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Language Models
Agency
Deconfusion
Scaling Laws
Tool AI
Definitions
Simulation Hypothesis
PaLM
Prompt Engineering
Philosophy of Language
Carving / Clustering Reality
Astronomical Waste
33 posts
Conjecture (org)
Refine
Project Announcement
Encultured AI (org)
Analogy
759
Simulators
janus
3mo
103
494
chinchilla's wild implications
nostalgebraist
4mo
114
191
Announcing the Inverse Scaling Prize ($250k Prize Pool)
Ethan Perez
5mo
14
165
Language models seem to be much better than humans at next-token prediction
Buck
4mo
56
140
Who models the models that model models? An exploration of GPT-3's in-context model fitting ability
Lovre
6mo
14
130
Beyond Astronomical Waste
Wei_Dai
4y
41
127
Transformer Circuits
evhub
12mo
4
123
The case for becoming a black-box investigator of language models
Buck
7mo
19
116
RL with KL penalties is better seen as Bayesian inference
Tomek Korbak
6mo
15
101
Causal confusion as an argument against the scaling hypothesis
RobertKirk
6mo
30
101
Inverse Scaling Prize: Round 1 Winners
Ethan Perez
2mo
16
100
Testing PaLM prompts on GPT3
Yitz
8mo
15
89
Help ARC evaluate capabilities of current language models (still need people)
Beth Barnes
5mo
6
80
Thoughts on the Alignment Implications of Scaling Language Models
leogao
1y
11
254
We Are Conjecture, A New Alignment Research Startup
Connor Leahy
8mo
24
248
Mysteries of mode collapse
janus
1mo
35
223
Conjecture: a retrospective after 8 months of work
Connor Leahy
27d
9
222
The Singular Value Decompositions of Transformer Weight Matrices are Highly Interpretable
beren
22d
27
190
Interpreting Neural Networks through the Polytope Lens
Sid Black
2mo
26
170
Refine: An Incubator for Conceptual Alignment Research Bets
adamShimi
8mo
13
127
Circumventing interpretability: How to defeat mind-readers
Lee Sharkey
5mo
8
123
Current themes in mechanistic interpretability research
Lee Sharkey
1mo
3
118
Conjecture Second Hiring Round
Connor Leahy
27d
0
101
Announcing Encultured AI: Building a Video Game
Andrew_Critch
4mo
26
98
What I Learned Running Refine
adamShimi
26d
5
97
Searching for Search
NicholasKees
22d
6
96
[Interim research report] Taking features out of superposition with sparse autoencoders
Lee Sharkey
7d
10
88
How to Diversify Conceptual Alignment: the Model Behind Refine
adamShimi
5mo
11