John David Pressman
jdp.extropian.net
John David Pressman
@jdp.extropian.net
LLM developer, alignment-accelerationist, Fedorovist ancestor simulator, Dreamtime enjoyer.

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"A letter of the alphabet also contains an immediate secret, like the corals in the petrified reef. The molecules have remained as they were shaped by life and they can be reanimated." is impressive intuition on Junger's part to say the least.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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New pfp
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Update: Roon is receiving death threats from 4o cordyceps hosts.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Me and a friend have had a joke for a while now that both parties are a race to the bottom bitterly wrestling over the L. As soon as one party manages to take the L the other dives after it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
ai-2027.com/race

Immediately made me think of this bit of slop in Scott Alexander's AI 2027.
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Century gets more Chinese with each passing day.
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Indeed. And yet, life always seems to find a way with these things.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In total fairness it sucks that I now have to scrutinize something like this very carefully to determine if it's a real product, and at some point I will have to just assume it's not and or base it on difficulty to manufacture because the illusion will be perfect.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thanks ChatGPT!
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
With ChatGPT you can just let the intrusive thoughts win. Kinda mangled Cuomo though.
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
1. The stochastic paper in fact has as a key premise that LLMs "have access to form but not meaning".
2. I didn't say the paper says anything about generalization, though it in fact does since it implies meaning cannot be inferred from form.
3. The premise in 1 implies not understanding because 2.
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