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https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ This Waifu Does Not Exist v3.5 (TWDNEv3.5) - Gwern TWDNEv3.5: A site demonstrating anime faces generated by StyleGAN 2 neural networks and text snippets generated by GPT-3- this waifu does not existgwern https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis The Scaling Hypothesis · Gwern.net scalinghypothesisgwern https://gwern.net/question Open Questions · Gwern.net Some anomalies/questions which are not necessarily important, but do puzzle me or where I find existing explanations to be unsatisfying. open questionsgwern https://gwern.net/modus One Man’s Modus Ponens · Gwern.net 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛’𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑛’𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑠 is a saying in Western philosophy encapsulating a common response to a logical proof which generalizes... modus ponensgwern https://gwern.net/silk-road Silk Road 1: Theory & Practice · Gwern.net silk roadtheorypracticegwern https://gwern.net/doc/science/fermi-problem/index ‘Fermi problems’ directory · Gwern.net directorygwern https://gwern.net/system-prompts-2025 “My 2025 LLM System Prompts”, by Gwern, Gemini-3-pro-preview, GPT-5 Pro, Claude-4.5-opus · Gwern.net Trying out having Gemini-3-pro-preview write system prompts compatible with creative fiction writing (sci-fi short story examples), and trying it out on GPT-5... https://gwern.net/dnb-meta-analysis Dual n-Back Meta-Analysis · Gwern.net Does DNB increase IQ? What factors affect the studies? Probably not: gains are driven by studies with weakest methodology like apathetic control groups. dual n backmeta analysisgwern https://gwern.net/fuzz-testing Fuzz Testing · Gwern.net Catalogue of errors or problems caused by cats randomly doing things (ie. real-life fuzz testing). fuzz testinggwern https://gwern.net/causality Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation · Gwern.net Correlations are oft interpreted as evidence for causation; this is oft falsified; do causal graphs explain why this is so common, because the number of... correlationusuallycausationgwern https://gwern.net/otaku Neon Genesis Evangelion source anthology · Gwern.net Extensive anthology of Gainax/Anno/𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 quotes, excerpts, sources, references, and analyses, organized by reliability and year. neon genesis evangelionsourceanthologygwern https://gwern.net/fiction/brave-poem Brave Poem · Gwern.net Poem on memory inspired by the anime 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠!; do you remember love? brave poemgwern https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/anne-roe/index ‘Anne Roe’s Scientists’ directory · Gwern.net directorygwern https://gwern.net/gpt-2 “GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry”, by Gwern, Shawn Presser · Gwern.net Demonstration tutorial of retraining OpenAI’s GPT-2 (a text-generating Transformer neural network) on large poetry corpuses to generate high-quality English... neural networkshawn presser https://gwern.net/note/faster Computer Optimization: Your Computer Is Faster Than You Think · Gwern.net Compilation of links demonstrating that it is common to find order-of-magnitude speedups in software, especially when designed carefully for (extraordinarily... computeroptimizationfaster https://gwern.net/immoral-book Immoral Books · Gwern.net Argument that texts are neither moral nor immoral as they require active interpretation. immoral booksgwern https://gwern.net/fiction/october October The First Is Too Late · Gwern.net Short story about ‘The Institute of September the Thirtieth’, dedicated to the study of a single day in 1​939, in the form of a review of a fictional book. october the first is too lategwern https://gwern.net/review/bakewell Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding · Gwern.net A review of Russell 1986’s 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑’𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒: 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑, describing development of selective breeding and... originsinnovationbakewellbreedinggwern https://gwern.net/doc/anime/eva/little-boy/2005-murakami “Earth in My Window”, by Takashi Murakami, Linda Hoaglund · Gwern.net Essay by Pop Art artist Takashi Murakami on Japanese society and on WWII infantilizing Japanese culture as revealed by media, anime, and otaku. takashi murakami https://gwern.net/doc/darknet-market/dnm-archive/index ‘DNM Archives’ directory · Gwern.net directorygwern https://gwern.net/water Self-Blinded Mineral Water Taste Test · Gwern.net Blind randomized taste-test of mineral/distilled/tap waters using Bayesian best-arm finding; no large differences in preference. water taste testselfblindedmineralgwern https://gwern.net/longevity Life Extension Cost-Benefits · Gwern.net Attempts at considering the profitability of life-extension interventions for healthy adults life extensioncost benefitsgwern https://gwern.net/fiction/dying-outside Dying Outside · Gwern.net Poem about Hal Finney announcing beginning tracheostomy before dying of ALS. dying outsidegwern https://gwern.net/evolutionary-license Evolutionary Software Licenses · Gwern.net Game theory on BSD versus GPL: partnership? Is GPL an evolutionary stable strategy against invasion by proprietary copyright strategies? software licensesevolutionarygwern https://gwern.net/note/statistic Statistical Notes · Gwern.net Miscellaneous statistical stuff statisticalnotesgwern https://gwern.net/catnip-survey World Catnip Surveys · Gwern.net International population online surveys of cat owners about catnip and other cat stimulant use. catnip surveysworldgwern https://gwern.net/self-decrypting Time-lock encryption · Gwern.net How do you encrypt a file such that it can be decrypted after a date, but not before? Use serial computations for proof-of-work using successive squaring,... time lockencryptiongwern https://gwern.net/goodreads The Most ‘Abandoned’ Books on GoodReads · Gwern.net Which books on GoodReads are most difficult to finish? Estimating proportions in December 2019 gives an entirely different result than absolute counts. the moston goodreadsbooksgwern https://gwern.net/wifi Internet WiFi improvement · Gwern.net After putting up with slow glitchy WiFi Internet for years, I investigate improvements. Upgrading the router, switching to a high-gain antenna, and installing... internet wifi improvementgwern https://gwern.net/screwfly The ‘Screwfly Solution’ Solution: Bi-Sexuality · Gwern.net Alice Sheldon’s SF short story ‘The Screwfly Solution’ is misread by most readers as an alien attack driving men to insane violence; a closer revisionist read... solutionbisexualitygwern https://gwern.net/rtx Highly Potent Drugs As Psychological Warfare Weapons · Gwern.net Chemicals active at the nanogram scale are invisible, difficult to observe, and near-impossible to clean or remove; but they are still psychoactive enough to... highly potentpsychological warfaredrugsweaponsgwern https://gwern.net/microwave-tea Why Is Microwave Tea Bad? · Gwern.net Microwaving water for tea makes it taste bad, for unknown reasons. Is it a lack of bubbles? Lingering CO₂? Comments and proposed experiments. microwaveteabadgwern https://gwern.net/doc/philosophy/2010-richardson-bythenumbers-vectors30 “Vectors 3.0: Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays”, by James Richardson · Gwern.net 170 aphorisms, mini essays or poems on life by James Richardson https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming?ref=feedle.world LLM Daydreaming · Gwern.net llmdaydreaminggwern https://gwern.net/zeo/vitamin-d Vitamin D sleep experiments · Gwern.net Self-experiment on vitamin D effects on sleep: harmful taken at night, no or beneficial effects when taken in the morning. vitamin dsleepexperimentsgwern https://gwern.net/death-note-ending Death Note’s Ending · Gwern.net Ambiguous ending of 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒 means even the victor is unclear; who was right? deathendinggwern https://gwern.