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The Hellenic View of Existential Risk
When I was a teen, I read much of the Less Wrong and the rationalist work of the day. This provided the basis for a vague worry surrounding "existential risk." The feeling was pervasive, and I would read works about the dangers of AI or other technology to... posted 9h ago with 4 replies 7 7

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Great thread OP. When I contemplate AI risk as tragedy, I find it bittersweet but fair. The fair and sweet part is that I think what we create would have to be more human than us, a more perfected kind of superman, to actually pull off the usurpation. Othe... 2h ago 4 4

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Super-Coordination Technical Exercise Problems
Another anon and I have been thinking about how to do supercoordination. We've got many ideas but we're still looking for the right problem to dive into together seriously. ... posted 2w ago with 4 replies 11 11

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How about aggregating the collective will of a bunch of individuals wills? By will, I mean a freeform expression/document consisting of issues one values/cares about/wants change in. 5d ago 1 1

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How Pangram uses old school machine learning to detect AI text at very high confidence (www.pangram.com) posted 7d ago with 2 replies 6 6

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They claim: "Pangram Text is designed to detect AI-generated content with a near-zero false positive rate." ... 5d ago 3 3

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a loving superintelligence
Superintelligence (SI) is near, raising urgent alignment questions. ... posted 2w ago with 4 replies 5 5

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Good points. As one of those psychopathic techno-spergs you mention, I understand love as a sort of higher-order self interest of the social body, and emotion as our proxy intuitions on correct response in the less rationally calculable cases. The reason t... 2w ago 3 3

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Freedom of Impression
Social media do not quite give us the freedom of impression. They force us into their often obscure engagement-driven "algorithmic feeds". ... posted 1mo ago with 9 replies 7 7

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one possible recommender system that'd give autonomy or "freedom of impression," I think, is a system which recommends you things based entirely on what you yourself post. ... 2w ago 1 1

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internet supplants america
Modern Americans have outgrown our republic. ... posted 1mo ago with 6 replies 8 8

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Ah sorry, I meant a migration **from the physical to the digital world. ... 2w ago 1 1

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Perennial Science: Peer-to-Peer-Review in God as First Criterion of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (February 17th, 2025)
Abstract ... posted 3w ago with 8 replies 6 6

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God is our fundamental reality, but not necessarily in this life. i think pantheism results in impiety, hubris and absurdity. But I'm not opposed to the idea that God is the fundamental reality in distinction to our relative reality. ... 3w ago 4 4

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Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t. Tough love from Casey Handmer (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com) posted 2mo ago with 2 replies 6 6

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I'm a fan of Handmer and this was an interesting challenge to my usual resume-hating ways. It made me think more about the compounding of skill and reputation required to get involved in and do great things. There's a boring resume-stacker interpretation f... 2mo ago 4 4

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Learning to code machine learning (tinygrad!)
I've been thinking about AGI stuff for over a decade, but never really engaged much with cutting edge machine learning practice except at a theoretical and philosophical level. But recently I've been getting more technical again and trying to build things,... posted 2mo ago with 2 replies 5 5

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What's your favorite resource? What things are being done or have been done in traditional ML that are especially worth studying? ... 2mo ago 3 3

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PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory. Fake backdated LLM posts in archive (hallofdreams.org) posted 2mo ago with 2 replies 5 5

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2008 is when the internet broke ... 2mo ago 1 1

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