Really good essay from 2018:

Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus

• Today’s Christian nationalists talk a good game about respecting the Constitution and America’s founders, but at bottom they sound as if they prefer autocrats to democrats. In fact, what they really want is a king. “It is God that raises up a king,” according to Paula White, a prosperity gospel preacher who has advised Mr. Trump.

SBIRs

• More HAI paper
• 2:30 AI Ethics?
• 3:30 MCWL?
• Need to finish Toy Models of Superposition, then start Superposition, Memorization, and Double Descent.
• Need to write a post about how  LLMs don’t “reason over” data. The prompt “navigates” over it’s previous tokens, under the influence of the model. The analogy is more like how a cell can chase a chemical gradient in a complex environment than how an intelligent being thinks. It’s like Simon’s Ant, MKII.
• Need to look into turning some of these posts into ArXiV “editorials”