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Nov 26, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | David Gross |Matt Goldenberg
Epistemic Status: 13 years working as a therapist for a wide variety of populations, 5 of them working with rationalists and EA clients. 7 years teaching and directing at over 20 rationality camps and workshops.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Matt Goldenberg
There have been several good posts about how to profit from a world of AI takeoff. However, when it comes to individual investment recommendations, most of them are for direct AI companies or builders of GPUs and compute infrastrucutreRecently, it's become clear to me that power will be much more of a bottleneck than GPUs (and therefore even more valuable). What's the best way to profit from this insight? Stock picks? Futures contracts? Something else?
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Matt Goldenberg
Understanding how neural networks learn features, or relevant patterns in data, for prediction is necessary for their reliable use in technological and scientific applications. In this work, we presented a unifying mathematical mechanism, known as Average Gradient Outer Product (AGOP), that characterized feature learning in neural networks.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Matt Goldenberg
I stumbled upon a Twitter thread where Eliezer describes what seems to be his cognitive algorithm that is equivalent to Tune Your Cognitive Strategies, and have decided to archive / repost it here.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Neel Nanda |Matt Goldenberg |Ben Pace |Gerald M. Monroe
(Also announcing: annual review prediction markets & full-height table of contents. If you're looking for this year's review results, you can find them here)The top 50 posts of each of LessWrong’s annual reviews have a new home: The LeastWrong. What will I see when I click that link? You will find the posts organized into six “books”: Rationality, Optimization, World, Practical, AI Strategy, and Technical AI Safety. Each square on the grid is a post that made the top 50 of the review in some year.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Raymond Koopmanschap |Matt Goldenberg |Henry Prowbell
Whenever I struggle to make progress on an important goal, I feel bad. I get feelings of frustration, impatience, and apathy. I think to myself, “I have wasted all this time, and I will never get it back.” The resulting behavior during these moments does not help either; my impatience makes it hard to concentrate, so I often work on more engaging tasks rather than the essential ones I ideally want to focus on. I also tend to push through; even if I feel tired, I want to make progress at all costs.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Matt Goldenberg
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral interviews were basically useless, because it was too easy for candidates to bullshit them and too hard for me to tell what was a good answer. I’d end up grading every candidate as a “weak yes” or “weak no” because I was never sure what bar I should hold them to.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Shankar Sivarajan |Gerald M. Monroe |Matt Goldenberg |Nikola Smolenski
[Original title; Gemini Has a Problem]Google’s Gemini 1.5 is impressive and I am excited by its huge context window. I continue to default to Gemini Advanced as my default AI for everyday use when the large context window is not relevant. However, while it does not much interfere with what I want to use Gemini for, there is a big problem with Gemini Advanced that has come to everyone’s attention. Gemini comes with an image generator. Until today it would, upon request, create pictures of humans.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Matt Goldenberg |Gordon Worley
I'm still not satisfied with this post, but thought I'd ship it since I refer to the concept a fair amount. I write this more as "someone who feels some kernel of univeral-love-shaped thing", but, like, i dunno man i'm not a love expert.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
lesswrong.com | Nicholas Kross |Roman Hauksson |Matt Goldenberg
Woah, I just read from that article you sent about ultrasound:it’s a huge opportunity for research. If you can “turn up” or “turn down” any brain region at will, safely enough to mess around with it on healthy human subjects, you can develop a functional atlas of the brain, where you find out exactly what each part is doing. That absolutely blew my mind.
