Kevin Liu

I’ve been thinking more about how to be a little more private.

Value updates I find it helpful to keep a doc describing my values.

Ok, so maybe it’s a bit past 2024, but I think it’s still worth posting.

On autoregression A model is a promise — a mathematical loop that, if recursively iterated a thousand or two steps, will create something of value at the end.

And they should.

This article is about the standard prompt, used in machine learning.

From the archives of posts which are basically reflections and that I might never post at all.

What separates people who are content from those who aren’t?

There’s a certain type of multi-agent interaction in society where you’re presented with two choices: a default option that’s easy and beneficial for you, and a hard option that results in pain for you but is more “moral”/”ethical”/”prosocial.”

There’s a certain category of book that talks not about factual events or information, but about vibes – ways in which to think about the world, archetypes that slightly tweak your inner neural predictor rather than create a hard decision boundary.

Overall thoughts: Beautiful meta-narrative and an interesting depiction of the AI “AU” (instead of superintelligent ML, we use brain recording + usage for automation).

Cars are weird.

General rules I follow: It’s okay to pay for something if it gives you more value than however-much-the-subscription costs.

Launched Zero – my homelab, running a Matrix server, GitLab, Asterisk, and the blog you’re currently reading, along with a constellation of other services that I use daily.

While machine learning research has made incredible theoretical advances, the day-to-day tools most researchers use are… poorly optimized, to say the least.

This post is cross-posted to LessWrong, a rationality and AI safety community.

Thanks to Aneesh Edara for reviewing this post.

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants terrible and demonic abstractions.”

Yubikeys are great for security, but their benefits decrease somewhat when you leave them in your computer unattended.1 I unfortunately have a habit of forgetting my key when I walk away from the computer.

(Disclaimer: I’m not a mobile network engineer.