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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... 2mo ago 6 6

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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... 2mo ago 5 5

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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... 2mo ago 3 3

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