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Informed consent is central to research ethics
On the unauthorized experiment conducted on a subreddit community.
May 8
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Sean Trott
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April 2025
Identifying signatures of LLM-generated text
What metrics from open-source LLMs can tell us about the differences between human essays and those written by ChatGPT-3 and ChatGPT-4.
Apr 18
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Sean Trott
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Identifying signatures of LLM-generated text
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March 2025
LLM-ology and the "moving target" problem
How can a science of LLMs keep up with technological development?
Mar 27
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Sean Trott
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LLM-ology and the "moving target" problem
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An overlooked problem with LLM benchmarks
Proxies for a capability may not map linearly onto the capability itself.
Mar 12
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Sean Trott
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An overlooked problem with LLM benchmarks
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Building inductive biases into LLMs
Language models are hungry for data—can we initialize their weights in ways that help reduce how much data they need?
Mar 4
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Sean Trott
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Building inductive biases into LLMs
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February 2025
Learning across timescales
Knowledge distillation happens in many forms.
Feb 24
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Sean Trott
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On reading the "classics"
The value of academic archaeology
Feb 4
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Sean Trott
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January 2025
Did cooking make us human?
A review of Richard Wrangham's "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human".
Jan 18
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Sean Trott
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Did cooking make us human?
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The epistemology of lower back pain
Or: trying to learn to stop worrying and love spine neutrality
Jan 9
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Sean Trott
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December 2024
The Counterfactual’s 2024 in review
Wrapping up another year.
Dec 29, 2024
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Sean Trott
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The Counterfactual’s 2024 in review
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Deep Dive: Molmo
Exploring the new multimodal model from AI2.
Dec 12, 2024
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Sean Trott
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Towards an unambiguous notation for LLMs
Names like "o1-preview" are pretty vague—can we do better?
Dec 2, 2024
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Sean Trott
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