What Surprised Me Going Through 4 Months of Contacts
•Matt Handzel
Spending 4 hours staring at the pixels that represent my friends.
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Can a Model Keep Its Story Straight?
•Matt Handzel
Notes from my first empirical AI safety research project on resampling and multi-sample monitoring.
Read moreAnalysis of Trusted Editor in BashArena
•Matt Handzel
Analyzing how Trusted Editing performs in the BashArena environment.
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Most of Your Efforts are Wasted. Here’s the Framework to Fix It.
•Matt Handzel
During the first week of this semester I had a miserable experience at a party.
Read moreHow to Manage Relationships Like a Psychopath
•Matt Handzel
Do you remember the last time a friend remembered a personal detail of yours and it filled your heart with platonic butterflies as your brain registered a feeling of I’m special
Read moreThe Beginning of Systems for Second Brain
•Matt Handzel
What is this?
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