Eli Tyre
@epistemichope.bsky.social
Searching for a way through the singularity to a humane universe
Claude 4's favorite animal is consistently an octopus (n=8). Holds for both Opus and Sonnet.
July 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Claude 4's favorite animal is consistently an octopus (n=8). Holds for both Opus and Sonnet.
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June 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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(btw the real torment nexus is factory farming)
June 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
(btw the real torment nexus is factory farming)
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Bsky should just have an ongoing competition for the best feed to use as Discover. Whoever makes it gets paid a little bit every day it's used until someone comes up with a better one
June 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Bsky should just have an ongoing competition for the best feed to use as Discover. Whoever makes it gets paid a little bit every day it's used until someone comes up with a better one
I hear @Aella_Girl is getting a ton of internet hate.
Aella is great. She's more sincerely curious and honest than almost anyone. I value her writing, and value her example to others even more.
I'm glad and proud to have her as a part of my community.
Aella is great. She's more sincerely curious and honest than almost anyone. I value her writing, and value her example to others even more.
I'm glad and proud to have her as a part of my community.
June 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I hear @Aella_Girl is getting a ton of internet hate.
Aella is great. She's more sincerely curious and honest than almost anyone. I value her writing, and value her example to others even more.
I'm glad and proud to have her as a part of my community.
Aella is great. She's more sincerely curious and honest than almost anyone. I value her writing, and value her example to others even more.
I'm glad and proud to have her as a part of my community.
One thing that would help me figure out if I should invest a lot more into meditation is knowing in what situations it DOESN'T make sense to cultivate a meditation practice.
June 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
One thing that would help me figure out if I should invest a lot more into meditation is knowing in what situations it DOESN'T make sense to cultivate a meditation practice.
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Hosting Crash Course has hope-pilled me....
complexly.info/CCcoin25-6
complexly.info/CCcoin25-6
May 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Hosting Crash Course has hope-pilled me....
complexly.info/CCcoin25-6
complexly.info/CCcoin25-6
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Congress is weighing massive cuts to global health funding—including PEPFAR and UNICEF.
These programs save millions of lives. Cutting them now would be catastrophic.
Here’s what you need to know—and how to take action. 👇
These programs save millions of lives. Cutting them now would be catastrophic.
Here’s what you need to know—and how to take action. 👇
June 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Congress is weighing massive cuts to global health funding—including PEPFAR and UNICEF.
These programs save millions of lives. Cutting them now would be catastrophic.
Here’s what you need to know—and how to take action. 👇
These programs save millions of lives. Cutting them now would be catastrophic.
Here’s what you need to know—and how to take action. 👇
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The "abstract principle" of being against breeding and imprisoning innocent beings for the explicit purpose of killing them and eating their corpses
May 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The "abstract principle" of being against breeding and imprisoning innocent beings for the explicit purpose of killing them and eating their corpses
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Now, I'm just a man living in the country, but I think if you live life right, no matter where you are, you can sell an imaginary version of your daily existence to bored middle class consumerists for a lot of money.
May 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Now, I'm just a man living in the country, but I think if you live life right, no matter where you are, you can sell an imaginary version of your daily existence to bored middle class consumerists for a lot of money.
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i have a fun exercise which i stole from umberto eco, where he said that you could infer what people are prone to doing based on what there are rules against. e.g., crusaders had a specific rule against threatening to defect and convert to islam, from which you can infer that people did that
May 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
i have a fun exercise which i stole from umberto eco, where he said that you could infer what people are prone to doing based on what there are rules against. e.g., crusaders had a specific rule against threatening to defect and convert to islam, from which you can infer that people did that
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This method is fundamental to how modern displays, including computer monitors, TVs, and smartphone screens, produce color images. By varying the intensity of these three primary colors, screens can create millions of different colors.
May 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This method is fundamental to how modern displays, including computer monitors, TVs, and smartphone screens, produce color images. By varying the intensity of these three primary colors, screens can create millions of different colors.
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Lol what are the chances!
May 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Lol what are the chances!
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Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake
January 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake
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I was wrong about this. I just asked o3 to find an accessible, short introduction to hermeneutics and watched it search twenty sources, checking the page counts, respecting my preference for primary sources, &c &c, before producing a well-organized report with seven ranked options. It's scary.
Yeah, I see that o3 is causing concern among people heavily invested in math and competitive programming, but most of us don’t spend a lot of time solving complex puzzles in well-defined and bounded domains
April 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I was wrong about this. I just asked o3 to find an accessible, short introduction to hermeneutics and watched it search twenty sources, checking the page counts, respecting my preference for primary sources, &c &c, before producing a well-organized report with seven ranked options. It's scary.
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"Your life will be made redundant and power over your survival will rest in the hands of whichever nation or megacorp clawed up the mountain of mind fastest, so make sure to give it a hundred ten percent!"
April 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Your life will be made redundant and power over your survival will rest in the hands of whichever nation or megacorp clawed up the mountain of mind fastest, so make sure to give it a hundred ten percent!"
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This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
This Is Not Normal
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
January 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
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The #1 reported reason people avoid doctor’s appointments is because they’re afraid of finding out they have a serious illness.
If you have that fear, that’s normal and you’re not alone. Also remember, there is basically no serious illness that isn’t less serious if you catch it sooner.
If you have that fear, that’s normal and you’re not alone. Also remember, there is basically no serious illness that isn’t less serious if you catch it sooner.
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The #1 reported reason people avoid doctor’s appointments is because they’re afraid of finding out they have a serious illness.
If you have that fear, that’s normal and you’re not alone. Also remember, there is basically no serious illness that isn’t less serious if you catch it sooner.
If you have that fear, that’s normal and you’re not alone. Also remember, there is basically no serious illness that isn’t less serious if you catch it sooner.
My 31st birthday was a few weeks ago.
If you want to do something nice for my (belated) birthday, the number one thing you can do is suggest people who I might want to date.
If you want to do something nice for my (belated) birthday, the number one thing you can do is suggest people who I might want to date.
February 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My 31st birthday was a few weeks ago.
If you want to do something nice for my (belated) birthday, the number one thing you can do is suggest people who I might want to date.
If you want to do something nice for my (belated) birthday, the number one thing you can do is suggest people who I might want to date.
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I don't know much about helicopters or stars. But I know a lot about one thing. youtu.be/PBjQgizWRBA?...
What's at Stake
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I don't know much about helicopters or stars. But I know a lot about one thing. youtu.be/PBjQgizWRBA?...
Does anyone know of even very simple examples of AIs exhibiting instrumental convergence?
February 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Does anyone know of even very simple examples of AIs exhibiting instrumental convergence?
The(?) endless frontiers:
* Money
* Metcogntive techniques
* Machine Learning (and programming more generally)
* Math
* Meditation
* Money
* Metcogntive techniques
* Machine Learning (and programming more generally)
* Math
* Meditation
February 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The(?) endless frontiers:
* Money
* Metcogntive techniques
* Machine Learning (and programming more generally)
* Math
* Meditation
* Money
* Metcogntive techniques
* Machine Learning (and programming more generally)
* Math
* Meditation