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RT @eperea
@scottsantens "How dare you contradict my deeply-held prejudices with your ridiculous, verifiable facts?!"

"NSW police declined to comment" after lying to the court.

Where are the penalties against police who lie to put people in prison? These penalties should be *at least* as harsh as those they seek to corruptly inflict on defendants.

theguardian.com/australia-news

Have you met humans?

(Amazing thread though)
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RT @karpathy
Interesting non-obvious note on GPT psychology is that unlike people they are completely unaware of their own strengths and limitations. E.g. that they have finite context window. That they can just barely do mental math. That samples can get unlucky and go off the rails. Etc.
twitter.com/karpathy/status/16

RT @ESYudkowsky
The great political writers who also aspired to be good human beings, from George Orwell on the left to Robert Heinlein on the right, taught me to acknowledge in my writing that politics rests on force.

George Orwell considered it a tactic of totalitarianism, that bullet-riddled… twitter.com/i/web/status/16414

Very relevant in 2023
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RT @IsaiahXProject
@JeffLadish Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
twitter.com/IsaiahXProject/sta

Great forecasting is rare and undervalued.

Skilful forecasting applied to artificial general intelligence:
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RT @soroushjp
The #1 forecaster on @slatestarcodex's 2022 prediction contest, @ryankupyn, beat out 500+ forecasters & even prediction markets.

He & I sat down on The AGI Show podcast to talk forecasting AGI timelines & his own predictions.

youtu.be/yHnwk2sATdI

theagishow.com/2082819/1255363
twitter.com/soroushjp/status/1

RT @ohwizenedtortle
PSA: All the Sydney tpot people are really cool!! 🥰🥰🥰

The real lizard people were the cabals we formed along the way

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