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Tips On Empirical Research Slides — LessWrong

Jan 8, 2025 | lesswrong.com | James Chua |John Hughes |Ethan Perez

Our research is centered on empirical research with LLMs. So if you are doing something similar, these tips on slide-based communication may be helpful!Background:James Chua and John Hughes are researchers working under Owain Evans and Ethan Perez, respectively. Both of us (James and John) used to be MATS mentees. We weren't good at making research slides at first -- here are some principles we've found useful for understandable slides for our weekly research meetings.
Smell loss is linked to more than 100 diseases in new study

Oct 29, 2024 | msn.com | Ethan Perez

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Smell loss is linked to more than 100 diseases in new study

Oct 29, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Ethan Perez

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:Researchers from the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences, in collaboration with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, reveal a powerful link between olfactory loss and inflammation in a staggering 139 medical conditions.
How I select alignment research projects — LessWrong

Apr 10, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Ethan Perez |Henry Sleight |Mikita Balesni
New study unlocks the secrets of birth defect origins

Mar 28, 2024 | universityofcalifornia.edu | Ethan Perez

The work, published online recently in the journal Science Advances, identified crucial genetic interactions during the earliest stages of embryonic development that predicted birth defects characteristic of Cornelia de Lange syndrome and may offer clues about the genetic origins of many types of birth defects.
Tips for Empirical Alignment Research — LessWrong

Feb 29, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Ethan Perez

TLDR: I’ve collected some tips for research that I’ve given to other people and/or used myself, which have sped things up and helped put people in the right general mindset for empirical AI alignment research. Some of these are opinionated takes, also around what has helped me. Researchers can be successful in different ways, but I still stand by the tips here as a reasonable default.
Study finds drought fuels invasive species after wildfires

Feb 28, 2024 | phys.org | Ethan Perez

In a study recently published in the journal Ecology, University of California, Irvine scientists uncover the intricate dance between drought, wildfires and invasive species in Southern California's coastal sage scrub ecosystems.
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training — LessWrong

Jan 12, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Carson Denison |David Kristjanson Duvenaud |Nicholas Schiefer |Ethan Perez

I'm not going to add a bunch of commentary here on top of what we've already put out, since we've put a lot of effort into the paper itself, and I'd mostly just recommend reading it directly, especially since there are a lot of subtle results that are not easy to summarize. I will say that I think this is some of the most important work I've ever done and I'm extremely excited for us to finally be able to share this.
¿Cómo los juegos pueden beneficiar la educación de los niños?

Dec 4, 2023 | periodicolavoz.com.mx | Ethan Perez

Jugar videojuegos es un tema muy divertido, algunas personas piensan que podría tener una mala influencia en los niños y algunas personas piensan que podría ayudar a educar a los niños de una manera divertida. Estoy muy en desacuerdo con el hecho de que podría ser una mala influencia para los niños. En mi opinión, los niños no se educan lo suficiente en la escuela. Esto se debe a lo aburrido que es.
[2310.12921] Vision-Language Models are Zero-Shot Reward Models for Reinforcement Learning

Oct 19, 2023 | arxiv.org | Ethan Perez |David H. Lindner |Victoriano Montesinos |Elvis Nava