Joel Burget

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I write software at survivalandflourishing.com. Previously MATS, Google, Khan Academy.

Notes on Dark Sun (The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb)

Joel BurgetSep 2, 2025, 1:20 PM

22 points

6 votes

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0 comments23 min readLW link

Economic Post-ASI Transition

Joel BurgetJan 1, 2025, 10:37 PM

19 points

10 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors

Joel BurgetJun 13, 2024, 9:28 PM

35 points

20 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

GPT2, Five Years On

Joel BurgetJun 5, 2024, 5:44 PM

34 points

11 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(importai.substack.com)

Quick Thoughts on Scaling Monosemanticity

Joel BurgetMay 23, 2024, 4:22 PM

28 points

11 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

(transformer-circuits.pub)

[Question] How is GPT-4o Related to GPT-4?

Joel BurgetMay 15, 2024, 6:33 PM

10 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to Model the Future of Open-Source LLMs?

Joel BurgetApr 19, 2024, 2:28 PM

25 points

13 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Paul Christiano named as US AI Safety Institute Head of AI Safety

Joel BurgetApr 16, 2024, 4:22 PM

257 points

111 votes

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58 comments1 min readLW link

(www.commerce.gov)

Highlights from Lex Fridman’s interview of Yann LeCun

Joel BurgetMar 13, 2024, 8:58 PM

48 points

27 votes

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15 comments41 min readLW link

Interpretability isn’t Free

Joel BurgetAug 4, 2022, 3:02 PM

12 points

9 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Anthropic’s SoLU (Softmax Linear Unit)

Joel BurgetJul 4, 2022, 6:38 PM

21 points

12 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

(transformer-circuits.pub)

Joel Burget’s Shortform

Joel BurgetJun 11, 2022, 7:53 PM

2 points

1 vote

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5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] The two missing core reasons why aligning at-least-partially superhuman AGI is hard

Joel BurgetApr 19, 2022, 5:15 PM

7 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Chesterton’s Fence vs The Onion in the Varnish

Joel BurgetMar 24, 2022, 9:20 PM

8 points

10 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

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