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Lorec

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My government name is Mack Gallagher. Crocker’s Rules. I am an “underfunded” “alignment” “researcher”. DM me if you’d like to fund my posts, or my project.

I post some of my less-varnished opinions on my Substack.

[Question] Fi­nal-Exam-Tier Med­i­cal Prob­lem With Hand­wavy Rea­sons We Can’t Just Call A Li­censed M.D.

Lorec20 Oct 2025 1:01 UTC
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[Question] Galaxy-Brain Hobo An­tibiotics?

Lorec16 Jun 2025 12:43 UTC
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The Boat Theft The­ory of Consciousness

Lorec13 Jun 2025 16:38 UTC
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A Re­vi­sion to Mar­ket Mone­tarism: In­di­vi­d­ual Hoard­ing as Ra­tional, Com­pe­ti­tion for Dol­lars as Zero-Sum?

Lorec11 Jun 2025 20:13 UTC
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Di­a­betes is Caused by Ox­ida­tive Stress

Lorec30 May 2025 21:03 UTC
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[Question] What should I read to un­der­stand an­ces­tral hu­man so­ciety?

Lorec28 May 2025 23:36 UTC
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You are too dumb to un­der­stand insurance

Lorec9 Jan 2025 23:33 UTC
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Don’t fall for on­tol­ogy pyra­mid schemes

Lorec7 Jan 2025 23:29 UTC
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Al­gorith­mic Asub­jec­tive An­throp­ics, Carte­sian Sub­jec­tive Anthropics

Lorec27 Dec 2024 1:58 UTC
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Re Han­son’s Grabby Aliens: Hu­man­ity is not a nat­u­ral an­thropic sam­ple space

Lorec9 Dec 2024 18:07 UTC
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[Question] Who are the worth­while non-Euro­pean pre-In­dus­trial thinkers?

Lorec3 Dec 2024 1:45 UTC
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Sex­ual Selec­tion as a Mesa-Optimizer

Lorec29 Nov 2024 23:34 UTC
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Valence Need Not Be Bounded; Utility Need Not Synthesize

Lorec20 Nov 2024 1:37 UTC
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Value/​Utility: A History

Lorec19 Nov 2024 23:01 UTC
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Pro­ject Ad­e­quate: Seek­ing Cofounders/​Funders

Lorec17 Nov 2024 3:12 UTC
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The­o­ries With Men­tal­is­tic Atoms Are As Val­idly Called The­o­ries As The­o­ries With Only Non-Men­tal­is­tic Atoms

Lorec12 Nov 2024 6:45 UTC
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Lorec’s Shortform

Lorec1 Nov 2024 15:40 UTC
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‘Meta’, ‘mesa’, and mountains

Lorec31 Oct 2024 17:25 UTC
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A su­perfi­cially plau­si­ble promis­ing al­ter­nate Earth with­out lockstep

Lorec26 Oct 2024 16:04 UTC
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A metaphor: what “green lights” for AGI would look like

Lorec23 Oct 2024 23:24 UTC
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