Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). So writing a lesson plan and using it for reflection is an invaluable process for improving your instructional techniques.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Published on February 20, 2025 11:54 PM GMT TLDR: We made substantial progress in 2024: We published a series of papers that verify key predictions of Singular Learning Theory (SLT) [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. We scaled key SLT-derived techniques to models with billions of parameters, eliminating our main concerns around tractability.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Through these research directions, we aim to develop robust safety techniques that mitigate risks from AIs before those risks emerge in real-world deployments. Jailbreaks and unintentional misalignment : New techniques for finding inputs that elicit competent, goal-directed behavior in LLM agents that the developers clearly tried to prevent.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 28, 2025

And for that, I think you need something like derandomization techniques, where the simplest example of this is that if you have a collection of random vectors in high dimensions, theyre almost always almost orthogonal. Weve said, Regardless of which output you read off of, it looks the same if you do this shuffling internal to the network.

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