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The Design of Personality: Against Crude Reinforcement in Human-AI Interaction

The iPhone has long been a symbol of the importance of design in technology. Faster and smaller chips, touch screens and wireless internet are hard technological…

The Long Tail: Thoughts on Data Collection and Ownership in the Interpolation Revolution

ai

society

llm

The text in this blog post is produced by transcribing a voice recording. It means that it is less structured than an essay, but I think it at least might contain thoughts…

Role of Open Source in AI-Human Collaboration

What role does open source play in AI safety? Is open source special?

macromacroscale

it feels like plus and minus are essential, but it is multiplication and division thats the everything, when you consider scale. i love orders of magnitude, just tell me the…

meditation attractors

meditation

when doing breath meditation, mindwandering is an important notion. we can perhaps imagine that the mind follows a trajectory in some kind of space, \(x(t) \in \mathcal{X}\).…

curious adventures 1

what is the first thing i want to know? there is on the order of 100b neurons, people throw around the number 86 billion. okay, but there are not only neurons. how many…

How does static FC compare across sessions in MyConnectome Project?

neuroscience

fmri

One could imagine that one day it might be possible that a psychiatric patient could be undergoing some brain imaging sessions, and some computational model of the subject’s…

jax adventures 001

I have been wanting to learn more Jax, so I will go on an a Jax adventure.

Notes on neural scaling and its value to biology

stream-of-thought

I saw a plot recently, showing the size of scRNA-seq datasets according to release date. Tahoe-100M includes 100M cells and at least looking at this plot, it looks like we…

Should LLMs have the ability to stop a conversation?

llm

consciousness

Consider chatbots like ChatGPT. These chatbots have a prompt that is hidden from the user, that will contain information such as the current date, which tools are available…