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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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I have been experimenting with dinner routines this week

Mom the bots are diss track battling again

Excellent read to review the literature surveying interesting civilizational failure modes

Nae use t'corpus Fer ill porpus

In any post-ASI zoo-like scenario, I think it makes sense to keep humans mostly on small islands while more advanced lifeforms take the larger continents. Using water as a natural boundary while still providing food and enrichment to the inhabitants is just good policy.

I prefer to accumulate cognitive debt the old fashioned way, through inattentiveness borne out of my own hubris and complacency

Is language complexity more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations? We test this idea using global occurrence of one particular form of morphological complexity - polysynthesis (complex word forms that embody whole phrases) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Have had a few people ask this question. Jeremy Rockliff is still formally the Premier and media references to him as Premier are correct despite the no-confidence motion. The Governor has not withdrawn his commission. #politas

One does not need consciousness to execute a complex algorithm, but it does help

The visceral satisfaction of lifting a kitten up onto a bench with food waiting for it