Nick Merrill
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5 Things I Learned About People From Doing Stand-Up Comedy
The Instrumental Convergence of Crowds
Humans Are Alignment Generators
Selection for Selectability: Inductive Biases in Evolution and in Neural Networks
How the Sausage is Made - Why we Hate Slop
Rogue Scalpel: Activation steering breaks refusal, even with benign directions
Content-based privilege: transformer residual streams stratify by proximity to the model's own prediction
A J-Space-Based Metric for Model Valence: Defining the Metric, Testing, and Comparisons to Self-Reports
Alignment fine-tuning induces conditional misalignment in Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
When is Unlimited Optimization Catastrophic?
AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good
Evaluating Explanations of LLM Behavior In The Wild with Counterfactual Experiments
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