Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines
White noise machines are widely used for sound masking, increasing privacy in offices and helping people sleep. The classic approach is a fan in a box,…
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Making benchmarks outputs directly useful for AI safety and security
Epistemic status: written in 30 min. This is not as polished as I’d like but I prefer to share this as is than not to share…
Rethinking the "Second Brain": From Storing Information to Structuring Reasoning
IntroductionNote-taking and "second brain" tools (Obsidian, Roam, Logseq) are very good at storing what we know, but they offer little help in reasoning about it. In…
The EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, but make it Biosecure
Last year, the DG for energy announced a package of documents that would support EU countries to implement the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). The…
Do LoRA Read Directions Encode Visual Concepts?
TLDRI compare the semantic coherence of read directions learned by standard, ReLU, and TopK LoRA adapters with random directions in CLIP’s residual stream. Clarity, a measure…
Weird Cluster Hypothesis
The Weird Cluster Hypothesis (WCH) says that all 'weird' traits (rare, extreme, out-of-distribution, surprising, or defective) are correlated with each other, forming a cluster. In this…
Why I Believe In Objective Tastiness
"A person wants to eat a car." Note: This is a beat-for-beat parody of this post, by Bentham's Bulldog. Read the Author's note at the bottom…
I’m Afraid
I’m scared. I talked to my Saba today, and he told me he almost died a week ago. He played a video of my Mimi getting…
Isn't it a threat to reject unfair offers in the Ultimatum Game?
TLDR: title.In the Ultimatum Game, there are $10 to be divided between two players. First, Player 1 proposes a split, such as "I get $8 and…
What use is prompting if there's ASI?
It's a bit hard to imagine what role intelligent people could take if/when AI outstrips them in intelligence. And especially tough for those who have always…