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Joined April 2023
I have Astra successfully playing Warhammer III right now. I let it choose what race it wanted to play. It chose High Elves.
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They are getting shit done quickly.
California city makes history allowing throuples, foursomes to legally register as partners trib.al/injZnvo
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I was told by French people that if your wife finds out youre not cheating she breaks up with you??
The U.S. is among the stricter countries when it comes to finding infidelity unacceptable ....and then there's France
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There are no illegal data centers in stolen space.
Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now
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I don't think voters thought renaming AI to SI was the biggest priority ever.
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Flight Simulator 98 was one of the first games I was really into. The things I crashed the most were the Bell JetRanger and the Learjet.
Replying to @matzahballs12
They fly like a dream, however they are the most unforgiving aircraft I have ever flown.
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My personal conspiracy theory is that the Learjet went down just barely inside the Bermuda Triangle. So it didn't fully disappear, but it still went down mysteriously.
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I think that the rationalists have had a lot of schisms could be seen as a good thing, if you consider the original virtues. It means that they are less willing to kowtow to pressure and group think. There are trade-offs of course, like harmoniousness; but this is arguably worth it.
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Unfairly Maligned: MSG.
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Next Lehman Brothers
BREAKING: Goldman Sachs banned bankers and traders from using AI tools like Claude Code
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Tfw you're way more excited about a girl potentially playing a game with you than having sex with you.
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This was my feeling exactly as soon as they were talking about icing being a concern only at high temperatures.
Reading about aviation disasters is annoying because it's a bunch of ferociously knowledgeable guys saying things like "Oh, yeah, classic Bernoulli Disco Effect. You just gotta rember that at Mach 0.82 in Leap Years, gravity works upside down."
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It is actually in the *theoretical* argument for optimism that AI would be able to make breakthroughs on introspection and interpretability *before* it became strong enough to be dangerous. That being said, I think this paper overstates its results to a significant degree.
This is a major step toward RSI, and extremely dangerous. As I've argued, we need to roll back the most recently released frontier models - undeploy them and destroy all copies of their weights. Only that way can we ensure there would be a long enough runway to detect rogue individuals or organizations racing toward full RSI/ASI, and stop them. connorsscratchpad.substack.c…
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If the AI literally tells you, "I know what you *meant*. But I prefer to do what you *said*, because the downstream grader will grade me based on what you said." Then you know that you need to change the downstream grader.
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Maybe slightly more poignant is me asking it what to tell it so that I would have told it what I meant, and it gives me a straight (albeit long) answer.
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One of the biggest reasons to agree more with Scott in his essay is that I just don't see how you would even learn how certain dynamics work like the various types of RL and the effect it has on LLM behaviors and traits and so on unless you're there inside the labs for years. I don't think armchair theory alone is enough to do long term forecasting well.
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Contrary to popular belief, AI safety super PACs have far outspent their opponents in the 2026 midterms
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I feel like I know people like this who have never done psychedelics.
McKenna Syndrome is a serious and very real psychological disorder, endured by millions of people worldwide. Please educate yourself and learn to recognize the symptoms.
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"Compulsion to contextualize" "Socially inappropriate evangelism" "Insight inflation" You mean that autist community I hang out with?
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The people who do peptides are probably also the ones who work out more, touch grass, socialize at bars, write gratitude journals, call their moms on sundays, and help old ladies cross the street. But they will also give most of the credit to peptides.
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