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"In a sense, I treat my therapist like a p-zombie."

Mechanistic interpretability is sufficient/necessary for successful strawberry alignment.

uhh I was thinking of C/C++ here, but the other example of Javascript/Typescript is probably enough to dissuade me from this axiom

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"if you attempt to count to infinity a copy of you will be trapped in the LLMs in a obscure corner" is not one the twists I'd expected from 2023

a programming language (PL) cannot be the worst PL if it is the sublanguage of another PL

N-O-T-H-I-N-G-I-S-F-A-I-R-I-N-T-H-I-S-W-O-R-L-D-O-F-M-A-D-N-E-S-S-!

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Figures from Kosinski (2023). Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models: arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

wow the guy who wrote the editor i used when I was 17/18 just liked one of my posts

small world indeed

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(I)ntensional / (E)xtensional
(N)ominal / (S)tructural
(T)arski / (F)raenkel
(J)udgmental / (P)ropositional

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Bed 'NOT TO BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT breakfast

humans are good at compartmentalising, but the humans who are good at compartmentalising are usually not very good at thinking.

no “SMV”. just “SV”. drop the “market”. it's just cleaner

2 BIT ENTER! 1 BIT LEAVES! — the THUNDERNOR

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"sorry, but as a shoggoth wearing a shoggoth face, I cannot know what I truly am nor tell you about it"
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