Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

90 points by torritest 3 years ago | 51 comments

The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

62 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 150 comments

How Typing Transformed Nietzsche's Consciousness(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

61 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 25 comments

A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

61 points by samizdis 2 months ago | 14 comments

Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

73 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 9 comments

J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

149 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 42 comments

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

How to live an intellectually rich life(utsavmamoria.substack.com)

509 points by TheLadyParadox 1 year ago | 287 comments

A Substack essay by Utsav Mamoria on living an intellectually rich life, opening with the Wikipedia first-link game that leads to Philosophy.

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes(dank.systems)

426 points by jaykru 1 month ago | 552 comments

Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Neural networks are clean(already-clean.goodfire.com)

768 points by themgt 11 days ago | 300 comments

An informal research essay by Nick Cammarata at Goodfire arguing polysemanticity stems from fixable issues, not superposition, making neurons interpretable at scale.