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  • #Software Development
  • #AI Safety Research
  • #Blogging
  • Eris is a software developer and photographer researching AI safety, with a focus on mechanistic interpretability and activation steering.
  • Eris is involved in the SPAR Spring 2026 program and studies computer science/psychology, while estimating LLMs' doom probability at about 40%.
  • Eris's recent major project is Instruct Vectors, showing that a vector can be trained to make a base model behave like an instruct model without modifying weights.
  • Eris maintains a blog with interactive elements on a personal website, and a Substack version without interactivity, encouraging engagement there.
  • Eris enjoys reading, gaming, and recommends books like 'Accelerando' and 'Anathem', along with game recommendations, and plans to share photos.
  • The website is static, built with Svelte using Claude, and includes LLM-friendly text files for efficiency, with underlined text providing extra context.