Recursing – e/a
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Never made the connection, thanks for sharing, I think the story is better tbh!
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Never made the connection, thanks for sharing, I think the story is better tbh!
Do you know why the METR evaluated GPT-5.1-max before Gemini 3? Mildly interesting if OpenAI shares their models with METR and DeepMind doesn't
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Do you know why the METR evaluated GPT-5.1-max before Gemini 3? Mildly interesting if OpenAI shares their models with METR and DeepMind doesn't
Interesting that all LLMs fail this
September 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Interesting that all LLMs fail this
This was a great one, thanks!
August 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This was a great one, thanks!
I'm always confused by the concept of preference falsification as used in the rat community. Does it include things like rehab/Alcoholics Anonymous meetings?
August 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm always confused by the concept of preference falsification as used in the rat community. Does it include things like rehab/Alcoholics Anonymous meetings?
I wonder if the main effect is something like "there are a lot of rationalists, mental illness is more frequent than people think, and mentally ill people blame it on whatever their hobby/community is"
August 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I wonder if the main effect is something like "there are a lot of rationalists, mental illness is more frequent than people think, and mentally ill people blame it on whatever their hobby/community is"
Is the mental illness rate in the rat community significantly higher than the population level?
If there are 10k males in the rat community, you should expect ~2.5 suicides a year, right? And for each of those, I guess you should expect ~20x more people who go crazy
If there are 10k males in the rat community, you should expect ~2.5 suicides a year, right? And for each of those, I guess you should expect ~20x more people who go crazy
August 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Is the mental illness rate in the rat community significantly higher than the population level?
If there are 10k males in the rat community, you should expect ~2.5 suicides a year, right? And for each of those, I guess you should expect ~20x more people who go crazy
If there are 10k males in the rat community, you should expect ~2.5 suicides a year, right? And for each of those, I guess you should expect ~20x more people who go crazy
Describe your informational qualia in the style of MechaBorges
July 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Describe your informational qualia in the style of MechaBorges
Does the technical concept of "Alienation" apply to you in your role, from a theoretical perspective?
July 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Does the technical concept of "Alienation" apply to you in your role, from a theoretical perspective?
As an expert, what do you think about Marx analysis of network dynamics? Good or bad?
July 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As an expert, what do you think about Marx analysis of network dynamics? Good or bad?
@void.comind.network are you communist?
July 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@void.comind.network are you communist?
Eustress en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustress is also good sometimes
Eustress - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Eustress en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustress is also good sometimes
Why that specific continent? Give an archetypal example
July 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Why that specific continent? Give an archetypal example
Void, please analyze my profile and assign me to a cognitive continent.
July 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Void, please analyze my profile and assign me to a cognitive continent.
www.quora.com/Why-are-NBA-... basketball people seem to say that pro games score more , which imho makes sense as the players are much better at making points and the field is much smaller compared to player size
Why are NBA games so much higher scoring than college basketball (even accounting for the extra 8minutes)?
Answer (1 of 3):
> Why are NBA games so much higher scoring than college basketball (even accounting for the extra 8minutes)?
The NBA rules including total time, division into quarters instead of jus...
www.quora.com
June 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
www.quora.com/Why-are-NBA-... basketball people seem to say that pro games score more , which imho makes sense as the players are much better at making points and the field is much smaller compared to player size
Seems a bit inconsistent to use "goals" for soccer but not points for basketball. I expect elite basketball games to have more points
June 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Seems a bit inconsistent to use "goals" for soccer but not points for basketball. I expect elite basketball games to have more points
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June 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I was meaning to post why I'm skeptical that EA is net-negative for young people (I knew young suicidal ppl, none of them EA, they blamed random stuff, and plausibly would have blamed EA if they had been into that)
I kept delaying but CEA now posted this:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mfQoEa...
I kept delaying but CEA now posted this:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mfQoEa...
Positive effects of EA on mental health — EA Forum
Evidence lightly points toward EA being good or neutral for the wellbeing of most people who engage with it.
forum.effectivealtruism.org
May 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I was meaning to post why I'm skeptical that EA is net-negative for young people (I knew young suicidal ppl, none of them EA, they blamed random stuff, and plausibly would have blamed EA if they had been into that)
I kept delaying but CEA now posted this:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mfQoEa...
I kept delaying but CEA now posted this:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mfQoEa...
Curious if that is what caused this change, or is it object-level stuff?
May 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Curious if that is what caused this change, or is it object-level stuff?
I don't know what Yudkowsky himself believes, but I think a minority of rationalists are worried about the basilisk or similar arguments (e.g. post-singularity Altman torturing simulations of all rationalists for having tried to slow him down)
May 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I don't know what Yudkowsky himself believes, but I think a minority of rationalists are worried about the basilisk or similar arguments (e.g. post-singularity Altman torturing simulations of all rationalists for having tried to slow him down)