Trinley Goldenberg

There have been several good posts about how to profit from a world of AI takeoff. However, when it comes to individual investment recommendations, most of them are for direct AI companies or builders of GPUs and compute infrastrucutre Recently, it's become clear to me that power will be much...

Understanding how neural networks learn features, or relevant patterns in data, for prediction is necessary for their reliable use in technological and scientific applications. In this work, we presented a unifying mathematical mechanism, known as Average Gradient Outer Product (AGOP), that characterized feature learning in neural networks. We provided empirical...

Sharing mostly because I personally didn't realize how Thiel was viewing the Bay Area rationalists these days. He explicitly calls out Eliezer's "Death with Dignity" post as ridiculous, calls out Bostrom as out of touch, and says that the rationalists are only interesting because they aren't saying anything, and are...

Perfectionism is a surprisingly common ailment among both procrastinators who don't get stuff done, and high performers who get a LOT done. With just a few tweaks you can go from the former to the latter. While perfectionism is quite complicated, a useful simplification is to break it down into...

Non-coercive motivation is a motivation system that doesn't rely on forcing yourself, pressuring yourself, shaming or guilting (I explain more of what it means here). Would most people benefit from being less coercive to themselves? I sort of want to start answering straw versions of the question, because I think...

Note: Experimental, trying to repost a Twitter thread as a Lesswrong post to see if people like it (so if you like it, or don't, tell me). Let's talk a little bit about oscillating motivation, shadow values, non-coercion, and the problem of revolving productivity systems. We've all had the feeling...

Since I started quarantine in late February, I've been trying to learn the skill of modelling implicit skills and knowledge. Over that time, I've interviewed nearly 20 people and learned one specific implict theory or skill that they use. Many of those people in the rationality and post-rationality communities. Kaj...