Curt Tigges
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Science lead at @decode_research (parent org of @neuronpedia) | Consciousness, qualia and futurist philosophy
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Joined September 2014
@jstanchak Maybe the peak of a covid wave is not a good time to breathe heavily in a crowded room with dozens of strangers.
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@chaoticitgirl Most of this, like chores, exercise, and making food, is what a lot of people do anyway. just that they also go to work. No judgement on what she should be wanting. But it sounds so terribly boring.
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@GShaneMorris imo, people miss being a child when eating pizza and having a movie night were actually a big deal.
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@FourthWaver I'm an ex-mormon myself, but even so I will point out that this is a splinter cult, not the mormon church itself.
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Sentiment is everywhere in language. But how do LLMs represent it?. We find:.- All models studied have a linear, causal sentiment direction.- They summarize information at placeholder tokens like commas. An early step towards decoding world models!.
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@eatpraydiehard the difference in cleanliness is absolutely trivial to see if you have any light-colored rugs in your home; it's not a charade. and you can be damn sure I'm having people take off their shoes when visiting me after trudging through the toxic streets of San Francisco.
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@growing_daniel What you're missing is that flying is an absolutely miserable, degrading experience for almost everyone. Taking an HSR train, however, has always been chill and pleasant in my experience.
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@OneKneeSteve @SoVeryBritish I'm an American close enough to Borough Market that I can eat there daily, and I can say that the food quality is exceptional. Both the food stalls and the market portion, which is better than most upscale grocery stores in the US. (And yet affordable!).
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@Rainmaker1973 I believe that's more about variety than location, no?. In any case, apples can also have deep red flesh (and such varieties are far more nutritious than nutrient-poor white-fleshed apples):
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@cozybao Sounds nice, but I don't think this is entirely accurate; many, many relationships die from lack of effort, stagnation and complacency. Love is never unconditional.
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@Dauragon not just self Cringe Avoidance, but also "how do I avoid someone else having to get into a Cringe situation here, how do I keep this entire social vibe free of Cringe".
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@cubsjaw As opposed to all the awesome stuff you can do in the suburbs where most Americans live, like go to Target or Olive Garden or even the movie theater sometimes. Rural populations are only like 14%, but they're probably not spending all their time enjoying nature either.
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@thechosenberg I maintain my belief that dating apps turn ordinary people into terrible people, as well as installing mindsets that make people much less happy than they would have been otherwise.
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@north0fnorth Seems like a good idea to go take a simple heavy metals test. There are inexpensive tests for the water and for your body, eg:
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@sashachapin Resistant starch is better, cheaper, and probably a lot healthier for the brain:
@the_wilderless Actually, one kind of biohacking I do that might be of interest to you: I use resistant starch (a prebiotic) that dramatically increases the vividness, intensity, and narrative quality of dreams. Happy to provide more details if curious!.
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New blog post on conducting exploratory mechanistic interpretability analysis on RLHF-finetuned language models: The LLM landscape is increasingly dominated by RLHF models. But we have very little understanding of how this changes their internals.
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@lalalandpod69 @202accepted I'm basically an old person (as a millennial) who doesn't understand tiktok.
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@OlliesVollies @jstanchak It's not terrifying, but covid means at least 2 weeks of lost/reduced productivity in most cases, which is not minor in the scheme of things. And the more often you get it, the bigger the chances of long covid. Nobody wants to live this way, but nobody wants to get sick either.
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@bloodberry_tart I actually think we're doing that already without using much AI. Everything is optimized for SEO, websites and search are becoming more and more unusable. SEO articles are the vast majority of what shows up in searches and they are usually garbage.
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@alessabocchi >ost people my age can barely afford a mortgage for a one-bedroom. This is also true in the US (depending on age, but 20-40ish) in any major city. (Distant exurbs, ghost towns, and the countryside are still affordable, though).
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@the_wilderless Actually, one kind of biohacking I do that might be of interest to you: I use resistant starch (a prebiotic) that dramatically increases the vividness, intensity, and narrative quality of dreams. Happy to provide more details if curious!.
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@bobby_on_mars @runaway_vol The issue is that it prevents you from having that deep focus time to work on other things, since you'll always need half your focus to be on maintaining appearances/replying to emails. It's a half life, a cursed life.
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@202accepted Why would this work? Tiktok is not even available in China--do they censor live streams in the West?.
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@heshidicjudaism Again, notice that none of the men in the comments agree with him. This isn't "men," this is that one guy, and yeah, it's probably engagement bait.
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@airkatakana Claude has had this ability for months; if your whole business was based on uploading PDFs for an API-called GPT-4 to interact with, I regret to inform you that you simply do not have a good business model.
