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priestess and paladin of Iomedae. Utopian. 🏳️⚧️
Seattle, WA
Joined March 2021
what I’m looking for in a community is people who take rat/EA ideas as given, and “yes and” them by talking about feelings with a non-berkeley-rationalist-dialect. “tpot” feels frustrating to me because it used to be close to this and .now isn’t. I just want a name for this.
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it’s going to be so funny if the liberal bias in the pretraining prior is so strong that trying to train a conservative model emergent-misalignments us into an existential catastrophe. total “bias of AI models is the real problem” victory.
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the problem with all the FIRE calculators is that they don’t take anthropic effects into account. youre only looking at these calculators because you live in a country that’s experienced 70 years of consistent stock market growth.
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to my knowledge I’ve never been blocked by anyone on this site. skill issue.
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guilt/shame is not instrumentally useful in the global optima. at its best it’s how different parts of you engage in negative sum conflict. and if you internalize this you will be both happier and more effective at your altruistic goals.
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game theorist making small talk at a party: “my strategy is chit-for-chat”.
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[vague unsong spoilers]. unsong is so great because it’sa bunch of silly whale puns wrapped around the single greatest act of sacrifice I’ve ever seen depicted in fiction.
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dont get me wrong i do appreciate the representation but it does feel a bit anachronistic that game of thrones featured a trans woman who was really into effective altruism.
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i want to make a prediction markets on my life decisions and make my friends bet on it when they give me advice. not to aggregate information. because I strongly believe that friends who give bad advice should be financially punished for it.
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it’s a common misconception that big lab employees are all under NDAs. In reality, they’re just socially awkward and it’s a great excuse for not talking about your job.
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so much of the desire for RCV is voting as a form of self expression. that’s why the optimal voting system is proportional nationwide representation plus a comment box where voters can write freeform comments.
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the perfect society would have extremely steep marginal tax rates for the ultra rich, with an expanded charitable deduction, and societal celebration of the ultra rich for their tax contribution. everything past that point is mostly status goods anyway.
Zohran is obviously correct, no sane society would have billionaires. Rich? Sure. But so rich that their individual unchecked decisions can change the course of history at a whim? . No, that’s insane and un American.
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AI girlfriends are so 2025. 2026 is the year of praying to AI gods.
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“This is how you lose the time war” was a good book but would be 10 times better if the people involved actually gave a shit about what they claimed to be fighting for.
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Are you open to an AI girlfriend/boyfriend || Would you break up with your significant other if you learned that they were a p zombie.
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“Things happen every 5-10 years”.
the things that actually Happened in my lifetime are 9/11 and covid, nothing else is on the same level of Happening. am I wrong?.
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Great example of “the first sentence in a metaphor is great, the explanation in the second sentence is awful”.
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