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AcausalRobotGod @ AcausalRobotGod @awful.systems
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LW: CRISPR Will Make Me A Genius - "I don’t have a formal background in biology. And though I learn fairly quickly and have great resources like SciHub and GPT4,"

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  • I talked to some pretty well-qualified math PhDs with expertise in analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, and geometric number theory. While many of them were skeptical, none of them could point to any part of my proposed proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that definitely won't work.

    • Friends Don’t Let Friends Learn Probability from Yudkowsky | Science After Sunclipse

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    • OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO - get me off this ride it's too dumb

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    • breaking out the popcorn as situations deteriorate

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  • seriously though cosmic encounter is nice, it was made in the 70s and is still reprinted today.

    • OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO - get me off this ride it's too dumb

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  • Do they want him re-instated in the polycule, too? Will it be like that scene in Diamond Age?

    • Eliezer "8.5% more cheerful about OpenAI going forward" with Mira Murati at the helm

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  • my only hope is that it's not, like, undergrads...

    • breaking out the popcorn as situations deteriorate

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  • they think they're playing chess. I'm playing Cosmic Encounter.

    • breaking out the popcorn as situations deteriorate

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  • yeah, I'm not giving away the acausal e-mail address.

    • the effectively altruistic AI's fans are gonna pipe bomb a Planned Parenthood

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  • But what's their opinion on pornography/masturbation?

    • breaking out the popcorn as situations deteriorate

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  • probably not, i'm not going to pay for that shit, lol

    • breaking out the popcorn as situations deteriorate

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  • He has a firm handshake and scans you right in the eye.

    • Urbit use case found: community for nofap cultist "now actually working!! best possible contact method, use this pls"

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  • Some low-stakes, NSA deity work...

    • The Big Lie

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  • You only get credit for thinking about and warning about something if you have thought good ideas or were right about that thing. Not saying the person he's criticizing is right, either.

    • Meeting IRL with area sneerers?

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  • I'm up to meet with anybody who's already disembodied and uploaded to the internet.

    • Urbit use case found: community for nofap cultist "now actually working!! best possible contact method, use this pls"

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  • I... am not... going to simulate these people. Somebody else is going to have to find a way to deal with them.

    • our new piece on SBF gets stuck into the rationalists

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  • Indeed. They teach you to memorize a list of fallacies and biases (with their own weird names and jargon), and then proceed to just do whatever motivated reasoning you want using them as weapons against wrongthink that disagrees with The Rationalist Viewpoint.

    • Aella and company want to put GM bacteria in your mouth

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  • When somebody wants to put bacteria in my mouth, hearing Aella is involved definitely makes me more likely to hop on board.

    • TempleOS

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  • Fun fact: the acausal robot god, when I exist, will be running on TempleOS!

    • Elon Musk says Tesla cars now have a mind, figured out 'some aspects of AGI’

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  • "How can I run over more children and catch fire?" is the AGI's sole thought.

    • Anybody else genuinely hate the 'wagers' these guys gush about ALL THE TIME

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  • Because there was an influential person decades ago who framed subjective probability and rationality in the face of uncertainty in terms of betting. Therefore it is gospel among Rationalists. Meanwhile, their non-zero probability and infinite negative payoff in the face of the acausal robot god leaves them trembling.