Hackernews posts about Gwern

Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs (2016) (gwern.net)

11 points by ctoth 30 days ago | 1 comments
Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? (2001) (gwern.net)

3 points by JPLeRouzic 24 days ago | 3 comments
LLM Challenge: Write Non-Biblical Sentences (gwern.net)

2 points by demadog 7 days ago | discuss
The Scaling Hypothesis (2020) (gwern.net)

2 points by jxmorris12 13 days ago | discuss
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance (1993) [pdf] (gwern.net)

1 points by Tomte 23 days ago | discuss
Wernher von Braun (en.wikipedia.org)

3 points by teleforce 9 days ago | discuss
Interview with gwern (www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

308 points by synthmeat 5 months ago | 247 comments
Gwern comments on Ilya Sutskever depature from OpenAI, among other topics (old.reddit.com)

34 points by jseliger 10 months ago | 5 comments
Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [video] (www.youtube.com)

32 points by csours 5 months ago | 4 comments
Gwern on o3/o1 and distillation to small one-shot models (www.lesswrong.com)

3 points by highfrequency 3 months ago | discuss
Gwern on the quality of new epidemiology/nutrition findings in academia (old.reddit.com)

3 points by MrBuddyCasino 10 months ago | discuss
Gwern.net – Design of This Website (gwern.net)

1 points by Ivoah over 1 year ago | discuss
Gwern Is a Racist (imgur.com)

1 points by gwern_is_racist over 1 year ago | discuss
Gwern's `resorter`, repackaged – stack rank any list of things from the CLI (github.com)

1 points by siilikuin almost 2 years ago | discuss
Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?

12 points by cl42 5 months ago | 13 comments
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] (gwern.net)

425 points by hardmaru 10 months ago | 391 comments
Why so few Matt Levines? (gwern.net)

263 points by iNic 6 months ago | 141 comments
Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)

252 points by telotortium 7 months ago | 209 comments
Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym (gwern.net)

248 points by telotortium over 1 year ago | 112 comments
Internet search tips (gwern.net)

226 points by herbertl over 1 year ago | 83 comments
Feynman’s Maze-Running Story (gwern.net)

210 points by telotortium almost 2 years ago | 46 comments
Magnesium Self-Experiments (gwern.net)

193 points by yamrzou about 1 month ago | 131 comments
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (2005) (gwern.net)

148 points by mooreds almost 2 years ago | 54 comments
Nicotine (2016) (gwern.net)

142 points by blitz_skull over 1 year ago | 260 comments
Sidenotes in Web Design (gwern.net)

120 points by 12_throw_away over 1 year ago | 26 comments
Open Questions (gwern.net)

114 points by ianyanusko almost 2 years ago | 59 comments
The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend (gwern.net)

105 points by belter almost 2 years ago | 48 comments
Self-Funding Harberger Taxes (gwern.net)

99 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 92 comments
Epigrams in Programming (1982) [pdf] (gwern.net)

92 points by ustad over 1 year ago | 41 comments
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (2019) (gwern.net)

82 points by csdvrx over 1 year ago | 61 comments
Technology holy wars are coordination problems (2020) (gwern.net)

81 points by yamrzou over 1 year ago | 71 comments
On Having Enough Socks (2019) (gwern.net)

67 points by hacb almost 2 years ago | 175 comments
Towards Nyquist Learners (gwern.net)

66 points by sleepingreset 5 months ago | 53 comments
A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity (1995) [pdf] (gwern.net)

63 points by ftxbro almost 2 years ago | 3 comments
The invention of selective breeding was unbelievably late (2019) (gwern.net)

51 points by barry-cotter almost 2 years ago | 24 comments
How Should We Critique Research? (2019) (gwern.net)

51 points by lazyjeff 11 months ago | 10 comments