Jasper Blank

• Jasper Blank 10 Mar 2026 6:48 UTC

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  in reply to: joseph_c’s comment on: Prologue to Ter­rified Com­ments on Claude’s Constitution

  For the person who asked why. I think this is to prevent the model from steering the conversation to predictable places.

• Jasper Blank 6 Mar 2026 10:48 UTC

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  in reply to: Taylor G. Lunt’s comment on: An­drew_Critch’s Shortform

  To me the next question would be is, does there exist True information that would do the same

• Jasper Blank 15 Feb 2026 18:58 UTC

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  on: Should any­one’s “anal­y­sis” of ex­tremely com­plex sys­tems, such as geopoli­tics, be taken se­ri­ously? or, Does any­one take a 5 year old’s “anal­y­sis” of de­cently com­plex sys­tems, like big city poli­tics, se­ri­ously?

  I would say that the possibility of analysis is not about the complexity of the total system, but about local wells of stability. So i would say that the fact that Country’s tend to have coherent policies means that their actions can be analyzed without know everything that happens in every country

• Jasper Blank 24 Dec 2024 22:36 UTC

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  on: Do you need a bet­ter map of your myr­iad of maps to the ter­ri­tory?

  “However I realized that this analogy falls apart when you consider the fringe case of how Stanley Kubrick, Steve Jobs, George Miller and Barack Obama all opted for a single uniform to reduce “decision fatigue”. I have failed to find a second map of this particular idea.”

  Maybe this analogy can still work, many famous people seem to have a single map that they apply to most circumstances. Ray Dalio has his “changing world order” thesis that he seems to mainly work with for example. I would even say most people tend to find themselves over their career in places where some maps work basically all of the time.

• Jasper Blank 25 Apr 2024 9:46 UTC

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  on: Changes in Col­lege Admissions

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