README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
language: en
tags:
  - alignment
  - ai-safety
  - lesswrong
  - ryan-greenblatt
  - sft
size_categories:
  - n<10K

Ryan Greenblatt simulator — continuation format

Direct continuation. Prompt = post title + opening (or recent) paragraphs of a Ryan Greenblatt LessWrong post. Target = the next ≤1500 cl100k tokens of paragraph-aligned prose. Long posts are chunked into multiple overlapping rows so the full post is reachable.

Part of the Ryan-Greenblatt-simulator SFT project (Tinker / Qwen3-8B-base). See OVERALL_PLAN.md and proposal.md in the source repo for context.

Splits

• train: 251 rows (drawn only from the train source-unit split).
• val: 6 rows (drawn only from the val source-unit split).

Source-level splits are at post_id granularity (seed=0, sha256("seed:post_id")). Heldout posts NEVER appear in any training row, including via paragraph or comment derivation.

Source corpus

• HF dataset abhayesian/ryan-greenblatt-lesswrong (commit fd1651c851c0a95e36d6418a9096391749c1d183): 66 posts + 1,123 comments authored by Ryan.
• For dialogue: external LessWrong / EA Forum post bodies fetched via GraphQL (373 train+val external posts, 100% fetch success).

Generated by

git commit 6451797789132e79d203974a0d1d1ca76b4a5102 of the project repo (Segment 1, Phase 0).

Known caveats

• Synthesized prompt fields (QA questions, take-comparison claims) pass an identity-leak regex filter, but no guarantee of zero false negatives.
• Distillation targets are LLM-generated bullets (not raw Ryan text); every bullet contains a verbatim Ryan quote.
• Continuation targets are paragraph-aligned chunks, capped at ~1500 cl100k tokens.
• Co-authored posts: included in continuation/distillation/dialogue; excluded from QA and take-comparison targets.