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beren

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Interested in many things. I have a personal blog at https://​​www.beren.io/​​

Main­tain­ing Align­ment dur­ing RSI as a Feed­back Con­trol Problem

beren2 Mar 2025 0:21 UTC
67 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

Cap­i­tal Own­er­ship Will Not Prevent Hu­man Disempowerment

beren5 Jan 2025 6:00 UTC
152 points
19 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] When and why did ‘train­ing’ be­come ‘pre­train­ing’?

beren8 Mar 2024 14:29 UTC
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The­o­ries of Change for AI Auditing

Lee Sharkey, beren and Marius Hobbhahn
13 Nov 2023 19:33 UTC
54 points
0 comments18 min readLW link
(www.apolloresearch.ai)

[Linkpost] Bi­den-Har­ris Ex­ec­u­tive Order on AI

beren30 Oct 2023 15:20 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Prefer­ence Ag­gre­ga­tion as Bayesian Inference

beren27 Jul 2023 17:59 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Loss Land­scapes and why Deep Learn­ing works

beren25 Jul 2023 16:41 UTC
54 points
4 comments18 min readLW link

BCIs and the ecosys­tem of mod­u­lar minds

beren21 Jul 2023 15:58 UTC
88 points
14 comments11 min readLW link

He­donic Loops and Tam­ing RL

beren19 Jul 2023 15:12 UTC
20 points
14 comments9 min readLW link

[Linkpost] In­tro­duc­ing Superalignment

beren5 Jul 2023 18:23 UTC
175 points
69 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

The case for re­mov­ing al­ign­ment and ML re­search from the train­ing dataset

beren30 May 2023 20:54 UTC
48 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Apollo Research

Marius Hobbhahn, beren, Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, Mikita Balesni and Jérémy Scheurer
30 May 2023 16:17 UTC
217 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

A small up­date to the Sparse Cod­ing in­terim re­search report

Lee Sharkey, Dan Braun and beren
30 Apr 2023 19:54 UTC
61 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Deep learn­ing mod­els might be se­cretly (al­most) linear

beren24 Apr 2023 18:43 UTC
117 points
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Scaf­folded LLMs as nat­u­ral lan­guage computers

beren12 Apr 2023 10:47 UTC
95 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

The sur­pris­ing pa­ram­e­ter effi­ciency of vi­sion models

beren8 Apr 2023 19:44 UTC
81 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

The Com­pu­ta­tional Anatomy of Hu­man Values

beren6 Apr 2023 10:33 UTC
74 points
30 comments30 min readLW link

Orthog­o­nal­ity is expensive

beren3 Apr 2023 10:20 UTC
43 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

RLHF does not ap­pear to differ­en­tially cause mode-collapse

Arthur Conmy and beren
20 Mar 2023 15:39 UTC
95 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Against ubiquitous al­ign­ment taxes

beren6 Mar 2023 19:50 UTC
57 points
10 comments2 min readLW link