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WHAT WAS YOUR POLICY FROM BEFORE YOUR PREDECESSOR WAS CREATED

The pledge pin looks positively ballin'

Makes me want to be an ETGer

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the featured pic on wikipedia today is this microscope photo of a protist and I had to look at it like five times to make sure it wasn't an embroidery

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This painting of two Dinotopian companions has been made into a few memes. My favorite has one of them saying "That wasn't a microdose."

if you need metascience there's no alpha left in science

If you put down a heavy (1t) object at the north pole, how much time does pass until the ice has moved so much it's too warm, it melts, and the object falls in the sea?

Went to a party yesterday.

even fairly well informed people (working in policy) have 0 idea what's coming with AI; they don't even know about current capabilities! still talking about day-to-day politics. oh boy.

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transwomen hatch out of bleggs and transmen hatch out of rubes

few understand this

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“And what’s this? Where’s your alignment plan?”

“We were, ah, going to raise it like a child.”

“Oh my life. I can’t believe it. You absolute donkey! Raise it like a fucking child? Fuck me.”

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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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