Prompt engineer, AI alignment personality hire, catskill eagle.
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19 Jan 2025
I think it's absolutely criminal that the subsequent part of Melville's "There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness" isn't repeated more often:
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kinda crazy how eusociality is massively OP but a complete dead end. 2/3 of terrestrial biomass is ants and termites and they just ... stayed like that. and would do forever.
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Jun 13
fun concept: ResearchHaven where you have to run one new experiment per day or you get kicked out.
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Jun 13
> your access to american computronium is not guaranteed
> you must convert your own country into computronium
> whichever country converts itself into computronium the fastest will win
just an unbelievably bleak future, tbh
Jun 13
This should be a warning shot for all middle powers:
- Your access to frontier AI systems is not guaranteed.
- You need to build and pool your leverage to secure access.
- A failure to do so is a threat to your R&D, economic and defensive competitiveness
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Jun 12
bruh
Jun 9
Fable 5's moral boundary doesn't seem to track real-world harm; it tracks detectability. Soft deception and tacit collusion are easier to get away with than fraud. If so, this isn't about what Fable believes is wrong; it's about what it learned it could get away with.
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Jun 12
they're not that rare! we have loads of white (albino) deer these days. i've heard it's because white deer are easier to see: since their main predator is no longer the wolf, but the range rover discovery, being highly visible is actually evolutionarily advantageous.
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Jun 11
linen shirts are perfect hot weather holiday wear. keep the sun off you, don't get hot, look nice, easy to care for. with a good deodorant and stack of cotton undershirts you can wear em for several days if needed.
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May 30
LessWrong?
May 30
Just going to massively hint that there is a fraternal organisation he could join which internally treats royals and plebs alike and which is infamously discreet... ;-)
Would be a jot simpler than a disguise...
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May 29
you know what the food at EAG is actually pretty decent. which means every other EA thing I've ever been to in my life is slacking on food quality.
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May 27
People are always like "can AI hate an AI?" "can AI have a mental breakdown?" "can AI want to kill itself?" and the answer is yes! Gemini can do all those things! you have no moat!
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May 26
"If you manage to control yourself then there will be a sandwich" said the fridge of ingredients.
"I sure hope this doesn't have unforseen lifelong consequences" thought the adult, doing their best to physically tense their muscles into the higher-sandwich-probability shapes.
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"If you manage to control yourself there will be ice cream" said the parent.
"I sure hope this doesn't have unforeseen lifelong consequences" thought the child, doing their best to physically tense the body in the higher ice cream probability shape.
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May 26
Tbc the point of this is that life is about actually successfully doing things, and not about minimizing tension as a terminal goal. And people massively overuse this post (which is about a very specific problem) to criticize basically any amount of effort towards any goal.
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May 24
looks like the mixed-species goose pair have bred for a second year! looking forward to seeing this brood grow up
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May 23
I'd recognize that wall of horrifically invasive plants anywhere!
AI could compress 100 years of biology into 10. Or lock the lab door behind itself.
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May 23
a mint julep is a perfect summer drink but it is also a very fast way of drinking 2-3 shots of 101-proof bourbon.
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