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber The Hyperbolic Time Chamber & Brain Emulation · Gwern.net A time dilation chamber as thought experiment on the power of pure thought, with comparison to computer AGI advantages/disadvantages. hyperbolictimechamberbrainemulation https://gwern.net/style-guide “Manual of Style”, by Gwern, GPT-5 Pro, Claude-4.7-opus · Gwern.net Style guide documentation of Gwern.net writing conventions for essays and code. https://gwern.net/doc/economics/copyright/index ‘copyright’ directory · Gwern.net directorygwern https://gwern.net/design-graveyard Design Graveyard · Gwern.net Meta page describing Gwern.net website design experiments and post-mortem analyses. designgraveyardgwern https://gwern.net/biggan Making Anime With BigGAN · Gwern.net Experiments in using BigGAN to generate anime faces and whole anime images; semi-successful. makinganimebiggangwern https://gwern.net/review/umineko Umineko: The Hopium Of The Magics · Gwern.net Review of famous light novel series 𝑈𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑘𝑜 𝑛𝑜 𝑁𝑎𝑘𝑢 𝐾𝑜𝑟𝑜 𝑛𝑖: it is a highly idiosyncratic, wildly self-indulgent, yet impressive exploration of all possible... uminekohopiummagicsgwern https://gwern.net/modafinil-survey Modafinil community survey · Gwern.net 2015 survey of online modafinil users asking about dosages, consumption patterns, ratings, purchases, and demographics community surveymodafinilgwern https://gwern-image.com/category/uncategorized/photographie-hoteliere/ Photographie hoteliere - Gwern Image photographiegwernimage https://gwern.net/review/opera Opera Reviews · Gwern.net A compilation of opera reviews since 2019. opera reviewsgwern https://gwern.net/conscientiousness Conscientiousness & Online Education · Gwern.net Technology-driven shift in demand for Conscientiousness, not intelligence online educationconscientiousnessgwern https://gwern.net/twitter Twitter Follow-Request UX Problems · Gwern.net The Twitter UI/UX for accepting follow requests is a fractal of bad design. twitter followrequestuxproblemsgwern https://gwern.net/interview-inkhaven “2025 Inkhaven Writing Interview”, by Gwern, Adam Mastroianni · Gwern.net Interview with Adam Mastroianni (𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦) on writing and where ideas come from; done November 2025 at the Inkhaven writing residency. adam mastroianniinkhavenwritinggwern https://gwern.net/candy-japan Candy Japan’s new box A/B test · Gwern.net new boxcandytestgwern https://gwern.net/amuse Amusing Ourselves to Death? · Gwern.net A suggested x-risk/Great Filter is the possibility of advanced entertainment technology leading to wireheading/mass sterility/population collapse and... amusing ourselves to deathgwern https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/spaced-repetition/index ‘spaced repetition’ directory · Gwern.net directorygwern https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/okcupid/index ‘OKCupid’ directory · Gwern.net directorygwern https://gwern.net/doc/ai/scaling/index ‘AI scaling’ directory · Gwern.net directorygwern https://gwern.net/beauty Progress In Beauty · Gwern.net progress in beautygwern https://gwern.net/doc/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto “Wei Dai/Satoshi Nakamoto 2009 Bitcoin emails”, by Satoshi Nakamoto, Wei Dai · Gwern.net Emails in 2009 between Wei Dai and Satoshi Nakamoto discussing Bitcoin draft proposal and B-money. satoshi nakamoto https://gwern.net/note/competence Ordinary Incompetence · Gwern.net Incompetence is the norm; most people who engage in a task (even when incentivized for performance or engaging in it for countless hours) may still be making... ordinary incompetencegwern https://gwern.net/doc/existential-risk/1985-hofstadter “Metamagical Themas: Sanity and Survival”, by Douglas Hofstadter · Gwern.net 3 essays by AI researcher Douglas Hofstadter exploring cooperation/game theory/‘superrationality’ in the context of the failure of political coordination to... douglas hofstadterthemassanity https://gwern.net/review/mcnamara McNamara’s Folly: The Denial of Individual Differences · Gwern.net Account of well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to conscript unintelligent or outright mentally-retarded men into fighting in the Vietnam War after remedial... individual differencesfollydenialgwern https://gwern.net/modafinil Modafinil · Gwern.net modafinilgwern https://gwern.net/anti-spaced-repetition Anti-Spaced Repetition for Serendipity · Gwern.net Proposal: the spacing curve could be used to review only flashcards one 𝘩𝑎𝑠 forgotten, instead of 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 forgotten. This inverse or opposite spaced repetition... spaced repetitionantiserendipitygwern