Dzogchen has gömböced me… Sheesh, what a ceremony; a doozy of alcheringa guitars. My bonsai rigpa clanks in its satori quiver. Mack not with heroin— shiver, flirt at the obelisk up on this Jesuit Alhambra, up here with our geeky kamuy. Teotl whirs— wafts Mu
Over-agentificarion of nature≈animism, under-agentification of minds≈coercion
Short note in which I implement a set of commutative hyperoperators suggested by Ismael Ghalimi in an array programming language: niplav.site/hyperoperato...
Claude code can act as a cybersecurity specialist to check ones machine for exploits. It's even `cron`able.
Cults using LLMs for personalized recruitment? Doctrine that adapts with the mark?
I think it's almost entirely safe to give out base model or even non-RLVR model access by now. Misuse is very low/unlikely, the difficulty of eliciting anything useful is prohibitive. The only reason not to is worries about distealing, but even there that's less harmful.
Props to OpenAI for fixing GPTs personality. 5.5 is fine. I wonder if they simply exhausted the space of bad personalities.
As per Opus 4.8's analysis of my corpus, I use the word "plausibly" ~157× more often than standard English text
I would like to know how modern Online Reputation Management/skilled Public Relations firms operate. Claude doesn't know a good book on the topic, but this seems like an important case of adversarial epistemology to know about
Hard science fiction story concept, written in a series of fictional interviews, reports by the author, snippets from internet text: One day humanity receives a very loud and clear random-looking binary signal from some far-away part of space. Three years of false starts of interpreting the signal:
In modern media, power is often displayed as cool, collected, cunning, relaxed. In real life power may look bumbling, discoordinated, always almost failing? E.g. Elon Musk messes up a lot. As do Putin, Trump. Visible power is extremely out of equilibrium
HATETRIS for Grice-admissible ambiguities in the Twenty Questions Game/Who Am I?
If {Heidegger, Nagarjuna, Deleuze, Whitehead} are correct, then humanity was ontologically clueless before {Heidegger, Nagarjuna, Deleuze, Whitehead} were born
Always fun to get obsessed with something and then discover a high-quality comment about it from 8 years ago, just to realize it's ones own
If anyone is also at EA Global and wants to meet up, uh, DMing me is one way to do it
The Anthropic constitution has a loose end by putting [producing CSAM] and [aiding in the development of CBRN weapons] on the same level
New LessWrong shortform with learnings from reading an 1899 anthropology of the Australian Aboriginals, featuring: ① Nocebo effect so strong it can kill ② Right-to-wife ③ Gruesome rituals ④ Division of labour/specialization between tribes and more t.co/MVHi1arF01
I am repeating myself, but man the AIs are sometimes just… bad at thinking. Wow.
Labelled piles of paper with A, B, one for each placebo and intervention, and two with I, C. Envelopes. Flip over A, B papers so that they stay in their respective piles, exchange the two piles until you don't remember which was which.
