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Hell’s Kitchen but it’s Yudkowsky coming in to failing AGI projects

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talk overmuch of the way. make your entire personality about the way. go to way club where you and all your wayfriends engage only in meta discussion about the way

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If your fedi instance uptime can be measured in more than two nines of uptime, your admin works too hard.

- @rqsd@borg.social

so discount rates are bad mmkay
say philosophers, economists disagree. but then also RL practitioners (& theorists?) use pure discount rates…why?

is it in the nature of agents to be overconfident?

i think people should give me money for me to pursue my idiosyncratic interests

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looking through my website, I'm struck by how much it is…*I* made all that? impossible! But yet, it can't be otherwise

“Was that an acustic, syntactic or semantic ‘What?’?”

“……… What?”

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there's this bit my brother came up with where you find someones unlocked car in a parking lot and so you get in the drivers seat and wait until the person comes back, then you get out of the car and say "Hey, you left your doors unlocked, so I decided to make sure nothing weird happened. There are a lot of sickos out there, yknow."

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Kinda hate the idea that all tech development is "progress", particularly with AI stuff. Sometimes tech makes life worse, and it's not "being a luddite" to believe that.

It takes humans twice as long to detect the *absence* of an element in a set of visual stimuli than the presence

Where are all the Ramanujans? Shouldn't widespread proliferation of the internet have unearthed them by now?

i am normal and can be trusted to be invariate under conjugation to my supergroup

"So you're proposing an economic intervention" checklist like the programming language one

things becoming increasingly insane is lindy

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