My substack: https://tomasbjartur.substack.com/
EPUB of all my fiction: https://tomasbjartur.com/The_Origami_Men_and_Other_Stories.epub
Fiction:
My Twitter: https://x.com/bjarturtomas
LLM policy: None of my posts or comments are written by, or in collaboration with, an LLM. This includes Beauty and the Beast. Occasionally, I will use an LLM for proofreading/feedback/research/sanity checking, but all words are my own.
I’m not involved in judging submissions.
I very much disagree with the implicit reference class you use when analyzing self-sovereign AIs, though the political economy frame is slightly more sane, in my reading, than the purely economic one. I imagine you’ve heard all the arguments from smarter people than I, but in case you have not:
Byrnes’ criticism of the econ frame: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xJWBofhLQjf3KmRgg/four-ways-learning-econ-makes-people-dumber-re-future-ai
Reasons I expect things to happen faster post ASI than even 2027 projects:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Lc8v92pGPtjF3gsCv/some-quick-thoughts-on-ai-2027
Latent potential for discontinuous power grabs:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uDAWPNwPJfEY7oroF/self-hosting
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JcavsPku6RR9hcujz/slightly-super-persuasion-will-do
I read this tweet as claiming this article was written by fable:
Is this true? If so, it needs to go in an LLM block.
Presumably, some of these websites were hacked and have standing to sue. Such an effort would be worth funding.
I created a sequence for all my fiction: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/uHstmwwxYmL9YDoZm
Fair enough. And perhaps I am misreading, but their mainline scenario does not assume a race to the smallest self replicator. If they are, I will take this post down. Otherwise, I think it has things worth saying. I would fix or add a mention of the dropdown, but I am writing a fiction post and don’t want to spend too much time on this.
After Lobsang’s Children, this is my favourite of my InkHaven posts.
I very much enjoyed reading this. It is deeply weird in a way useful to me.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize (which is decently prestigious) was won by a story called The Serpent in the Grove.
>Did you feel anything from 200mg PX at all?
not really. i can’t write without caffeine/nicotine. and PX/nicotine didn’t work.
1 cup of coffee.
100 mg every morning.
I tried it for a few weeks. it does basically nothing for me even at 200 mgs.
My understanding is the submitted work matters the most, but if you have a blog it might be considered.