gwern

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Gwern’s 2025 Inkhaven Writing Interview

gwern9 Feb 2026 22:11 UTC

37 points

2 comments31 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

“Tilakkhana”, Gwern [poem]

gwern21 Oct 2025 2:39 UTC

22 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

Security Mindset: Hacking Pinball High Scores

gwern29 May 2025 3:39 UTC

29 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

If you’re not sure how to sort a list or grid—seriate it!

gwern28 May 2025 3:54 UTC

218 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jstatsoft.org)

October The First Is Too Late

gwern13 May 2025 21:45 UTC

61 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

Ideas for benchmarking LLM creativity

gwern16 Dec 2024 5:18 UTC

60 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

“Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?”, Epoch AI (yes)

gwern24 Aug 2024 1:40 UTC

136 points

5 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(epochai.org)

“On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers”, Claude 2024 [humor]

gwern23 Jun 2024 21:18 UTC

22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

FHI (Future of Humanity Institute) has shut down (2005–2024)

gwern17 Apr 2024 13:54 UTC

176 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

(www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)

Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk (June 2023)?

gwern3 Jul 2023 0:48 UTC

429 points

54 comments7 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

[Question] COVID-19 Group Testing Post-mortem?

gwern5 Aug 2022 16:32 UTC

72 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Emergent Ventures/Schmidt (new grantor for individual researchers)

gwern9 Apr 2022 14:41 UTC

21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(marginalrevolution.com)

Fake Journal Club proposal

gwern25 Mar 2022 14:23 UTC

25 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC

419 points

120 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.gwern.net)

Capability Phase Transition Examples

gwern8 Feb 2022 3:32 UTC

39 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

“Summarizing Books with Human Feedback” (recursive GPT-3)

gwern15 Nov 2021 17:41 UTC

24 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

EfficientZero: human ALE sample-efficiency w/MuZero+self-supervised

gwern2 Nov 2021 2:32 UTC

137 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

My ML Scaling bibliography

gwern23 Oct 2021 14:41 UTC

35 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

AlphaFold 2 paper released: “Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold”, Jumper et al 2021

gwern15 Jul 2021 19:27 UTC

39 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

May 2021 Gwern.net newsletter

gwern11 Jun 2021 14:13 UTC

31 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)