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holy hell wilhelm reich *was* based

interacted with einstein, shot down clouds, many affairs

@lain (didn't connect it with the previous post which made it funnier in connection with reich—"teenage sexual liberation" and all that)

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@ayegill The way I always understood the argument is that nanorobots have a path-dependency that makes them

1. much less likely to arise naturally
2. much more resilient/strong/effective

(the talk is often of diamondoid structures which are purportedly far more robust against attackers, but require much higher energies/precision to be created)

but then again the relevant literature mostly eludes me

@animeirl some things belong into the backend ane

79893 minutes of meditation until now

Gatekeep girlboss gaslight givewell

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Logarithmic valence views might suffer from an odd problem: They are, in some sense, *too obvious*, so that everyone says “yeah, that seems true” and goes on doing exactly what they did before.

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not being enlightened is like looking for the ringing alarm clock everywhere in the apartment & not finding it while still dreaming

@axiS
Conclusion: I can do whatever I wanted to do anyway, but now I can also feel smug about it

I would be surprised if adversarial examples for LLMs were also adversarial examples for humans

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