i'm sure this person is cool but it is insane to have an about me page that is that long, but make me have to click through to patreon to learn what their first and last names are
Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
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#12And then my digital twin decides that I’m an inefficient version of itself, eating too many of its tokens, and generally getting in the way of it living its best life.
It's not my fault tokens are so delicious...!
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#13i'm sure this person is cool but it is insane to have an about me page that is that long, but make me have to click through to patreon to learn what their first and last names are
Gwern's absurdly catalogued personal site is one of those online artifacts that I hope never changes.
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#14i'm sure this person is cool but it is insane to have an about me page that is that long, but make me have to click through to patreon to learn what their first and last names are
Gwern's absurdly catalogued personal site is one of those online artifacts that I hope never changes.
particularly love the use of diagram elbows as decorative flair
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#15> I’ve struggled for years to imagine this, ever since scaling started for real in 2020, and I failed to get productivity out of chatbot-tuned LLMs, with their creatively-stunted endlessly repetitive prose. Instead, while lagging behind on creativity and insight into me, I’ve watched them become ever better at coding and cybersecurity hacking. And the open-weight models are even more so—benchmaxxed, and useless to me.
It sounds like the context is that Gwern is a writer who wants writing assistance, and in 2026, all the AI labs are working on coding. Writing style is much less important when working on code.
Perhaps if at least one AI lab focused on writing style, we would see how much better they can be at writing? I'm not sure it requires a "digital twin."
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#16i'm sure this person is cool but it is insane to have an about me page that is that long, but make me have to click through to patreon to learn what their first and last names are
gwern is OG, and that name is enough.
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#17I’ve taken an interest in maintaining an LLM agnostic base/boilerplate of sort Digital Twin. In comparison to Gwern’s LLM Guardian Angels, mine is minimal and yet tries to be a practical instantiation of Gwern's “Human-Controlled Context.”
I’m not sure if I want to be inspired and try the fine-tuning model part too!
May be Gwern is right that this static personalization approach may not be long-lived. Still, I find it fascinating, and I’m seeing a lot of interest in this area from others too.
When I started, my personal interest was on how to multiply/enhance what I already know and touch adjacent topics/experiences and not really become pseudo expert or the know-all-generalists in things I have absolutely no clue.
Now, shamelessly plugging my idea that I started early this year
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#18i'm sure this person is cool but it is insane to have an about me page that is that long, but make me have to click through to patreon to learn what their first and last names are
Gwern has been around for ages. I remember citing a few of their pages during my postgraduate work over 15 years ago. At the time, it wasn't easy (or even possible?) to find their name at all.
I've always assumed Gwern was anonymous because the norm on the internet generally was to try to be anonymous, especially those who've done research around crypto, darknet markets and other spicy areas.
Maybe I'm just getting old and losing touch, but is the expectation now that you can only write long articles and ask for donations or contributions if you publish your real name somewhere?
Could I ask what sort of age group you are?
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#19i'm sure this person is cool but it is insane to have an about me page that is that long, but make me have to click through to patreon to learn what their first and last names are
Gwern has been around for ages. I remember citing a few of their pages during my postgraduate work over 15 years ago. At the time, it wasn't easy (or even possible?) to find their name at all. I've always assumed Gwern was anonymous because the norm on the internet generally was to try to be anonymous, especially those who've done research around crypto, darknet markets and other spicy areas. Maybe I'm just getting o…
people can do whatever they want! i just thought it was odd because i clicked on About Me wanting to figure out whose site it was and the answer was not there.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gwern has been around for ages. I remember citing a few of their pages during my postgraduate work over 15 years ago. At the time, it wasn't easy (or even possible?) to find their name at all. I've always assumed Gwern was anonymous because the norm on the internet generally was to try to be anonymous, especially those who've done research around crypto, darknet markets and other spicy areas. Maybe I'm just getting o…
people can do whatever they want! i just thought it was odd because i clicked on About Me wanting to figure out whose site it was and the answer was not there.
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