Blog Posts

2025:
- 03-23: ⁠Adding Bits Beats AI Slop
- 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: ⁠Trying Pemmican
- 08-24: ⁠An LLM acceptable-use policy: authors must improve samples
- 08-23: ⁠Simulating Tail Collapse in R
- 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 Night at the Opera?
2023:
- 12-29: ⁠Things You Can’t Countersignal Online: Good Writing
- 11-12: ⁠Why do writers still underestimate LLMs?
- 10-27: ⁠Little’s Law in the Wild
- 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 DMT Machine Elf Prime Factorization Experiment
2013:
- 07-20: ⁠Spending Writing ‘Weirdness Points’ Wisely
2011:
- 12-18: ⁠I-zombies: The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness

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2025:

⁠Adding Bits Beats AI Slop

⁠Gwern.net Large File Support

⁠Your LLM Can Be Faster Than You (Can) Think

⁠Plumbing Vs Internet, Revisited
2024:

⁠Weinersmith’s Trajectoid Words

⁠‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’: Fascist Idealism

⁠Virtual comments: LLM idea for writing LessWrong posts

⁠What do you do after ‘winning’ an AI arms race?

⁠The State of Chinese AI

⁠What do we mean by ‘diminishing returns’ in scaling?

⁠Abs-E, or, speak only in positives § text2epositive.py test

⁠Trying Pemmican

⁠An LLM acceptable-use policy: authors must improve samples

⁠Simulating Tail Collapse in R

⁠Hardware Hedging Against Scaling Regime Shifts

⁠You should write more online—it’s still a good time

⁠Marvel’s Silver Age of Comics: Humanizing Mythology

⁠What is an ‘AI warning shot’?

⁠Towards Better RSS Feeds for Gwern.net

⁠A Gambler’s Verity World: Sampling-Without-Replacement

⁠Flaws in Midjourney’s new personalization feature

⁠Regexps used to be AI

⁠Is OpenAI OK? How would we know & what would it look like?

⁠GPT-3 Semantic Derealization

⁠‘Tools For Thought’ Work Fails: Lots of Tools Work, Not Thought

⁠Kids Are Sick, A Lot

⁠On First Looking Into Tolkien’s Tower

⁠Hybridizing forums and wikis proposal

⁠Wolfe’s ‘Fat Magician’: Marx Brothers’s Night at the Opera?
2023:

⁠Things You Can’t Countersignal Online: Good Writing

⁠Why do writers still underestimate LLMs?

⁠Little’s Law in the Wild

⁠Against Caring About Subtle Poisons
2022:

⁠GPT-3 2^nd Anniversary & Looking Forward 2 Years

⁠Cleanup When: Before or After?

⁠PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare

⁠Peak Pre-Modern Human Speed
2021:

⁠Why Dreams Don’t Matter (Morally or Psychologically)
2020:

⁠Crowdsourcing The Best GPT-2-1.5b Poetry
2019:

⁠ThisWaifuDoesNotExist.net
2018:

⁠WBE & DRL: a Middle Way of imitation learning on brains
2015:

⁠Estimated Cost of DMT Machine Elf Prime Factorization Experiment
2013:

⁠Spending Writing ‘Weirdness Points’ Wisely
2011:

⁠I-zombies: The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness