2025:

• 03-09: Gwern.net Large File Support

• 02-07: Your LLM Can Be Faster Than You (Can) Think

• 01-02: Plumbing Vs Internet, Revisited

2024:

• 12-04: Weinersmith’s Trajectoid Words

• 12-01: ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’: Fascist Idealism

• 11-29: Virtual comments: LLM idea for writing LessWrong posts

• 11-23: What do you do after ‘winning’ an AI arms race?

• 11-15: The State of Chinese AI

• 11-14: What do we mean by ‘diminishing returns’ in scaling?

• 09-27: Abs-E, or, speak only in positives § text2epositive.py test

• 09-01: Pemmican

• 08-24: An LLM acceptable-use policy: authors must improve samples

• 08-22: Hardware Hedging Against Scaling Regime Shifts

• 08-21: You should write more online—it’s still a good time

• 08-16: Marvel’s Silver Age of Comics: Humanizing Mythology

• 08-07: What is an ‘AI warning shot’?

• 07-30: Towards Better RSS Feeds for Gwern.net

• 07-29: A Gambler’s Verity World: Sampling-Without-Replacement

• 07-22: Flaws in Midjourney’s new personalization feature

• 06-24: Regexps used to be AI

• 06-19: Is OpenAI OK? How would we know & what would it look like?

• 06-16: GPT-3 Semantic Derealization

• 05-12: ‘Tools For Thought’ Work Fails: Lots of Tools Work, Not Thought

• 04-21: Kids Are Sick, A Lot

• 04-06: On First Looking Into Tolkien’s Tower

• 03-24: Hybridizing forums and wikis proposal

• 02-10: Wolfe’s ‘Fat Magician’: Marx Brothers’s A Night at the Opera?

2023:

• 12-29: Things You Can’t Countersignal Online: Good Writing

• 11-12: Why do writers still underestimate LLMs?

• 09-30: Against Caring About Subtle Poisons

2022:

• 05-28: GPT-3 2^nd Anniversary & Looking Forward 2 Years

• 01-28: Cleanup When: Before or After?

• 01-23: PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare

• 01-02: Peak Pre-Modern Human Speed

2021:

• 11-09: Why Dreams Don’t Matter (Morally or Psychologically)

2020:

• 02-09: Crowdsourcing The Best GPT-2-1.5b Poetry

2019:

• 02-19: ThisWaifuDoesNotExist.net

2018:

• 10-20: WBE & DRL: a Middle Way of imitation learning on brains

2015:

• 04-22: Estimated Cost of the DMT Machine Elves Prime Factorization Experiment

2013:

• 07-20: Spending Writing ‘Weirdness Points’ Wisely

2011:

• 12-18: I-zombies: The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness