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extra-punish people who euler you without anything backing it up

get in loser, we're evolving to extinction

there's some IOIs it's a crime not to react to

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the kryptonite fallacy: steelmanning the opponent's argument and then pulling out a counterargument that seems to hold, but actually only works on the steelman and not on the regular version

I might actually be able to say something about the computational complexity of achieving von Neumann-Morgenstern coherent goals

a list of all known bounds on price of anarchy/price of stability

be like the missile

have low indexical uncertainty

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@niplav heh, funny how that works out sometimes :D

Well off the top of my head I'd probably be promoting:

#1 Diaspora for the best depiction of virtual persons I've ever seen.
#2 Schild's Ladder for the adventure of unleashing a universal X-risk and the race to halt it.
#3 Permutation City; all about Cellular Automata so good but also weird cults too?
#4-N pretty much all the collections of short stories which have some vcool concepts

Orthogonal is bit weird, no Relativity in the setting :!?

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is the computer that chatgpt is running on conscious?

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is chatgpt conscious

Capabilities idea: bf83a0cb25bb227743a9fc877a02571dca55d204

the longer you were uncertain about a thing, the stronger the reward upon discovering its true nature

is this just reinventing the powerseeking theorems? gotta check

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it would be helpful if we knew whether for almost all random functions from ℝⁿ→ℝ, changing any one element of the domain slightly changes the output a lot

then one might also prove (or disprove) the same thing for functions implementable by some classes neural networks

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