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a loving superintelligence
Superintelligence (SI) is near, raising urgent alignment questions. ... posted 6d 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... 2d 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 4w 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. ... 4d ago 1 1

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Leibnizian Supercoordination
Continuing off of a few prior threads: ... posted 1w ago with 25 replies 6 6

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Thank you anon 4d ago 1 1

Thank you anon 1 1

internet supplants america
Modern Americans have outgrown our republic. ... posted 4w ago with 6 replies 8 8

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Ah sorry, I meant a migration **from the physical to the digital world. ... 6d ago 1 1

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Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t. Tough love from Casey Handmer (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com) posted 1mo 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... 1mo 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 1mo 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? ... 1mo 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 ... 1mo ago 1 1

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Digitalist Papers: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation
“The dual nature of anonymity and shared identity can allow a new reserved civic participation that can make us more comfortable interacting with fellow community members who can otherwise seem very different or foreign to us, which can perhaps also incr... posted 2mo ago with 3 replies 3 3

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Why are anonymity and reputation antithetical? If you track them socially of course they are, but if you have some system of automated reputation tracking that can be kept secret, you can have social anonymity with reputation. I always distinguish social a... 2mo ago 4 4

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Lessons from Palantir Alums About Building a Tech Company (www.partly.work) posted 4mo ago with 3 replies 9 9

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That makes sense. The forward deployed engineers are the engineers the customer should have but don't. 4mo ago 4 4

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The Drone Question. Is America screwed by lack of industrial capacity?
The war in Ukraine is teaching us that explosive hunter-seeker drones, FPV piloted or autonomous, are shockingly overpowered. Flying panzerfausts are wrecking armor for fractional cents on the dollar, and flying grenades are blowing the legs off of boys wh... posted 9mo ago with 40 replies 19 19

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consumer demand is a complete red herring here. Consumers should not be buying drone swarms or even thinking about it. The question is whether hackers are building novel stuff and then getting into manufacturing, and then whether the manufacturing ecosyste... 9mo ago 7 7

consumer demand is a 7 7