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Zhuofan Josh Ying

@zfjoshying.bsky.social
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PhD student @KriegeskorteLab @Columbia. Research in comp neuro, ai safety, and phil of mind.

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Zhuofan Josh Ying @zfjoshying.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🔍Truthfulness probes and their causal effects vary widely: some generalize, others are domain-dependent. Why? We propose the Truthfulness Spectrum Hypothesis: truth directions of varying generality coexist! Probe geometry predicts generalization, and post-training reshapes it! 🧵⬇️
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Natalie Shapira @natalieshapira.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw-x.bsky.social ->
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Amir Zur @amirzur.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
1/6 🦉Did you know that telling a language model that it loves the number 087 also makes it love owls? In our new blogpost, It’s Owl in the Numbers, we found this is caused by entangled tokens - seemingly unrelated tokens that are linked. When you boost one, you boost the other. owls.baulab.info/
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It's Owl in the Numbers: Token Entanglement in Subliminal Learning
Entangled tokens help explain subliminal learning.
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