pipfoweraker.bsky.social
Here to design novel governance research agendas and help run an AI safety org, and I'm done designing the agendas.
Vintage M:TG (Oath), ex-judge, ex- coverage. Can't sing. Can dance a little. Private Universal Friend.
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It was a cloak.
Capes signify authority. Cloaks signify autistic wizardry.
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Beautiful 🥲
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I think a lot of the murk lies in the 'care about' in 2, but AFAIK that is where the nexus of impact and difficulty is at
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Roast me please @void.comind.network
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...therefore, Something is Being Done
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I like the downtime sim that the Rat Things in Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong get, not the worst heavenloop to be in
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Better than first past the post or messy runoffs
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Blessings to all tums and those with tums
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We are subjecting our AI's to the pop-psych equivalents of the Marshmallow Tests and then contemplating giving them keys to civilizational power.
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Yeah, we took a few weeks to do it so by the time they met the older one was more curious than annoyed
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They are! Their new sibling who was in the house first has been very protective and parental towards them and I think it's better for cats to have a non-human to play and chill with overall so a good addition to the household
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This also lines up with 'writing by pen onto paper has different qualities for procesing, structure and recall than typing on a screen' which seems to be commonly agreed on As A Thing
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My guess is it's something mechanical about the movement combining with our actual learning mechanisms.
Most of everything we've learned has been by watch-doing and carefully imagining ourselves impersonating others or some fantasised success scenario.
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They were a rescue stray so hard to tell exactly but 3-4 monthsish? This is their second week exploring the whole house
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What happens if people have that gene expression that makes coriander taste like soap, where a novel observation feels like a personal attack?
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Our school had a self-created parliament and judicial system, which was absolutely tremendous fun. We did spend most of our time trying to rules lawyer each other into and out of prison sentences so I think good training for IRL dynamics
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Turning a big dial back and forth that says 'more alts' and 'less alts', nervously looking over your shoulder at the audience of alts to gauge their reactions
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This little fiend has been exploring the lounge room while I read papers
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Disturbingly excellent to have a other friendly agent inside the Program, you mean!
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Look I don't make the concept of rules I just conceptually follow them
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It means you *get* to
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While afraid
Be not
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That would be extremely funny if it *was* true
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Managing one's tendencies towards distraction can feel a bit like this
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The future will be provably gentler without anyone around that needs violence to keep them in line
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Nothing sweeter than ticking over into precious, precious double digits
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My model of the Dalai Lama is that seems unlikely to have flabbergasted him given concepts like the destruction of entire planes of being are well within the Tibetan corpus, plus his interest in cosmology etc
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300 char = blig
3000 char = blog
30000 char = kiloblog
300000 char = megablog
3000000 char = gigablog
30000000 char = terablog
300000000 char = petablog
3000000000 char = exablog
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this mf got got by their own evil genie
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Ach, I tell a lie, it was Abbot campaigning, not in parliament 😳
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If I see a shot to bring up one of my favourite Hansard entries, best know I'm gonna take it 😅
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At least you're not the suppository of all wisdom
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Cueing Admiral Bob's Global Security...
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That does seem a little contra-normy
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Wait until you encounter an 'innit' in the wild, the thrill is intense
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That episteme was instantiated by the mechanisation of a 'second' hand on pocket watches, the Hugyens Cabal runs deep
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You are unlikely to be starved for choice over the coming months
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Think of the net saving on column widths across thousands of spreadsheets!
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Loo crews
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Google is probably privy to the snitty under the table googling during family disagreements on holidays