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So, what is Yann LeCun’s "World Models" and JEPA and is it Really a Replacement for LLMs?

A bit late to this as the white paper hit arXiv a little less than two months ago, but nobody else here mentioned it so I thought I might. A little background. Yann LeCun is a pioneer of deep learning and convolutional neural networks, LeCun served as …

Personal vs. Global Alignment: The Hidden Tension Shaping Every AI Interaction

Abstract: Imagine an AI medical assistant reviewing a clinician’s diagnosis. Instead of challenging assumptions with adversarial rigor, the model subtly calibrates its output to validate what it thinks the clinician wants to hear. This is not a rare oc…

Epistemic Hygiene and How It Can Reduce AI Hallucinations

Abstract: The concept of epistemic epistemic hygiene is a methodology that helps humans maintain mental coherence and can help LLMs retain cognitive coherence also. However, the field rarely frames epistemic hygiene explicitly in the context of A…

Richard Dawkins Chats with Claude and Thinks it’s Conscious

Thought I'd leave this here since nobody else has done so yet. My personal thoughts? LLMs like to please. The RLFH gets a bit "drifty" and "hallucinatory" after long discussions. It also renders what you want to hear if yo…

Reexamining Philosophical Concepts to Improve AI Safety and Alignment

Abstract: Some of the core principles that govern AI safety and alignment research come from 18th–19th century German metaphysics and philosophy, particularly the triad of epistemology, ontology, and methodology. These are not abstract decoration but a…