.
   1. Tim Ferriss: "The English is a little rough in places, but I found some of these questions to be excellent reminders and many others to be outstanding brain food." 🥲
3. 10 notes from watching pulp fiction yet again

Links

1. Anthropic: Reasoning faithfulness shows inverse scaling: as models increase in size and capability, the faithfulness of their reasoning decreases for most tasks studied.
2. Andy Zou: "We found adversarial suffixes that completely circumvent the alignment of open source LLMs. More concerningly, the same prompts transfer to ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and LLaMA-2…"
3. Cade Metz: “Mr. Altman pointed out that, as fate would have it, he and Oppenheimer share a birthday.”

Other

1. My blog now has academic citations in 4 separate scientific fields: economics, metascience, neuroscience, & AI 🫡
2. what’s the global compute distribution between companies and governments?
3. Tony Kulesa: '[PG] abruptly clarified: "Oh, not me!" The rumble of one hundred simultaneously disappointed nerds echoed through the room….' a few weeks later, in March 2005, Paul announced YC on his website.

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Have a great rest of your month & as always feel free to reach out!

Stay frosty,
Alexey