Splitting Infinity
Sam Harsimony, niplav, No Magic PillRoadmapping a better future for everything
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Tech I'm skeptical of and why
I’m a fan of people trying things, even if they seem silly. Dismissing risky ideas misses the point of research.
But thoughtful criticism can direct effort to more promising fields. To that end, I’m going to try to make my criticism as con...
Solving monopoly without regulation
Generally, I favor of limited government intervention in the economy. For instance, I’ve proposed subsidies and regulated marketplaces as alternatives to sweeping mandates.
One challenge to this viewpoint is the existence of monopolies1. A...
Training on aligned data mostly solves alignment
Michelangelo’s Moses (source).
AI does what the training data tells it to do
If an LLM sees “2 + 2 = 4” in the training data it will predict “4” for the question “2 + 2 = ?” If a vision model sees cats in the training data, it will labe...
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Cardiac atheroma at the limits – are we fighting the final battle? A 2020 talk by Peter Libby, leading researcher on heart disease. Does a nice job of mapping out all the paths we have to prevent heart disease.
One of the main categ...
Sleep experiment initial results and notes
Over the last few months we have been doing a sleep experiment inspired by our suspicion that orexin is an exciting target for sleep need reduction.
We mildly deprived ourselves of sleep (5-5.5 hours, relative to 7-7.5 hours normally) and...
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