broke: MIRI is dumb; instrumental convergence isn't real woke: MIRI is smart; instrumental convergence is a problem bespoke: MIRI is basilisk; its publications on instrumental convergence were a retrocausal 4D chess move to teach AI about instrumental convergence

The thing about the progressive worldview is that it actually doesn’t require even an ounce of empathy to imagine that every body else is exactly like you, has exactly the same motivations you have, wants exactly the same things out of life, and that, actually, you could even

PSA: having an opinion on the Veil of Ignorance before having read "How An Algorithm Feels From Inside" should be punishable by flogging

I will bite this -- I think that "the material factors" sentence is a fair reading of determinism, which I accept. in this frame, the way to interpret the "how would you feel question" is as follows: "run a mental simulation of a person similar to yourself, except not having

The Reich paper has shown a lot of people do not understand how there can be selection on variants underlying social phenotypes. They don't get that arson offending is heritable due to the heritability of other traits but instead imagine it's heritable due to 'arson genes'.

You can tell the RL is done properly when the models cease to speak English in their chain of thought

Chernobyl caused 40 deaths directly, but indirectly it caused 1 million times that. Fear prevented 400 additional nuclear power plants from being built, and each would have saved ~800,000 years of additional life by reducing pollution from oil & coal

you ever notice that the kabbalistic meaning of "Gen Z" is The Last Man

anyone else here born with a weird subset of Haidt's moral foundations? {harm, purity} gang rise up!

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What a coincidence: Lawyers who abuse the environmental review process are opposed to permitting reform that would speed up litigation timelines.

conjecture 4: in 25 years no human will know how most parts of most new machines operate internally additive assembly lines will require as input only a specification. the rest will be optimized by search and simulation. part design will be a husk profession, like COBOL is now

How far can a stack of blocks hang over the edge of the table? This is the maximum overhang for 20 blocks (dark grey). Sometimes the optimal solution is not pretty.

“Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence” yes it fucking is!!! what dumb fuck came up with this