I didn't follow the reasoning here. Why wouldn't a physicalist account of consciousness be connected to these?

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This is a good example of why property crimes shouldn't be passively tolerated.

Okay yes, but also classic sci-fi: AI will speak in incomprehensible verse briefly punctuated by actual commands and meaningful output

O3 CoT:

Positional embeddings/every alternative to positional embeddings don't feel great either

I think it might be possible to do it intentionally but not overtly. As a proof of concept, there are lots of subcultures that deliberately project off-putting elements. Hazing rituals are awful but they exist to serve the same function. There are probably other underexplored strategies.

Part of the trick is that the gates didn't feel like gates - this was just a place to go for some people who absentmindedly jumped the barriers. If someone could replicate that trick again...

You can only have things like The Old Internet by gating them. The old Internet was gated by knowledge and inconvenience for a while, but when those gates fell so did the golden age. If you want to make something like it again, you need to build it in a way that most people won't ever really use it

80% folk theory: the architecture + most foundational training data has an inductive bias for modeling rigid bodies, where linear transforms excel. Getting from there to accurately modeling e.g. fabrics is Difficult.

Ah yes, the "Preoccupied Parser" numbers

Also the establishment economist and head of the federal reserve is the most popular appointee - looks like elitist neoliberalism is back on the menu 🥰

Kind of surprised Trump is faring worse than RFK.

It's good to be able to form alliances with people who you would voraciously oppose in other contexts. If you only form alliances with people who already agree with you about everything you will find it much harder going.

His argument doesn't depend on that. You are never going to get a free society without lots of people promoting ideas that undermine that free society. His point is that you need to find a way to navigate that.

I liked it. The gist is that affirmative action isn't primarily about subsidizing disadvantaged groups, but about making universities more heterogenous, interesting, and reflective of society. From that it follows that you want AA for basically any severely underrepresented demographic.

Floppy disks were protective artifacts, everyone who touched one was able to resist the demons.

You should consider going into horseracing, because that's thorough bread content.

Based on my experience with coding agents, doing much more work than anyone asked for is a pretty common LLM pattern.