Dec 2019 gwern.net newsletter

post by gwern · 2020-01-04T20:48:48.788Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

This is a link post for https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2019/12

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comment by PeterMcCluskey · 2020-01-06T02:07:44.167Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Gwern, thank you for your excellent coverage of hydrocephalus and the implications for intelligence.

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↑ comment by gwern · 2020-01-06T03:05:17.233Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

You're welcome. I didn't want to write it because I don't find it that interesting and such a post always takes a frustrating amount of time to write because one has to dig into the details & jailbreak a lot of papers etc, and I'd rather write more constructive things like about all our GPT-2 projects than yet another demoralizing criticism piece, but people kept mentioning it as if it wasn't awful, so... At least it should spare anyone else, right?