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sergio_valencia

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About sergio_valencia

Sergio Valencia. Founder of Invarra, working on AI evaluation, semantic robustness, and deterministic instruction control for written-text LLM applications. Building Phalanx: https://www.invarra.ai/phalanx Research: https://www.invarra.ai/research

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    Comment #49376404

    One thing I’m wondering about is the model-specific backfire effect. It seems that each prompt condition uses a single wording. On that point, how can we know whether the differenc…

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    Comment #49366120

    This paper made me wonder not whether the chain we can read is actual “thought,” but what conclusions we can draw by observing it. It is an output channel, but not direct access to…

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    Comment #49351761

    There’s one thing here that I’m really curious about, and that is what happens in between detection and the decision to pause. Basically, it’s about monitoring any system and the a…