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Be Not Afraid: Gods, Monsters, and Generative AI

This past June, Julie Fredrickson and I handed out AI whitepills to a conference full of farmers, academics, dissidents, and not a few Uncle Ted fans…

Jul 13 •

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Julie Fredrickson

The Latent State Window and the Limits of Reasoning in LLMs

A detailed look at recent papers on the limits of reasoning in LLMs.

Jul 5 •

June 2025

Did Claude Code Lose Its Mind, Or Did I Lose Mine?

Claude and I drifted apart, and it turns out it was my fault.

Jun 8 •

May 2025

The Reasoning Revolution In AI: How We Got Here & Why It Matters

From Claude Shannon in the late 1940's to DeepSeek R1 and beyond.

May 5 •

April 2025

June 2023

To De-Risk AI, The Government Must Accelerate Knowledge Production

A guest post on addressing non-existential AI risk scenarios

Jun 30, 2023 •

How To Regulate AI, If You Must

The rules are definitely coming, so let's make sure they lead to a future we want.

Jun 22, 2023 •

Here's How Generative AI Can Fix The News

One way or the other, we're on the verge of a media revolution thanks to generative AI. Here are specific, detailed proposals for how LLMs can make the…

Jun 15, 2023 •

Catechizing the Bots, Part 2: Reinforcement Learning and Fine-Tuning With RLHF

On overview of unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).

Jun 10, 2023 •

May 2023

Catechizing the Bots, Part 1: Foundation Models and Fine-Tuning

A basic introduction to fine-tuning foundation models.

May 28, 2023 •

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