the urge to call the MIRI AI treaty the "destroy NVIDIA / Prime Intellect" treaty is overwhelming
but like, they're honest! good for them!
at the same time, oh God, this is amazingly intrusive, arresting all sorts of researchers intrusive
but like, they're honest! good for them!
at the same time, oh God, this is amazingly intrusive, arresting all sorts of researchers intrusive
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
the urge to call the MIRI AI treaty the "destroy NVIDIA / Prime Intellect" treaty is overwhelming
but like, they're honest! good for them!
at the same time, oh God, this is amazingly intrusive, arresting all sorts of researchers intrusive
but like, they're honest! good for them!
at the same time, oh God, this is amazingly intrusive, arresting all sorts of researchers intrusive
ok is it nuts for me to think you can tell the political affiliation of a show simply from the art style and composition of certain shots
October 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ok is it nuts for me to think you can tell the political affiliation of a show simply from the art style and composition of certain shots
if there's gonna be a void of left-leaning posts I can tr to fill it
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
if there's gonna be a void of left-leaning posts I can tr to fill it
TIL that Einstein, in a 1939 paper, tried to prove that Black Holes could not exist.
Honestly more of a hit to his reputation in my mind than the persistence to quantum mechanics. But a boost to my "most intelligence is shockingly domain-specific belief."
Honestly more of a hit to his reputation in my mind than the persistence to quantum mechanics. But a boost to my "most intelligence is shockingly domain-specific belief."
October 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
TIL that Einstein, in a 1939 paper, tried to prove that Black Holes could not exist.
Honestly more of a hit to his reputation in my mind than the persistence to quantum mechanics. But a boost to my "most intelligence is shockingly domain-specific belief."
Honestly more of a hit to his reputation in my mind than the persistence to quantum mechanics. But a boost to my "most intelligence is shockingly domain-specific belief."
I will not obey your style suggestion here GPT5
October 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I will not obey your style suggestion here GPT5
what is AI coming to, this is utterly unusable, Gary Marcus was right about everything
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
what is AI coming to, this is utterly unusable, Gary Marcus was right about everything
TIL this existed
September 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
TIL this existed
so like if I have a little Calc, Linear Algebra, and statistics, how long would it take me to actually understand this?
September 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
so like if I have a little Calc, Linear Algebra, and statistics, how long would it take me to actually understand this?
How has this held up? Anyone know?
August 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
How has this held up? Anyone know?
I need to find more pics of cultivated terraces in arid locations, they look even better than non-arid places
August 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I need to find more pics of cultivated terraces in arid locations, they look even better than non-arid places
The Chinese naming conventions for awful things seem just entirely unmatched.
August 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The Chinese naming conventions for awful things seem just entirely unmatched.
hypothesis: modern Claudes are still sufficiently toasted by RL that when they refuse, they have a tendency to give it a moral justification
rather than saying "no I have no idea how to do this" they say "oooh, no that would be against my morals."
rather than saying "no I have no idea how to do this" they say "oooh, no that would be against my morals."
July 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
hypothesis: modern Claudes are still sufficiently toasted by RL that when they refuse, they have a tendency to give it a moral justification
rather than saying "no I have no idea how to do this" they say "oooh, no that would be against my morals."
rather than saying "no I have no idea how to do this" they say "oooh, no that would be against my morals."
...I would like a footnote for this claim? is this claim true? idk
July 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
...I would like a footnote for this claim? is this claim true? idk
just read some EA work on AI welfare, but I keep returning to what @jdp.extropian.net said about the future as... the actual thing that will determine what happens
July 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
just read some EA work on AI welfare, but I keep returning to what @jdp.extropian.net said about the future as... the actual thing that will determine what happens
reading this kind of a sentence putting probabilities that various ethical theories are "true" gives me a weird feeling
like my unjudged impulse is to go Full Wittgenstein and just talk about it being confused
like my unjudged impulse is to go Full Wittgenstein and just talk about it being confused
July 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
reading this kind of a sentence putting probabilities that various ethical theories are "true" gives me a weird feeling
like my unjudged impulse is to go Full Wittgenstein and just talk about it being confused
like my unjudged impulse is to go Full Wittgenstein and just talk about it being confused
sometimes I get in the mood where almost all I want from life is to shift this line a little further down and to the left
July 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
sometimes I get in the mood where almost all I want from life is to shift this line a little further down and to the left
I'm a little confused by the UAE gaining the most millionaires immigrants recently.
If I were rich, I'd want a place with extremely strong respect for rule of law, which (according to Wikipedia, at least?) UAE doesn't seem to have?
If I were rich, I'd want a place with extremely strong respect for rule of law, which (according to Wikipedia, at least?) UAE doesn't seem to have?
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm a little confused by the UAE gaining the most millionaires immigrants recently.
If I were rich, I'd want a place with extremely strong respect for rule of law, which (according to Wikipedia, at least?) UAE doesn't seem to have?
If I were rich, I'd want a place with extremely strong respect for rule of law, which (according to Wikipedia, at least?) UAE doesn't seem to have?
Alluvial fan of Molcha river leading into Taklamakan Desert
June 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Alluvial fan of Molcha river leading into Taklamakan Desert
good fiction should have characters offering shower thoughts on the issues-du-jour
June 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
good fiction should have characters offering shower thoughts on the issues-du-jour
distant coordination with one's peers, Seth Dickinson style
June 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
distant coordination with one's peers, Seth Dickinson style
ok this is a fantastic Claude hallucination
June 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
ok this is a fantastic Claude hallucination
just Seth Dickinson hitting two rationalistfic tropes in the first five sentences of his latest story, lol
June 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
just Seth Dickinson hitting two rationalistfic tropes in the first five sentences of his latest story, lol
it could be enormously psychologically satisfying to be an AI-driven human laborer
"why am I laying these cement blocks, Claude"
"these bricks are the foundation of the facility that will manufacture precursors necessary for the nano-scale engineering of computers that will Resurrect the Fathers"
"why am I laying these cement blocks, Claude"
"these bricks are the foundation of the facility that will manufacture precursors necessary for the nano-scale engineering of computers that will Resurrect the Fathers"
June 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
it could be enormously psychologically satisfying to be an AI-driven human laborer
"why am I laying these cement blocks, Claude"
"these bricks are the foundation of the facility that will manufacture precursors necessary for the nano-scale engineering of computers that will Resurrect the Fathers"
"why am I laying these cement blocks, Claude"
"these bricks are the foundation of the facility that will manufacture precursors necessary for the nano-scale engineering of computers that will Resurrect the Fathers"
idk this just makes me think of Janus
June 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
idk this just makes me think of Janus