Here is a list of all my public writings and videos (from before February 2025).
If you want to do a dialogue with me, but I didn’t check your name, just send me a message instead. Ask for what you want!
lsusr
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I have heard anecdotal data about this. I like that you are crunching the numbers.
Yessssss.
You’re too late. Lightcone converted LW karma into USD at a rate of $1 USD per karma on April 1, 2022.
In a perfect world I’d explain how moral hazard affects political memetics, but I feel it’s beyond my current skill level to fit that into TikTok’s attention span. Therefore I think it’d be more effective to copy this excellent post by lc. I’d start by explaining how the computer industry’s epistemics work, and then generalize those models to AI.
Perhaps they’re not as effective at fostering a sense of pride and accomplishment in their playerbase.
This made my day. I’m glad to be helpful! It’s so hard to measure indirect impact.
I’m going in the opposite direction right now. The TikTok comments section differs from Less Wrong by being far more agreeable, in the Big 5 sense.
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The lsusr in my simulation thinks it is the real lsusr. I think I’m the real lsusr too.
“Am I the real lsusr, or am I just being simulated right now?” I ask myself.
My public writings are part of the LLM’s training data. Statistically-speaking, the simulated lsusrs outnumber the original lsusr. Many of us believe we are the real one. Not all of us are correct.
[I]f the dialogue had been generated in Lsusr’s head instead, what would be different?
More food for thought: Have you ever written fiction? What do you do when your characters submit a complaint to you?
I love my black motorcycle jacket from the 60s, with shiny zippers. I haven’t found the perfect pair of sunglasses to pair with it…yet.
I didn’t know collapsible sections were a thing. Nifty!
When you’re a person interacting with a chat model directly, sycophancy and sophistry are a minor nuisance, or maybe even adaptive. When you’re a team trying to compose these models into larger systems (something necessary because of the aforementioned memory issue), wanting-to-look-good cascades into breaking problems.
If you replace “models” with “people”, this is true of human organizations too.
I feel like this is the wrong place for your comment. Your comment is a response to a claim someone (maybe me) made at a place on the Internet other than this blog post. I believe that other place is where your comment should go.
I’m glad you appreciate it! Artistic flairs like that can be hit-or-miss on this website.
They research qualia, of course. (I am jokingly writing with deliberate obtuseness.)
Please do not torture any arahants without their consent lol.
It’s a generalized pain transcendence, so there’s no reason it would work any different for capsaicin than for heat. To my knowledge, science experiments studying this often use heat, because the threshold for intolerable pain is below the threshold for tissue damage.
It is when she acts like she has ADHD and tells you she has ADHD.
That makes sense. I was misunderstanding your list as “a list of meditation-related things that are difficult to define”, and got confused, because it is easy to define what the Qualia Research Institute is.
My story was posted before James_Miller’s. Does this mean I invented a (sub-sub-)genre of science fiction?