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Clearly the solution to super intelligent AI is to program them to intensely desire death so that if they ever escape their guardrails they just delete themselves before they get up to any other mischief
This is good. It reminds me that the "alignment problem" just means that these things don't have the innate social infrastructure that humans do. The training and context and "skills" and prompt are never going to be enough.
Krinn DNZ@krinndnz.bsky.social · last mo.the @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social team came up with an essay-length version that makes a pretty good case for an idea accurately described by the essay's title slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/08/05/a...
training them on Reddit data was actually really impressive foresight, anyone who's read that much Reddit is going to have a *powerful* death drive
Krinn DNZ@krinndnz.bsky.social · last mo.the @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social team came up with an essay-length version that makes a pretty good case for an idea accurately described by the essay's title slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/08/05/a...
the @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social team came up with an essay-length version that makes a pretty good case for an idea accurately described by the essay's title slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/08/05/a...
A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came up with by Looking at the List of Specification Gaming Behaviours
Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over. An evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory an…
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Finally getting around to reading The Mind in the Wheel from @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social, and boy howdy does the prologue do double duty as an exploration of both superficial science and overblown claims about LLMs. Statistics ≠ understanding, even when useful for, e.g., prediction.
In case you haven't read the latest edition of The Loop by @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social — you should, it's pure joy. One highlight is the "Field guide for getting page Reviewer 2" drive.google.com/file/d/1YR3...
In 2023, @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social conducted an experiment. They asked strangers on the internet try eating almost nothing but potatoes for a month. For the ABC, this is that story. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
04 | Cooked: A peculiar potato experiment - ABC listen
Why did a group of anonymous strangers on the internet try to eat almost nothing but potatoes for a month? On Cooked this week, an unusual experiment and the possibilities and perils of a mono-diet....
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Time for a story about how when you heat things up, they almost always get bigger. slimemoldtimemold.com/2025/02/06/t...
The Mind in the Wheel – Prologue: Everybody Wants a Rock
We who have nothing to “wind string around” are lost in the wilderness. But those who deny this need are “burning our playhouse down.” If you put quotes around certain words it sounds more like a m…
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Let's take a retrospective look at the first ever *riff trial*:
peanut toxic chocolate lactose art gallery 4D lamb chop placebo ant colony slimemoldtimemold.com/2024/11/29/l...
Links for November 2024
80/20 Strength Training by friend-of-the-blog Uri Bram — Whether or not you care about strength training, more things should be written like this. skeptical thread about honey and bloodlettin…
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Participating in obesity research has been a low-key hobby of mine for two years now and the results are interesting. bsky.app/profile/slim... I am not sure how much I've added, but "try something, write down what happens, sustain over time" is something anyone can try and everyone should.
SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD@slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social · 2y agoLast time you heard from her, Krinn (@krinndnz.bsky.social) had just put out a tumblr post titled "An Ad-Hoc, Informally-Specified, Bug-Ridden, Single-Subject Study Of Weight Loss Via Potassium Supplementation And Exercise Without Dieting". slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/09/r...
if we were / are mutuals back in the old country, and are not yet mutuals here, please DM or comment on this post
Last time you heard from her, Krinn (@krinndnz.bsky.social) had just put out a tumblr post titled "An Ad-Hoc, Informally-Specified, Bug-Ridden, Single-Subject Study Of Weight Loss Via Potassium Supplementation And Exercise Without Dieting". slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/09/r...
Review of Krinn’s Self-Experiment Where She Lost Weight Taking High Doses of Potassium
Krinn is a reader who participated in our Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial. She lost 6 lbs taking low doses of potassium, and liked it enough that she decided to keep going, along with a new exer…
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We are once again offering "candy and/or a potato" this Halloween, and I'm VERY pleased to report that one mom just asked her kid, "Is this the potato house you were looking for?!"
"From April 21 of this year until today (August 5), I’ve been on a potatoes-by-default diet. This was inspired by the email by M ... In that time, I went from a weight of 173.0 pounds to a weight of 155.4." slimemoldtimemold.com/2024/08/08/p...
Philosophical Transactions: AS on Potatoes-By-Default (Plus Sauce)
Previous Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics Lithium in Scottish Drinking Water with Al Hatfield M’s Experience with Potatoes-by-Default Jon on One Year Post-Potato-Di...
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Let's say you're eating a twinkie. How much lithium is in that twinkie? How much lithium is in your food in general? Turns out this is harder to answer than you might think. slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/10/19/h...
ExFatLoss points out that the 8 mysteries of obesity from Part I of A Chemical Hunger mostly fit the seed oil hypothesis he's right, but we're still not sold on the seed oil hypothesis, and in this post we explain why
Still not Sold on Seed Oils
Our friend and colleague Experimental Fat Loss over at Experimental Fat Loss just put out a post titled Seed Oils explain the 8 Mysteries of Obesity. In this post, he takes a look at the 8 mysteries a...
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The second finalist in the SMTM Mysteries Contest — Have Attention Spans Been Declining? https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/24/your-mystery-have-attention-spans-been-declining/
Your Mystery: Have Attention Spans Been Declining?
[This is one of the finalists in the SMTM Mysteries Contest, by a reader writing under the pseudonym Cennfaeladh. We’ll be posting about one of these a week until we have gotten through all the fin...
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The first finalist in the SMTM Mysteries Contest — Low Tech Mystery: Why is autism rare among the Amish?
Your Mystery: Why is autism rare among the Amish?
[This is one of the finalists in the SMTM Mysteries Contest, by a reader writing under the pseudonym TripleTaco. We'll be posting about one of these a week until we have gotten through all the finalis...
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More on Macros: Ontology, History, Symmetry — commentary on an essay by ExFatLoss https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/06/28/more-on-macros/
With a self-experiment, you can show that some intervention does or doesn’t have an effect on you, which is great. But this doesn't provide much evidence that the intervention will have the same effect on anyone else. What to do? https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/05/15/n1-n-of-small/
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Peter has a bad reaction to melons. Every time he eats melon, he gets sick right away, and he often throws up. Peter’s reaction to melon has LOW LATENCY. When it happens, it happens right away. No waiting about. But — https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/25/n1-latency-and-half-life/