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Distilled Context

Yondon Fu

Making sense of complex systems.

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Supervising unreliable experts

We’re all unreliable experts here

In the field of AI safety, scalable oversight is the set of methods for humans to supervise an AI system (eg are the outputs correct, do the outputs align with intended goals?) that has more expertise than...

10 months ago
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Pay-per-crawl and content price discovery

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Cloudflare recently announced pay-per-crawl, a system for website owners to charge bots for access to content. The system is designed specifically for "AI crawlers", the bots used by AI services like ChatGPT, Claude and Pe...

10 months ago
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Effective token usage and organizational structures

Allocating tokens

From the end of yesterday's post:

As long as the probability of task failure for a LLM is non-zero and the context window length that a LLM can effectively reason over (note that this value is not only typically differ...

10 months ago

LLM easy buttons and context rot

Just one more press and it will no longer be confused?

In a recent study from the non-profit research institute METR, experienced open-source developers surprisingly were less productive (in terms of development speed) with AI tools. This...

10 months ago
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A fly on the wall and tacit knowledge

I’d like to be this fly on the wall

I like to read GitHub conversations. There is something fascinating about tracing the collective chain of thought that transforms an idea into (sometimes) meaningful action. A number of decisions are mad...

10 months ago
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