David Udell

Karma: 2,550

Why Can’t We Hypothesize After the Fact?

David UdellFeb 26, 2025, 10:41 PM

40 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Causal Graphs of GPT-2-Small’s Residual Stream

David UdellJul 9, 2024, 10:06 PM

53 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Sparse Coding, for Mechanistic Interpretability and Activation Engineering

David UdellSep 23, 2023, 7:16 PM

42 points

7 comments34 min readLW link

ActAdd: Steering Language Models without Optimization

technicalities, TurnTrout, lisathiergart, David Udell, Ulisse Mini and Monte M

Sep 6, 2023, 5:21 PM

105 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector

TurnTrout, Monte M, David Udell, lisathiergart and Ulisse Mini

May 13, 2023, 6:42 PM

437 points

98 comments50 min readLW link 1 review

Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network

TurnTrout, peligrietzer, Ulisse Mini, Monte M and David Udell

Mar 11, 2023, 6:59 PM

334 points

28 comments23 min readLW link

Beneath My Epistemic Dignity

David UdellFeb 28, 2023, 4:02 AM

6 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Jaynes

David UdellFeb 16, 2023, 9:57 PM

29 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Rounding Someone Off

David UdellJan 24, 2023, 12:03 AM

25 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Consequentialists: One-Way Pattern Traps

David UdellJan 16, 2023, 8:48 PM

59 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Linear Algebra Done Right, Axler

David UdellJan 2, 2023, 10:54 PM

57 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Naive Set Theory, Halmos

David UdellDec 22, 2022, 2:34 AM

11 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Moorean Statements

David UdellOct 22, 2022, 12:50 AM

11 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Dath Ilan’s Views on Stopgap Corrigibility

David UdellSep 22, 2022, 4:16 PM

78 points

19 comments13 min readLW link

(www.glowfic.com)

Guidelines for Mad Entrepreneurs

David UdellSep 16, 2022, 6:33 AM

31 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Framing AI Childhoods

David UdellSep 6, 2022, 11:40 PM

37 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

The Shard Theory Alignment Scheme

David Udell25 Aug 2022 4:52 UTC

47 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

“What Mistakes Are You Making Right Now?”

David Udell15 Aug 2022 21:19 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Shard Theory: An Overview

David Udell11 Aug 2022 5:44 UTC

166 points

34 comments10 min readLW link

Team Shard Status Report

David Udell9 Aug 2022 5:33 UTC

38 points

8 comments3 min readLW link