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Drake Thomas

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Interested in math puzzles, fermi estimation, strange facts about the world, toy models of weird scenarios, unusual social technologies, and deep dives into the details of random phenomena.

Working on the pretraining team at Anthropic as of October 2024; before that I did independent alignment research of various flavors and worked in quantitative finance.

Au­dit­ing lan­guage mod­els for hid­den objectives

Mar 13, 2025, 7:18 PM
141 points
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Drake Thomas’s Shortform

Drake ThomasOct 23, 2024, 4:49 PM
5 points
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Catas­trophic Re­gres­sional Good­hart: Appendix

May 15, 2023, 12:10 AM
25 points
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When is Good­hart catas­trophic?

May 9, 2023, 3:59 AM
180 points
30 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Find­ing Pro­ject Collaborators

Drake ThomasMar 19, 2022, 3:09 AM
1 point
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At­tempted Mind-Reading

Drake ThomasOct 9, 2021, 2:53 AM
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Twin Cities SSC Meetup 3/​1/​20: Death

Drake ThomasFeb 28, 2020, 4:19 AM
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Twin Cities SSC Meetup 2/​16/​20: Small Skills Workshop

Drake ThomasFeb 15, 2020, 10:38 PM
1 point
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Twin Cities Meetup 2/​1/​20: Es­ti­ma­tion, Col­lec­tive Wis­dom, and Sur­vey Data

Drake ThomasJan 29, 2020, 2:55 PM
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Min­neapo­lis/​Twin Cities SSC meetup: 10/​26/​19

Drake ThomasOct 25, 2019, 3:56 AM
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SSC Meetup 10/​12: Min­neapo­lis /​ St. Paul

Drake ThomasOct 12, 2019, 3:44 PM
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SSC meetup 10/​12: Light­ing talks and board games

Drake ThomasSep 22, 2019, 3:23 PM
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Min­neapo­lis SSC meetup Septem­ber 2019

Drake ThomasAug 29, 2019, 11:01 PM
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Twin Cities SSC Meetup

Drake ThomasMay 10, 2019, 5:10 AM
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Twin Cities SSC meetup

Drake ThomasApr 30, 2019, 3:07 PM
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