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@mahlenr walks and video games satisfy different needs imo. neither can really replace the other (though obviously walks are way more important/beneficial overall).
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@motherpilled Seems normal, even if you're a bachelor living alone etc. I see it as a way to increase the probability that I'll enjoy cooking the next meal (because the kitchen will be pristine and ready).
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@mecha_mantis @the_wilderless You can use Bob's Red Mill unmodified potato starch or green banana flour. Slowly (slowly!) work your way up to 20-30g of RS, taken before bed mixed in water. About 80% of the unmodified potato starch is RS, so IIRC that's about 4 tbsp. Great for gut health, dreams, and calmness.
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@LegoRacers2 It's not something you put over a base, it's something you dip chips in. It's supposed to be substantial enough to be a base itself!.
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@sexyredinbed @USDA @USDOL @GeorgiaDOL @GaDeptAg It might not seem very official, but leaving this info on a Google review would likely dissuade quite a lot of people from putting their dogs there.
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@wanyeburkett This seems likely for normal jobs, but for jobs where output is what counts (e.g., research, *some* programming) or where you actually care quite a bit about what you're doing (e.g., research, startups, writing), I think some people end up working even more at home.
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@BradStanfieldMD I'm curious why so many influencers are trying to convince people to eat seed oils when EVOO is right there, backed up by innumerable studies. Not to mention the obvious issue of omega-6 to omega-3 imbalance. You simply can't eat enough fish to compensate.
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@StoopMensch whenever you turn a verb into a noun phrase it's the base, uninflected form, so obviously it's "reed receipt".
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@maxisawesome538 I think most people conceive of "reading a textbook" as literally that, with maybe some note-taking, rather than "mastering a textbook" (that is, doing all the exercises, understanding it >50%). Sadly, the former won't actually get you anywhere near "being ahead of the 99%".
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@puheenix It seems possible that our historical reverence for elders came from times when those who did survive to old age were unusually wise (rather than being the default outcome), and from a time when humans were subjected to more experiences where life wisdom would be useful.
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@animalologist It strikes me as super weird for someone to see that as such a superlative compliment.
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@imperialauditor because their default lifestyle wasn't "sitting at home, not walking or not sleeping because of excessive device use, etc.".
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@Aella_Girl I think it's difficult to justify the idea that it is gendered. I acknowledge your N=1 report, but I've had the same experience in the opposite direction. I think it's just the case that most people, in a dating setting, are focused more on themselves/needs than on the other.
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@paleonormie Honestly after hearing dating story after dating story from some of my female friends, I totally get why some women would do this.
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@itinerantfog heating pad+weighted blanket would kill half the people on here, cooling pad would be better for most! but yeah, everyone should test stuff to find out what helps them sleep best.
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@dissproportion often we are bound by not wanting to deal with the consequences of a line of action rather than conformity for the sake of conformity.
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@Aella_Girl As Seneca pointed out, life doesn't end all at once when we die. It ends piece by piece throughout our entire lives. (And we have new beginnings at the same time).
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@duns_sc0tus That's because in general, men like bonding through activities or work. And there's not much that leads to that anymore. Office work doesn't lend itself to camaraderie the same way hunting together does.
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Circuit analysis is a common tool in mechanistic interpretability for understanding model behaviors when executing certain tasks. But how well do these findings generalize throughout model training or to models of different sizes?
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@daniel_271828 @nickcammarata At this point, OpenAI is essentially a Rorschach blot for everyone to project their own worldviews and fantasies onto.
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@Katabassist Mostly they canceled those programs because, even though many top officers believed the phenomena were real, they just couldn't figure out how to get reliable intel out of it. But they did some pretty crazy stuff along the way for sure.
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@realgirl_fieri Hue lightbulbs. Being able to change the color and brightness of your lighting instantly is amazing. (it's very cozy to turn it down to an dim orange late at night).
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@hyperdiscogirl 1. It feels deeply inauthentic and attention-seeking, 2. It's too much like annoying characters written for children. People are like this in real life to a lesser degree and can be quite tiring to be around.
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@AnikVJoshi Have to go to Asia for that. Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok, Shanghai, etc. (Which were the inspiration for cyberpunk anyway. ) . It's odd how Americans see them as dystopian hellscapes but in East Asia they're mostly just really cool but expensive places to live.
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@ChadNotChud It's a lot less about the individual foods than it is about the overall diet. Is canola oil poison? Probably not. Is it less healthful than EVOO? Obviously. Has replacing most of our food product and restaurant oils with cheap veg. oil screwed with our omega-3-to-6 ratio? Yes.
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@TheWreelest @leftfemme They're a lot more similar than what we call Chinese "dialects." (We should actually call them what they are: separate languages as well as clusters of smaller dialects between them).
