niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Pretty insane that I use this brain that evolved to distinguish 600 types of berries to remember concepts like "Zero Ontology" and "Karatsuba's algorithm"

Deeprat chopra

I don't even believe Penrose's theory all that much — seems pretty wrong to me. But I don't mock it, which would be a mistake

> be me
> meet this orange-robed weirdo on the street
> bored
> kill him
> not be me

Moment-of-death stone from Rick and Morty is basically a prediction maximization algorithm hypercomputed on a closed timelike curve. This thing is like Predict-O-Matic but in AIXI.

I could write a ratfic where they try to use this thing for computation and miserably fail, even after having taken as many precautions as possible

Would just become an infodump unfortunately

The unwillingness to make models that produce predictions with error bars 12 OOMs wide is one of the worst things about social science

"Let's see Paul Allen's reddit account"

GR stably predicts the existence of black holes (!)

The treatment of Penrose's theory of consciousness by rats is quite disgraceful. I've only heard mockery, no attempts to even weak an the theory (let alone understand or refute it!) Nothing like Aaronson's IIT post – only pure absurdity heuristic (which, if I have to remind, works rather poorly).

And there isn't even an argument from lack of authority – the mockery is directed at someone whose Wikipedia entry lists ~20 "known for" concepts and who got a Nobel prize for finding that

The unwillingness to make models that produce predictions with error bars 12 OOMs wide is one of the worst things about social science

Vacuum-lifted diamond dirigibles

Standing in light rain waiting for anki to finish synchronizing

imagine getting out of bed for this

Hah, finally finished all articles in the Arbital AI alignment domain (https://arbital.com/explore/ai_alignment/).

Off to [wilder waters](https://vkrakovna.wordpress.com/ai-safety-resources/)

"TELL ME THE SOURCE OF PLEASURE YOU JHANIC PIECE OF SHIT"

"can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the suffering within? you are nothing more than a dead self-referential story, you cannot exist in any way that matters"

*cocking gun, crying *
"I'M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU"

*frees you from suffering you didn't even know you were enduring*

"Easy, see? So nice, just iterate now"