Since the invention of the Methuselah Treatment, we at 80,000 Hours have updated our career planning framework to address extended lifespans. This guide presents our evidence-based recommendations for maximizing your impact over a 1000-year career. 3 minute read time Consider Getting a Postpostpostgraduate Degree Our previous advice considered a 40-year career payoff period, making advanced […]| BorisTheBrave.Com
I’m in the midst of doing the MATS program which has kept me super busy, but that didn’t stop me working on resolving the most important question of our time: What Hogwarts House does y…| BorisTheBrave.Com
This year I’ve been on sabbatical, and have spent my time upskilling in AI Safety. Part of that is doing independent research projects in different fields. Some of those items have resulted in useful output, notably A Toy Model of the U-AND Problem, Do No Harm? and SAEs and their Variants. And then there are others that I’ve just […]| BorisTheBrave.Com
Looking a little ahead into the future, I think LLMs are going to stop being focused on knowledgeable, articulate chatbots, but instead be more efficient models that are weaker in these areas than current models, but relatively stronger at reasoning, a pure-reasoner model. The rest will be bolted on via tool-use and other scaffolding. Read more on […]| BorisTheBrave.Com
In procedural generation, the absolute simplest, most common technique is randomly picking an item from a list. More often than not, it is a weighted random choice, where each item is selected with…| BorisTheBrave.Com
Thank you for your interest in FrostGPT™.Rate which response you like the most? Response 1 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as […]| BorisTheBrave.Com
Last week, I saw a talk on Vuntra City, a procedurally generated city with a fully explorable city. Developer Larissa Davidova explained that she settled on using Recursive Subdivision for the city…| BorisTheBrave.Com
TranformerLens is a Python library for Mechanistic Interpretability. It’s got some great tutorials… but they are all kinda verbose. Here’s a cheatsheet of all the common things you’ll want from the library. Click the links for more details. Setup Creating a model Models have very similar arguments and methods to Torch modules. Full list of […]| BorisTheBrave.Com
I’ve been working on some AI Safety research. It’s kinda dense for a blog, so I’m hosting elsewhere. It’s investigation into how ML models do boolean at the most fundamental…| BorisTheBrave.Com
Tracery bots were a fun, simple, way of making generative texts. They are basically an easy way to specify generative grammars via a simple JSON file format. There used to be a horde of fun little …| BorisTheBrave.Com