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in thread "Rat King 1518. Insurrealist takes on Scott Alexander's "Moloch"":

I kept the post from being too overtly religious as I didn't want to overextend the scope, make the arguments depend on my personal commitments, or run my mouth on a serious topic I have nowhere near sufficient expertise in (theology). That said, someone l... 3mo ago

I kept the post from

Moloch is certainly used as a pretext for hubris against God (as is typical of all self-righteous Ivan Karamazov types that only end up making matters worse for the very people they claim to stand in defense of), but the concept is more limited. Indeed, it... 3mo ago

Moloch is certainly

in thread "Agency. On Machine Intelligence and Worm Wisdom by Insurrealist":

Michael Levin actually compares the developmental process, which has to cope with all manner of error, insult, variation, and adversarial action, to a variational autoencoder, so it's not like we're extremely far off from the right questions, but the cultu... 3mo ago

Michael Levin actual