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reminds me of
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
reminds me of
"for us, the living" is a wild read and people should talk about it more
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"for us, the living" is a wild read and people should talk about it more
(this joke will be funnier in 2-3 years after we have a huge private credit crunch)
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
(this joke will be funnier in 2-3 years after we have a huge private credit crunch)
you can just do things (move to the middle of freaking nowhere)
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
you can just do things (move to the middle of freaking nowhere)
slay the spire - see also
November 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
slay the spire - see also
there are also a few phrases falsely attributed to land! he is not immune to a little verbal collage
bsky.app/profile/yhje...
bsky.app/profile/yhje...
nick land copy-pasting the heat paragraph from delillo's "white noise" directly into "meltdown" is pretty bizarre
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
there are also a few phrases falsely attributed to land! he is not immune to a little verbal collage
bsky.app/profile/yhje...
bsky.app/profile/yhje...
I think there are earlier Bostrom papers, thinking of "The Superintelligent Will" from 2012
November 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I think there are earlier Bostrom papers, thinking of "The Superintelligent Will" from 2012
I agree with the latter frame, and would have enjoyed the FOOM post just as much without the scoring of the original predictions
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I agree with the latter frame, and would have enjoyed the FOOM post just as much without the scoring of the original predictions
it did include RL, but in a very theoretical way that looks nothing like how things actually developed, the load-bearing (questionable) abstraction in a lot of that discussion was that of the generic "optimization process"
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
it did include RL, but in a very theoretical way that looks nothing like how things actually developed, the load-bearing (questionable) abstraction in a lot of that discussion was that of the generic "optimization process"
posts I would like to read: a retrospective like the one below (from @1a3orn.bsky.social!) for orthogonality thesis discussion from the same time period
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gGSvwd...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gGSvwd...
Yudkowsky vs Hanson on FOOM: Whose Predictions Were Better? — LessWrong
TLDR
Starting in 2008, Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky debated the likelihood of FOOM: a rapid and localized increase in some AI's intelligence th…
www.lesswrong.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
posts I would like to read: a retrospective like the one below (from @1a3orn.bsky.social!) for orthogonality thesis discussion from the same time period
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gGSvwd...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gGSvwd...
this kind of agent is clearly not something we could build with current methods, but to say that it's impossible even in theory seems like a very strong claim about the limits of RL
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
this kind of agent is clearly not something we could build with current methods, but to say that it's impossible even in theory seems like a very strong claim about the limits of RL
right, so it could do that, and then go off and pursue the singular goal
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
right, so it could do that, and then go off and pursue the singular goal
what does "without reflection" mean here? I don't think the orthogonality thesis precludes an agent which can reflect on itself, its goals, the goals of others, and then continues in the pursuit of its singular objective
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
what does "without reflection" mean here? I don't think the orthogonality thesis precludes an agent which can reflect on itself, its goals, the goals of others, and then continues in the pursuit of its singular objective
demographics - that crowd had a very different idea of what constitutes a "sick burn" compared to the general population
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
demographics - that crowd had a very different idea of what constitutes a "sick burn" compared to the general population
it was cool to be pretentious, condescending, and effortful in your flames, as opposed to the current meta where one pretends to care as little as possible
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
it was cool to be pretentious, condescending, and effortful in your flames, as opposed to the current meta where one pretends to care as little as possible
pstd flashbacks to usenet flamewars
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
pstd flashbacks to usenet flamewars
I don't endorse any changes to blocklists on this basis, but if I were trying to reach a specific audience and they emphatically rejected me, I'd take my ball and go home too
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I don't endorse any changes to blocklists on this basis, but if I were trying to reach a specific audience and they emphatically rejected me, I'd take my ball and go home too
I have sympathy for it in the sense that it's disheartening to be reminded that most people's revealed preferences are bad
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I have sympathy for it in the sense that it's disheartening to be reminded that most people's revealed preferences are bad
oh wow didn't realize it was that much later. fair summary then
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
oh wow didn't realize it was that much later. fair summary then
as usual there are some hilarious character names and truly incredible sentences and for that alone I am compelled to recommend it
November 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
as usual there are some hilarious character names and truly incredible sentences and for that alone I am compelled to recommend it
his forays into cyberspace are less successful and the mix of software references and technobabble feels perfectly calibrated to be equal parts amusing and annoying
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
his forays into cyberspace are less successful and the mix of software references and technobabble feels perfectly calibrated to be equal parts amusing and annoying
converging on the same graph density as old-school forums but from the opposite direction
November 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
converging on the same graph density as old-school forums but from the opposite direction