CronoDAS

• CronoDAS 17 Sep 2026 3:40 UTC

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  on: The Talker Does Not Con­trol The Doer (in Cur­rent AIs)

  I am very much reminded of the nostalgebraist post models may behave differently in graded episodes (a tirade).

• CronoDAS 7 Sep 2026 3:36 UTC

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  in reply to: lilkim2025’s comment on: Drone WMDs Don’t Need Any New Technology

  I think the use case is attacking Israel. It’s damn hard for a terrorist that isn’t already inside Israel to cross the border between Israel and its neighbors in a truck and then start running people over. But sending drones over the border can be a lot easier.

  Would Hezbollah hesitate to fire these things at Israel if it had them? Would they have better ways to kill a lot of Israelis, since they haven’t been able to successfully target their explosives at any critical Israeli civilian infrastructure?

  I think Hezbollah is exactly the kind of non-state actor that would very much want this kind of weapon in order to actually use it, and they already get weapon supplies, including drones of various kinds, from Iran.

• CronoDAS 4 Sep 2026 20:14 UTC

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  in reply to: Dagon’s comment on: Cat-Bel­ling Problems

  Oops. I need to find the second half of the argument—I thought it would have been in that one. Sorry.

  https://​​alonzofyfe.substack.com/​​p/​​moral-ought-ought-not-and-reasons

  https://​​alonzofyfe.substack.com/​​p/​​solving-the-central-problem-of-morality

• CronoDAS 4 Sep 2026 15:32 UTC

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  in reply to: Dagon’s comment on: Cat-Bel­ling Problems

  How to derive an “ought” from an “is”:

  https://​​alonzofyfe.substack.com/​​p/​​deriving-ought-from-is-hypothetical

• CronoDAS 4 Sep 2026 15:20 UTC

  29 points

  3

  on: Cat-Bel­ling Problems

  I always thought that the problem with “belling the Cat” is not that a mouse would inevitably fail to bell the cat, but rather that whichever mouse did it would presumably be killed by the Cat shortly afterwards. So even though belling the cat wouid be good for the other mice, no individual mouse wants to be the one that has to do it

• CronoDAS 23 Aug 2026 4:14 UTC

  11 points

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  in reply to: DirectedEvolution’s comment on: less_raichu’s Shortform

  Almost nobody, anyway.

• CronoDAS 22 Aug 2026 3:05 UTC

  2 points

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  on: AI Text Water­mark­ing Is Free And Good

  Isn’t the cost here that you need to keep track of the seed(s) used in your pseudorandom number generator and store them as a secret key? It does seem like a fairly trivial cost, though.

  And does this method work if you don’t have the entire AI output from the beginning? For example, you ask the AI to write ten essays in a row, and then turn in only the last one to check if it has the watermark. If your PRNG is good, can you easily tell if a sequence “eventually” gets produced by a seed? Or do token limits make this a non-issue?

• CronoDAS 11 Aug 2026 20:02 UTC

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  in reply to: williawa’s comment on: Don’t Build Mindreading

  I’d be worried about random people being able to do the equivalent of teleporting a bomb into the Oval Office. Car bombs are hard enough to defend against...

• CronoDAS 11 Aug 2026 19:22 UTC

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  on: Ar­gu­ments for P

  CATS: ALL YOUR P ARE BELONG TO US

• CronoDAS 11 Aug 2026 19:20 UTC

  −1 points

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  on: Ar­gu­ments for P

  Barack Obama: The question of P is above my pay grade.

• CronoDAS 11 Aug 2026 19:10 UTC

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  in reply to: Vivek Hebbar’s comment on: Ar­gu­ments for P

  Shakespeare: To P or not to P, that is the question

  Mad Magazine: Whether ’tis nobler to suffer, or goeth behind yon tree...

• CronoDAS 8 Aug 2026 22:57 UTC

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  on: Gen­er­al­ized athe­ism rules out “in­ac­cu­rate simu­la­tion”-ism.

  I like to joke that the reason quantum mechanics and general relativity are incompatible is that the universe is running on buggy code. ;)

• CronoDAS 17 Jul 2026 21:11 UTC

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  in reply to: Viliam’s comment on: It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I re­ally do have a life

  As the saying goes, adding more manpower to a late software project makes it later.

• CronoDAS 17 Jul 2026 20:46 UTC

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  on: It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I re­ally do have a life

  “Keynes said that in hundred years the productivity would increase so much that we would only need to work 3-day work weeks.”—“Well, I guess people have a revealed preference to work 5-day work weeks.”—Sure, smart guy. Show me where can I find the job advertisements for the 3-day work week jobs. Oh, there are none! So from the fact that I didn’t choose from an empty set you can figure out what my true desire is. Amazing!

  To be fair, in surveys, most people do answer that they wouldn’t want to work fewer hours if it meant that they would get less take-home pay.

• CronoDAS 17 Jul 2026 20:41 UTC

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  in reply to: Hide’s comment on: It’s nice of you to worry about me, but I re­ally do have a life

  You’re not wrong, but most part-time jobs are different kinds of work than full-time jobs, and they also pay terrible hourly wages when compared to the kind of work that is only available on a full-time schedule.

• CronoDAS 1 Jul 2026 23:52 UTC

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  in reply to: Wilka’s comment on: The Orange Head Joke

  Paraphrasing stand up comic Paula Poundstone:

  You’re probably wondering how I ended up with fifteen cats. The answer is that I had thirteen cats, and then I got two more!

• CronoDAS 28 Jun 2026 17:01 UTC

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  on: Againstness

  Wasn’t the facial feedback hypothesis one of the things that didn’t survive the replication crisis—I think I remember it specifically being one of the things that failed to replicate?

• CronoDAS 24 May 2026 9:41 UTC

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  on: Games that change your mind

  <joke> If video games have taught me anything, it’s that you should always go out of your way to help other people with their problems. That way, you get more of that sweet, sweet EXP that you need to turn yourself into an unstoppable killing machine! </​joke>

• CronoDAS 24 May 2026 9:38 UTC

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  on: Games that change your mind

  Ultima IV (NES) taught me that I should try to be a good person.

• CronoDAS 24 May 2026 9:31 UTC

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  in reply to: datawitch’s comment on: Games that change your mind

  I’ve done the same thing with the SNES shmup Space Megaforce. I’ve played the hell out of it and have gotten really good, so sometimes when I was feeling as though I couldn’t do anything right I’d turn that game on and prove myself wrong by playing through the whole game without using continues. (I’ve had successful one-credit clears on Normal, Hard, and Tricky difficulty so far. The only one left unconquered is Wild.)