LLMs as Giant Lookup-Tables of Shallow Circuits
Early 2026 LLMs in scaffolds, from simple ones such as giving the model access to…
Category: Opinion
Requiem for a Transhuman Timeline
The world was fair, the mountains tall,In Elder Days before the fallOf mighty kings in NargothrondAnd Gondolin, who now…
There is No One There: A simple experiment to convince yourself that LLMs probably are not conscious
This is a cross posted from my substack. I thought it should be interesting to…
The New LessWrong LLM Policy is Worse Than You Think
Recently, the moderators of LessWrong have decided to change the site's policies on LLM usage.…
New RFP on Interpretability from Schmidt Sciences
Request for ProposalsDeadline: Tuesday, May 26, 2026Schmidt Sciences invites proposals for a pilot program in…
New RFP on Interpretability from Schmidt Sciences
Request for ProposalsDeadline: Tuesday, May 26, 2026Schmidt Sciences invites proposals for a pilot program in…
Research note on window shifting training
Authors: Kei Nishimura-Gasparian, Neev ParikhThis is a research progress note describing work done during the…
Mahalo, Kailua-Kona
In The Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega y Gasset writes (translated from the original…
Medical Roundup #7
Things are relatively quiet on the AI front, so I figured it’s time to check…
The bitter lesson for software
Software is made of information flowsSoftware encodes information flows. An ERP system, for instance, takes…