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In practice probably ~all systems with qualia are valenced systems, since valence is the primary axis along which qualia can vary

What is the information bottleneck of epigenetics?

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1 secret hack for a “blue sky” invite: go outside and look up

What's a good mapping from the set of possible graphs on the probability n-simplex to the set of possible lines in ℝⁿ?

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Consistent utility functions on n options are just lines in ℝⁿ

Fingered someone for acausal reasons ✔️

“…and we can probably plan for middle of March thi…ah, hello! Mister Yudkowsky! I hope you found—”
“Rename your company to ClosedAI.”
“Uh…what?”
“Rename your company to ClosedAI. Stop your biggest training
runs. Pivot to mechanistic interpretability. Shut it all down.”
“………Selfie?”

Utility is linear in probability but nothing else.

After discovering that this would be a pain to port over I won't do it.

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It would be funny if coherence would depend on pretty galaxy-brained math such as Hodge/Helmholtz decomposition

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anybody got an invite to coloroftelevisiontunedtoadeadchannel skies, I heard it's the same as here but only cool people are allowed

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