Jacob G-W

Karma: 1,225

I really like learning new things!

https://jacobgw.com/

Distillation Robustifies Unlearning

Bruce W. Lee, Addie Foote, alexinf, leni, Jacob G-W, Harish Kamath, Bryce Woodworth, cloud and TurnTrout

13 Jun 2025 13:45 UTC

236 points

43 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Selective modularity: a research agenda

cloud and Jacob G-W

24 Mar 2025 4:12 UTC

71 points

2 comments24 min readLW link

Creating Interpretable Latent Spaces with Gradient Routing

Jacob G-W14 Dec 2024 4:00 UTC

26 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

Gradient Routing: Masking Gradients to Localize Computation in Neural Networks

cloud, Jacob G-W, Evzen, Joseph Miller and TurnTrout

6 Dec 2024 22:19 UTC

170 points

15 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

(arxiv.org)

I found >800 orthogonal “write code” steering vectors

Jacob G-W and TurnTrout

15 Jul 2024 19:06 UTC

112 points

20 comments7 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

Building intuition with spaced repetition systems

Jacob G-W12 May 2024 15:49 UTC

55 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

What I learned from doing Quiz Bowl

Jacob G-W9 May 2024 21:05 UTC

10 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

Taking into account preferences of past selves

Jacob G-W15 Apr 2024 13:15 UTC

14 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

From the outside, American schooling is weird

Jacob G-W and Malumit

28 Mar 2024 22:45 UTC

24 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

XAI releases Grok base model

Jacob G-W18 Mar 2024 0:47 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(x.ai)

g-w1′s Shortform

Jacob G-W6 Mar 2024 21:30 UTC

4 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

In set theory, everything is a set

Jacob G-W23 Feb 2024 14:35 UTC

11 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

[linkpost] Self-Rewarding Language Models

Jacob G-W21 Jan 2024 0:30 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Question] Concrete examples of doing agentic things?

Jacob G-W12 Jan 2024 15:59 UTC

13 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Google Gemini Announced

Jacob G-W6 Dec 2023 16:14 UTC

54 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.google)

The Puritans would one-box: evidential decision theory in the 17th century

Jacob G-W14 Oct 2023 20:23 UTC

86 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

Noticing confusion in physics

Jacob G-W12 Oct 2023 15:21 UTC

20 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

[Linkpost/Video] All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World

Jacob G-W23 Sep 2023 1:18 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Separate the truth from your wishes

Jacob G-W23 Aug 2023 0:52 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot

Jacob G-W11 Jul 2023 21:17 UTC

39 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(g-w1.github.io)