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@brickroad7 100% is definitely overselling it, but you're right that this is very significant and exciting stuff.
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@CanalStKicks @panchromaticity @thiagovscoelho Indeed. You have to get very rigorous about your own behavior. I had "tried everything" at one point and didn't really lose weight, until I started cooking all my own food and logging every gram of everything that I ate. Suddenly the laws of thermodynamics started working!.
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@keta_mean_ Mine dropped *significantly* when that happened. It's easy to get lost in the world that way, and to let it program you. It was only when I rediscovered purpose and started working towards the things I found most meaningful that my wellbeing started to return.
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@startingfromnix I think that lies somewhere between FOMO and sondering, but yeah it does seem like a real thing.
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@jameygannon I don't know where you live, but that is almost an order of magnitude off in a big city. Here in SF, a normal takeout meal (like a simple sandwich) is going to be $20-$50. Add delivery or tip and it's $40+ (the sky's the limit). If you think takeout is cheaper, then you really.
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@emmaher16067073 @jstanchak Got it for the first time 4 weeks ago. It sucks, even if you have every vaccine, booster, and antiviral in the world+good health, nutrition and supplements.
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@paleonormie I did this for 10 years but am finally getting all future books (except low-brow novels) and books I might reread in print. Comprehension, focus, etc. is just higher with paper.
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@pointed_max Corresponding, charisma is about mastering the unconscious signals/invoked emotions you communicate, but can't be forced through mere behavior imitation/regulation; something has to be invoked deep down in oneself.
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@seaweedanxiety A lot of this is part of the process of "enshittification," which affects many technology services:
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@onnnnnnnion @_ali_taylor This is perfect imo. Overexplaining usually will make the other person overthink.
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@honestwamen She is indeed trying to help but I have a very hard time reading her sentences--not surprised the guy was confused.
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@appendix_1 @cubsjaw This is maybe 1-5% of Americans; even most people in rural areas do not live like this, nor would our economy accommodate most people living this way.
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@seconds_0 Science is pretty clear that adiposity depends mostly on calorie balance, so as long as those individuals aren't overeating calories there are no contradictions. Other issues caused by nutrient imbalance usually don't show up until later in life.
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If LLMs are dumb next-token predictors, this summarization behavior is surprising! It suggests they can operate at a higher level of abstraction, summarizing the clause at commas to use the information further on. Understanding such bottlenecks is crucial to decoding world models
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@Duderichy I do not believe any statements of this kind unless they show me their detailed Macrofactor or Cronometer logs (with things in gram increments whenever possible).
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@anthonykdrives @GShaneMorris yeah, but kids in those families aren't the ones posting the nostalgia memes. I'm saying that the nostalgia memes come from former kids exactly because they are no longer kids.
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@TetraspaceWest tpot basically seems to consist mostly of this and it is indeed very mysterious.
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@meta_nomad The Stoics would be the first people to tell you that their philosophy applies to all humans. Even though no audience was intended, his thoughts apply to all of us. Data analysts might seem unimportant to you, but one of the most famous Stoics was a water-carrier.
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@TylerAlterman as an immediate relative of a musician: the path to get to that nice state of flow and beauty (which is a small fraction of the hours of one's career) is one of the most difficult, frustrating, maddening, self-questioning, imposter-syndrome-y things you can do. esp for violin.
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@TylerAlterman Pretty sure, yeah. I get strong effects at 200mg. Its not a universal cognitive enhancer, though. Just a mild anxiolytic/caffeine smoother that's good for some tasks, bad for others.
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@zebulgar @annaarthoe "Find morally reprehensible" isn't a feeling, it's a value judgement (at least as the language is normally used). If you just feel revulsion that's a different thing, and sure, your feelings are your feelings.
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@kitten_beloved This makes a lot of sense if you consider having children to be the only, or at least the biggest priority in your life. And if you can afford it. But turning over your life to be lived for the sake of children before you've even lived your own has its costs too.
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@bargdarg @asglidden @BrennanColberg Mice are famously unwilling to use these methods, or at least do so unreliably (and it is for them that the virus was intended).
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@animalologist What the hell happened there? That's one of the most unobjectionable tweets I've ever seen yet everyone is whining about it.
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@SWENGDAD or you're still a teenager (which is a lot of people going on about this online). things change over time.
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@the_aiju Agreed, though this doesn't always come from suppression. Many have as their instinctual response: "Ah, a negative emotion! let me find someone to thrust it upon and tame it for me".
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@DiamonDie @Potatopolitics @lisybabe Oxytocin (which is at least part of how MDMA does its thing) is a double-edged sword. It does increase empathy and concern for the in-group or a person's current circle of concern, but it also increases xenophobia/dislike of the outgroup.
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