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New short AXRP with Zhijing Jin!

New episode of AXRP with Zhijing Jin - this time, a short one (22 min), offering an overview of her work. Blurb below, links in comments.

Do language models understand the causal structure of the world, or do they merely note correlations? And what happens when you build a big AI society out of them? In this brief episode, recorded at the Bay Area Alignment Workshop, I chat with Zhijing Jin about her research on these questions.

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Transcript

Pulchrum librum habeō.

Susan Noble
‘Autumn Ferns’
From: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1855887688668524839

William H. Hays: Mountain Melody, 2022
linocut
From: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1854986382957330908/photo/1

From: https://x.com/0zmnds/status/1854995056660562070/photo/1

From: https://x.com/0zmnds/status/1854948751812837573/photo/1

From: https://x.com/opancaro/status/1854969896871870644/photo/1

Esa Riippa (Finnish, b. 1947)
Nocturno
From: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1854960702504812953/photo/1

Paul Binnie Scottish, b. 1967
Moon at Shinobazu
From: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1854938647117640135/photo/1

Tanaka Ryōhei
Persimmons . Mountains

From: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1853326310933770502/photo/1

Shiro Shirahata- Moon over Fuji, 1972.

From: https://x.com/MenschOhneMusil/status/1853201333983023451/photo/1

Toni Demuro, Solo per Gatti, 2023.

From: https://x.com/MenschOhneMusil/status/1853183759639839203/photo/1

Last Train/Look

Night Train. 2020 Ink on paper

Christoph Niemann.
American, born in 1970.

From: https://x.com/fraveris/status/1853184339753992541/photo/1

A Beautiful Moment, Dee Nickerson.
From: https://x.com/MenschOhneMusil/status/1852592656905335109

Notes on Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new)'s ability to find errors in Latin text
I took an excerpt from a short story written for beginners, and asked Claude to evaluate it, noting that such short stories often contain errors. In a separate chat, I asked the same question, but replaced "Rōmae" with "Rōmā", which I believe is an error (and Claude in the first chat also thinks is an error). In that chat, Claude also thought the text was correct (but had some unrelated complaints). In a third example, I changed the case of a direct object to the ablative/dative instead of the accusative, and it noticed that. So it looks like Claude is not currently consistent at finding errors in Latin grammar.

From: https://x.com/365posterblog1/status/1851223700822987054

Kalshi and PredictIt differ by 10 points! Wild!

Also apparently I can't sell all my "no" shares in Kamala on PI? Quite annoying.

Okitsu-chō, Suruga, by Kawas Hasui, 1934
From: https://x.com/JapanTraCul/status/1851022883394408642

From: https://x.com/madrugada_m/status/1850579024872923510/photo/1

Good night, friends
🎨Xuan Loc Xuan
From: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1850266583052284260

Okamoto Hiroki
Something Forgotten by the Waves
From https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1850261113545404666/photo/1

Ulyana Tomkevych "Crucifixion Blossoming Cross", 2021
From https://x.com/solas_na_greine/status/1850257226495127706

@Ben Weinstein-Raun a comment on a YouTube video reading out the chapters, which only slightly exaggerates
@Ben Weinstein-Raun

A Cloud of Outrageous Blue
a book by Vesper Stamper
From: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1848778943329145061

Found here: https://x.com/0zmnds/status/1848229979785671003/photo/1

David Gentelman, My Town 7
Found here: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1848230231288529300

From here: https://x.com/0zmnds/status/1848239291043815904/photo/1

Midnight Sun - Yoshitaka Amano: Icon Aloft (1990)
From this tweet: https://x.com/xe0_xeo/status/1847019755355439221

A Thousand Cranes (full moon detail)
by Kayama Matazō (1927–2004)
Found at this tweet: https://x.com/marysia_cc/status/1846685050236244376

There's also a statue of Columbus outside the court, as well as an obviously tilted lamp post. I wonder if they're going for an aesthetic of bad things.

Do people in NY think RFK was a good guy?

Have finally located oreo-flavoured coke!

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