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> Shimmering Substance - Jackson Pollock
Think of this post as your field guide to a new way of building software.
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<td><a href="https://github.com/Geaming200... | Resource Link Paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07691 Code https://github.com/Geaming2002/FAST SAEs Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct_SAEs🤗,Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct_SAEs🤗,Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct_SAEs🤗,Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct_SAEs🤗,Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct_SAEs🤗,Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct_SAEs🤗,Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct_SAEs🤗
> 💡 TL;DR
>
> In th... | 2,107 | 1.20.1 | Revision | false | null | null | CrosspostOutput | |
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Crossposted from my blog.
(I think this is an important article, so I’d really appreciate you sharing and restacking it—especially with people who are very rich).
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See also: Raising children on the eve of AI
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Checkout <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mQESiNe9dQte2P5Gk/johannes-biography">my Biography</a>.<br>
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<p>Posts I'd recommend:</p>
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<li><a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/5te/a_summary_of_savages_foundations_for_probability/">A summary of Savage's foundations for probability and utility</a> -- if the arguments used to ground probability and... | null | null | 23 | 1,164 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | r38pkCm7wF4M44MDQ | User | null | null | null | [
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