Rubi Hudson
@undo_hubris
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PhD student at @UofT developing AI alignment theory. Heavily tattooed. My blog: https://t.co/ivZ9BGOoOt
Joined January 2018
Calling a ReLU nonlinear is so unfair. Itâs 2 lines. Thatâs literally the second most linear you can be
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There is apparently a very big difference between the Feynman Technique and the Feynman Algorithm
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No organization which allows mechanical keyboards in open offices wants to win.
This sounds like a trivial observation and it isnât: No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.
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This could be even better if it were an entirely different movie
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Blog post link: https://t.co/1n0BgbqOJp The full results will be released as a paper in a few weeks
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My new blog post (đ below) explains some exciting new results, showing how goals can be modified to be corrigible and/or monitorable without hurting performance
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flies do a remarkable amount of flying. it shouldn't be a surprise that bees do a remarkable amount of being
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Thereâs a story of Varadhanâs defense. Some old guy he didnât know was sitting in the back and started asking very difficult questions and he was getting annoyed. After, he asks his advisor, who the hell was that? âOh, I forgot to tell you I invited him. That was Kolmogorov.â
This is what Iâm gonna do if someone asks me a question I donât know the answer to at my dissertation defense
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To visualize a 14-dimensional space, simply visualize a 3-D space and then have it change in 11-D time
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Borges wrote on the evolving metaphor of God as a perfect sphere to understand humanity's relationship with the infinite. The modern incarnation of this is clearly a superintelligence, expanding in all directions at the speed of light.
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Have we done the optimal packing of 9 squares, when one of them is 8/9ths the size of the rest?
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The best Black Mirror episode is Striking Vipers, because it's neither a blunt "Tech Bad" OR "Tech Good", but rather a point that current notions of sexuality and gender are not robust to technological change
I enjoy black mirror but someone should consider funding a show thatâs optimistic about tech instead
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New blog post (link below)! I wrote about the shift of AI alignment away from developing theoretical solutions in recent years, and why I think it's still an important research direction.
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The odd one out contains small shreds of palladium
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In terms of breaking someone's life down into sections, I think nonades perform much better than decades
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@littmath In graph theory, the tree-likeness of a graph is called its "arboricity". The conceptually opposite concept of "anarboricity" was invented in Ann Arbor, MI.
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You're letting alt baddies distract you from doing alignment research? Buddy, you're worried about the wrong shegoths.
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