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aspiring cognitive scientist / hunter of numinous / scout mindset apprentice🦊/ pondering effective altruism, qualia, art and civilizational psychology / Prague
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A lot of folks have an intellectual understanding of the anthropic principle. Few grasp that every idea they have could only have occurred in a body prone to having it and every second they breathe, likely an ~infinity of parallel civilizations disappear.

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As an aspiring EA cognitive scientist, my best plan may be to pretend we're about to enter in a prolonged weak-AGI era - whether due to regulation, an AI winter or a period of instability; "the short reflection" with advanced boxed/narrow AI - as in this timeline, some of the …

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

People underrate the extent to which they are bad at meta-cognition because they are bad at meta-cognition (compared to cognition). One smart study showed that when people judge how certain they are, they only consider positive evidence (X looks like Y), and neglect dissimilarities (X looks like Z)

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

PSA:Please remember to telepathically blast pigeons with love when you walk by them, thank you

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Live as if humanity could be extinguished with a gamma ray the following second but also could invent technologies that would allow us to thrive in eternal bliss

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